Something I don't see being mentioned in the comments: What's a really frustrating part of working with the C API? Setting up the compile/link flags! The pyth

Something I don't see being mentioned in the comments: What's a really frustrating part of working with the C API? Setting up the compile/link flags! The python3-config works generally well but is only available at the OS level. But you don't want to mess with that (e.g., to access pip-installed packages). Beyond that, everything is a mess! python3 -m venv doesn't even bother creating such a script. anaconda/miniconda? Don't even try!. So every package pollutes their build scripts with many hardcoded `python3 -c "import sys: print..."` calls. I've opened a CPython/PR that may help a bit by adding `python3 -m sysconfig --json` flag [0] [0] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123318 https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/123318