[pypy-dev] pypy and the comtypes module
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
amauryfa at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 19:20:12 CET 2009
Hello Thomas, hello to all pypy-ers,
I'm sure you will be interested to know that the ctypes implementation of pypy
has matured enough to be able to run the comtypes module,
at least some of the examples I found on the web site:
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/comtypes/
See the copy of a pypy session below.
Not everything works, though.
For example, the COMError exception does not give any message,
some errors are caused by the alternate garbage collector of pypy
(opposed to the determinism of reference counting),
and I'm sure that I missed many important details...
At least it is now possible to run the comtypes test suite: some tests
even pass ;-)
Hey, I did not know that ctypes and comtypes where so intricate:
ctypes obviously has features designed for comtypes only (OUT parameters...)
and ctypes/__init__.py even tries to import comtypes.server.inprocserver!
But this was all fun, and I learned a lot about ffi and COM from
reading the code.
Thanks for these wonderful modules!
Python 2.5.2 (61966, Feb 17 2009, 13:39:17)
[PyPy 1.0.0] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
And now for something completely different: ``who am I and if yes, how many?''
>>>> from comtypes.client import CreateObject
>>>> xl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
# Generating comtypes.gen._00020813_0000_0000_C000_000000000046_0_1_3
# Generating comtypes.gen._00020430_0000_0000_C000_000000000046_0_2_0
# Generating comtypes.gen.stdole
# Generating comtypes.gen._2DF8D04C_5BFA_101B_BDE5_00AA0044DE52_0_2_1
# Generating comtypes.gen.Office
# Generating comtypes.gen._0002E157_0000_0000_C000_000000000046_0_5_3
# Generating comtypes.gen.VBIDE
# Generating comtypes.gen.Excel
>>>> xl.Workbooks.Add()
<POINTER(_Workbook) ptr=0x16af6c at 35>
>>>> xl.Range("E1").Formula = "=SUM(A1:D1)"
>>>> print xl.Range("E1").Value
0.0
>>>> xl.Range("A1", "D1").Value = ("Data", 10, 20, 30)
>>>> print xl.Range("E1").Value
60.0
>>>> xl.Visible = True
>>>>
Cheers,
--
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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