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+Comtypes CHANGELOG
+==================
+
+Release 1.1.3
+-------------
+
+ * Fix SyntaxError caused by enums containing python keywords. Thanks to
+   laripk for the fix and janbrohl for the bug report.
+
+Release 1.1.2
+-------------
+
+ * Fix TypeError when interfaces return a single in-out result (#84). Thanks to
+   FranOis for the bug report and max-egger for suggesting the fix.
+ * Fix AttributeError when cleaning up safe arrays at shutdown (#83). Thanks to
+   mitaa for the bug report and fix.
+ * Fix 64-bit ULONG_PTR definition in typeinfo module (#82). Thanks to aparamon
+   for the bug report. 
+ * Add POINTER(BSTR) to supported VARIANT types (#81). This allows the Esri
+   ArcObjects library to be loaded. Thanks to Matt Wilkie for the patch.
+ * Properly catch error when attempting to cache code to an unwritable
+   directory (#78). Thanks to Robin Dunn for the patch.
+
+
+
+Release 1.1.1
+-------------
+
+ * Fixed backwards-incompatible change where empty strings in VARIANTs were
+   being converted to NULL (#68). Thanks to shgohh for the bug report.
+ * Fixed npsupport module to fail gracefully when numpy is not present (#62).
+   Thanks to kyleMR for the patch.
+ * Fixed low-level property machinery in _comobject (#60).
+ * Fixed bug where numpy would be imported when using safe arrays (#59). Thanks
+   to Paul Moore (pfmoore) for submitting the bug and a patch.
+ * Fixed bug in patching machinery (#57). Thanks to Paul Moore (pfmoore) for
+   the patch.
+ * Various documentation cleanups.
+
+
+Release 1.1.0
+-------------
+
+* Updated automation code to convert c_int64 and c_uint64 to their VT_I8 and
+  VT_UI8, respectively (#49).
+* Update automation code to convert VT_DECIMAL VARIANT to Decimal type (#44).
+* Fixed an undocumented bug that would lead to improper behavior when nesting
+  the ``safearray_as_ndarray`` context (#41).
+* Added a license file and merged the ChangeLog into CHANGES.txt (#35, #39).
+* Extended and homogenized indexing across container and named property
+  interfaces (#32, #43). This introduces the ability to index with an empty
+  slice, which has the same meaning as indexing with an empty tuple.
+* Completed migration to ``patcher`` module (#31).
+* Extended NumPy support so object and datetime64 arrays can be converted to
+  VARIANT safearrays (#29).
+* Extended test runner so it can be run under 32- and 64-bit Python and be used
+  in an automated testing system (#25, #28).
+* Modified many tests so they run under 64-bit python (#21, #22, #23).
+* Removed reference cycle in PumpEvents (#19).
+* Fixed safearray test that would fail under NumPy 1.6 (#19).
+* Project migrated to http://github.com/enthought/comtypes. Issue numbers
+  refer to the new project page.
+
+
+Release 1.0.0
+-------------
+
+* #27: Replaced the ``partial`` module with a ``patcher`` module. This new
+  technique patches the underlying classes explicitly. This technique avoids
+  the problems with the metaclass magic on Python 3.
+* Officially dropped support for Python 2.5.
+* #25: Allow installation on non-Windows systems.
+* #31: Improved 64-bit compatibility by specifying argtypes for GetMessage.
+
+
+Earlier Changes
+---------------
+
+2010-04-09  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.client.dynamic: Added _FlagAsMethod(*names) method
+	to the _Dispatch class.
+
+	This allows to flag these attribute names as being methods.  Some
+	objects do not correctly differentiate methods and properties,
+	leading to problems when calling these methods.
+
+2010-02-23  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* pointers and byref() objects will now be stored in a VARIANT as
+	VT_BYREF type.  This allows to call dispinterface methods with
+	BYREF arguments.
+
+2010-01-21  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add a __repr__ method to named_property and bound_named_property
+	object.
+
+2010-01-15  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.6.3dev: development version.
+
+2010-01-15  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bumped version number to 0.6.2.
+
+	* CoUninitialize() returns nothing, not HRESULT.
+
+2009-12-22  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bug fixes for event handlers implemented in Python.
+
+2009-12-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* COM servers implemented in Python can now fire events; it did
+	not work in some cases.
