Just an update: I've succeeded in writing a COM server, exposing wxPy funtcionality. I've also used this object from within Outlook - 2 lines of VBA: dispatch COM object & call method. If anyone is interested, I could post the source.
A few days ago, I honestly didn't think I'd already be this far by now (it took about half a day). Especially the chapter of the book by Mark Hammond (my copy of which is being dispatched as we speak) was very helpful. 8) g -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list