dcom client from non-windows python

[Paul Rudin]

>>>>> "drs" == drs  <drs at ecp.cc> writes:


    > My guess is you would be more successful using pyro for the
    > distributed stuff. 

Ya, but that doesn't allow you to talk to, for example, excel running
on a windows box directly. 


    > my other guess is that python com simply wraps windows stuff,
    > and that reimplementing windows on linux would take a while.

I'm not sure how much reimplementing windows is needed? There are
other non-python tools that achieve this kind of thing - see e.g.
<http://www.linar.com/> - in theory you just need to know how to drive
the dcom network protocol.