If you want you can also take a look at something I wrote a while ago (before ctypes was really well known). It has worked for me with .DLLS form Castelle and Expervision that both have extensive APIs. It is located here:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146847 Larry Bates dcrespo wrote: > Hi to all, > > Can someone give me lights on how can I deal with dlls from python? > > My main purpose is to get access to a Unitech PT600 Bar Code system. I > have the dll that works fine through Visual Basic. But I'm migrating to > Python, so I need a way to use the same dll, or a C library. > > I tried to access a dll created by myself on Visual Basic. The dll just > have one function. It works perfect when using it on a VB project just > including it in the references configuration. But I can't access it > from python. I tried the ctypes module. > > Thank you > > Daniel > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list