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Start and Office Communicator Chat from Python

Does anyone know how I can lunch Microsoft Office Communicator and start an Chat from a Python script?

Regards Michael

Solution

  • Try using the Office Communicator COM API, referred to here.

    About using COM in Python, I recommend using the win32com.client and pythoncom libraries. They are bundled in the ActiveState Python bundle but can be downloaded separately if you don't use AS. More about that here.