Using ActiveX Control from Python

[Mark Hammond]

Hirsch, John wrote:

> Hi All
> I am trying to use an ActiveX Control from Python 2.0 with little success.

Python alone does not support true COM Controls - these are quite 
complex beasts and require significant "framework" support.

You have a couple of reasonable choices:
* Use Pythonwin - it inherits MFC's control container support.  Check 
out pywin\demos\ocx for examples.

* Check out some recent(ish) posts from Alex Martelli who describes in 
excellent detail how to use IE as your container, and still use Python 
to script it.

Mark.