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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 0.2.3

Do not use loal_module in backend selection code (#131, #132)
Add pywin32.pywintypes.Time (#122)

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

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