Is there *any* real documentation to PyWin32?

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That's pretty unfair.  If you know the Windows API, then the documentation is sufficient.  If you need to learn the API, then it's unreasonable to expect Mark Hammond, et. al. to bundle the amount of material needed along with the software.

The book is an excellent introduction to the Windows API and explains in detail how pywin32 integrates Windows and Python.  With the book in hand, much of the on-line Microsoft documentation becomes intelligible.

On Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:57:02 AM UTC-5, ru... at yahoo.com wrote:
> On Dec 20, 6:35 am, Benoit <benoit.barberou... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I understand that the Win32 has been said to be itself poorly
> > documented, so perhaps that the documentation that comes with the
> > modules is of similar quality is no coincidence.  Maybe I'm still too
> > young in my programming to grasp the good of that documentation, but
> > for myself, it tells me next to nothing.  Could anyone point me to
> > anything which may exist that does a better job of explaining the
> > extensions' use?  I tried to take a look @ Microsoft's documentation,
> > but it was confusing.
> 
> There is Mark Hammond's book [1] about python-win32 though I haven't
> used it and don't know if it contains anything that would be helpful
> to you.
> It is rather old now but some claim that is not important. [2]
> 
> Personally I consider Python-win32 to be docware -- software that is
> sufficiently difficult to use with the included free documentation
> that many people will just buy the $$$ documentation.  Numpy is
> another prominent example of docware.  A misappropriation of the good-
> will value of legitimate open source software.
> 
> [1]http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Win32-Windows-Programmers/
> dp/1565926218/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198165983&sr=1-1
> [2]
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/e5a1f274ec411cbe/78b1390a6f6d75b2?hl=en&lnk=st&q=com+win32+(doc+OR+documentation)+group%3Acomp.lang.python#78b1390a6f6d75b2