Tag: Win32

  • Using ctypes to call additional win32 functions

    Introduction The Windows extensions for Python offer a lot of the Win32 api to the Python developer but there will always be cases where a certain functions will not be available, as the Win32 api is very large. But in that case, the developer needs not to despair, because the ctypes extensions allows to import…

  • Hello World in Python using Win32

    Introduction Python is a cool scripting language available on many platforms and has an extensive standard library. Additionally, under Windows there are extensions available that allow Python to interface with the Win32 API or to call COM objects. You can even write COM servers in Python! I had a copy of Charles Petzold’s “Programming Windows”…