Extending Windows Shell with Python

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Tue Dec 5 00:14:41 EST 2000


Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:

> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/shellcc/shell/Shell_Adv/namespace.htm
> explains how to extend the Windows Explorer so that you can browse your own
> namespaces. I've seen it used, for example, to allow you to browse a FTP
> site through the Windows Explorer.
> 
> Is it possible to this in Python?  I assume it is, and I'm going to try
> doing it myself, but if someone's already done it I'd love to have some
> example code.

Not quite, but close.  Enhancements to the win32com.shell module will 
probably be required.

Funny how these things come in batches!

Mark.




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