Windows: COM Automation problem with german VB localisation

[Dirk-Ulrich Heise]

Hi all!

I have problems automating a german version of MS project.
Like usual, i tried to find out the COM interface of the program
by recording VB macros in it and re-typing them in my Python
script.

The problem is: It's one of the MS programs where they localized
the Visual Basic inside it, unfortunately (and needlessly) german
Umlaute (ä,ö,ü)
are part of the function names the MS program understands.
Python chokes on them, it seems.

Two questions:
- Does anybody know a workaround?
- Is there a more elegant way of finding out the COM interface
  then recording the steps you want to automate with the
  VB macro recorder? Can i query the interface of the COM
  object from within my script? i tried something along the
  way of "for i in o.__class__.__dict__.keys(): print i",
  but got only a few internal methods of the COM wrapper
  stuff.

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Dipl.Inform. Dirk-Ulrich Heise
hei at adtranzsig.de
dheise at debitel.net