Python has BIOMETRIC support?!

I went on a bit of a research spree to see what sort of biometric support Python had, and the results were...mixed. This video goes into some detail about the Touch ID, how it was achieved, and what you'd (theoretically) need to do to get Windows Hello fingerprint support working (who said everything just worked on Windows?!).
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[@eboyd53]

Interesting concepts displayed in this video.

[@DuncanBooth]

It actually doesn't seem to be that easy to access the Hello api with pythonnet as it's part of UWP. It might be possible using the Python `winrt` package but that seems to be dead as it won't support anything newer than Python 3.9.

[@Carberra]

Ah right, that's...unfortunate. If there is a use-case for it (I saw your other comment about Windows Hello potentially not being suitable for this), then could bring it back from the dead -- that's what I did with the Touch ID library (though that still ran fine on 3.12).

[@DuncanBooth]

@@Carberra aha, I just found that `winsdk` is a community maintained copy of winrt. Having done `poetry add winsdk` I can now import and use the relevant functions. Now I just have to understand the Microsoft Hello docs.

[@Carberra]

Ah nice! And good luck my guy! The docs looked pretty vicious for most of it, but from what I could tell looking around again after recording the fingerprint section doesn't seem too bad, so it might not be too awful.