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4. Building C and C++ Extensions — Python 3.13.5 documentation

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“A C extension for CPython is a shared library (e.g. a.so file on Linux,.pyd on Windows), which exports an initialization function. To be importable, the shared library must be available on PYTHONPA...” (the page’s own description)

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