+
+	* When an exception occurs in a COM event handler, a traceback is
+	printed.
+
+2009-11-26  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Allow typelib wrappers that contain 'SAFEARRAY(VARIANT*)'
+	parameter types to be imported.  Calling these methods will fail,
+	though.
+
+2009-11-13  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* To avoid a memory leak when PyInitialize()/PyUninitialize() are
+	called several times, return S_FALSE from inproc server's
+	DllCanUnloadNow().
+
+2009-11-05  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* COMObject subclasses can now implement a _final_release_()
+	method to free up resources, for example.  This method is called
+	when the COM reference count reaches zero.
+
+	* Implement __hash__ method in dynamic dispatch classes.  This
+	fixes a 'python -3' warning.
+
+	* comtypes\safearray.py: When numpy is not installed, creating
+	safearrays took a very long time.  This is fixed now.
+
+	* comtypes\test\test_server.py: New way to test COM client and
+	server.  Work in progress.
+
+2009-10-22  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Support broken COM objects that provide IProvideClassInfo2, but
+	not IProvideClassInfo (although the latter is derived from the
+	former).  See
+	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2829887&group_id=115265&atid=692942
+
+	* Fixed a regression from the 0.4 version, [out] parameters didn't
+	accept pointers or arrays any longer. Thanks again to Michael
+	Eddington.
+
+2009-10-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix a memory leak in Python COM servers.  Thanks to Michael
+	Eddington for the patch.
+
+2009-10-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\test\test_server.py: Start a better approach to test
+	both COM object calls and COM object implementations.
+
+2009-09-09  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix returning SAFEARRAY of VT_RECORDs.  Based on a patch from
+	Eduardo Arias.
+
+	* New module comtypes.viewobject, contains the interfaces
+	IViewObject, IViewObject2, IViewObjectEx.  IAdviseSink is faked.
+
+	* Change version number to 0.6.2dev.
+
+2009-09-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* CoTaskMemFree does not return a HRESULT.  Patch from James Teh.
+
+2009-08-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bumped version number to 0.6.1.
+
+2009-08-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* When an interface was specified in the call to
+	IClassObject.CreateInstance, return that instead of calling
+	GetBestInterface.  Patch from James Teh.
+
+2009-08-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Added comtypes.CoGetClassObject() low-level function,
+	comtypes.client.GetClassObject() high-level function, and
+	implemented a pythonic interface to IClassFactory's CreateInstance
+	method:
+
+	    def CreateInstance(self,
+			       punkouter=None,
+			       interface=None,
+			       dynamic=False)
+
+	* Added the 'dynamic=False' parameter to the
+	comtypes.client.CoGetObject and comtypes.client.GetActiveObject
+	functions.  Suggested by James Teh.
+
+2009-06-17  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.automation: Support VT_I8 and VT_UI8 SAFEARRAYs.
+
+	* comtypes._comobject: Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.
+
+	* Add the comtypes.IServiceProvider interface.  Based on a patch
+	from Michael Curran.
+
+2009-04-30  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.2dev.
+
+	* Replace the VARIANTEnumerator implementation class in
+	comtypes.server.automation with a new one which should actually be
+	usable.
+
+	* A completely new way how localserver and inproc server instances
+	are managed:
+
+		A comtypes.LocalServer or comtypes.InprocServer instance
+		is attached to the comtypes.COMObject class at runtime.
+
+		These changes keep localserver running as long as
+		COMObject instances are alive.
+
+2009-04-29  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.errorinfo.ReportException now takes an additional
+	'stacklevel' named argument.
+
+	* Add E_OUTOFMEMORY hresult code.
+
+	* Register the InprocServer32 only when running as script or
+	py2exe dll, not when running as py2exe exe server.
+	
+2009-04-25  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from multi-dimensional numpy
+	arrays.
+
+2009-04-23  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Change version number in repository to 0.6.0.1dev.
+
+	* SAFEARRAYs can now also be created from array.array objects, and
+	from (one-dimensional) numpy arrays.  This is a lot faster than
+	creating them from Python lists or tuples, at least for large
+	arrays.
+
+	* ctypes instances like c_int, c_ubyte, and so on can now be
+	assigned to VARIANT().value.  This allows to force creation of
+	VARIANTs with the corresponding typecodes V_I4, VT_UI1 and alike.
+
+	* Accept typelibs that contain SAFEARRAY(char).
