[python-win32] Starting COM questions

[Niki Spahiev]

Blair Hall wrote:
> I need to develop some COM stuff later in the year (my first
> attempt at COM programming) and I am asking myself whether
> to do it with Python or VisualC++6.
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1) I have found John Nielsen's "Python, C++ and COM" and would like to
> gather up more documentation like this that could ease my passage
> (eg HowTos, examples, tutorials, ...). I have not found much else so far.
> 
> 2)  Perhaps more important, supposing I do develop my COM components
> with Python. They only need to be prototypes, so optimisation is not an 
> issue.
> However, the possibility of distributing them to others (for evaluation) 
> is.
> 
> Given that the potential evaluation platforms won't have Python, how useful
> are my components going to be?
> 
> To put it another way, can anyone comment on how one distributes Python COM
> components?

We (Vintech Ltd.) develop and distribute Python COM components using 
Python Installer and small patch to support regsvr32. Patch is available 
in Installer mail archive.

Problem is that one can't test Python COM server with Python COM client 
(at least not same python version).

HTH
Niki Spahiev