Python/WinRT

The Windows Runtime Python Projection (Python/WinRT) enables Python developers to access Windows Runtime APIs directly from Python in a natural and familiar way.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Windows 10, October 2018 Update or later.
• Python for Windows, version 3.7 or later
• pip, version 19 or later

Installing

Python/WinRT can be installed from the Python Package Index via pip. Assuming pip is on the path, Python/WinRT can be installed from the command line with the following command:

> pip install winrt

You can test that Python/WinRT is installed correctly by launching Python and running the following snippet of Python code. It should print "https://github.com/Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/tool/python" to the console.

import winrt.windows.foundation as wf
u = wf.Uri("https://github.com/")
u2 = u.combine_uri("Microsoft/xlang/tree/master/src/tool/python")
print(str(u2))

For more information on accessing Windows Runtime APIs from Python, please visit Python/WinRT's homepage.

For an end-to-end sample of using Python/WinRT, please see the WinML Tutorial in the samples folder of the xlang GitHub repo.