+
+2009-03-17  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fixed the return type of ITypeLib::ReleaseTLibAttr, which is
+	documented wrongly in MSDN.  The return type is void, not HRESULT.
+	Reported to cause crashes on Windows 7.
+
+2009-01-29  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Restore compatibility with Python 2.3.
+	
+	* comtypes\client\_code_cache.py: Add missing 'import types' in
+	comtypes\client\_code_cache.py.
+
+2008-12-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bumped version number to 0.6.0.
+
+	* comtypes.client.lazybind.Dipatch:
+	If __getitem__ fails the get the indexed default value, try
+	NewENUM.  Implement __eq__ for Python 3 compatibility.
+
+	* Fix a problem with SAFEARRAYs where the contained data was
+	released too early.
+
+	* Fix property get handling for FUNC_PUREVIRTUAL functions in
+	lazybind.py
+
+2008-12-18  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix memoryleak in IEnumVARIANT.
+
+2008-12-12  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+	
+	* Merged changes from the dyndispatch branch:
+
+	    * Add a comtypes.client.Constants class that provides a way to
+	    access constants in the type library for an object, even when
+	    no wrapper has been created for the type library.  The
+	    contants can be accessed as attributes like this, assuming
+	    'obj' is a COM object that exposes type information at runtime
+	    via the dispatch interface:
+		Constants(obj).MyConstant
+
+	    * New comtypes.client.lazybind module.
+
+	    * Implement NamedProperty.__call__().  Extend
+	    NamedProperty.__getitem__() and NamedProperty.__setitem__() so
+	    that they accept a tuple, which make lazy bound objects more
+	    compatible with early bound objects.
+
+	    * Finished (for now) the comtypes.client.lazybind module.
+	    IEnumVARIANT instances get a _dynamic attribute which defaults
+	    to False.  The values returned from next() calls are retrived
+	    by calling ._set_value(self._dynamic) on the VARIANT result.
+
+	    * comtypes.client.dynamic:
+
+	    * Started changes based on ideas from Michael Curran: better
+	    dynamic dispatch support, and a way to disable the
+	    time-consuming wrapper code generation on demand.
+	
+	    * comtypes\client: Add a new 'dynamic=False' parameter to the
+	    CreateObject function.  This parameter allows to create a
+	    dynamic dispatch object, bypassing the code generation.
+
+	    * comtypes\automation.py: Add a new parameter to the
+	    VARIANT._get_value(dynamic=False) method.  This allows to
+	    retrieve the current value as a _Dispatch() instance if the
+	    typecode is VT_DISPATCH, bypassing the code generation on the
+	    result.  The IDispatch.Invoke implementation now uses this to
+	    ensure that dynamic objects are returned when possible.
+
+	    * comtypes\client\dynamic.py: Implement _Dispatch.__eq__ so
+	    that we can compare instances for equality.
+
+
+2008-12-12  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+	
+	* Bumped version number to 0.5.3.
+
+	* Added VARIANT support for VT_I8 and VT_UI8 typecodes.
+
+2008-12-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Workaround for Python bug: Python 3 cannot handle a distutils
+	installscript in the setup script
+
+	* Merged the py3-branch:
+
+	Various changes for py3 compatibility.  The setup script now uses
+	distutils.command.build_py.build_py_2to3 when run with Python 3.x,
+	and converts the sources into py3 syntax on the fly (in the build
+	directory).
+
+2008-11-26  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Added untested code to comtypes.server: RegisterActiveObject()
+	and RevokeActiveObject(), plus some flags.
+
+	* Applied a patch from Torbjørn Tyridal.  This allows to
+	high-level implement methods in COM servers, and event handler
+	methods that have [in] and [out] arguments in mixed order.
+
+2008-11-05  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add the IPersistFile interface to the comtypes.persist module.
+	Add comtypes.shelllink module which contains IShellLinkA and
+	IShellLinkW interfaces, plus the ShellLink coclass.
+
+2008-10-29  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Handle coclass pointers as arguments in com interface methods
+	correctly.  Method calls will now accept pointers to the default
+	interface of this coclass.
+
+	* The Fire_Event() method in comtypes.server.connectionpoints now
+	returns a list of results.
+
+2008-10-10  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Import cStringIO, which should always be available on Windows,
+	instead of first trying cStringIO and then StringIO.
