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.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 intro.rst stable.rst veryhigh.rst refcounting.rst exceptions.rst utilities.rst abstract.rst concrete.rst init.rst memory.rst objimpl.rst apiabiversion.rst