Thanks Tim. Where would I go to find out about setting up my Python script as a COM server? (A "for dummies" level of instruction is what I'd be looking for :-)
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Norley wrote: > >> >> I've got a Python script that outputs a large text file of data and I've >> recently made a simple GUI for it in Visual Basic (2008). While it's simple >> enough to launch the Python script and pass it command line parameters from >> VB using Shell(python etc), I'm wondering how to pass information back to VB >> from Python. For example, it would be nice to be able to let VB know that >> the Python script has finished (at the moment I am repeatedly checking for >> the existence of the aforementioned text file, and sleeping for a short >> while if it hasn't appeared, which is clumsy but works). >> >> Ideally, I would like to be able to pass parameters to Python functions >> from VB and return values back to VB, just using VB for the front end while >> Python does all the hard work. I know I could just use Tkinter but is this >> sort of integration between Python and VB possible? >> > > Yes, with some glue. You can turn your Python script into a COM server, > and then use the .NET COM Interop to invoke it from your VB code. > > Is that more trouble than starting a process and monitoring its results? > You'll have to judge that yourself... > > -- > Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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