Dear pywin32-users, during the last months, I was using pywin32 to communicate between Cura and CAD software. It worked very well - better than comtypes, which was not fully working or accepting errors but didn't throw any errors. pywin32 convinced me because of its stability and in my opinion, this piece of software deserves some maintenance. Thus I would like to discuss with you about what you would like to see in the future done on pywin32.
Here is my personal list of things, which need to be done soon: (1) Automated builds and tests on PRs Already began to work on this. There is one issue left, but I'm discussing with AppVeyor about a solution. (2) Syntax fixes and code-style. If I'm not wrong I saw mixed usage of tabs, 2-whitespace and 4-whitespace indents. Of course, I can be wrong and we are using 4-whitespaces everywhere, but I remember that I saw files using tabs and 2-whitespaces. It is boring work, but I can imagine, that people, who see this mixed usage, might get frightened. Also when it comes to code-style I would like to make everything well ordered. Eg. splitting long lines and splitting multiple options, so you can read the code without scrolling vertically too much. (3) Self-explaining variable names Some variables are using abbreviations. Instead, I would like to use full words, so the code is readable like a written book. Personally, I like this a lot because the source actually tells you what it is doing without any guesses. (4) Generated documentation I never did that before, but I can imagine, that someone else could prepare something like this. Using readthedocs would be great, so the docs are accessible for everyone. (5) More and extensive tests to ensure the quality of the code. (6) Focusing more on Python3 compatibility The end of life of Python2 is at 2020 and therefore I would suggest investing time into making the code compatible to Python3 asap. Many projects use Python-Six to get full compatibility, but I would suggest using Python-Nine because this module is written from the Python3 perspective. When Python2 becomes dead, I guess it will be easier to drop Python-Nine instead of Python-Six. Looking forward for a vivid discussion on this! With kind regards - Thomas Karl Pietrowski (aka thopiekar)
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