[Python-Dev] re: The os module, unix and win32

[Barry Scott]

At 09-01-2004 04:02, Arthur wrote:
>But tangentially on topic - is the possibility of getting enough of the
>win32all API functions into the core distribution to give more Windows
>standard functionality to disutils - start menu entries in particular.

That needs COM support and that's a lot more API that is proposed for
popen5 and similar. By the time you have COM support you have committed
to include all of win32all in standard python. Which is basically what
ActiveState Python is.

Barry