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-`comtypes` is a lightweight pure Python [COM](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/component-object-model--com--portal) package based on the [`ctypes`](https://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html) foreign function library.
+`comtypes` is a lightweight pure Python [COM](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/component-object-model--com--portal) package based on the [`ctypes`](https://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html) foreign function interface library.
 
 `comtypes` allows you to define, call, and implement custom and dispatch-based COM interfaces in pure Python.