Quick primer on implementing a COM object that implement some custom IDLs in python?

Question

Does anyone have experience using python to create a COM object that implements some custom IDLs?

Basically I'd like to know if it's extremely simple to do compared to c++, and if it is do you know of a good tutorial?

Answer 1

The tutorial you are looking for is in the Python Programming On Win32 book, by Mark Hammond and Andy Robinson. A bit old, and the COM object creation info is distributed across some chapters.

A more recent example, simple COM server using Python, can give you a quick start.

Answer 2

There is also comtypes, which allows to access and implement custom interfaces. An article on codeproject has a nice tutorial.

Answer 3

You should also check Advance COM a free chapter from Python Programming On Win32 mentioned by gimel.