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COM and ActiveX
- Install Pywin32 and Dependency Walker for Win32.
- You can explore dlls and ocxs by running the Dependency Walker executable, depends.exe.
- Run makepy.py and select the library of interest, in this case "DDC4100 ActiveX Control module (1.0)" or DDC4100.ocx. The output:
Generating to C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\4AB30830-EFC0-496D-8D38-ACFE2518ECEBx0x1x0.py Building definitions from type library... Generating... Importing module Press any key to continue . . .
The file 4AB30830-EFC0-496D-8D38-ACFE2518ECEBx0x1x0.py is a wrapper for the library.