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How to embed Python code in C program

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Dec 4, 2016

If you are developing a program in C, but some part of it needs to be written in Python, you can actually write a Python module for that and embed the Python module in a C program using Python/C API. In this tutorial let’s examine how to use Python/C API to embed Python code in C.

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