@@ -265,6 +265,48 @@ Initializing and finalizing the interpreter
265265 first initialized).
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268+ .. c:function:: int Py_FrozenMain(int argc, char **argv)
269+
270+ .. index :: single: freeze utility
271+
272+ The main program for a "frozen" Python program (an executable that embeds
273+ the interpreter together with the bytecode of the program's modules, as
274+ produced by the :program: `freeze ` utility; see :source: `Tools/freeze `).
275+
276+ This function initializes the interpreter, imports the frozen module named
277+ ``__main__``, and finalizes the interpreter.
278+ The frozen modules must have been registered in
279+ :c:var:`PyImport_FrozenModules` before calling this function;
280+ it is a fatal error if ``__main__ `` is not among them.
281+
282+ *argc * and *argv * are byte strings like the arguments of a C program's
283+ ``main `` function, and are passed to the interpreter with
284+ :c:func: `PyConfig_SetBytesArgv `.
285+ Unlike :c:func: `Py_Main `, the arguments are not parsed as Python command
286+ line options (:c:member: `PyConfig.parse_argv ` is ``0 ``), so all of them
287+ are made available to the program in :data:`sys.argv`.
288+ Apart from that, the interpreter uses the
289+ :ref:`Python Configuration <init-python-config>`, so environment variables
290+ such as :envvar:`PYTHONPATH` are honored.
291+ Warnings about the path configuration
292+ (:c:member: `PyConfig.pathconfig_warnings `) are suppressed.
293+ If :envvar:`PYTHONINSPECT` is set and standard input is a terminal, an
294+ interactive prompt is run after ``__main__`` has finished, as with the
295+ :option:`-i` option.
296+
297+ Return ``0`` if ``__main__`` ran without an unhandled exception, ``1``
298+ otherwise, and ``120`` if finalizing the interpreter failed (see
299+ :c:func: `Py_FinalizeEx `).
300+ An unhandled :exc:`SystemExit` terminates the process.
301+ If the interpreter cannot be initialized, the process exits via
302+ :c:func:`Py_ExitStatusException`.
303+
304+ On Windows, this function is not exported by the Python DLL.
305+ The :program:`freeze` utility compiles :file:`Python/frozenmain.c` into the
306+ frozen program instead, together with the Windows-specific hooks that the
307+ function requires.
308+
309+
268310.. c:function:: int Py_RunMain(void)
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270312 Executes the main module in a fully configured CPython runtime.
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