Pythonwin Documentation Index.

This contains an index for all Pythonwin GUI functionality - ie, the "win32ui" module. For general information on other non-GUI modules, please see the general documentation index.

Note that Pythonwin is now released in the win32all installation package. The installation EXE can be downloaded, or you can jump to the win32all readme for more details.
Here is the source code for the entire Pythonwin package, in zip format.

Introduction

Pythonwin is implemented as a 'wrapper' for the Microsoft Foundation Class library. With it, you can use MFC in an interactive, interpreted environment, or write full blown stand-alone applications tightly coupled with the Windows environment. Over 30 MFC objects are exposed, including Common Controls, Property Pages/Sheets, Toolbars, etc.

Pythonwin is really just a sample program for the MFC UI environment. This Python UI environment can be embedded in almost any other application - such as OLE clients/servers, Netscape plugins, as a Macro language etc.

Documentation

Inside the Pythonwin distribution, you will find a Help File (Pythonwin.hlp) which is a reference manual for all objects exposed in Pythonwin.

Below is a list of external Pythonwin specific documentation.

Check out documentation on the Pythonwin GUI environment
For a brief description of how to embed win32ui.pyd into your MFC application see the embedding win32ui documentation.
There is some general documentation on the MFC Architecture and more specifically, document and view architecture.
A Reference Manual of all available MFC functions etc. is released as a Windows Help file with the main Pythonwin release.