+
+	* Python 2.6 compatibility: use 'types.MethodType' instead of
+	'new.instancemethod' to fix a -3 warning.
+
+	Use 'raise Exception(details)' instead of
+	'raise Exception, details'.
+
+	Don't use tuple unpacking in exception handlers:
+	  'except COMError, err:
+	      (hresult, text, details) = err'
+	instead of
+	  'except COMError, (hresult, text, details)'
+
+	* Python 2.4 compatibility: os.stat() raises OSError instead of
+	WindowsError when a file is not found.
+
+2008-09-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.5.3dev.
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.5.2.
+	Released comtypes-0.5.2.
+
+	* COMError nows prints the contained hresult in hex.
+
+2008-09-18  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Changed the version-checking code that the code generator
+	creates.  Reintroduced (sorry, Anthony!) the comparison of
+	timestamps, if both the typelib and the generated module are
+	files.
+
+2008-09-10  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* In comtypes\_comobject.py, Invoke: Named arguments passed to
+	COMObject.IDispatch_Invoke are now (hopefully!) unpacked
+	correctly.  This should fix the order of parameters passed to MS
+	office (Word, Excel) and other (autocad?) event handlers.
+
+2008-09-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Removed the code that compared the timestamps of Python wrapper
+	modules and type library files - this approach was totally broken.
+
+	Generated modules are out of date if they were created by the code
+	generator module with a different version number; the version
+	number is now checked when a module is imported.
+
+	The current mechanism also works correctly for generated modules
+	in frozen scripts.
+
+	Thanks to Anthony Tuininga.
+
+2008-08-27  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Avoid double-free of BSTR strings under certain conditions.
+
+	* A NULL handler is now added to the comtypes logger; this
+	prevents messages like 'No handlers could be found for logger
+	"comtypes"' when an error message is logged and the logging module
+	is not configured.
+
+	https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2066024&group_id=115265&atid=692940
+
+2008-08-20  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Changed the codegenerator to generate 'c_longlong' instead of
+	'c_float' for CURRENCY. This is not really correct since the
+	CURRENCY value is a fixed point integer scaled by a factor of
+	10000, but at least the code will not crash.  Need a test case.
+
+	* comtypes.server.register: Add an optional 'executable' parameter
+	to Registrar.register(cls), can be used to override the executable
+	image name that comtypes detects itself.  Patch by Michael
+	Robellard.
+
+2008-08-15  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.client._find_gen_dir() improved (based on a patch and
+	helpful thoughts of Stefan Schukat): If comtypes.gen is not a
+	directory in the filesystem, or not writeable by users, a new
+	directory is created which will cache generated code.  This could
+	be the case if comtypes is installed in a directory that has no
+	write permissions by the urrent user, if the comtypes package
+	resides in a zip-archive or a zipped egg, or if comtypes is used
+	in a py2exe'd script.
+
+	'%APPDATA%\<username>\Python\Python<XY>\comtypes_cache'
+
+	is used for a normal Python script, for a py2exe frozen executables
+	the directory will be
+
+	'%TEMP%\comtypes_cache\<imagebasename>-<XY>'
+
+	where <imagebasename> is the basename without extension of the
+	frozen executable image, and <XY> is the major and minor Python
+	version number, '25' for example.
+
+	This makes sure that generated modules will *always* cached in the
+	file system.
+	
+2008-08-13  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\automation.py: Allow this module to be imported on
+	Windows CE.  Using safearrays on Windows CE will not work. I'm not
+	sure if they are used much.
+
+2008-08-08  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Implement InterlockedIncrement and InterlockedDecrement for
+	win64.
+
+2008-08-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.5.1
+
+	* comtypes\tools\codegenerator.py: Change the order of the
+	interfaces in the _com_interfaces_ and _outgoing_interfaces_ list
+	so that the default interface is the first one.  This fixes the
+	bug that GetEvents() and ShowEvents() sometimes did use the wrong
+	event interface.
+
+2008-08-06  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* The repository was moved from python.org to sourceforge.net.
+	The svn trunk URL is now:
+	https://comtypes.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/comtypes/trunk
+
+	The script that extracted the repository is in
+	admin/extract_comtypes_repo. The repository structure and the
+	revision numbers have changed; the last revision on python.org is
+	rev 65336, this was imported as revision rev 355.
