dcom client from non-windows python

[drs]

"Paul Rudin" <paul_rudin at scientia.com> wrote in message
news:ur85a8we8.fsf at scientia.com...
>
>
> This is mostly idle speculation from a position of considerable
> ignorance :-)
>
> In theory it should be possible to do client side dcom from
> non-windows boxes. The existing python win32com stuff is only
> distributed for windows.  The python wrappers could be generated from
> a type library on a windows box; copied across to (e.g.) a linux box
> and used to do write client side dcom python programs to talk to a
> servers running on a windows box. I wonder how much of the current
> dcom client code depends on the presence of windows? Does this sound
> like a big job getting this kind of thing to work? Or should it be
> fairly easy to modify the existing com client stuff for this purpose?
> Maybe somebody has already done this (although I could find anything
> with a quick google)?

My guess is you would be more successful using pyro for the distributed
stuff. my other guess is that python com simply wraps windows stuff, and
that reimplementing windows on linux would take a while.

-d