comtypes 0.5.3 released

[Thomas Heller]

I just released comtypes-0.5.3.

    comtypes is a lightweight Python COM package, based on the ctypes
    FFI library, in less than 10000 lines of code (not counting the
    tests).

    comtypes allows to define, call, and implement custom and
    dispatch-based COM interfaces in pure Python.  It works on Windows,
    64-bit Windows, and Windows CE.

    Download location:
        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115265

    Homepage:
        http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/comtypes/


This is a maintainance release of the current repository state, before
I merged the dynamic-dispatch branch (which will be released as
comtypes-0.6.0 within the next few days).

Summary of important changes:

- Compatible with Python 3.0
- Added comtypes.shelllink module; this allows to manage shortcuts
- Various smaller improvements

Detailed changes since version 0.5.2:

2008-12-12  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>
	
	* Bumped version number to 0.5.3.

	* Added VARIANT support for VT_I8 and VT_UI8 typecodes.

2008-12-11  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Workaround for Python bug: Python 3 cannot handle a distutils
	installscript in the setup script

	* Merged the py3-branch:

	Various changes for py3 compatibility.  The setup script now uses
	distutils.command.build_py.build_py_2to3 when run with Python 3.x,
	and converts the sources into py3 syntax on the fly (in the build
	directory).

2008-11-26  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Added untested code to comtypes.server: RegisterActiveObject()
	and RevokeActiveObject(), plus some flags.

	* Applied a patch from Torbjørn Tyridal.  This allows to
	high-level implement methods in COM servers, and event handler
	methods that have [in] and [out] arguments in mixed order.

2008-11-05  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Add the IPersistFile interface to the comtypes.persist module.
	Add comtypes.shelllink module which contains IShellLinkA and
	IShellLinkW interfaces, plus the ShellLink coclass.

2008-10-29  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Handle coclass pointers as arguments in com interface methods
	correctly.  Method calls will now accept pointers to the default
	interface of this coclass.

	* The Fire_Event() method in comtypes.server.connectionpoints now
	returns a list of results.

2008-10-10  Thomas Heller  <theller at python.net>

	* Import cStringIO, which should always be available on Windows,
	instead of first trying cStringIO and then StringIO.

	* Python 2.6 compatibility: use 'types.MethodType' instead of
	'new.instancemethod' to fix a -3 warning.

	Use 'raise Exception(details)' instead of
	'raise Exception, details'.

	Don't use tuple unpacking in exception handlers:
	  'except COMError, err:
	      (hresult, text, details) = err'
	instead of
	  'except COMError, (hresult, text, details)'

	* Python 2.4 compatibility: os.stat() raises OSError instead of
	WindowsError when a file is not found.


-- 
Thanks,
Thomas