Windows - use modem from python?

[Craig H. Anderson]

Greetings,

I've got a project coming up that will use a modem to call
a bulletin board system.  The client wants to automate a time
consuming data entry task.  How should I access the modem?
Years ago I would open COM1 from a C program and read/write
ATDT/status directly.  Is there an easy Windows 98 interface to
modems?  I've started looking at TAPI docs and it is just
confusing me so far.

Thanks
Craigha at attbi.com