[python-win32] Calling Python functions from Visual Basic

[Rasjid Wilcox]

I'm looking into the ways of making Python functions available to Visual Basic 
6 programs.

So far it seems that I could use:
* COM
* XML-RPC
* SOAP

The former seems to require creating the COM component and registering it as a 
service, the latter two require running an XML-RPC or SOAP server.

The advantage of the former I assume is speed, the latter two portability.

Are there any other methods that I have missed?

Also, the only XML-RPC library for VB I could find is vbXMLRPC.dll 
(http://www.enappsys.com/backend/vbXMLRPC_Index.jsp).  Are there any others?

It does seem that MS has a SOAP library, so there are no issues with that one 
(I hope).

In terms of examples for creating a COM object using Python, I have found 
http://www.hps1.demon.co.uk/users/andy/pyvb/ which is dated 4 June 1997.  Is 
this example still valid for current versions of Python and win32all?

Thanks in advance for any feedback,

Rasjid.

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