[Python-ideas] win32 extensions

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> There's also the impression (possibly wrong) that pywin32/win32all is
> somewhat dated, and hasn't changed much since the glory days of
> Windows 98.

I think that's mainly because the thing it's wrapping --
the win32 api -- is somewhat dated, and hasn't changed much
since the glory days of Windows 98. :-)

By today's standards, the traditional win32 gui api is
hopelessly cruddy. Unfortunately, the only efforts on
Microsoft's part to replace it with something better
seem to be taking place in the .NET world.

As things stand, this places them out of the easy reach
of Python. Adding something to the stdlib enabling
Python to call .NET libraries would open up considerable
new opportunities.

Maybe it could be based on this:

http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Greg