[New-bugs-announce] [issue43886] Extending/embedding Python documentation outdated/incomplete

[Federico Pellegrin]

New submission from Federico Pellegrin <fede.evol at gmail.com>:

Hello,
We had lately some issues with various possible variants of compilation (static vs dynamic) with reference to both embedding and extending Python. There are a bunch of tickets on the topic (ie. #21536 or #34309) but I guess one important point is that the documentation seems to be not very clear on this. Also various Linux distros seem to take very different approaches (static/dynamic).

Infact from the current documentation it seems unclear if python-config should be used for both or not. We found also some references to a newer --embed flag (see ie. #36721) which is not mentioned in the documentation.
Some other sources suggest that python-config should not be used when Python is build with Py_ENABLE_SHARED=1. (ref. here: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/2738#issuecomment-371148021)

Also the example looks probably outdated, as it mentions Python 3.4

It would be nice if some light would be shed on the correct practice to use and the official documentation updated.

Thanks,
Federico

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 391370
nosy: docs at python, fede.evol
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Extending/embedding Python documentation outdated/incomplete
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.9

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