I just released comtypes-0.5.3. comtypes is a lightweight Python COM package, based on the ctypes FFI library, in less than 10000 lines of code (not counting the tests).
comtypes allows to define, call, and implement custom and dispatch-based COM interfaces in pure Python. It works on Windows, 64-bit Windows, and Windows CE. Download location: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115265 Homepage: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/comtypes/ This is a maintainance release of the current repository state, before I merged the dynamic-dispatch branch (which will be released as comtypes-0.6.0 within the next few days). Summary of important changes: - Compatible with Python 3.0 - Added comtypes.shelllink module; this allows to manage shortcuts - Various smaller improvements Detailed changes since version 0.5.2: 2008-12-12 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Bumped version number to 0.5.3. * Added VARIANT support for VT_I8 and VT_UI8 typecodes. 2008-12-11 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Workaround for Python bug: Python 3 cannot handle a distutils installscript in the setup script * Merged the py3-branch: Various changes for py3 compatibility. The setup script now uses distutils.command.build_py.build_py_2to3 when run with Python 3.x, and converts the sources into py3 syntax on the fly (in the build directory). 2008-11-26 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Added untested code to comtypes.server: RegisterActiveObject() and RevokeActiveObject(), plus some flags. * Applied a patch from Torbjørn Tyridal. This allows to high-level implement methods in COM servers, and event handler methods that have [in] and [out] arguments in mixed order. 2008-11-05 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Add the IPersistFile interface to the comtypes.persist module. Add comtypes.shelllink module which contains IShellLinkA and IShellLinkW interfaces, plus the ShellLink coclass. 2008-10-29 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Handle coclass pointers as arguments in com interface methods correctly. Method calls will now accept pointers to the default interface of this coclass. * The Fire_Event() method in comtypes.server.connectionpoints now returns a list of results. 2008-10-10 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Import cStringIO, which should always be available on Windows, instead of first trying cStringIO and then StringIO. * Python 2.6 compatibility: use 'types.MethodType' instead of 'new.instancemethod' to fix a -3 warning. Use 'raise Exception(details)' instead of 'raise Exception, details'. Don't use tuple unpacking in exception handlers: 'except COMError, err: (hresult, text, details) = err' instead of 'except COMError, (hresult, text, details)' * Python 2.4 compatibility: os.stat() raises OSError instead of WindowsError when a file is not found. -- Thanks, Thomas _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32