Contents

• 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
• 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
    • 7.1.1 Type Objects
    • 7.1.2 The None Object
  • 7.2 Sequence Objects
    • 7.2.1 String Objects
    • 7.2.2 Tuple Objects
    • 7.2.3 List Objects
  • 7.3 Mapping Objects
    • 7.3.1 Dictionary Objects
  • 7.4 Numeric Objects
    • 7.4.1 Plain Integer Objects
    • 7.4.2 Long Integer Objects
    • 7.4.3 Floating Point Objects
    • 7.4.4 Complex Number Objects
  • 7.5 Other Objects
    • 7.5.1 File Objects
    • 7.5.2 CObjects
• 8. Initialization, Finalization, and Threads
  • 8.1 Thread State and the Global Interpreter Lock
• 9. Defining New Object Types
• 10. Debugging
• Index