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16 Jan 2010


      I'm happy to announce the 0.6.2 comtypes release:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/
Here are the release notes:
comtypes 0.6.2 released.
Summary of important changes:
- Several bug fixes for COM event handlers implemented in Python.
- Allow typelib wrappers that (wrongly?) contain
    'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT)*'.
- DllCanUnloadNow() always returns S_FALSE in comtypes inproc
    COM servers.
- The COM interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, and
    IViewObjectEx in the new module comtypes.viewobject.
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Detailed changelog since version 0.6.0:
2010-01-15  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Bumped version number to 0.6.2.
* CoUninitialize() returns nothing, not HRESULT.
2009-12-22  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Bug fixes for event handlers implemented in Python.
2009-12-11  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* COM servers implemented in Python can now fire events; it did
    not work in some cases.
* When an exception occurs in a COM event handler, a traceback is
    printed.
2009-11-26  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Allow typelib wrappers that contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT*)'
    parameter types to be imported.  Calling these methods will fail,
    though.
2009-11-13  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* To avoid a memory leak when PyInitialize()/PyUninitialize() are
    called several times, return S_FALSE from inproc server's
    DllCanUnloadNow().
2009-11-05  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* COMObject subclasses can now implement a _final_release_()
    method to free up resources, for example.  This method is called
    when the COM reference count reaches zero.
* Implement __hash__ method in dynamic dispatch classes.  This
    fixes a 'python -3' warning.
* comtypes\safearray.py: When numpy is not installed, creating
    safearrays took a very long time.  This is fixed now.
* comtypes\test\test_server.py: New way to test COM client and
    server.  Work in progress.
2009-10-22  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Support broken COM objects that provide IProvideClassInfo2, but
    not IProvideClassInfo (although the latter is derived from the
    former).  See
    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2829887&gro...
* Fixed a regression from the 0.4 version, [out] parameters didn't
    accept pointers or arrays any longer. Thanks again to Michael
    Eddington.
2009-10-19  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Fix a memory leak in Python COM servers.  Thanks to Michael
    Eddington for the patch.
2009-10-02  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* comtypes\test\test_server.py: Start a better approach to test
    both COM object calls and COM object implementations.
2009-09-09  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Fix returning SAFEARRAY of VT_RECORDs.  Based on a patch from
    Eduardo Arias.
* New module comtypes.viewobject, contains the interfaces
    IViewObject, IViewObject2, IViewObjectEx.  IAdviseSink is faked.
* Change version number to 0.6.2dev.
2009-09-04  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* CoTaskMemFree does not return a HRESULT.  Patch from James Teh.
2009-08-19  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Bumped version number to 0.6.1.
2009-08-07  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* When an interface was specified in the call to
    IClassObject.CreateInstance, return that instead of calling
    GetBestInterface.  Patch from James Teh.
2009-08-04  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Added comtypes.CoGetClassObject() low-level function,
    comtypes.client.GetClassObject() high-level function, and
    implemented a pythonic interface to IClassFactory's CreateInstance
    method:
def CreateInstance(self,
    		       punkouter=None,
    		       interface=None,
    		       dynamic=False)
* Added the 'dynamic=False' parameter to the
    comtypes.client.CoGetObject and comtypes.client.GetActiveObject
    functions.  Suggested by James Teh.
2009-06-17  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* comtypes.automation: Support VT_I8 and VT_UI8 SAFEARRAYs.
* comtypes._comobject: Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.
* Add the comtypes.IServiceProvider interface.  Based on a patch
    from Michael Curran.
2009-04-30  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.2dev.
* Replace the VARIANTEnumerator implementation class in
    comtypes.server.automation with a new one which should actually be
    usable.
* A completely new way how localserver and inproc server instances
    are managed:
A comtypes.LocalServer or comtypes.InprocServer instance
    	is attached to the comtypes.COMObject class at runtime.
These changes keep localserver running as long as
    	COMObject instances are alive.
2009-04-29  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* comtypes.errorinfo.ReportException now takes an additional
    'stacklevel' named argument.
* Add E_OUTOFMEMORY hresult code.
* Register the InprocServer32 only when running as script or
    py2exe dll, not when running as py2exe exe server.
    
2009-04-25  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from multi-dimensional numpy
    arrays.
2009-04-23  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.1dev.
* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from array.array objects, and
    from (one-dimensional) numpy arrays.  This is a lot faster than
    creating them from Python lists or tuples, at least for large
    arrays.
* ctypes instances like c_int, c_ubyte, and so on can now be
    assigned to VARIANT().value.  This allows to force creation of
    VARIANTs with the corresponding typecodes V_I4, VT_UI1 and alike.
* Accept typelibs that contain SAFEARRAY(char).
2009-03-17  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Fixed the return type of ITypeLib::ReleaseTLibAttr, which is
    documented wrongly in MSDN.  The return type is void, not HRESULT.
    Reported to cause crashes on Windows 7.
2009-01-29  Thomas Heller  theller@python.net
* Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.
    
    * comtypes\client_code_cache.py: Add missing 'import types' in
    comtypes\client_code_cache.py.
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Thanks,
Thomas

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Thanks,
Thomas