Type Conversion to COM Variant

[Mark Hammond]

Haegi Kim wrote:
> Hi, experts,
>  
> I have a COM client which gets a reference to a COM server.
> The COM client has a exec expression in order to execute a script in
> which the reference to the COM server is used.
> It works find with the COM server in InProcServer mode, but doesn't in
> LocalServer and raises the following error.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> exceptions.TypeError: Objects of type 'instance' can not be converted
> to a COM VARIANT"
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In what case the type conversion causes the error? And what should I
> do?
> Thanks in advance.

It looks like you are trying to pass a class instance as a param to a 
COM call.  Only COM objects can be passed in this way - arbitrary Python 
objects can not.  I can not give any more details without extra 
information, such as the traceback.

Mark.