Calling dlls with Calldll/WinDll or Ctypes or...

Todd Gardner

Hello all,

Pardon my ignorance here. I would like to talk to someone that has
had success in calling ddls in Windows NT/2000/XP.

I am wondering where to dload any of these packages? Google searches
keep turning up articles similar to this.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Todd

Jul 18 '05 #1

Fredrik Lundh

Todd Gardner wrote:
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> Pardon my ignorance here. I would like to talk to someone that has
> had success in calling ddls in Windows NT/2000/XP.
>
> I am wondering where to dload any of these packages? Google searches
> keep turning up articles similar to this.[/color]

similar to what?

google for ctypes and press "I feel lucky":

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
which has a "downloads" section a bit down.

calldll is a bit harder; you have to add "python" to the search string
to make "I feel lucky" work:

http://www.nightmare.com/software.html

both distributions comes with enough demos and samples to get you
going. for details on available Win32 functions, see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com

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Jul 18 '05 #2

Larry Bates

Todd,

I write this and have used it with many different .DLLs
over the last 18 months. Good luck.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/146847

The trick it getting the arguments into/from the correct
format for the .DLL. I've made extensive use of struct
to accomplish that. If you want to give it a try, I'd
be happy to assist you as much as I can.

Larry


"Todd Gardner" <piir@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:9b849915.0312172302.7999d44a@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hello all,
>
> Pardon my ignorance here. I would like to talk to someone that has
> had success in calling ddls in Windows NT/2000/XP.
>
> I am wondering where to dload any of these packages? Google searches
> keep turning up articles similar to this.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Todd[/color]

Jul 18 '05 #3