One path to connecting a Python script to a COM application on Windows

Background

I am an experienced software engineer having developed mostly embedded and distributed applications. Most of the experience gained during my system design and development years were with embedded systems or Linux. I have never developed anything for Windows.

Situation

I decided to develop a Python application that could connect to a COM application. Why?

1. I like Python because of the language’s flexibility and its vast community of solid contributions that allow us to not re-invent the wheel.


2. Many compelling …

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