Where do I find the dispatch name?

James Carroll mrmaple at gmail.com
Wed May 25 15:17:13 EDT 2005


<Answering self>

I looked through all the IIDs in:  PythonWin, Tools, COM Object
Browser, RegisteredCategories, Automation Objects.

After looking through all the IIDs I saw one that looked like it might
work... and it did.

-Jim





On 5/25/05, James Carroll <mrmaple at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just ran makepy to create a wrapper for my com object, and it
> generated the wrapper with the CLSID.py under
> site-packages/win32com/gen_py/
> 
> Now, I'm trying to figure out how to invoke it.  How do I figure out
> what string to give Dispatch?
> 
> For instance:
> xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> 
> If I understand right would give me an instance of the wrapper....
> Do I give it the entire classID?
> 
> -Jim
>



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