+
+2008-07-18  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\test\find_memleak.py: Windows CE does not have
+	GetProcessMemoryInfo; disable the find_memleak function because it
+	cannot work.
+
+	* comtypes\client\_generate.py, comtypes\typeinfo.py: Windows CE
+	doesn't have QueryPathOfRegTypeLib - try to emulate it.  Also it
+	doesn't use tha PATH environment variable; use a hardcoded search
+	path for type libraries.
+
+	* comtypes\test\runtests.py: Define a main() function.
+
+2008-05-29  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Improved the [in, out] parameter workaround.  These parameters
+	are now optional.  Removed the special codegeneration for [in,
+	out] parameters in IEnumXXX.Next methods.  Added test.
+
+2008-05-16  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Provide a workaround for a bug in ctypes. This allows methods
+	using [in, out] parameters to correctly convert native Python
+	values.
+
+	* comtypes/tools/tlbparser.py: When GetRefTypeInfo(hreftype)
+	fails, emit a warning and generate a fake type instead.
+
+2008-05-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fixed the definition of VARIANT.empty and VARIANT.null; the
+	values were swapped.
+	https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=692940&aid=1959722&group_id=115265
+
+2008-04-25  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Replace logger.info() calls with logger.debug() since it is more
+	appropriate.
+
+	In comtypes.server.connectionpoints, when a event notification
+	fails with an error indicating that the event sink is no longer
+	present, close the connection and log a warning.
+
+	The __repr__ of VARIANT changed again to make it a little bit shorter.
+
+	VARIANT instances of VT_BREF are NOT unpacked when the .value
+	attribute as accessed. The value instead can be got or set by
+	indexing, so the api is the same as for pointer instances:
+
+	  print byref_var[0]
+	  byref_var[0] = value
+
+
+2008-04-17  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* More changes merged from upstream svn 26400, add support for
+	implementing (non-dual) dispinterfaces (work in progress).
+
+	* Merge in a lot of changes from the private upstream repository
+	26394; mainly much better support for implementing comtypes
+	servers.
+
+2008-04-09  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.4.3a
+
+	* Released version comtypes 0.4.2.
+
+	* comtypes.util: New module, containing the byref_at() and
+	cast_field() helper functions.
+
+2008-04-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix the codegenerator to handle all kinds of IEnumXXX::Next
+	method signatures; the second and third parameters may be [out] or
+	[in, out].
+
+2008-03-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Implemented support for SAFEARRAYs containing com interface
+	pointers.
+
+2008-03-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add comtypes.client.gen_dir to comtypes.gen.__path__ so that the
+	codegenerator can import its generated module(s).
+
+2008-02-08  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Hacked support for 'open array' [out] parameters in COM methods.
+	These are arrays that have both size_is() and length_is() in IDL.
+	See the comments in comtypes\tools\codegenerator.py, search for
+	'OPENARRAY'.
+
+2008-02-06  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* The badly named comtypes.client.wrap function was renamed into
+	comtypes.client.GetBestInterface.  For backwards compatibility the
+	old name stays as an alias.
+	
+	* Replaced the comtypes.messageloop.add_filter(filter) function
+	with comtypes-messageloop.insert_filter(index, filter).  This
+	allows to specify the order in which the filters are applied.
+
+	* Added a workaround for the buggy _ctypes.COMError in Python 2.5
+	and 2.51.
+
+2007-12-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.4.2.
+
+	* Special methods (__iter__ and so on) did not work on
+	dispinterfaces, because the __map_case__ dictionary was not
+	populated.
+
+2007-11-23  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Released version comtypes 0.4.1.
+
+	* Add a PumpEvents(timeout) function to comtypes.client.  This
+	function calls the win32 CoWaitForMultipleHandles() function which
+	will wait in a way compatible with all types of apartments;
+	additionally this function can be interrupted with Control+C.
+
+2007-11-21  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\__init__.py: Add docstrings to special methods.  Make
+	named_property a data descriptor by providing a __set__ method
+	(which will raise AttributeError when called).
+
+2007-11-15  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\__init__.py: Fix bound_named_property.__setitem__ so
+	that COM properties can be set that require zero or more than one
+	arguments.
+
+	* comtypes\__init__.py:  Restructure the code that extend the COM
+	interface subclasses with __len__, __call__, __getitem__, and
+	__iter__ methods.  This is done with the comtypes.partial module,
+	and apparently had strange behaviour when the code is run under a
+	debugger.
