Accessing dll

[Helpful person]

I am a complete novice to Python.  I wish to access a dll that has
been written to be compatible with C and VB6.  I have been told that
after running Python I should enter  "from ctypes import *" which
allows Python to recognize the dll structure.  I have placed the dll
into my active directory (if that's the correct word, one on my path)
for simplification.

I tried:   "import name.dll" but this just gave me an error telling me
that there was no such module.

Can someone please help?

Richard