Programming Python, 3rd Edition

23.1. "Add Python. Mix Well. Repeat." In the prior chapter, we explored half of the Python/C integration picture: calling C services from Python. This mode lets programmers speed up operations by moving them to C, and to utilize exte...

23.2. C Embedding API Overview The first thing you should know about Python's embedded-call API is that it is less structured than the extension interfaces. Embedding Python in C may require a bit more creativity on your part than extending: yo...

23.3. Basic Embedding Techniques As you can probably tell from the preceding overview, there is much flexibility in the embedding domain. To illustrate common embedding techniques in action, this section presents a handful of short C programs that...

23.4. Registering Callback Handler Objects In the examples thus far, C has been running and calling Python code from a standard main program flow of control. That's not always the way programs work, though; in some cases, programs...

23.5. Using Python Classes in C In the previous chapter, we saw how to use C++ classes in Python by wrapping them with SWIG. But what about going the other wayusing Python classes from other languages? It turns out that this is really j...

23.6. A High-Level Embedding API: ppembed As you can probably tell from Example 23-14, embedded-mode integration code can very quickly become as complicated as extending code for nontrivial use. Today, no automation solution ...

23.7. Other Integration Topics In this book, the term integration has largely meant mixing Python with components written in C or C++ (or other C-compatible languages) in extending and embedding modes. But from a broader perspective, integration a...