The future of python bindings

[adsharma]

LadybugDB has a C-API that's used by all languages, except for python.

Python bindings use C++ based pybind, with special handling for arrow, dataframes, json values etc. However, it has a few problems:

• Memory management is less efficient than C-API. Have to close long running connections to fully release memory
• After recent decoupling of repos, I'd like to see ladybug and ladybug-python to be connected via a well defined contract.
• If there are N platforms and M python versions, we build ladybug N * M times without ccache. Makes release builds slow.

LadybugDB/ladybug-python#7 is an alternative. It implements a backward compatible python binding on top of the C-API. Proposal: over time, we gradually migrate to this backend by copying/moving functionality.

Thoughts?