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I'm writing a C extension for a python application, and need to test python-specific C code. To do so I need to import Python.h into my C files, but for the life of me I haven't been able to do that. Most tutorials suggest something along the lines of sudo apt-get python-dev, but my system doesn't have apt-get, and even if it did I think it'd be better to have the dev files in my virtualenv.

Any idea how to get Python.h into my virtualenv?

mc110
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Set environment variable C_INCLUDE_PATH to include the directory of your python distribution.

Example: 1. Get include directory of your python distribution 

    find /usr/local/Cellar/ -name Python.h

This will return something like this: 

    /usr/local/Cellar//python3/3.6.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/include/python3.6m/Python.h

Now Set you C_INCLUDE_PATH variable:

    export C_INCLUDE_PATH="/usr/local/Cellar//python3/3.6.3/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/include/python3.6m/"
Aayush Gautam
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Assuming you are using MacOSX and Python installed through homebrew,

in terminal, you can find Python.h with:

find /usr/local/Cellar/ -name Python.h

that return on my sytem:

/usr/local/Cellar//python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/Python.h
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in terminal,

$python-config --includes
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