comtypes

About

comtypes is a lightweight Python COM package, based on the ctypes FFI library.

comtypes allows to define, call, and implement custom and dispatch-based COM interfaces in pure Python.

This package works on Windows only.

• comtypes==1.1.7 is the last version supporting Windows CE.

Available on Python 3.7-3.12.

• comtypes==1.2.1 is the last version supporting Python 2.7 and 3.3-3.6.
• In Python 3.7.6 and 3.8.1, comtypes would not work as reported in GH-202.
  This bug has been fixed in Python >= 3.7.7 and >= 3.8.2.
• In Python 3.8 and 3.9, some of comtypes functionalities may not work correctly as reported in GH-212.
  This bug has been fixed in Python >= 3.10.10 and >= 3.11.2.

Where to get it

The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/enthought/comtypes

An installer for the latest released version is available at the Python Package Index (PyPI).

# PyPI
pip install comtypes

Dependencies

comtypes requires no third-party packages to run - this is truly pure Python package.

Optional features include the follows...

• to process arrays as numpy's ndarray
• type hints be interpreted by mypy or several static type checkers

But these third-parties are not required as a prerequisite for runtime.

Community of the developers

Tracking issues, reporting bugs and contributing to the codebase and documentation are on GitHub at: https://github.com/enthought/comtypes

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Documentation:

The documentation is currently hosted on pythonhosted at: https://pythonhosted.org/comtypes