[python-win32] vb errors from Python COM object now include the traceback lines

[Mark Hammond]

On 20/04/2012 8:30 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:32 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
>> I am hoping one of you can point me in the right direction.  My
>> alternative appears to be (painfully) writing some VB code to discard
>> the traceback lines from  Err.Description.

Hrm - I thought it had always been the case that if you throw an 
explicit COMException, then you shouldn't get the traceback - the 
traceback only appears for "other" exceptions, which presumably indicate 
the exception was unintended.

>
> I read more carefully through Python Programming on Win32 and came up
> with this code:
>
> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> class DefaultDebugDispatcher(
> 	win32com.server.dispatcher.DefaultDebugDispatcher):
>      def _HandleException_(self):
>          excls,exself = sys.exc_info()[:2]
>          if not IsCOMServerException(excls):
>              raise COMException(description = str(exself),
>                  scode = winerror.E_INVALIDARG,
>                  )

Which seems to backup my point - IsCOMServerException() is returning 
false, so the exception isn't a COMException, so you turn it into one 
and avoid the traceback etc.

Note however that you could just also raise a COMException directly from 
the original point - ie, there should be no need to convert to a 
COMException if a COMException is thrown in the first place.

How are you throwing the original?  If you thought you were throwing a 
COMException then we would want to check you actually are if you still 
think so, dig into why IsCOMServerException is failing.

Cheers,

Mark