code: def get_config_vars(*args):
      """With no arguments, return a dictionary of all configuration
      variables relevant for the current platform.
  
      On Unix, this means every variable defined in Python's installed Makefile;
      On Windows it's a much smaller set.
  
      With arguments, return a list of values that result from looking up
      each argument in the configuration variable dictionary.
      """
      global _CONFIG_VARS
      if _CONFIG_VARS is None:
          _CONFIG_VARS = {}
          # Normalized versions of prefix and exec_prefix are handy to have;
          # in fact, these are the standard versions used most places in the
          # Distutils.
          _CONFIG_VARS["prefix"] = _PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["exec_prefix"] = _EXEC_PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["py_version"] = _PY_VERSION
          _CONFIG_VARS["py_version_short"] = _PY_VERSION_SHORT
          _CONFIG_VARS["py_version_nodot"] = _PY_VERSION_SHORT_NO_DOT
          _CONFIG_VARS["installed_base"] = _BASE_PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["base"] = _PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["installed_platbase"] = _BASE_EXEC_PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["platbase"] = _EXEC_PREFIX
          _CONFIG_VARS["projectbase"] = _PROJECT_BASE
          _CONFIG_VARS["platlibdir"] = sys.platlibdir
          try:
              _CONFIG_VARS["abiflags"] = sys.abiflags
          except AttributeError:
              # sys.abiflags may not be defined on all platforms.
              _CONFIG_VARS["abiflags"] = ""
          try:
              _CONFIG_VARS[
                  "py_version_nodot_plat"
              ] = sys.winver.replace(".", "")
          except AttributeError:
              _CONFIG_VARS["py_version_nodot_plat"] = ""
  
          if os.name == "nt":
              _init_non_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
              _CONFIG_VARS["VPATH"] = sys._vpath
          if os.name == "posix":
              _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
          if _HAS_USER_BASE:
              # Setting 'userbase' is done below the call to the
              # init function to enable using 'get_config_var' in
              # the init-function.
              _CONFIG_VARS["userbase"] = _getuserbase()
  
          # Always convert srcdir to an absolute path
          srcdir = _CONFIG_VARS.get("srcdir", _PROJECT_BASE)
          if os.name == "posix":
              if _PYTHON_BUILD:
                  # If srcdir is a relative path (typically '.' or '..')
                  # then it should be interpreted relative to the directory
                  # containing Makefile.
                  base = os.path.dirname(get_makefile_filename())
                  srcdir = os.path.join(base, srcdir)
              else:
                  # srcdir is not meaningful since the installation is
                  # spread about the filesystem.  We choose the
                  # directory containing the Makefile since we know it
                  # exists.
                  srcdir = os.path.dirname(get_makefile_filename())
          _CONFIG_VARS["srcdir"] = _safe_realpath(srcdir)
  
          # OS X platforms require special customization to handle
          # multi-architecture, multi-os-version installers
          if sys.platform == "darwin":
              import _osx_support
  
              _osx_support.customize_config_vars(_CONFIG_VARS)
  
      if args:
          vals = []
          for name in args:
              vals.append(_CONFIG_VARS.get(name))
          return vals
      else:
          return _CONFIG_VARS
  
imports: import os
  import sys
  from os.path import pardir, realpath
label_desc: Use image node_id 22 for calling a global function with example usage: get_config_vars() and returns: vals, _CONFIG_VARS