Do you want to learn how CPython internals work or do you want to learn how to bind C code with Python? If it's the latter, I can point you to the excellent CFF

Do you want to learn how CPython internals work or do you want to learn how to bind C code with Python? If it's the latter, I can point you to the excellent CFFI library[0], the documentation is pretty clear and it's pretty easy to get going. [0]: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.8/ http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/release-0.8/