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ActivePython 2.4

Python Documentation

Python/C API

Front Matter

Contents

1. Introduction

2. The Very High Level Layer

3. Reference Counting

4. Exception Handling

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

7. Concrete Objects Layer

8. Initialization, Finalization, and Threads

9. Memory Management

10. Object Implementation Support

A. Reporting Bugs

B. History and License

Index

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5. Utilities

The functions in this chapter perform various utility tasks, ranging from helping C code be more portable across platforms, using Python modules from C, and parsing function arguments and constructing Python values from C values.

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