Contents

• Extending Python with C or C++ code
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 A Simple Example
  • 1.3 Intermezzo: Errors and Exceptions
  • 1.4 Back to the Example
  • 1.5 The Module's Method Table and Initialization Function
  • 1.6 Compilation and Linkage
  • 1.7 Calling Python Functions From C
  • Format Strings for PyArg_ParseTuple()
  • The Py_BuildValue() Function
  • 1.10 Reference Counts
    • 1.10.1 Introduction
    • 1.10.2 Reference Counting in Python
    • 1.10.3 Ownership Rules
    • 1.10.4 Thin Ice
    • 1.10.5 NULL Pointers
  • Writing Extensions in C++
• 2 Embedding Python in another application
  • Embedding Python in C++
• 3 Dynamic Loading
  • 3.1 Configuring and Building the Interpreter for Dynamic Loading
    • 3.1.1 Shared Libraries
    • 3.1.2 SGI IRIX 4 Dynamic Loading
    • 3.1.3 GNU Dynamic Loading
  • 3.2 Building a Dynamically Loadable Module
    • 3.2.1 Shared Libraries
    • 3.2.2 SGI IRIX 4 Dynamic Loading
    • 3.2.3 GNU Dynamic Loading
• 4 Extension Reference
  • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.1.1 Memory Management
  • 4.2 Object Protocol
  • 4.3 Number Protocol
  • 4.4 Sequence protocol
  • 4.5 Mapping protocol
  • 4.6 Constructors
• Index
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