win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle

[sterling]

On Jul 31, 11:22 pm, "Roger Upole" <rup... at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when
> > using win32com.
> > opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information
> > out of the file.
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> > commands like co = ChartObjects(1)  works in pythonWin but doesn't
> > work in IDLE.
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> > however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine.
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> > The same goes other things like SeriesCollection()/
> > seriescollection(1),seriescollection(2)..., Close()/close
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> > Is there any way to fix it such that IDLE works with ChartObject()
> > too?  I'd really like to be able to use ChartObject().Count() (there
> > doesn't seem to be an equivalent chartobject.count)
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> > Thanks.
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> This was probably due to a conflict with the way IDLE sets the locale.
> Bug report here:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2006053&grou...
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> This is fixed in build 212, just released today.
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Thanks for the tip Roger.  Installed 212 and it worked right away!