python programming on win32 ? Hammond book

[Doug Holton]

asdf sdf wrote:
> i'm interested in using python for win32 COM automation and sysadmin 
> scripts.
> 
> many recommendations for Mark Hammond's Python Programming on Win32.
> 
> but it was published four and half years ago.  i have misgivings about 
> buying a book so old.  COM  programming hasn't changed much but Python 
> has. (VB and Delphi have changed quite a bit, and apparently they are 
> discussed also.)
> 
> I could just download the code samples and scavenge the web as best as i 
> can.
> 
> buy recommendations from anyone?  any better alternatives out there?

It's still a good book to buy for your purposes.  And see 
http://www.python.org/windows/ for some online resources.

But some new Python things not covered in the book include ctypes 
(alternative to dynwin), Pyrex (alternative to SWIG), the newer wxPython 
(see demos), and py2exe.