Python support

[flying-sheep]

Pull Request

Related issue

Fixes #131

What does this PR do?

Adds

TODO

• API design: wrap workflow so it can be used from Python (no unsafety somehow?)
• CI to build and test the Python package
• CI and settings to publish Python package releases

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[ilan-gold]

Nice, definitely seems doable. Concerned about the thread safety aspect, not sure if that would preclude us from adding the bindings we actually end up using here or not given our setup with dask (since we might need special handling for thread/process safety).

[ilan-gold]

I image we would want some sort of iterator over a 2D datastructure (for loops in python to go one-by-one strike me as slower than doing it here).

Separately, I am curious about the data type limitation: https://docs.rs/arroy/latest/arroy/struct.Writer.html#method.add_item I hadn't noticed that that vector has to be fixed at f32