win32com/makepy question

[Tom Willis]

Wow Thanks!!!! I didn't even know about the gencache that's is exactly
what I was hoping for.


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:06:15 -0000, Tim Golden
<tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
> [Tom Willis]
> 
> | It seems in COM late binding is something that should be
> | avoided if possible.
> |
> | Because python seems to be really good at doing thing dynamically I'm
> | wondering why no one  has figured out how to make the functionality in
> | makepy fire automagically when you need it.
> 
> I (nearly) always use win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch. There
> are a few occasions when it refuses to play, and then I'm back to
> Dispatch.
> 
> <code>
> import win32com.client
> 
> word = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Word.Application")
> #
> # does the same as Dispatch ("Word.Application") but does
> #  the makepy stuff first if it needs to.
> #
> 
> </code>
> 
> TJG
> 
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