tricky(?) win32com question - Mark Hammond or other experts please.

[John Machin]

cfriedalek at gmail.com wrote:
> OK, I've asked this earlier this week with no response. Since then I've
> also received a suggestion from the app developers but that failed with
> the same type error problem. Hopefully Mark Hammond or other experts
> can offer a suggestion as to how to get around this problem. I'm
> foolish enough to think that a solution can be found. Or can someone
> suggest how to pm Mark.

What is "pm"? You could email him directly, or ask your question on the
pywin32 mailing list, or raise a bug/feature request on sourceforge --
he not only reads those, he actions them :-)

>
> ---------------------------
>
> I'm using pywin32com to drive a 3rd party app. The app has a VBS based
> API.  In VBS a specific query for data goes like this:
>
> Plot.QueryBegin datacode, Nothing
>
> where datacode is a number and Nothing is a VBS type/keyword
>
> The nominal python equivalent doesn't work. Plot.QueryBegin(datacode,
> None) gives a type mismatch error as follows: com_error: (-2147352571,
> 'Type mismatch.', None, 2)
>
> >From what I've been able to discover Nothing is not a null, 0, False,
> ""

Have you tried
    Plot.QueryBegin(datacode)
?

Cheers, 
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