[python-win32] Re: Mozilla address book and the ever smiling snake

[Roger Binns]

Alex Willmer wrote:
> I believe the closest equivalent is PyXPCOM:
>
> http://public.activestate.com/pyxpcom/
>
> However I've no experience of it, and it looks (from the docs) as
> though one must specially compile Mozilla to use it.

I spent several hours trying to work out how to use pyxpcom,
and also wanted it for Linux and Mac.  I just couldn't see
how it could be done without rebuilding some or all of Mozilla,
and further issues with binary compatibility etc.

COM access to Outlook etc is one thing Microsoft got very right,
once you have a language like Python to access it from :-)

Roger