[python-win32] Implementing Collections / Shim-ing Word

[Tim Roberts]

jeff sacksteder wrote:
>> Well, COM objects don't have members (externally).  Everything is a
>> function.
>>     
>
> If everything is a function, what's _public_attrs_ for?
>   

I suppose it's really a matter of semantics more than a useful 
distinction.  _public_attrs_ creates what COM calls a "property", which 
are actually implemented as as two special functions called get_Xxx and 
put_Xxx (for a property called Xxx).  Languages that have the notion of 
a property usually hide this from you, calling the functions behind your 
back.

A COM interface is a pure virtual C++ class, which means it can consist 
of nothing but function pointers.

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