Ah, I eventually figured this out (if anyone is curious), by crawling the Python source tree to find this executable. It is little more than a program with a m

Ah, I eventually figured this out (if anyone is curious), by crawling the Python source tree to find this executable. It is little more than a program with a main() function that calls Py_Main(arg, argv) (defined in <Python.h>). I was able to create my own program like this, and solve the problem.