Newbie Q: How to call unmodified VB DLL from Python

[John Lull]

As a first Python project, I'd like to use Python (or JPython) to
automate some hardware testing under Win95/98/NT.  The hardware in
question is run by a DLL written in VB, and to which I do not have
source.

"Extending & Embedding the Python interpreter", ch. 3, has
instructions for building a DLL which will work, but assumes you're
working in VC++ and have the source.

If anyone could point me toward instructions on how to make this work,
I'd be grateful.

Thanks.

Regards,
John