Go improves Python?

This project is based on this project created by @rochacbruno. But this project uses Golang rather than Rustlang.

This project has only one objective, which use Golang with Python as a possibility to have more performance on certain tasks.

Comparisons between Python and Go

find_cnpj

Locate CNPJ number based on company name.

• CNPJ data downloaded from this link.

sum_numbers

Sum sequences (list, tuple, generator.. etc) of numbers.

Run

Create your virtualenv directory:

• IMPORTANT RECOMENDATION: use your Python3.6 (native, without pyenv or similar) from O.S.

/usr/bin/python3.6 -m venv .venv

Activate your venv:

source .venv/bin/activate

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Enter on directory of project (find_cnpj or sum_numbers), and run benchmarks:

cd <directory of project>

# Recreate binary files
make build

# For unit tests
make test  

# For benchmark tests (time/operations)
make benchmark

# For memory profile
make profile-memory

Tips and tricks

Finding python version on pkg-config

$ pkg-config --list-all | grep python
python-3.6m               Python - Python library
python-2.7                Python - Python library
python                    Python - Python library
python-3.6                Python - Python library
python2                   Python - Python library
python3                   Python - Python library
notify-python             notify-python - Python bindings for libnotify