pywin32-ctypes 0.2.2

A (partial) reimplementation of pywin32 using ctypes/cffi

A reimplementation of pywin32 that is pure python. The default behaviour will try to use cffi (>= 1.3.0), if available, and fall back to using ctypes. Please note that there is no need to have a compiler available on installation or at runtime.

Usage

Example:

# Equivalent to 'import win32api' from pywin32.
from win32ctypes.pywin32 import win32api

win32api.LoadLibraryEx(sys.executable, 0, win32api.LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE)

Note

Currently pywin32ctypes implements only a very small subset of pywin32, for internal needs at Enthought. We do welcome additional features and PRs, though.

Development setup

The following should be good enough:

pip install -r test_requirements.txt
python install -e .

Note

• While pywin32-ctypes should regularly be tested on windows, you can also develop/test on unix by using wine

Change Log

Version 0.2.2

• Use ctypes.set_last_error to avoid race conditions (#122)

Version 0.2.1

• Use faulthandler when testing and fix discovered errors (#115, #117).

• Fix support for None username in credentials to be consistent in all backends (#99).

• Test also on cp38, cp39, cp310, cp311 and use cp38 for linking (#114, #107, #100).

• Add support for CredEnumerate extending code from @markb-EE (#110, #109, #111)

• Remove support for older python versions < cp36 (#104, #120).

Version 0.2.0

• Fix syntax error when installing in python 3.7 (#81).

• Support testing on python 3.7 (#82).

• Support testing on python 3.3 and python 3.4 (#77).

• Do not use 2to3 (#75).

• Support lazy wrapping of win32 functions (#67).

• Add CRED_PERSIST constants (#79 contributed by @tivnet).

Version 0.1.2

(bugfix release)

• Fix implementation for the deprecated api (#64).

Version 0.1.1

(bugfix release)

• Update Manifest.in entries (#63)

• fix VERSION path in Manifest.in (#62 contributed by @MinchinWeb)

Version 0.1.0

• Update tests and provide better compatibility with pywin32 for Resource functions

• Fix: Python 3.5 and 3.6 support (#52).

• API additions to allow pywin32-ctypes to work with pyinstaller (#46 and #57 contributed by @virtuald).

• Fix: do not update the global copy of the windows dlls (#42)

• Add documentation and setup automatic builds in ReadTheDocs (#3, #36).

• Add cffi backend to be used when available (#31).

• Fix: EnumResourceTypes and EnumResourceNames would only return ints (#21, #30).

• Restructure package layout to split core wrapping modules from pywin32 emulation (#15, #17).

Version 0.0.1

7/04/2014

• Python 2.6 support (#13)

• Python 3 support (#12)

• Basic maintenance work (#11, #7)

• Fix error raising to be pywin32 compatible (#8)

• Package rename mini_pywin32 -> pywin32-ctypes

• Add travis-ci integration using wine! (#2)

• Support basic library and resource loading (#1)

• mini_pywin32 is born