Add a Section to the Language Reference About Runtime Components

Open ericsnowcurrently opened this issue 7 months ago • 1 comments

Documentation

As I've been working on documentation for using multiple interpreters, I've found that there really isn't any clear explanation of how the Python runtime operates from a high level. (Perhaps I missed it.)

In particular I think we'd benefit from having a brief overview of Python's runtime components, both relative to the host and relative to Python's own execution context. To me, the natural place to find this is as a section of the "execution model" page in the language reference.

Linked PRs

gh-135945

Jun 25 '25 15:06 ericsnowcurrently

I've also opened a DPO thread: https://discuss.python.org/t/96922.

Jun 27 '25 20:06 ericsnowcurrently