Python support for Windows

This section has miscellaneous resources for Windows 95 and NT. See the Windows download page for more guidance.

• Download Python 1.5

• Python 1.4 (if you must)

• ODBC Hints

• Windows 95/NT specific extensions:
  • Win32 Extensions
  • Win32 COM Extensions
  • PythonWin GUI Extensions
  (See also Mark Hammond's starship home page (which may have more recent experimental versions).

• Python's use of the Windows Registry

• Mark and Greg's COM tutorial, given at IPC-6.
  (Also as a PowerPoint file.)

• Delphi and Python
  • A Snake in the Temple - Embedding Python in Delphi, by Tres Seaver.
  • PytDelph.README, PytDelph.zip - Python for Delphi on the Python ftp site.
  • Python for Delphi (click on the "Delphi" link).
  • Tutorial on Embedding Python apps in VB or Delphi GUIs

• (Many people find the Serial-IO module for Python under windows to be very useful - you can find it in the System utilities contrib dir, as sio-151.zip, or the older siomodule.zip for Python 1.4.)