[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Calling any toolbox routine from Python

[Jack Jansen]

> Doesn't Visual Basic have a similar escape into the C world?  I
> believe I've seen include files that declared a bunch of entry points
> with their address and the type of the arguments.  It seemed obvious
> that by specifying the wrong address or type you could blow up the
> system but of course the include files that are part of the
> distribution can be trusted in the same sense that you can trust
> Python extension modules.

Yes, that's the other option but it is a bit more work. The "luxury" version I 
was thinking of would have something like
	FooBar = dllcaller('FooBar', formatstring)
where formatstring would somehow describe the arguments and return values. 
dllcaller would then return a callable object with the correct calling 
sequence, and it would perform argument checking.
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