+
+2007-11-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Changed version number to 0.4.1.
+
+	* Add an post-install script that will (after confirmation) remove
+	the comtypes\gen directory containing the generated modules.
+
+2007-11-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.4.0.
+	Released version 0.4.0.
+
+	* In _wrap_coclass, attach a __clsid attribute to the returned
+	object. This allows, for example, to find outgoing interfaces when
+	a CoClass is returned from a COM method call.
+
+2007-10-26  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Implemented property get, put, and putref with arguments
+	in comtypes.client.dynamic.
+
+	* When a COM property has both propput and propputref accessor
+	methods, the Python property fset methods determines the type of
+	the argument.
+
+	If the argument is a COM interface pointer, or a VARIANT
+	containing one, then propputref is called, otherwise proput is
+	called to set the property.
+
+	* Allow the creation of SAFEARRAY(UDT) types even if the UDT has
+	no _recordinfo_.  Creating instances of these types will fail
+	however since no IRecordInfo pointer can be created.  This change
+	allows to import typelib wrappers that have UDTs without guids.
+
+2007-10-24  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* When a COM property has a 'propputref' but no 'propput' accessor
+	method, use the former in the same way as a 'propput' would work.
+	When both 'propputref' and 'propput' are present, raise a
+	TypeError because we cannot handle this case for now.
+
+	* Fixed infinit recursion error in __getattr__ implementation.
+	
+	* comtypes.dynamic._Dispatch now implements a __setattr__ methods
+	that will call to Invoke() with DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUT or
+	DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUTREF.
+	
+	* Handle DISPATCH_PROPERTYPUTREF in IDispatch.Invoke
+	implementation.
+
+	* comtypes.dynamic._Dispatch objects can now be used as VARIANT
+	value.
+
+2007-10-22  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* The repr of a COM pointer instance now includes the pointer
+	value for easier debugging.
+
+2007-10-17  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Disable the VT_UNKNOWN and VT_DISPATCH safearray codes, they do
+	not work yet.
+
+	* More multidimensional safearray tests, bug fixes.
+	
+	* Speed up the unpacking of 1- and 2-dimensional safearrays.
+	
+	* Lots of refatoring of the new SAFEARRAY code; added a docstring
+	to the public function comtypes.safearray._midlSAFEARRAY.
+
+	* For easier debugging, the repr of a VARIANT instance now
+	contains the vartype.
+
+2007-10-16  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Changed version number to 0.3.4.
+	
+	* Mega-patch: Completely rewritten safearray support.  SAFERARRAYs
+	are now automatically converted to Python tuples when they are
+	received as [out] parameters in COM methods, and sequences are
+	accepted as SAFEARRAY [in] parameters.  Multidimensional safearray
+	support still has to be added.
+
+	* VARIANTs can now also contain SAFEARRAYs.  VARIANTs containing
+	SAFEARRAYs with a typecode other than VT_VARIANT, Python
+	array.array instances can be used.
+
+	* Added a comtypes.messageloop module that contains a simple
+	messageloop which allows to add and remove custom filter functions.
+
+	* Removed the comtypes.client.PumpWaitingMessages function.
+
+	* Fixed the codegenerator so that it handles unnamed method
+	parameters.
+
+2007-10-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Several refactorings and a small bugfix from the upstream
+	repository.
+
+	* In the comtypes\gen\... type library wrappers, the code
+	generator now creates a commented out template that shows an
+	implementation for each interface it wraps.
+
+2007-10-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.safearray.UnpackSafeArray can now unpack SAFEARRAYs
+	that containt UDT (user defined data types).  Patch by Rimon Barr,
+	testcase by me.
+
+2007-09-14  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Released version 0.3.3.
+
+2007-09-12  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Bump version number to 0.3.3.
+
+2007-09-03  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add the partial module, which allows the usual class statement
+	syntax to attach methods to already existing classes.
+
+	* Use partial in comtypes.automation to attach methods to
+	POINTER(VARIANT).
+
+
+2007-08-24  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Added a custom outgoing interface to TestComServer.idl.
+	Implemented IConnectionPointContainer in TestComServer.py.
+
+	* comtypes.server.automation: Fix the IProvideClassInfo2.GetGUID
+	implementation.
