[python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Mon Dec 4 23:17:06 CET 2006


Bob Gailer wrote:
>> So maybe try your Python suggestion, if I can get it to work.  You showed it 
>> as Python being started first and then accessing Word, but I suppose that 
>> the other way that people suggested (use VB for dialog boxes, then shell 
>> Python) is OK, too. Can the parameters that were entered in the dialog box 
>> be made accessible to Python?
>>     

Shelling to Python is one method, but it is also possible to write a COM
server in Python and instantiate it from VB just like any COM object. 
If you actually need to pass data back and forth, that may be a better way.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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