pywin32 311

Python for Window Extensions

Stars: 5524, Watchers: 5524, Forks: 849, Open Issues: 398

The mhammond/pywin32 repo was created 8 years ago and the last code push was 20 hours ago.
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How to Install pywin32

You can install pywin32 using pip

pip install pywin32

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add pywin32

Package Details

Author

Mark Hammond (et al)

License

PSF

Homepage

None

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/pywin32/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32

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Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The pywin32 package has 398 open issues on GitHub

• Windows 11: EnumWindows does not detect Taskbar, Start Menu, and Search windows (only visible via UIA)
• Remove dead code in setup.py
• Update type checkers
• 2nd try at adding no-GIL support
• Update Ruff, replace pycln and simplify configs
• Stop using (exposing) deprecated Py_FrozenFlag
• Replace _PyUnicode_AsString and PYWIN_ATTR_CONVERT with PyUnicode_AsUTF8
• Improve win32com.client.build.MapEntry strings
• Simplify various __repr__ methods
• Respect subclass names in repr
• Fix bad format IID in VTableItem.WriteVTableMap
• Prefer exist_ok=True in makedirs instead of try-catch
• Reduce usages of empty split() on literal strings
• Generate help file during build rather than as a separate CI step
• adodbapi: reduce _raiseConnectionError and _raiseCursorError to a single argument

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