<HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="Microsoft Word 97"> <TITLE>win32com</TITLE> <META NAME="Template" CONTENT="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot"> </HEAD> <BODY TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff"> <DIR> <P><!-- Enclose the entire page in UL, so bullets don't indent. --></P> <H1><IMG SRC="image/pycom_blowing.gif" WIDTH=549 HEIGHT=99></H1> <H2>Python and COM</H2> <H3>Introduction</H3> <P>Python has an excellent interface to COM (also known variously as OLE2, ActiveX, etc).</P> <P>The Python COM package can be used to interface to almost any COM program (such as the MS-Office suite), write servers that can be hosted by any COM client (such as Visual Basic or C++), and has even been used to provide the core ActiveX Scripting Support. </P> <UL> <LI>Note that win32com is now released in the win32all installation package. The <A HREF="../win32all/win32all.exe">installation EXE can be downloaded</A>, or you <A HREF="../win32all/">can jump to the win32all readme</A> for more details. </LI> <LI>Here is the <A HREF="win32com_src.zip">win32com source code</A> in a zip file. </LI></UL> </DIR> <DIR> <H3>Documentation</H3> <P><A HREF="ActiveXScripting.html">Preliminary Active Scripting and Debugging documentation</A> is available.</P> <P>2 Quick-Start guides have been provided, which also contain other links. See the <A HREF="QuickStartClientCom.html">Quick Start for Client side COM</A> and the <A HREF="QuickStartServerCom.html">Quick Start for Server side COM</A> </P> </P></DIR> </DIR> </BODY> </HTML>