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6.15. LXC API
Most of the LXC functionality can now be accessed through an API exported by liblxc for which bindings are available in several languages, including Python, lua, ruby, and go.
Below is an example using the python bindings (which are available in the python3-lxc package) which creates and starts a container, then waits until it has been shut down:
# sudo python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Aug 28 2012, 08:26:03)
[GCC 4.7.1 20120814 (prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import lxc
__main__:1: Warning: The python-lxc API isn't yet stable and may change at any p oint in the future.
>>> c=lxc.Container("C1")
>>> c.create("ubuntu") True
>>> c.start() True
>>> c.wait("STOPPED")
True