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     Python is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language.
     This document describes how to write modules in C or C++ to extend
     the Python interpreter with new modules.  Those modules can define
     new functions but also new object types and their methods.  The
     document also describes how to embed the Python interpreter in
     another application, for use as an extension language.  Finally,
     it shows how to compile and link extension modules so that they
     can be loaded dynamically (at run time) into the interpreter, if
     the underlying operating system supports this feature.

     This document assumes basic knowledge about Python.  For an
     informal introduction to the language, see the .  The  gives a more
     formal definition of the language.  The  documents the existing
     object types, functions and modules (both built-in and written in
     Python) that give the language its wide application range.

     For a detailed description of the whole Python/C API, see the
     separate .