How to use Pythonwin's ability to access windows dll's???

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Sat Jan 15 21:22:32 EST 2000


Sam Schulenburg writes:
> In article <1264144125-438654 at hypernet.com>,
>   gmcm at hypernet.com wrote:
> > Sam Schulenburg writes:
> >
> > > I can access windows dll's using Sam Rushing's calldll.pyd and
> windll.py. My
> > > question is are thes features built into Pythonwin?
> >
> > Nope. Everything in the Win32 extensions is wrapped (much
> > of it via SWIG).  Sam's stuff is regarded as dangerous,
> > because it's too easy to crash Python.

> Seriously what is the purpose of the LoadLibrary function if not to
> access Dll's>

You can load & use resources from a dll (for dialogs, views 
etc). Not much use, otherwise.


- Gordon




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