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Work on the binding CPCOM servers to Python has begun. A cpcom module has been created, which allows one to call a few of the COM API functions. In particular, you can initialize and terminate the library. Types for IUnknown and IMalloc are supported.

Decision to encode the interface type in the Python type, as opposed to string encodings as supported by SWIG, is key to ensuring type safety. This will also allow methods and properties to be inherited. The use of methods and properties from Python is quite natural. ... read more