+
+	* comtypes.client: Fix ShowEvents(): COM methods must return a
+	HRESULT value, not None.  Fix several NameErrors in the
+	PumpWaitingMessages function.
+	
+2007-08-14  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\tools\codegenerator.py: Generate the needed imports
+	when COM defaultvalues are used in parameter lists.
+
+2007-08-10  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add comtypes.client.PumpWaitingMessages() helper funtion.  May
+	be used to dispatch COM events in single threaded appartments.
+
+2007-08-09  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Added the IRecordInfo interface to comtypes.typeinfo.
+
+	* If UDTs (structures or unions) in a typelib have a GUID defined,
+	add a _recordinfo_ attribute to the generated code.  This allows
+	to call GetRecordInfoFromGuids(*_recordinfo_) to get an
+	IRecordInfo pointer.
+
+	* Released comtypes-0.3.2
+
+2007-08-08  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Add better support for dynamic dispatch, comtypes.CoUninitialize
+	function.  Patch from Belyaev Dmitry.
+
+2007-03-23  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fixed: TextWrap did destroy the generated code when very long
+	symbol names used were in the type library.
+
+	* The IEnumVARIANT.Next(celt) method can now be called with
+	celt != 1.  It will return a list of items then; this allows to get
+	more objects at a time.
+
+2007-03-22  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* In comtypes.hresult, add the hex HRESULT values in comments for
+	reference.
+
+	* In comtypes.errorinfo.ReportError, use the supplied hresult
+	value.
+
+	* Improved _NewEnum client-side handling.
+
+	* When a relative pathname to a type library is passed to
+	comtypes.client.GetModule(), the pathname is now interpreted
+	relative to the __file__ of the caller if this pathname actually
+	exists in the filesystem.
+
+	* Fixed several memory leaks and other problems in the BSTR
+	implementation.  The previous change that requires ctypes version
+	1.0.2 was backed out again because it was the wrong approach.
+	
+2007-01-25  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	NOTE: This comment is no longer true, see above.
+	* Removed unneeded methods from comtypes.BSTR.  The resource
+	management is handled by ctypes; this requires ctypes version
+	1.0.2 to correctly release BSTR resources.
+
+2007-01-19  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* The comtypes.test package is now self contained, it does no
+	longer depend on ctypes.test which may not be available.
+
+2007-01-16  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.tools.tlbparser: Sort interface methods by VTable order
+	(there are typeinfos that list the methods in a different order).
+
+2007-01-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes codegenerator: Do not hardcode pointer and VARIANT size
+	and alignment.  This fixes code generation issues on 64-bit
+	Windows.
+
+	* comtypes.automation: Fix size of VARIANT definition for 64-bit
+	Windows.
+
+2007-01-10  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* (Re-)Added comtypes.__version__ again, and set it to "0.3.2".
+
+	* Removed assert statements about sizeof() and alingment() of
+	generated Structure subclasses for portability to 64-bit Windows.
+
+	* Iterating over COM collections retrived the _NewEnum property
+	twice.
+	
+	* Cleaned up the codegeneration.  Generated modules now have a
+	'typelib_path' variable that points to the type library used to
+	generate them, 'CoClass' subclasses have '_typelib_path_' which is
+	used for registration.
+
+2007-01-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\client\_generate.py: Make sure that generated modules
+	have a __file__ attribute, even if gen_dir is None.  The filename
+	part of the __file__ attribute is '<memory>' in this case.
+
+2006-12-20  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.client.GetModule now recreates the Python module
+	automatically if the type library file timestamp is newer than the
+	module.  The actual code for GetModule now lives in a separate
+	module comtypes.client._generate, but the GetModule symbol is
+	still exposed from comtypes.client.
+
+	* COM method implementations are now found doing case insensitive
+	lookup if the interfaces "_case_insensitivity_" attribute is True.
+
+	* Some memory leaks with BSTR have been fixed.
+
+2006-12-13  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix the case insensitivity for COM interfaces (client-side only,
+	so far): If the Python interface class has a "_case_insensitive_"
+	attribute which is True, access of methods and properties is case
+	insensitive.
+
+	By default, this attribute is set to True in interfaces generated
+	from type libraries, because type libraries generally don't
+	preserve the casing of identifiers from IDL interface definitions.
+
+2006-12-06  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fix comtypes.test.test_typeinfo to work when either IE6 or IE7
+	is installed.
