Outlook Express and COM

[John E. Barham]

Tim Peters wrote:

> I doubt you'd need to bother with C++.  The spambayes project (on
> SourceForge) is written in pure Python, and last I timed it scored about
80
> messages/second wall-clock time.  This includes file I/O, the time for the
> email pkg to parse the raw text, and the time to do elaborate tokenization
> and scoring.

I'd much prefer to stay w/ Python but I'm assuming that I'll have to do the
final version in C++ not so much for the performance benefits as that a C++
binary will presumably be easier to install and run w/ a whizzy UI on
Windows without scaring my users.