Fetching Outlook Contacts with Python

Question

I am given a task to fetch all the contacts from (Microsoft)Outlook using Python. I tried this :

import win32com.client
object = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
ns = object.GetNamespace("MAPI")
print ns

It gave me the output :

<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Outlook 12.0 Object Library._NameSpace instance at 0x12528376>

I understand that ns is now an Object but does it give me access to Outlook contacts ? If yes then how should I fetch the contacts ?
Thank You.

Answer 1

import win32com.client
import pywintypes

o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
ns = o.GetNamespace("MAPI")
profile = ns.Folders.Item("Profile Name")
contacts = profile.Folders.Item("Contacts")