FW: executing VBScript from Python and vice versa

[Tim Hoffman]

PythonWin 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] 
on win32.
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 >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
 >>> x = Dispatch("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl")
 >>> x.Language='VBScript'
 >>> x.AddCode("""Function HelloWorld
... HelloWorld = "hello world"
... End Function
... """)
 >>>
 >>> x.Eval("HelloWorld")
u'hello world'
 >>>

Valentina Boycheva wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I already have "Learning Python" from Mark Lutz and
> David Ascher, which covers 2.3 (I am in 2.4). However, it seems like heavy
> artillery to me. What I want is, for instance, run a VBScript to get a
> function output and feed it to the Python script that called it. The reason
> is that because I feel more comfortable with VBScript and have written a
> small library of useful utilities, I don't want it to become obsolete. In
> the mean time I did more reading and found a couple of prospective
> alternatives - popen and os.system(command). Still need to work out how to
> use them...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aurora [mailto:aurora00 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:28 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: executing VBScript from Python and vice versa
> 
> Go to the bookstore and get a copy of Python Programming on Win32
> by Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson today.
> 
>    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/
> 
> It has everything you need.
> 
> 
>>Is there a way to make programs written in these two languages  
>>communicate
>>with each other? I am pretty sure that VBScript can access a Python  
>>script
>>because Python is COM compliant. On the other hand, Python might be able  
>>to
>>call a VBScript through WSH. Can somebody provide a simple example? I  
>>have
>>exactly 4 days of experience in Python (and fortunately, much more in  
>>VB6)
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
> 
> 
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