[python-win32] Calling Python functions from Visual Basic

[DogWalker]

Another way to run Python from Visual Basic is to use the Microsoft Script Control and ActiveX Python from ActiveState.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Hammond 
  To: 'Rasjid Wilcox' ; python-win32 at python.org 
  Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:39 PM
  Subject: RE: [python-win32] Calling Python functions from Visual Basic


  > 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.

  Just to be clear, in the nomenclature of win32com, you are registering a
  'COM server'.  This generally will not be a windows service.

  > The advantage of the former I assume is speed, the latter two
  > portability.
  >
  > Are there any other methods that I have missed?

  COM is pretty simple to get going too, which would be an advantage - nothing
  in the middle!  I'm not familiar with using SOAP or XML-RPC from VB.

  > 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?

  Generally, yes.  The only things I could see that would be done differently
  are:
  * Remove the import of 'ni' - this was a very old Python module.
  * win32com.server.register has a HandleCommandLine() method that would
  generally be used, rather than the com object itself parsing sys.argv -
  although it could still choose to if it desired.

  Mark


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