Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter

Guido van Rossum
Dept. CST, CWI, P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: guido@cwi.nl

4 May 1994
Release 1.0.2

Abstract:

• Contents
• Extending Python with C or C++ code
  • Introduction
  • A first look at the code
  • Intermezzo: errors and exceptions
  • Back to the example
  • The module's function table
  • Compilation and linkage
  • Calling Python functions from C
  • Format strings for getargs()
  • The mkvalue() function
  • Reference counts
  • Writing extensions in C++
• Embedding Python in another application
  • Embedding Python in C++
• Dynamic Loading
  • Configuring and building the interpreter for dynamic loading
    • Shared libraries
    • SGI dynamic loading
    • GNU dynamic loading
  • Building a dynamically loadable module
    • Shared libraries
    • SGI dynamic loading
    • GNU dynamic loading
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