About Pywin32's invoke

[kernel1983]

By reading the doc of pywin32

we can invoke COM like:

o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")


but is it possible to invoke some GUID directly?



If COM was going to be invoked by python, must it support IDispatch?

 

[Roger Upole]

By reading the doc of pywin32

we can invoke COM like:

o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")


but is it possible to invoke some GUID directly?

Yes, you can do something like
win32com.client.Dispatch('{00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}')

If COM was going to be invoked by python, must it support IDispatch?

Not neccessarily. Pythoncom has compiled-in support for many interfaces
that don't inherit from IDispatch, but it requires that someone write code
to wrap the interface.

Roger