[python-win32] comtypes prelease available

[Thomas Heller]

I have uploaded an early preview release for comtypes.  As you might
know, comtypes is a new COM library for Python, based on the ctypes
package.

There is not yet any documentation, but I hope that at least some of the
unittests provided give an impression how it is supposed to be used.
There are also some docstrings in the comtypes/client/__init__.py
module, which contains the high level functions to use.

Highlights:

- access *custom* interfaces easily.  This works best if they provide
  type information

- automatic typelib wrapper generation.  This even should work in frozen
  executables.

- event support.

- comtypes is supposed to provide good support for 

Limitations:

- there is currently *no* server side support.  You cannot yet write COM
  servers in comtypes, although I hope that can follow soon.

- custom interfaces work best (IUnkown based or IDispatch based).  Pure
  dispinterface support is somewhat limited (but then there is pywin32,
  if you need that).

Enjoy,

Thomas

SF project page:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/

Download page:
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115265

Requires ctypes.0.9.8, which is also available for download at this
page.