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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: locutor
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Call R and Julia from Python, as a function in memory or as a script.
+Author-email: Pedro Henrique Coimbra <pedro-henrique.herig-coimbra@inrae.fr>
+License-Expression: EUPL-1.2
+Keywords: R,Julia,interop,runner,subprocess
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: R
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENCE
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.24
+Provides-Extra: test
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=7.0; extra == "test"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# locutor
+
+Call R and Julia from Python: a function in memory, or a script in a process.
+
+```python
+import locutor
+
+# a function: one persistent child per language, nothing written to disk
+rotated = locutor.call("methods/rotation.R:double_rotation", u, v, w)
+total = locutor.call("stats.jl:total", series, skip_missing=True)
+
+# a script: a process of its own, arguments on its command line
+locutor.run("fetch.R", "2026-11-13", out="data/raw.csv")
+```
+
+The name is the Latin for *one who speaks*. It is the sibling of
+[`regorator`](https://pypi.org/project/regorator/), which
+registers, and of `ordinator`, which orders: this one speaks to the languages
+the other two are not written in.
+
+## What it is for
+
+A function written in R or Julia that you want to call from Python **many
+times, with arrays, and get the same numbers back** — without embedding the
+other language in the Python process.
+
+- **In memory.** One child per language is started at the first call and kept.
+  No file is written and no process started for a call.
+- **Exact.** A double is never printed and parsed. Every float crosses as its
+  64 bits, so a NaN arrives as it left, payload included, and R's `NA` is still
+  `NA` going back.
+- **Separate.** The other language runs in its own process. A crash there is an
+  exception here, and its threads, signal handlers and C libraries never meet
+  Python's.
+- **No dependency on either language.** `numpy` is the only requirement. R
+  needs the `jsonlite` package; Julia needs nothing. A language that is not
+  installed is refused at its first call, with what to install.
+
+And the plain case beside it: a script that takes a command line and exits.
+
+## Install
+
+```
+pip install locutor
+```
+
+or, from a checkout, `pip install -e .`.
+
+Python >= 3.9 and `numpy`. `Rscript` and `julia` are looked for on PATH.
+
+## Calling a function
+
+`locutor.call("path/file.ext:function", *args, **kwargs)` picks the language by
+the file's extension and uses that language's shared session.
+
+```python
+import numpy as np, locutor
+
+x = np.arange(4.0)
+locutor.call("lib.R:twice", x, by=3)      # array([0., 3., 6., 9.])
+locutor.call("lib.jl:twice", x, by=3)     # the same, from Julia
+locutor.call("lib.py:twice", x, by=3)     # the same, imported in this process
+```
+
+The child reads a file once, into a namespace of its own, so two files may
+define a function of one name. Keyword arguments are keyword arguments in
+Julia and named arguments in R.
+
+For a package's function, a file of helpers, or another interpreter than the
+one on PATH, configure the language and call that:
+
+```python
+with locutor.R(packages=["stats"], include="helpers.R") as r:
+    r.call("stats::median", x)            # a package's function
+    r.call("my_helper", x, window=5)      # a function helpers.R defines
+
+jl = locutor.Julia(program="/opt/julia-1.11/bin/julia", packages=["Statistics"])
+jl.call("Statistics.mean", x)
+jl.close()
+```
+
+Building one starts nothing; its child starts at the first call and ends at
+`close()`, at the end of the `with`, or when Python exits.
+
+### What crosses
+
+| Python | R | Julia |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| a float | a numeric vector of one | a `Float64` |
+| a numeric array | a numeric vector | a `Vector{Float64}` |
+| an N-d array | a matrix or array | a `Matrix` / `Array` |
+| an int, a bool, a str | an integer, a logical, a character | an `Int`, a `Bool`, a `String` |
+| `None` | `NULL` | `nothing` |
+| a list of one kind of those | the vector of that kind | the vector of that kind |
+| a dict | a named list | a named tuple |
+| any other list | a list | a `Vector{Any}` |
+
+Coming back, a named list or named tuple is a Python list that carries
+`.names`; a matrix keeps its shape; `NA`, `NaN` and Julia's `missing` in a
+float array are all NaN. Anything else — a function, a struct, a DataFrame, an
+xarray object going the other way — is refused by name rather than converted
+to whatever its values happen to coerce to.
+
+### Errors and output
+
+- `stop()` in R or an exception in Julia is a `RuntimeError` here with the
+  other side's message, and the session answers the next call.
+- A child that *ends* — a crash, a `quit()` — is a `ChildProcessError`, and the
+  next call starts another.
+- What the called code prints, on either stream, goes to the `locutor` logger
+  at `INFO`, and never into an answer.
+
+## Running a script
+
+`locutor.run(script, *arguments, **options)` runs it with the interpreter its
+extension names and waits. Positional arguments go on the command line as they
+are; keyword options go as `--key value` (`True` is the bare flag, a list is
+the key followed by its values).
