On May 8, 7:34 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Fischer wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > > thank you for your answer and sorry for the multiple e-mails. Thank you > > also for > > the hint on the book. I already read into it in our local library. Its > > good, but a > > little outdated (Jan. 2000) as I mentioned in > > >http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/438800.html > > Ah, yes. Didn't spot that. Although the book is outdated, > so is COM! It's been around in pretty much its present > format for wasily as long as that. > > > Do you know, whether something has changed, since the book was written, in > > the use of the dcomcnfg tool? > > I wouldn't know, but I doubt it; it looks pretty > old-fashioned to me. Worth checking some microsoft newsgroups. > > > I am not clear what steps are necessary under today's WinXP Professional > > to get DCOM run. But it is said that it shouldn't be difficult. > > Certainly I've got no problem running simple stuff. My main > area of expertise - WMI - uses it under the covers and it > only gives me problems when there's security involved. > > > One short question back to the documentation: I read that 'makepy' could be > > helpful to generate documentation to the package? > > AFAIK, makepy's got nothing to do with the pywin32 docs. It > can be used to generate a proxy Python module for an > existing COM package, eg: > > <code> > from win32com.client import gencache > xl = gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Excel.Application") > > # > # Behind the scenes this has called makepy to generate > # a module which on my machine is under > # c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py > # > > help (xl.__class__) > > </code> > > Sorry I can't be more help. I know Mark Hammond follows > the python-win32 list; I don't know if he follows the > main Python list, so it might be worth posting to > python-win32. > > TJG
The win32com module seems to get short shrift, which I could say about a lot of the win32 modules and other 3rd party modules in general. However, I have found the following pages helpful for Python and COM: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/html/com/win32com/HTML/docindex.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/html/win32/help/process_info.html#pythoncom And this is good for just general info on win32: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/win32_modules.html The wiki idea sounds like a good one. I was thinking about doing some kind of Python site about the modules and I think the popular 3rd party ones would be a good place to start, maybe starting with win32. How much information do you think would need to be on a site like this to start out with? Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
