How to increase PythonWin v2.0: COM browser limits?

[Twan van der Schoot]

Hi Ben,

It's great to see that a good explaination has been found.

And although I just barely grasp the meaning of your diagnosis, I wonder how
to repair it without causing a 'domino-effect'.  As my in-depth knowledge of
Pythonwin and the Python support for win32 is probably not sufficient to
oversee this.

What to say about informing Mark Hammond about this?

thanks again,

Twan.


"Ben Hutchings" <ben.hutchings at roundpoint.com> wrote in message
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> I wrote:
>
> > The wrapper for COM enumerators, in true Pythonic style, does not
> > check the size of the collection in advance, but attempts to read
> > items until this yields an error.  I think that the category
> > enumerator implementation is reporting the no-more-items error in the
> > wrong way (returning E_OUTOFMEMORY rather than S_FALSE), so the
> > wrapper does not translate it into an IndexError exception which
> > would cause the loop to terminate successfully.  OLEView probably
> > just doesn't check for the error but displays what it already got.
>
> Let me revise that:
>
> A Python iterator for a COM 'container' is an instance of
> win32com.client.util.Enumerator, which wraps a PyIEnumVARIANT object
> that in turn wraps an IEnumVARIANT interface pointer obtained from the
> container.  When an IEnumVARIANT user requests more items than there
> are left, the implementation should return any items that are left,
> with a status code of S_FALSE (not an error code).
>
> In the case of iteration, Enumerator will request only 1 item each
> time.  PyIEnumVARIANT's wrapper function returns a list of items,
> which at the end of iteration will have length 0.  Enumerator checks
> for this case and throws an IndexError when it occurs, which is the
> normal way for iteration to end.  Unfortunately it appears that this
> specific implementation of IEnumVARIANT returns a status code of
> E_OUTOFMEMORY (an error code), which PyIEnumVARIANT turns into a
> win32types.com_error exception.
>
> OLEView probably treats this error in the same way as a normal end
> of enumeration, and displays the results it already obtained.
>
> --
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