Automate Outlook on Mac with Python

I can automate Outlook on windows with win32/COM, but does anyone know of a pure python way to do the same on mac osx?

A simple use case would be:

Open outlook/connect to the active instance
Launch a blank new email

I want to create an app to create email templates and attach files, then let the user finish editing the email and send when ready, NOT just send emails.

Is there a python wrapper for applescript that may work? (I don't know anything about applescript, so an example would help).

Solution

@ajrwhite adding attachments had one trick, you need to use 'Alias' from mactypes to convert a string/path object to a mactypes path. I'm not sure why but it works.

here's a working example which creates messages with recipients and can add attachments:

from appscript import app, k
from mactypes import Alias
from pathlib import Path

def create_message_with_attachment():
    subject = 'This is an important email!'
    body = 'Just kidding its not.'
    to_recip = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']

    msg = Message(subject=subject, body=body, to_recip=to_recip)

    # attach file
    p = Path('path/to/myfile.pdf')
    msg.add_attachment(p)

    msg.show()

class Outlook(object):
    def __init__(self):
    self.client = app('Microsoft Outlook')

class Message(object):
    def __init__(self, parent=None, subject='', body='', to_recip=[], cc_recip=[], show_=True):

        if parent is None: parent = Outlook()
        client = parent.client

        self.msg = client.make(
            new=k.outgoing_message,
            with_properties={k.subject: subject, k.content: body})

        self.add_recipients(emails=to_recip, type_='to')
        self.add_recipients(emails=cc_recip, type_='cc')

        if show_: self.show()

    def show(self):
        self.msg.open()
        self.msg.activate()

    def add_attachment(self, p):
        # p is a Path() obj, could also pass string

        p = Alias(str(p)) # convert string/path obj to POSIX/mactypes path

        attach = self.msg.make(new=k.attachment, with_properties={k.file: p})

    def add_recipients(self, emails, type_='to'):
        if not isinstance(emails, list): emails = [emails]
        for email in emails:
            self.add_recipient(email=email, type_=type_)

    def add_recipient(self, email, type_='to'):
        msg = self.msg

        if type_ == 'to':
            recipient = k.to_recipient
        elif type_ == 'cc':
            recipient = k.cc_recipient

        msg.make(new=recipient, with_properties={k.email_address: {k.address: email}})