cPyExtPatt 0.3.0

From PyPi

pip install cPyExtPatt

From Source

Choose a directory of your choice, in this case: ~/dev/tmp.

mkdir -p ~/dev/tmp
cd ~/dev/tmp
git clone https://github.com/paulross/PythonExtensionPatterns.git
cd PythonExtensionPatterns

Virtual Environment

Create a Python environment in the directory of your choice, in this case: ~/dev/tmp/PythonExtensionPatterns/venv_3.11 and activate it:

python3.11 -m venv venv_3.11
source venv_3.11/bin/activate

Install the Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the Tests

You now should be able to run the following commands successfully in ~/dev/tmp/PythonExtensionPatterns with your environment activated:

pytest tests/

Building the Documentation

This will build the html and PDF documentation (requires a latex installation):

cd doc/sphinx
make html latexpdf

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.

TODO

• Add “Debugging Python with CLion”.

Contributors

Many thanks!