Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Jan 6 20:57:26 EST 2006


Paul Watson wrote:
> I need to call GetVersionInfo() and handle VERSIONINFO information.  I
> thought that distutils might have something, but I do not see it yet.
> Any suggestions?

You could write this specific API in VB, and then run cscript.exe in
a pipe; or you could write a wrapper module just for that specific
API (in case PythonWin is too large for you).

Regards,
Martin



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