Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Include Files
  • 1.2 Objects, Types and Reference Counts
    • Reference Counts
      • Reference Count Details
    • Types
  • 1.3 Exceptions
  • 1.4 Embedding Python
• 2 The Very High Level Layer
• 3 Reference Counting
• 4 Exception Handling
  • 4.1 Standard Exceptions
• 5 Utilities
  • 5.1 OS Utilities
  • 5.2 Process Control
  • 5.3 Importing Modules
• 6 Abstract Objects Layer
  • 6.1 Object Protocol
  • 6.2 Number Protocol
  • 6.3 Sequence Protocol
  • 6.4 Mapping Protocol
  • 6.5 Constructors
• 7 Concrete Objects Layer
  • 7.1 Fundamental Objects
    • Type Objects
    • The None Object
  • 7.2 Sequence Objects
    • String Objects
    • Tuple Objects
    • List Objects
  • 7.3 Mapping Objects
    • Dictionary Objects
  • 7.4 Numeric Objects
    • Plain Integer Objects
    • Long Integer Objects
    • Floating Point Objects
    • Complex Number Objects
  • 7.5 Other Objects
    • File Objects
    • CObjects
• 8 Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
  • 8.1 Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock
• 9 Defining New Object Types
• 10 Debugging
• Index
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