Why no maintained wrapper to Win32?

Gilles Ganault nospam at nospam.com
Sun Jul 29 17:28:46 EDT 2007


On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:40:35 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis"
<martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>Why do you say that the Win32 API lacks documentation? I find the
>documentation at msdn.microsoft.com to be quite useful.

No, I meant documentation on how to write Win32 apps using PyWin.

>Yes, there haven't been many changes to Win32 in recent years (there
>haven't been many system releases in the first place). Most additions
>did not concern GUI programming, which is what you were after, and
>even those that are recent additions are rather rarely needed, so
>you likely won't miss them.

Makes sense. Do  you know of good places to hang around when looking
for information on writing Win32-based GUI apps in Pythons (web
forums, mailing lists, etc.)?

Thank you.



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