COM Client / Server creation?

[John J. Lee]

jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
[...]
> Not covered in the book, and particularly useful for implementing
> native clients and servers is ctypes / comtypes (but still not stable;
> also, I've only personally used it for writing a client, and a very
> simple one at that):
> 
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/com.html

Just to clarify this: ctypes IS stable, and in fact will be part of
Python 2.5 (first alpha to be released in a week or so).  comtypes is
the "work-in-progress" (though it has been quite useable, at least for
the simple stuff I did, for some time now).  It's all quite elegant,
too.


John