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Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Include Files
  • 1.2 Objects, Types and Reference Counts
    • 1.2.1 Reference Counts
    • 1.2.2 Types
  • 1.3 Exceptions
  • 1.4 Embedding Python
• 2. The Very High Level Layer
• 3. Reference Counting
• 4. Exception Handling
  • 4.1 Standard Exceptions
  • 4.2 Deprecation of String Exceptions
• 5. Utilities
  • 5.1 Operating System Utilities
  • 5.2 Process Control
  • 5.3 Importing Modules
  • 5.4 Data marshalling support
  • 5.5 Parsing arguments and building values
• 6. Abstract Objects Layer
  • 6.1 Object Protocol
  • 6.2 Number Protocol
  • 6.3 Sequence Protocol
  • 6.4 Mapping Protocol
  • 6.5 Iterator Protocol
  • 6.6 Buffer Protocol
• 7. Concrete Objects Layer
  • 7.1 Fundamental Objects
    • 7.1.1 Type Objects
    • 7.1.2 The None Object
  • 7.2 Numeric Objects
    • 7.2.1 Plain Integer Objects
    • 7.2.2 Boolean Objects
    • 7.2.3 Long Integer Objects
    • 7.2.4 Floating Point Objects
    • 7.2.5 Complex Number Objects
  • 7.3 Sequence Objects
    • 7.3.1 String Objects
    • 7.3.2 Unicode Objects
    • 7.3.3 Buffer Objects
    • 7.3.4 Tuple Objects
    • 7.3.5 List Objects
  • 7.4 Mapping Objects
    • 7.4.1 Dictionary Objects
  • 7.5 Other Objects
    • 7.5.1 File Objects
    • 7.5.2 Instance Objects
    • 7.5.3 Method Objects
    • 7.5.4 Module Objects
    • 7.5.5 Iterator Objects
    • 7.5.6 Descriptor Objects
    • 7.5.7 Slice Objects
    • 7.5.8 Weak Reference Objects
    • 7.5.9 CObjects
    • 7.5.10 Cell Objects
    • 7.5.11 Generator Objects
    • 7.5.12 DateTime Objects
• 8. Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
  • 8.1 Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock
  • 8.2 Profiling and Tracing
  • 8.3 Advanced Debugger Support
• 9. Memory Management
  • 9.1 Overview
  • 9.2 Memory Interface
  • 9.3 Examples
• 10. Object Implementation Support
  • 10.1 Allocating Objects on the Heap
  • 10.2 Common Object Structures
  • 10.3 Type Objects
  • 10.4 Mapping Object Structures
  • 10.5 Number Object Structures
  • 10.6 Sequence Object Structures
  • 10.7 Buffer Object Structures
  • 10.8 Supporting the Iterator Protocol
  • 10.9 Supporting Cyclic Garbage Collection
• A. Reporting Bugs
• B. History and License
  • B.1 History of the software
  • B.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
  • B.3 Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software
    • B.3.1 Mersenne Twister
    • B.3.2 Sockets
    • B.3.3 Floating point exception control
    • B.3.4 MD5 message digest algorithm
    • B.3.5 Asynchronous socket services
    • B.3.6 Cookie management
    • B.3.7 Profiling
    • B.3.8 Execution tracing
    • B.3.9 UUencode and UUdecode functions
    • B.3.10 XML Remote Procedure Calls
• Index

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Python/C API Reference Manual

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