Inside CPYTHON: A Guide to the Python Interpreter

CPython, the most popular implementation of Python, abstracts away the complexities of the OS and provides a platform for building scalable and high-performance applications. Every Python developer will need to understand how CPython works at some stage. This will allow you to fully harness its power and optimize applications. You will grasp the fundamental concepts of CPython's internal structure and learn how to: read the source code of the CPython interpreter and navigate it freely; make changes to Python syntax and compile them into your own version of CPython; understand the internal implementation of structures such as lists, dictionaries, and generators; manage memory in CPython; scale Python code through parallelism and concurrency; enhance basic types with new functionality; run test suites; profile and benchmark Python code and runtime; debug C and Python code at a professional level; modify or update CPython library components so they can be used in future versions.