+
+	* comtypes.hresult: Add MAKE_HRESULT and HRESULT_FROM_WIN32
+	functions which return HRESULT values.
+
+	* Receive events from the event interface plus all the super
+	interfaces.
+
+	* When a NULL IDispatch pointer is received as an [out] parameter,
+	return None instead of the NULL pointer.
+
+	* Changed the way COM is shut down.  No longer a need to call the
+	possibly expensive (or dangerous?) _is_com_initialized.
+
+2006-11-15  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes.client._events.GetEvents: Catch the exception when
+	IProvideClassInfo::GetGUID fails, and try the next strategy for
+	finding the outgoing interface.
+
+	* comtypes now has a __version__ attribute.  This is set to
+	"0.3.1".  Added test command to the setup script.
+
+	* New function comtypes.client.ShowEvents(source, interface=None).
+	This function is useful for debugging; it connects the source
+	object to a special event receiver that will first print out all
+	the event names, and later print out the events as they occur.
+
+2006-08-04  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Fixed quite some tests to work or be skipped on Windows CE.
+
+	* comtypes\typesinfo.py: Added ICreateTypeLib2 interface, and
+	changed the CreateTypeLib function to return a pointer to that
+	interface.
+
+	* Added a COM server for testing to the comtypes.test package,
+	plus tests for it.  There are still several memory leaks in
+	comtypes, as the tests show.
+	
+2006-08-03  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\server\register.py: For localserver, the wrong script
+	was registered when the class was not in a toplevel module.
+
+2006-08-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Version number changed to 0.3.0, added 'comtypes.server' package
+	to the setup script.
+
+	* Merged in a LOT of changes from the upstream version.
+	For details see the svn commit messages.
+
+	The most prominent changes are:
+
+	- The strings returned by ITypeInfo::GetDocumentation() do not
+	contain NUL characters any more (some buggy typelibs contain them)
+
+	- comtypes.client.GetEvents returns a 'connection object', which
+	will UnAdvise the connection when deleted.  In other words, you
+	must keep the return value of the GetEvents call as long as you
+	want to reveive events.
+
+	- Pointer to COM interface pointer instances __setitem__ method manages
+	the COM refcount correctly.
+
+	- Changes in the COM shutdown code: maybe the win32com way of
+	never calling CoUninitialize() is the best compromise ;-), but I
+	have not yet given up.
+	
+2006-07-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Imported comtypes 0.2.1 into the python.org svn repository.
+
+2006-04-25  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Released version 0.2.1 (svn revision 8).
+
+2006-03-07  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Imported comtypes from the ctypes CVS repository into the
+	comtypes SVN repository.
+
+2006-03-03  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* (Repository): Move the code generator modules into the
+	comtypes.tools package.  Should be refactored later - most
+	important is now that it works again.
+
+2006-02-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* Merged in lots of changes from the upstream version.  Started
+	localserver support.
+
+2005-10-20  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\__init__.py: Add logging for easier debugging.  Add
+	COINIT_... flags.  Use the value of sys.coinit_flags (when
+	defined) in the call to CoInitializeEx, this allows to use
+	multithreaded appartments.
+
+	Clean up the lifetime management of implemented COM objects.  Make
+	COM attribute access case insensitive (has a large impact on the
+	performance, unfortunately).
+
+	Move the COMObject definition in a separate module
+	comtypes\_comobject.py.
+
+	* comtypes\tools\codegenerator.py: Don't generate dispid() for
+	non-dispatch based interfaces.
+	
+	* comtypes\client\__init__.py: Add logging for easier debugging.
+
+	* comtypes\persist.py: Remove dispid() from non-dispatch based
+	interfaces. Correct the Read method. Hack around the
+	POINTER(c_wchar) <-> c_wchar_p problem.
+
+2005-10-11  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\client\__init__.py: Renamed CreateModule() into
+	GetModule().  Removed the 'modulename' parameter from all the
+	function calls - the typelib wrapper alias name is now taken from
+	the typelib library name.  Suggestions from Bruce Dodson.
+
+2005-09-29  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\GUID.py: Rename the GUID.progid() classmethod into
+	GUID.as_progid().
+
+2005-09-02  Thomas Heller  <theller@python.net>
+
+	* comtypes\client\__init__.py: Can now receive events from custom,
+	non-dispatch interfaces.