diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 109ab186..e5c95481 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1463,6 +1463,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "eyre",
  "flume",
  "pyo3",
+ "pythonize",
  "serde_yaml 0.8.26",
 ]
 
@@ -3694,6 +3695,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 1.0.109",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pythonize"
+version = "0.18.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9a0e1bbcd2a3856284bf4f4ef09ccb1157e9467847792754556f153ea3fe6b42"
+dependencies = [
+ "pyo3",
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quick-xml"
 version = "0.28.2"
diff --git a/apis/python/node/Cargo.toml b/apis/python/node/Cargo.toml
index 8e92a8c9..ad676943 100644
--- a/apis/python/node/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apis/python/node/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ serde_yaml = "0.8.23"
 flume = "0.10.14"
 dora-runtime = { workspace = true, features = ["tracing", "python"] }
 arrow = { version = "35.0.0", features = ["pyarrow"] }
+pythonize = "0.18.0"
 
 [lib]
 name = "dora"
diff --git a/apis/python/node/src/lib.rs b/apis/python/node/src/lib.rs
index 32c7012a..d8266344 100644
--- a/apis/python/node/src/lib.rs
+++ b/apis/python/node/src/lib.rs
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ impl Node {
             self.send_output_slice(output_id, data.len(), data, metadata)
         })
     }
+
+    pub fn dataflow_descriptor(&self, py: Python) -> pythonize::Result<PyObject> {
+        pythonize::pythonize(py, self.node.dataflow_descriptor())
+    }
 }
 
 impl Node {