agundy / Pyrlang

Erlang node implemented in Python 3.5+ (Asyncio-based)

Pyrlang - Erlang node in Python

This is a drop-in Erlang node implementation in Python 3.5, implementing a network Erlang node protocol. It was designed to allow interoperation between existing Python projects and BEAM languages: Erlang, Elixir, Alpaca, Luaerl, LFE, Clojerl and such.

With just a few lines of startup code your Python program becomes an Erlang network node, participating in the Erlang cluster.

Documentation

Browse at https://pyrlang.github.io/Pyrlang/

Or build your own by running make docs (generated by Sphinx).

Support & Questions

For those times when you absolutely need assistance and email is too slow, here's a Discord channel: https://discord.gg/pWWe7Wx and there is a Slack channel #pyrlang on https://erlanger.slack.com/

Features

• Switchable async engine backends: Gevent and Asyncio.
• Erlang distribution protocol for Erlang versions 19, 20, and 21
• Registry of Python 'processes', which have an Erlang-compatible process identifier and an optional registered name
• Send and receive messages locally and remotely by pid or name
• Can link and monitor Erlang from Python and Python from Erlang
• net_adm pings supported
• RPC calls to Python (Erlang rpc:call). Exceptions are propagated from Python back to Erlang;
• Pyrlang.GenServer descendant from Pyrlang.Process allows accepting generic calls mapped to Python class members