What are com_record objects

[Larry Bates]

Python does have struct module that allows you to create
C-style structures.

Googling for "python struct" give us:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-struct.html

I use it a lot to interface to COM object and to call
methods in .DLLs.

Larry Bates


Gijs Korremans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to connect to a com object with win32.client.
> Through this com object a have to connect to an other device with object.Connect(struct IPADDRESS_STRUCT * ip)
> 
> the struct IPADDRESS_STRUCT looks like this:
> 
> Byte Offset	Name	Type	Length (Bytes) 	Description
> 0	b1	BYTE	1		Byte 1 of an internet address
> 1	b2	BYTE	1		Byte 2 of an internet address
> 2	b3	BYTE	1		Byte 3 of an internet address
> 3	b4	BYTE	1		Byte 4 of an internet address
> 
> Because Python doesn't have structs like C, I tried to do it with a class (C structs are classes with no private) and with pack but I always get the error message "Only com_record objects can be used as records"
> 
> I'm new in the python language but I couldn't find anything about structs or com_records in python on the internet.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this? 
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> 
> Gijs
> 
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