Not much help... but the place to be looking is in the win32 api. You'll then need to see if the functionality is already exposed in the win32 extensions by Mark Hammond - if not you can use ctypes to access it. The ctypes mailing list might be a useful place to ask questions - but it's not something I can help with... although if someone feels like writing a tutorial it's a subject I would be very interested in...
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