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You can now call methods between Python and JavaScript Workers using Workers RPC. This works through Service bindings without extra dependencies, schema definitions, or serialization code.

Cross-language RPC calls behave like ordinary function calls. Exceptions propagate to the call site. You can pass structured cloneable types ↗ as parameters or return values, and Pyodide Foreign Function Interface (FFI) automatically converts types between languages.

Define a method in a TypeScript Worker:

import { WorkerEntrypoint } from "cloudflare:workers";

export class RpcService extends WorkerEntrypoint {
	async add(a, b) {
		return a + b;
	}
}

import { WorkerEntrypoint } from "cloudflare:workers";

export class RpcService extends WorkerEntrypoint {
	async add(a: number, b: number): Promise<number> {
		return a + b;
	}
}

Call it from a Python Worker through a Service binding:

from workers import Response, WorkerEntrypoint

class Default(WorkerEntrypoint):
	async def fetch(self, request):
		rpc = self.env.RPC
		result = await rpc.add(42, 144)
		return Response.json({"result": result})

Configure the Service binding in the Python Worker's Wrangler configuration:

{
	"services": [
		{
			"binding": "RPC",
			"service": "ts-rpc-server",
			"entrypoint": "RpcService"
		}
	]
}

[[services]]
binding = "RPC"
service = "ts-rpc-server"
entrypoint = "RpcService"

Define a method in a Python Worker:

from workers import WorkerEntrypoint

class Default(WorkerEntrypoint):
	async def highlight_code(self, code: str, language: str) -> dict:
		from pygments.formatters import HtmlFormatter
		from pygments import highlight
		from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name

		lexer = get_lexer_by_name(language, stripall=True)
		formatter = HtmlFormatter(linenos=True, cssclass="highlight", style="monokai")
		highlighted_html = highlight(code, lexer, formatter)
		css = formatter.get_style_defs(".highlight")

		return {
			"html": highlighted_html,
			"css": css
		}

Call it from a JavaScript Worker through a Service binding:

export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		const rpc = env.PYTHON_RPC;
		const result = await rpc.highlight_code("print(42)", "python");
		return Response.json(result);
	},
};

export default {
	async fetch(request, env) {
		const rpc = env.PYTHON_RPC;
		const result = await rpc.highlight_code("print(42)", "python");
		return Response.json(result);
	},
};

Configure the Service binding in the JavaScript Worker's Wrangler configuration:

{
	"services": [
		{
			"binding": "PYTHON_RPC",
			"service": "py-rpc-server"
		}
	]
}

[[services]]
binding = "PYTHON_RPC"
service = "py-rpc-server"

For more details on the announcement, read the blog post ↗.

For more information, refer to the Workers RPC documentation and the Python Workers overview.