Embedding Node.js in Python

What you want to do is not supported. Unlike, say, the CPython interpreter, or even the V8 JavaScript interpreter, Node.js was not designed to be embedded, has no interface for doing so, and no serious plan to change that.\n\nI can't find any official documentation on that, but there are numerous threads like this one that give the relevant information.\n\nBut that doesn't mean it's impossible. The top layer of Node isn't that complicated, and really you'd just need to patch out a few parts of it to do different things. And, in fact, people have tried to do exactly that, in projects like tacnode. I don't know if any of them are ready for prime time or not, but it may be worth looking at them, especially if you're willing and able to contribute if they're incomplete.\n\nOf course that only gets you embedding in C or C++; you still need to embed in Python. But wrapping a C shared library so you can use it in Python (well, CPython and PyPy) is a long-solved problem; Python has had extension modules since almost the beginning, as well as ctypes and cffi if you don't want to write any C code. And there are third-party projects like Cython to let you write almost-Python code that directly calls your shared library as if it were native C, and compiles to a Python extension module.\n\nSo, it's almost certainly doable, but it's probably not going to be trivial, or packaged and ready to go out of the box.",