Writing Python Extensions

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Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Core Material
  • 2.1 Your First Python extension
  • 2.2 A Less Trivial Example
  • 2.3 Refcounting Conventions
  • 2.4 Handling Different Types of Data
    • 2.4.1 From Python to C
    • 2.4.2 From C to Python
  • 2.5 A Sketch of the Python/C API
  • 2.6 A Little More on Exceptions
  • 2.7 Linking your Extension to other C Libraries
  • 2.8 A Note on Style
• 3. Further Details
  • 3.1 Other Calling Conventions
  • 3.2 Calling Python Callables from C
  • 3.3 Providing a C API for your module
  • 3.4 Writing Extensions in Other Languages
• 4. Defining New Types
  • 4.1 Your First Extension Type
  • 4.2 Adding Data and Methods
  • 4.3 Supporting Subclassing
  • 4.4 Providing Finer Control over Data Attributes
  • 4.5 Supporting Cyclic Garbage Collection
• A. Appropriate C compilers
• About this document ...

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Writing Python Extensions

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Documentation released on December 24, 2004.