This manual documents the API used by C and C++ programmers who want to write extension modules or embed Python. It is a companion to :ref:`extending-index`, which describes the general principles of extension writing but does not document the API functions in detail.

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   :maxdepth: 2

   intro.rst
   stable.rst
   veryhigh.rst
   refcounting.rst
   exceptions.rst
   extension-modules.rst
   utilities.rst
   abstract.rst
   concrete.rst
   interp-lifecycle.rst
   threads.rst
   synchronization.rst
   tls.rst
   subinterpreters.rst
   profiling.rst
   init_config.rst
   memory.rst
   objimpl.rst
   apiabiversion.rst
   monitoring.rst