<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
    <tr>
        <th>Issue</th>
        <td>
            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/151617>151617</a>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <th>Summary</th>
        <td>
            Make LLDB compatible with the Python Limited C API
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Labels</th>
      <td>
            metaissue,
            lldb
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Assignees</th>
      <td>
      </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <th>Reporter</th>
      <td>
          JDevlieghere
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>

<pre>
    Currently, LLDB uses the Python private or unstable API. This [means](https://lldb.llvm.org/resources/caveats.html#python) that LLDB only works with the exact same version of Python that LLDB was compiled with. See https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/stable.html for more details.

Previously, we were limited by SWIG, which generated code that wasn't part of the limited API. As of [version 4.2](https://www.swig.org/Release/CHANGES), SWIG generates code that's compatible with the Python 3.4 stable API and later.

Currently, the minimum Python version is 3.8. Based on a quick attempt to define `Py_LIMITED_API` to `0x03080000`, we'll need to find replacements for the following identifiers:

- `_Py_IsFinalizing`
- `_PyObject_Dump`
- `Py_buffer`
- `PyBUF_READ`
- `PyBUF_SIMPLE`
- `PyBytes_AS_STRING`
- `PyGILState_Check`
- `PyList_GET_SIZE`
- `PyRun_SimpleString`
- `PyRun_String`
- `PyTuple_GET_SIZE`
- `PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize`

This issue tracks the work to migrate over to only using the limited C API in LLDB. 

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