Comment 21 for bug 587745

This comment concerns the request made by LAVERGNE (michelelavergne) to access the Microsoft Explorer meta-data. My email friend Geoff in Dunedin, NZ found this link which discusses this matter:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benkaras/archive/2007/01/05/choosing-your-property-api.aspx

Geoff used the article to construct some code which I attach. You'll see that the code is involved with COM and is heavy-going in C++. I believe these interfaces can accessed from Python using the win32com.client. I found this extract from an O'Reilly book:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html

In this article he is able to access properties of structured storage, and something like that's required to access the metadata.