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- Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter
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- :Release: |version|
- :Date: |today|
- This document describes how to write modules in C or C++ to extend the Python
- interpreter with new modules. Those modules can define new functions but also
- new object types and their methods. The document also describes how to embed
- the Python interpreter in another application, for use as an extension language.
- Finally, it shows how to compile and link extension modules so that they can be
- loaded dynamically (at run time) into the interpreter, if the underlying
- operating system supports this feature.
- This document assumes basic knowledge about Python. For an informal
- introduction to the language, see :ref:`tutorial-index`. :ref:`reference-index`
- gives a more formal definition of the language. :ref:`library-index` documents
- the existing object types, functions and modules (both built-in and written in
- Python) that give the language its wide application range.
- For a detailed description of the whole Python/C API, see the separate
- :ref:`c-api-index`.
- .. toctree::
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- extending.rst
- newtypes.rst
- building.rst
- windows.rst
- embedding.rst