[python-win32] Python and IUnknown-based COM objects

[Kirk Fertitta]

I am trying to use a COM component that does not support the IDispatch interface.  It has only early-bound IUnknown derived interfaces in it.  The folks at ActiveState directed me to this list for some assistance.  It seems from some of the documentation I've come across that Python can make early-bound function calls, but it seems that all of the creation mechanisms perform a QueryInterface for IDispatch (which, of course, will always fail for our COM components).  Does anyone have any idea on if/how Python can be used with non-IDispatch COM components?  Any advice is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-kirk


Kirk Fertitta
Chief Technical Officer
Pacific MindWorks, Inc.
www.pacificmindworks.com
ph: 858-587-8876 x237
fax: 858-587-8907

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