I'm happy to announce the 0.6.2 comtypes release: http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/
Here are the release notes: comtypes 0.6.2 released. Summary of important changes: - Several bug fixes for COM event handlers implemented in Python. - Allow typelib wrappers that (wrongly?) contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT)*'. - DllCanUnloadNow() always returns S_FALSE in comtypes inproc COM servers. - The COM interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, and IViewObjectEx in the new module comtypes.viewobject. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detailed changelog since version 0.6.0: 2010-01-15 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Bumped version number to 0.6.2. * CoUninitialize() returns nothing, not HRESULT. 2009-12-22 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Bug fixes for event handlers implemented in Python. 2009-12-11 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * COM servers implemented in Python can now fire events; it did not work in some cases. * When an exception occurs in a COM event handler, a traceback is printed. 2009-11-26 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Allow typelib wrappers that contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT*)' parameter types to be imported. Calling these methods will fail, though. 2009-11-13 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * To avoid a memory leak when PyInitialize()/PyUninitialize() are called several times, return S_FALSE from inproc server's DllCanUnloadNow(). 2009-11-05 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * COMObject subclasses can now implement a _final_release_() method to free up resources, for example. This method is called when the COM reference count reaches zero. * Implement __hash__ method in dynamic dispatch classes. This fixes a 'python -3' warning. * comtypes\safearray.py: When numpy is not installed, creating safearrays took a very long time. This is fixed now. * comtypes\test\test_server.py: New way to test COM client and server. Work in progress. 2009-10-22 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Support broken COM objects that provide IProvideClassInfo2, but not IProvideClassInfo (although the latter is derived from the former). See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2829887&group_id=115265&atid=692942 * Fixed a regression from the 0.4 version, [out] parameters didn't accept pointers or arrays any longer. Thanks again to Michael Eddington. 2009-10-19 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Fix a memory leak in Python COM servers. Thanks to Michael Eddington for the patch. 2009-10-02 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * comtypes\test\test_server.py: Start a better approach to test both COM object calls and COM object implementations. 2009-09-09 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Fix returning SAFEARRAY of VT_RECORDs. Based on a patch from Eduardo Arias. * New module comtypes.viewobject, contains the interfaces IViewObject, IViewObject2, IViewObjectEx. IAdviseSink is faked. * Change version number to 0.6.2dev. 2009-09-04 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * CoTaskMemFree does not return a HRESULT. Patch from James Teh. 2009-08-19 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Bumped version number to 0.6.1. 2009-08-07 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * When an interface was specified in the call to IClassObject.CreateInstance, return that instead of calling GetBestInterface. Patch from James Teh. 2009-08-04 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Added comtypes.CoGetClassObject() low-level function, comtypes.client.GetClassObject() high-level function, and implemented a pythonic interface to IClassFactory's CreateInstance method: def CreateInstance(self, punkouter=None, interface=None, dynamic=False) * Added the 'dynamic=False' parameter to the comtypes.client.CoGetObject and comtypes.client.GetActiveObject functions. Suggested by James Teh. 2009-06-17 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * comtypes.automation: Support VT_I8 and VT_UI8 SAFEARRAYs. * comtypes._comobject: Restore compatibility with Python 2.3. * Add the comtypes.IServiceProvider interface. Based on a patch from Michael Curran. 2009-04-30 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.2dev. * Replace the VARIANTEnumerator implementation class in comtypes.server.automation with a new one which should actually be usable. * A completely new way how localserver and inproc server instances are managed: A comtypes.LocalServer or comtypes.InprocServer instance is attached to the comtypes.COMObject class at runtime. These changes keep localserver running as long as COMObject instances are alive. 2009-04-29 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * comtypes.errorinfo.ReportException now takes an additional 'stacklevel' named argument. * Add E_OUTOFMEMORY hresult code. * Register the InprocServer32 only when running as script or py2exe dll, not when running as py2exe exe server. 2009-04-25 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from multi-dimensional numpy arrays. 2009-04-23 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.1dev. * SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from array.array objects, and from (one-dimensional) numpy arrays. This is a lot faster than creating them from Python lists or tuples, at least for large arrays. * ctypes instances like c_int, c_ubyte, and so on can now be assigned to VARIANT().value. This allows to force creation of VARIANTs with the corresponding typecodes V_I4, VT_UI1 and alike. * Accept typelibs that contain SAFEARRAY(char). 2009-03-17 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Fixed the return type of ITypeLib::ReleaseTLibAttr, which is documented wrongly in MSDN. The return type is void, not HRESULT. Reported to cause crashes on Windows 7. 2009-01-29 Thomas Heller <thel...@python.net> * Restore compatibility with Python 2.3. * comtypes\client\_code_cache.py: Add missing 'import types' in comtypes\client\_code_cache.py. -- Thanks, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ comtypes-users mailing list comtypes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/comtypes-users