%0 Conference Paper %A Rubio Cuéllar, Rubén Rafael %T Maude as a library: an efficient all-purpose programming interface %D 2022 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/105012 %X We present a general and efficient programming interface to Maude from Python and other programming languages. All relevant Maude entities and operations are exposed in a documented object-oriented library to facilitate the integration of Maude into external programs and vice versa. This paper describes the design and implementation of the library, explains how to use it, and discusses some mature applications. %~