What are COM-enabled applications?

[Duncan Booth]

Cameron Laird wrote:

> Python has good COM abilities.  While, to my surprise, I just
> realized that I'm unaware of anyone having put together a COM
> "explorer" with Python, it would be a straightforward project.

Don't the tools that come with Python's COM support do enough for you?

...\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\combrowse.py for example. (Or inside 
PythonWin it is on the Tools menu).