GetProcAddress has no use right now about pywin32

[Avasam]

Tagging @pyhedgehog as original SourceForge issue Creator.

Logged In: YES
user_id=1473180
Originator: NO

Don't remove it; it's useful for writing simple scripts that read and simple information about DLLs.

For example, I work on a project that has three different kinds of loadable plugin modules, where each plugin is just a DLL with a pair of specific exports (factory function and cleanup) with a name that indicates the type. There are three different types of plugins.

My script opens a DLL and uses GetProcAddress to find whether it's (a) a valid plugin of one of the three types, (b) not a valid plugin of any type, (c) ... because whoever built it forgot extern "C", or (d) not even a DLL.

Sure, I could do the same thing with ctypes (and actually call the code), but I've already got some working scripts today.

Original comment by: barnert

• status: open --> closed-rejected

Original comment by: mhammond

Logged In: YES
user_id=14198
Originator: NO

yeah, it is useful - just because someone can't see an immediate use doesn't mean it doesn't exist :)

Original comment by: mhammond