How do I access arcobjects from python?

Mark Cederholm has a presentation on accessing arcobjects from python. It requires Visual Studio (Express is ok) and the Windows SDK in addition to arcgis and python.

Recipe

1. Download and install WinSDk and Visual Studio.
2. Unpack Mark's package somewhere
3. Edit DemoTool.idl if necessary (e.g. path to esriSystemUI.olb)
4. Open the WinSDK CMD shell and run midl DemoTool.idl (creates DemoTool.tbl needed for registering COM objects)
5. Register the com objects with python DemoTool.py -regserver

You are now ready to access arcobjects with python:

from Snippets import GetLibPath, InitStandalone from comtypes.client import GetModule, CreateObject m = GetModule(GetLibPath() + "esriGeometry.olb") InitStandalone() p = CreateObject(m.Point, interface=m.IPoint) p.PutCoords(2,3) print p.X, p.Y