use COM remotely on Unix in python?

[Alex Martelli]

<tiddlerdeja at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:8om8cg$3um$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> Is it possible to use COM objects on a NT machine remotly from a UNIX
> machine using python? Possibly in a DCOM or RPC fashion?

Maybe SOAP is the way to go, although it's not very mature yet (I think
the Microsoft kit for SOAP-on-top-of-COM currently needs Windows2000
and/or IIS 5 for server-side deployment).  Or else, any Corba implementation
(of which there are many, including excellent free ones with good Python
bindings) plus a COM-Corba bridge (of which there are several, but I do
not know of any free one; hopefully somebody can help on this...?).


Alex