Created 16 February 2009, last updated 28 January 2021 This is a presentation for PyCon 2009 in Chicago. A video of me presenting it is available on pyvideo.org, or at archive.org, or right here: Python can be extended with extensions written in C. It’s a complex topic, this will be a quick 45 minute introduction. The examples here are toys, meant to demonstrate the structure of an extension. They