[Tutor] list dll functions?

[ALAN GAULD]

Find the Pythonwin IDE executable and run it - its a better IDE than IDLE in my 
opinion, especially if you are on Windows.

Once it is started you can go to the Tools->COM Browser menu item and 
it starts an explorer type Window. The top level "folders" are:

Registered Objects
Running Objects
Registered Type Libraries

You can then drill down and explore as you wish.
For example under Registered Type Libraries there is Accessibility.
Within that there is TypeLibrary-> IAccessible-Dispatch
Within that there are functions such as  AddRef, Invoke, GetTypeInfo etc.

Inside those you can see the parameters etc.


Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn To Program website
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/




----- Original Message ----
> From: Alex Hall <mehgcap at gmail.com>
> To: Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 September, 2010 15:57:43
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] list dll functions?
> 
> On 9/15/10, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>  wrote:
> >
> > "Alex Hall" <mehgcap at gmail.com>  wrote
> >
> >> Out of curiosity: I know I can call dll functions from  python using
> >> the win32 lib, but is there any way to simply "examine"  a loaded dll
> >> to see all of the functions and attributes it exposes  for use?
> >
> > There are various tools around to do that and hopefully  some
> > documentation!
> >
> > But often nowadays DLLs expose a COM  object model and
> > you have a COM browser built into Pythonwin. That will  give
> > you a windows explorer type view of the objects and their
> >  operations.
> How would you go about doing that? I have the pywin  extension
> installed for my python installation.
> >
> > If the DLL is  purely perocedural then that won't help.
> >
> >  HTH,
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alan Gauld
> > Author of the Learn  to Program web site
> > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
> >
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