What’s the best way to communicate with go libraries from within Python programs?
3rd February 2014
My answer to What’s the best way to communicate with go libraries from within Python programs? on Quora
Go speaks HTTP extremely well, so one simple but powerful approach is to hook your Go libraries up as simple HTTP+JSON APIs and have Python call them over HTTP (the Requests: HTTP for Humans library is awesome for this).
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