+
+```python
+done = locutor.run("report.jl", "FR-Gri", year=2022, sites=["a", "b"])
+done.returncode, done.stdout, done.stderr
+```
+
+A status other than zero raises `RuntimeError` with the end of the script's
+error stream; `check=False` returns the `Result` instead. `capture=False`
+leaves the script's output on this process's streams. `cwd`, `env` and
+`timeout` are passed through.
+
+## From a shell
+
+```
+locutor languages
+locutor run script.R 2026-11-13 --out data/raw.csv
+locutor call stats.jl:total "[1, 2.5, 4]" --skip_missing true
+```
+
+`run` hands everything after the script to the script, untouched, and exits
+with its status. `call` reads each value as JSON where it is JSON and as text
+where it is not, and prints the answer as JSON.
+
+## How it works
+
+A session is one child process (`Rscript`, `julia`) running
+`locutor/servers/session.R` or `session.jl`. A request is one JSON line on its
+input and the answer one JSON line on its output; the doubles of both travel as
+raw little-endian float64 on one loopback TCP connection the child opens back
+when it starts. The lines and the doubles go separate ways because the child's
+output is also where the called code prints: an answer line is marked, and raw
+doubles on that stream would be corrupted by the first `print`. The connection
+is `127.0.0.1` only, and is taken only from the child that repeats a token it
+was handed on its input.
+
+Measured on Linux (R 4.5.3, Julia 1.11.7), one 36 000-sample series there and
+back: 0.16 ms for R and 0.09 ms for Julia, against 0.17–0.25 ms for rpy2 and
+0.05 ms for juliacall embedded in the interpreter. Starting the child takes
+about 0.1 s for R and about 1 s for Julia including its first compilation.
+
+Adding a language is one module in `locutor/languages/` (what it is called, how
+it is started, how a package is installed) and one file in `locutor/servers/`
+that holds its end of the conversation.
+
+## What it is not
+
+- **Not a workflow tool.** It does not order steps, read a configuration, or
+  record what ran. `ordinator` does that, and is meant to call this.
+- **Not an embedding.** For sharing objects between languages without copying,
+  or calling back into Python from R or Julia, use rpy2 or juliacall.
+- **Not tested on Windows or macOS yet.** Everything here was run on Linux.
+
+## Tests
+
+```
+python -m pytest
+```
+
+The tests that need R or Julia run once per language installed and skip the
+other, saying what to install.
+
+## Licence
+
+EUPL-1.2. See [`LICENCE`](LICENCE).

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+# locutor
+
+Call R and Julia from Python: a function in memory, or a script in a process.
+
+```python
+import locutor
+
+# a function: one persistent child per language, nothing written to disk
+rotated = locutor.call("methods/rotation.R:double_rotation", u, v, w)
+total = locutor.call("stats.jl:total", series, skip_missing=True)
+
+# a script: a process of its own, arguments on its command line
+locutor.run("fetch.R", "2026-11-13", out="data/raw.csv")
+```
+
+The name is the Latin for *one who speaks*. It is the sibling of
+[`regorator`](https://pypi.org/project/regorator/), which
+registers, and of `ordinator`, which orders: this one speaks to the languages
+the other two are not written in.
+
+## What it is for
+
+A function written in R or Julia that you want to call from Python **many
+times, with arrays, and get the same numbers back** — without embedding the
+other language in the Python process.
+
+- **In memory.** One child per language is started at the first call and kept.
+  No file is written and no process started for a call.
+- **Exact.** A double is never printed and parsed. Every float crosses as its
+  64 bits, so a NaN arrives as it left, payload included, and R's `NA` is still
+  `NA` going back.
+- **Separate.** The other language runs in its own process. A crash there is an
+  exception here, and its threads, signal handlers and C libraries never meet
+  Python's.
+- **No dependency on either language.** `numpy` is the only requirement. R
+  needs the `jsonlite` package; Julia needs nothing. A language that is not
+  installed is refused at its first call, with what to install.
+
+And the plain case beside it: a script that takes a command line and exits.
+
+## Install
+
+```
+pip install locutor
+```
+
+or, from a checkout, `pip install -e .`.
+
+Python >= 3.9 and `numpy`. `Rscript` and `julia` are looked for on PATH.
+
+## Calling a function
+
+`locutor.call("path/file.ext:function", *args, **kwargs)` picks the language by
+the file's extension and uses that language's shared session.
+
+```python
+import numpy as np, locutor
+
+x = np.arange(4.0)
+locutor.call("lib.R:twice", x, by=3)      # array([0., 3., 6., 9.])
