Embedding the Python interpreter - Mark Boer
More and more applications are adding Python support to offer the user a scripting language to interact with. Even Microsoft is considering to officially add Python to Excel. In this talk we will explore how one would go about doing this.
We dive into the CPtyhon internals and build our own simple REPL using Python's C-API. I'll show you some of the quirks and pitfalls I ran into, how you can wrestle the GIL and how to manage global state.