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8.3 Advanced Debugger Support
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These functions are only intended to be used by advanced debugging
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyInterpreterState* <b><tt id='l2h-890' xml:id='l2h-890' class="cfunction">PyInterpreterState_Head</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Return the interpreter state object at the head of the list of all
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<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyInterpreterState* <b><tt id='l2h-891' xml:id='l2h-891' class="cfunction">PyInterpreterState_Next</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>PyInterpreterState *<var>interp</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Return the next interpreter state object after <var>interp</var> from the
list of all such objects.
<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>
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<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyThreadState * <b><tt id='l2h-892' xml:id='l2h-892' class="cfunction">PyInterpreterState_ThreadHead</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>PyInterpreterState *<var>interp</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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Return the a pointer to the first <tt class="ctype">PyThreadState</tt> object in
the list of threads associated with the interpreter <var>interp</var>.
<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>
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Return the next thread state object after <var>tstate</var> from the list
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<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>
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