[python-win32] Interfacing to windows explorer

[Tim Roberts]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 14:14:32 -0400 (EDT), Roop Mukherjee 
<bmukherj at shoshin.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>I have a python app that runs on my machine. I want to use IE as a front 
>end to it. To that end I want to start up a new IE window when this 
>program is run, and respond to all events on the window (like clicks or 
>form submissions) by calling functions in a python module. I want this to 
>run on machine's that do not run web servers.
>


I'm going to check out some of the ActiveX proposals suggested here, but 
I wanted to point out that it is very easy to embed a small web server 
into a Python application.  The standard library contains a simple but 
functional web server, but a package like CherryPy gives you a robust 
solution with built-in command handling and template support.

I've delivered several internal GUI applications as CherryPy apps.  
People are comfortable using IE as a user interface, and it's a lot 
easier than wxPython (even though I like wxPython a lot).

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.