stuck on COM interface to Word

[Mark Hammond]

Nikolai Kirsebom wrote in message <37a6d12b.192256 at news.mch.sni.de>...
>In Arpad's example on *Last print date*, the returned <time object> is
>converted to an integer using the function *int*.  On my installation
>I get the error: 'ValueError: illegal value'.

This (probably) means the date is before 1970, the Python time module epoch.

>Should the *int* function be able to convert the <time object> and if
>so - is there something I've missed out ?

You can either use the builtin methods of the time object (documented in the
help file) or if you want to use dates seriously, get mxDateTime, which has
a function for converting from a COM date.

Mark.