+locutor.call("lib.jl:twice", x, by=3)     # the same, from Julia
+locutor.call("lib.py:twice", x, by=3)     # the same, imported in this process
+```
+
+The child reads a file once, into a namespace of its own, so two files may
+define a function of one name. Keyword arguments are keyword arguments in
+Julia and named arguments in R.
+
+For a package's function, a file of helpers, or another interpreter than the
+one on PATH, configure the language and call that:
+
+```python
+with locutor.R(packages=["stats"], include="helpers.R") as r:
+    r.call("stats::median", x)            # a package's function
+    r.call("my_helper", x, window=5)      # a function helpers.R defines
+
+jl = locutor.Julia(program="/opt/julia-1.11/bin/julia", packages=["Statistics"])
+jl.call("Statistics.mean", x)
+jl.close()
+```
+
+Building one starts nothing; its child starts at the first call and ends at
+`close()`, at the end of the `with`, or when Python exits.
+
+### What crosses
+
+| Python | R | Julia |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| a float | a numeric vector of one | a `Float64` |
+| a numeric array | a numeric vector | a `Vector{Float64}` |
+| an N-d array | a matrix or array | a `Matrix` / `Array` |
+| an int, a bool, a str | an integer, a logical, a character | an `Int`, a `Bool`, a `String` |
+| `None` | `NULL` | `nothing` |
+| a list of one kind of those | the vector of that kind | the vector of that kind |
+| a dict | a named list | a named tuple |
+| any other list | a list | a `Vector{Any}` |
+
+Coming back, a named list or named tuple is a Python list that carries
+`.names`; a matrix keeps its shape; `NA`, `NaN` and Julia's `missing` in a
+float array are all NaN. Anything else — a function, a struct, a DataFrame, an
+xarray object going the other way — is refused by name rather than converted
+to whatever its values happen to coerce to.
+
+### Errors and output
+
+- `stop()` in R or an exception in Julia is a `RuntimeError` here with the
+  other side's message, and the session answers the next call.
+- A child that *ends* — a crash, a `quit()` — is a `ChildProcessError`, and the
+  next call starts another.
+- What the called code prints, on either stream, goes to the `locutor` logger
+  at `INFO`, and never into an answer.
+
+## Running a script
+
+`locutor.run(script, *arguments, **options)` runs it with the interpreter its
+extension names and waits. Positional arguments go on the command line as they
+are; keyword options go as `--key value` (`True` is the bare flag, a list is
+the key followed by its values).
+
+```python
+done = locutor.run("report.jl", "FR-Gri", year=2022, sites=["a", "b"])
+done.returncode, done.stdout, done.stderr
+```
+
+A status other than zero raises `RuntimeError` with the end of the script's
+error stream; `check=False` returns the `Result` instead. `capture=False`
+leaves the script's output on this process's streams. `cwd`, `env` and
+`timeout` are passed through.
+
+## From a shell
+
+```
+locutor languages
+locutor run script.R 2026-11-13 --out data/raw.csv
+locutor call stats.jl:total "[1, 2.5, 4]" --skip_missing true
+```
+
+`run` hands everything after the script to the script, untouched, and exits
+with its status. `call` reads each value as JSON where it is JSON and as text
+where it is not, and prints the answer as JSON.
+
+## How it works
+
+A session is one child process (`Rscript`, `julia`) running
+`locutor/servers/session.R` or `session.jl`. A request is one JSON line on its
+input and the answer one JSON line on its output; the doubles of both travel as
+raw little-endian float64 on one loopback TCP connection the child opens back
+when it starts. The lines and the doubles go separate ways because the child's
+output is also where the called code prints: an answer line is marked, and raw
+doubles on that stream would be corrupted by the first `print`. The connection
+is `127.0.0.1` only, and is taken only from the child that repeats a token it
+was handed on its input.
+
+Measured on Linux (R 4.5.3, Julia 1.11.7), one 36 000-sample series there and
+back: 0.16 ms for R and 0.09 ms for Julia, against 0.17–0.25 ms for rpy2 and
+0.05 ms for juliacall embedded in the interpreter. Starting the child takes
+about 0.1 s for R and about 1 s for Julia including its first compilation.
+
+Adding a language is one module in `locutor/languages/` (what it is called, how
+it is started, how a package is installed) and one file in `locutor/servers/`
+that holds its end of the conversation.
+
+## What it is not
+
+- **Not a workflow tool.** It does not order steps, read a configuration, or
+  record what ran. `ordinator` does that, and is meant to call this.
+- **Not an embedding.** For sharing objects between languages without copying,
+  or calling back into Python from R or Julia, use rpy2 or juliacall.
+- **Not tested on Windows or macOS yet.** Everything here was run on Linux.
+
+## Tests
+
+```
+python -m pytest
+```
+
+The tests that need R or Julia run once per language installed and skip the
+other, saying what to install.
+
+## Licence
+
+EUPL-1.2. See [`LICENCE`](LICENCE).