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diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 7d7cc9e..6ada55c 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -441,3 +441,31 @@ Check config.log to see what went wrong ...
 AC_LANG_POP(C)
 
 ])
+
+
+dnl a macro to check for ability to create python extensions
+dnl  AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS([ACTION-IF-POSSIBLE], [ACTION-IF-NOT-POSSIBLE])
+dnl function also defines PYTHON_INCLUDES
+AC_DEFUN([AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS],
+[AC_REQUIRE([AM_PATH_PYTHON])
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(for headers required to compile python extensions)
+dnl deduce PYTHON_INCLUDES
+py_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"`
+py_exec_prefix=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print sys.exec_prefix"`
+PYTHON_INCLUDES="-I${py_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
+if test "$py_prefix" != "$py_exec_prefix"; then
+  PYTHON_INCLUDES="$PYTHON_INCLUDES -I${py_exec_prefix}/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION}"
+fi
+AC_SUBST(PYTHON_INCLUDES)
+dnl check if the headers exist:
+save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
+CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $PYTHON_INCLUDES"
+AC_TRY_CPP([#include <Python.h>],dnl
+[AC_MSG_RESULT(found)
+$1],dnl
+[AC_MSG_RESULT(not found)
+$2])
+CPPFLAGS="$save_CPPFLAGS"
+])
+
+