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Using Python to create a command line interpreter for Notes (continued)

Conclusion
I hope to have left you a little more informed about COM, curious about Python, and with enough knowledge to get yourself a command line window opened up into the internals of Notes, whether you choose the COM or Java paths.

Perhaps, if you're a little more adventurous, the possibility of marrying Lotus Domino with Python modules such as those for Palm OS integration, XML handling, or Adobe Acrobat PDF document creation, is stimulating some ideas already or posing solutions to some pressing Domino problems. If you wish to take this further and commune with other Notes and Python developers, please use the DominoPower PowerBoards.

Product availability and resources
For more information on Python, visit http://www.python.org.

PythonWin can be downloaded from http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/

The best guide to using Python and Windows is O'Reilly's excellent Python Programming on Win32. Chapter 12, "Advanced Python and COM," is available as an on-line sample from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html.

JPython can be downloaded from http://www.jpython.org/download.html.

For more information on SWIG, visit http://www.swig.org.

For more information on the Python 101 Cheat Sheet from IBM DeveloperWorks, visit http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/cheatsheet3.html.

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