[python-win32] StartDoc failed

[Luc Saffre]

Hello,

if my default windows printer is a network printer and not available, 
then dc.StartDoc() causes a traceback which I cannot catch using 
try...except. According to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc_CDC.3a3a.StartDoc.asp
I would have expected it to simply return 0 or negative on failure.

Example:

  #file startjob.py
  import win32ui
  dc = win32ui.CreateDC()
  dc.CreatePrinterDC(None)
  try:
     dc.StartDoc("foo")
     # ... print to printer
     dc.EndDoc()
  except Exception,e:
     print "your default printer is not reachable"

If I run this, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "startjob.py", line 6, in ?
     dc.StartDoc("foo")
win32ui: StartDoc failed

Is there a workaround? How can I catch and handle the case of a 
non-ready printer?

(i'm using pywin32 build 203 and python 2.3)

tia,
Luc