• Author: Python Software Foundation
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free

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.

Chapters include:

• Extending Python with C or C++
• A Simple Example
• Intermezzo: Errors and Exceptions
• Back to the Example
• The Module’s Method Table and Initialization Function
• Compilation and Linkage
• Calling Python Functions from C
• Extracting Parameters in Extension Functions
• Keyword Parameters for Extension Functions
• Building Arbitrary Values
• Reference Counts
• Writing Extensions in C++
• Providing a C API for an Extension Module
• Defining New Types
• The Basics
• Type Methods
• Building C and C++ Extensions with distutils
• Distributing your extension modules
• Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows
• A Cookbook Approach
• Differences Between Unix and Windows
• Using DLLs in Practice
• Embedding Python in Another Application
• Very High Level Embedding
• Beyond Very High Level Embedding: An overview
• Pure Embedding
• Extending Embedded Python
• Embedding Python in C++
• Linking Requirements

http://docs.python.org/extending/index.html

• Author: Arkon
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free

The primary focus is on embedding Python in your applications, to allow it to be user scriptable. This tutorial will show you how to use Python’s C API, and shares tips & tricks the author has learned from his own experiences with embedding Python.

Chapters include:

• It’s Everything About Objects
• Py_INCREF and Py_DECREF to Our Call
• My First Embedded Python Application
• Running some Strings
• Extension Modules
• Building and Parsing Arguments
• The None Object
• Exceptions
• Logging Stdout
• Files
• Lists/Tuples
• Callbacks
• Setting up your own scripting console

http://www.ragestorm.net/tutorial?id=21

• Author: Anthony J. Massa
• Format: PDF
• Price: free

Build low-cost, royalty-free embedded solutions with eCos, step by step.

The Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos) gives professionals a low-cost, royalty-free embedded software development solution that works in highly constrained hardware environments, while scaling smoothly to larger products.

In this start-to-finish guide to eCos solution building, Anthony Massa covers eCos architecture, installation, configuration, coding, deployment, and the entire eCos open source development system. Additional open source tools are included to configure a complete embedded software development environment. Massa’s code examples and application case study illuminate techniques for building virtually any embedded system, from the simplest device to complex Internet-enabled wireless systems.

Chapters include:

• An Introduction to the eCos World
• The Hardware Abstraction Layer
• Exceptions and Interrupts
• Virtual Vectors
• The Kernel
• Threads and Synchronization Mechanisms
• Other eCos Architecture Components
• Additional Functionality and Third-Party Contributions
• The RedBoot ROM Monitor
• The Host Development Platform
• The eCos Toolset
• An Example Application Using eCos
• Porting eCos
• Supported Processors and Evaluation Platforms
• eCos License
• Cygwin Tools Upgrade Procedure
• Building the GNU Cross-Development Tools

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