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+<h1>Using the C API when Embedding<a class="headerlink" href="#using-the-c-api-when-embedding" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
+<p>The <a class="reference external" href="c_api.html#ref-c-api"><em>C API</em></a> is intended to be called from handwritten code in
+SIP generated modules. However it is also often necessary to call it from C or
+C++ applications that embed the Python interpreter and need to pass C or C++
+instances between the application and the interpreter.</p>
+<p>The API is exported by the SIP module as a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sipAPIDef</span></tt> data structure
+containing a set of function pointers. The data structure is defined in the
+SIP header file <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sip.h</span></tt>. The data structure is wrapped as a Python
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PyCObject</span></tt> object and is referenced by the name <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_C_API</span></tt> in the SIP
+module dictionary.</p>
+<p>Each member of the data structure is a pointer to one of the functions of the
+SIP API. The name of the member can be derived from the function name by
+replacing the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sip</span></tt> prefix with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api</span></tt> and converting each word in the
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+<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sipExportSymbol</span></tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api_export_symbol</span></tt></p>
+<p><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sipWrapperCheck</span></tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">api_wrapper_check</span></tt></p>
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+obtained using the <a title="sipFindType" class="reference external" href="c_api.html#sipFindType"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sipFindType()</span></tt></a> function. Of course, the
+corresponding modules must already have been imported into the interpreter.</p>
+<p>The following code fragment shows how to get a pointer to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sipAPIDef</span></tt>
+data structure:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><pre>#include &lt;sip.h&gt;
+
+const sipAPIDef *get_sip_api()
+{
+ PyObject *sip_module;
+ PyObject *sip_module_dict;
+ PyObject *c_api;
+
+ /* Import the SIP module. */
+ sip_module = PyImport_ImportModule("sip");
+
+ if (sip_module == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Get the module's dictionary. */
+ sip_module_dict = PyModule_GetDict(sip_module);
+
+ /* Get the "_C_API" attribute. */
+ c_api = PyDict_GetItemString(sip_module_dict, "_C_API");
+
+ if (c_api == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Sanity check that it is the right type. */
+ if (!PyCObject_Check(c_api))
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