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  • [Python-announce] Python Extension Patterns v0.3

    From Paul Ross@apaulross@gmail.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Thu Mar 20 11:47:52 2025
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    I am pleased to announce v0.3 of "Python Extension Patterns", the guide to writing Python C/C++ extensions.

    *Added Chapters*

    - "Containers and Reference Counts" which corrects the Python documentation where that is wrong, misleading or missing.
    - "Struct Sequences (namedtuple in C)" which corrects the Python
    documentation where that is wrong, misleading or missing.
    - "Context Managers" with practical C code examples.
    - "Watchers" with practical examples for dictionary watchers (Python 3.12+).
    - "Installation" for the project.
    - "Source Code Layout" for the project.

    *Changed Chapters*

    - Update the "Homogeneous Python Containers and C++" chapter.
    - Expand the "Memory Leaks" chapter.
    - Extended the "Logging" chapter to show how to access the CPython Frame
    from C.
    - Add "Emulating Sequence Types" to the "Creating New Types" chapter.
    - Expand the Index.

    *Other*

    - Python versions supported: 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13.
    - Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
    - The documentation content, example and test code has roughly doubled
    since version 0.2.2.
    - PDF Documentation is 339 pages.

    *Project Links*

    - Source is on GitHub: https://github.com/paulross/PythonExtensionPatterns
    - Documentation on Read the Docs http://pythonextensionpatterns.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
    - Project is on PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/cPyExtPatt

    Paul Ross
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