pythonwin/mapi crystal ball needed

[Gustin Kiffney]

I've had great results with Python under Linux (doing a host of CGI
chores that I was too lazy or stupid to figure out with Perl) and
am now hoping that Pythonwin can save me from the many-headed Visual
Basic dragon under windows - (nothing particular against Visual Basic
except that it kept me locked in a dungeon over holidays cursing myself
for listening to its siren song -"hey, this looks easy doesn't it - come
this way" and later getting enmeshed in its buggy coils)

Anyway I've long put off learning much about MFC/COM/MAPI because
it looked too hard, but now have to find a way to implement a MAPI
service provider (an address book).  I've looked at the MAPI stuff
in the python win32all distribution and it looks pretty complete (anyway,
it looks like lots of stuff that I don't understand yet is there).

Can anyone who has entered these
swamps before predict for me whether trying to do this using Python has
a chance of success, or should I instead sit with a couple thousand
page MFC/MAPI/C++ books as being more likely to succeed (perhaps, at
finally rendering me completely insane)...

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