winrt.windows namespace

The winrt.windows namespace package contains the automatically generate bindings for the Windows SDK. Each WinRT namespace is distributed as a separate package on PyPI. For example, the winrt-Windows.Foundation package contains the bindings for the Windows.Foundation namespace and can be imported in Python as import winrt.windows.foundation.

Since most of the code is generated, there currently aren’t Python API docs. You can use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/ instead, keeping in mind the Python naming conventions and other rules mentioned in The WinRT type system section.

Tip

The packages include type hints so you can use those if you are unsure of a return type or a parameter type.

Todo

We could consider using https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/winrt-api to autogenerate Python docs.

Interop modules

There are also special interop modules that provide extra functionality to bridge between WinRT and other interfaces.

• winrt.windows.foundation.interop module
  • box()
  • unbox()
• winrt.windows.graphics.capture.interop module
  • create_for_monitor()
  • create_for_window()