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Naive question about Zig: is there any tooling for embedding it within larger Python codebases akin to Maturin (for Rust) or Nimporter (for Nim)?

I have seen examples where the Zig code imports Python.h and uses low-level Python C API calls but I want something very lightweight for accelerating computational bottlenecks without worrying about unwrapping/wrapping data.

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Not sure exactly what you need, but since Zig is C compatible, it's easy to build a zig library and import it from python using ctypes. I guess if you need something more sophisticated you could use cffi (haven't tried it).

Zig is even available as a convenient python package: https://pypi.org/project/ziglang/

I'm looking for something that fits into a setup.py file (or, like Maturin creates a multi-language package config) which (1) automatically compiles zig source into a Python extension module for me, so that I can (2) just import zig code into Python and call it without writing any type conversion logic.

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