One of the most versatile Windows API libraries for Python is pywin32 (version 224). This project is hosted on GitHub (historically on SourceForge) by Mark Hammond and is an open source project that the community contributes to. There are many different APIs available for Windows through this library. These features allow developers to build GUIs for their applications, leverage built-in authentication methods, and interact with hard drives and other external devices.
The pywin32 module can be installed with pip by executing the following at Command Prompt:
pip install pywin32==224
Windows defines a Component Object Model (COM) that allows information to be shared between applications. A COM can be in the form of a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) or other binary file formats. These modules are designed in such a manner that any programming language can interpret the information. This single set of instructions, for example, allows a C++-based and Java-based program to share a single resource, rather than requiring a separate version for each language. COMs are generally only found on Windows, although they could be ported to a UNIX platform if desired. The win32com library, a part of the pywin32 library, allows us to interact with COMs in Windows and is used by the wmi library to obtain the information we request from it.