Python 2.3, win32all-157, AttributeError: wdFormatText

[Reinhard Koenig]

Hello,

I needed the display statement for demonstration purposes only. You are right,
that ordinarily I have to assign the result to a variable.
The solution is that the makepy utility generated a wrong file name for the
Microsoft Word object library resp. Python looked for a wrong name.
The part after 'x' (00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046x409x8x0.py) was wrong.
Now all works fine with win32all-163 resp. ActivePython2.3.2-132.

Reinhard Koenig


Reinhard Koenig wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I' m using Python 2.3, win32all-157 under W2K. I've applied the makepy
> utility for the Word 8.0 object library. I now receive:
> 
> Python 2.3.1 (#47, Sep 23 2003, 23:47:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import win32com.client
> >>> win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
> <COMObject Word.Application>
> >>> win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "F:\PYTHON\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 168, in __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError, a
> AttributeError: wdFormatText
> >>>
> 
> I've had no problems with earlier versions.
> What is wrong?