From lefevrol at yahoo.com  Tue Nov  1 20:37:33 2005
From: lefevrol at yahoo.com (Olivier Lefevre)
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:37:33 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Illegal instruction while installing win32 extensions
Message-ID: <dk8g65$gdo$2@sea.gmane.org>

Trying to run pywin32-205.win32-py2.4.exe on a Windows XP SP2 machine 
with a HT P4 processor gives me "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an 
illegal instruction error". Any idea?

-- O.L.


From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Tue Nov  1 21:59:58 2005
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 07:59:58 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Illegal instruction while installing win32
	extensions
In-Reply-To: <dk8g65$gdo$2@sea.gmane.org>
References: <dk8g65$gdo$2@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4367D74E.1030402@lexicon.net>

Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> Trying to run pywin32-205.win32-py2.4.exe on a Windows XP SP2 machine 
> with a HT P4 processor gives me "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an 
> illegal instruction error". Any idea?
> 

Gives me one of those stupid "do you want to send your life history to 
Microsoft" dialogue boxes, not an error message as quoted above. Looks 
like the offending instruction is in ntdll.dll ...

Works OK on Windows 2000 SP 4, with an AMD Athlon CPU.



From spamtrap at day8.com.au  Wed Nov  2 05:35:15 2005
From: spamtrap at day8.com.au (Michael Thompson)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:35:15 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch
Message-ID: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org>


I've come across something puzzling about static dispatch.  I've used
win32com a bit and normally understand what is going on, but I've stubed 
my toe on something here that I just can't understand. It almost looks 
like a bug ...

Dynamic dispatch works:

    (First I go to 'C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py' and
    remove all the generated '.py')

      >>> import win32com.client
      >>> dispatch = win32com.client.Dispatch
      >>> xlApp = dispatch('Excel.Application')
      >>> books = xlApp.Workbooks.Open('SomeNew.xls')
      >>> books
      <COMObject <unknown>>

And if I try to use 'books', no problems:

      >>> sheet = books.WorkSheets('sheet1')
      >>> sheet
      <COMObject <unknown>>

Great. So dynamic dispatch works just fine.  Except, of course, I can't 
get the 'constants' and its a bit inefficient, so I tried switching to 
static dispatch:

      >>> dispatch = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch
      >>> xlApp = dispatch('Excel.Application')
      >>> books = xlApp.Workbooks.Open('SomeNew.xls')

But now, when I look at 'books':

     >>> books
     <win32com.gen_py.None.Workbook>

which seems to mean 'books' is unusable:

     >>> books.WorkSheets('channels')
     Traceback (most recent call last):
     ...
     AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object 
Library._Workbook instance at 0x13234048>' object has no attribute 
'WorkSheets'

The only way around this seems to be:

      >>> books = win32com.client.Dispatch(books)

which means 'books' changes to become:

      >>> books
      <win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library._Workbook 
instance at 0x24048544>

And therefor is now usable:

      >>> sheet = books.Worksheets('sheet1')

No traceback!

So, I've learned (much like a mouse in a maze), that I have to add the line:

       books = win32com.client.Dispatch(books)

and static dispatch will work.

What I don't understand is why, under staic dispatch, 'books' becomes 
this unusable object:
      <win32com.gen_py.None.Workbook>

instead of something useful like either of these two:
      <COMObject <unknown>>
      <win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library._Workbook 
instance at 0x13234048>

I looked in 
C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046x0x1x5
which is the folder created by  win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch, 
and, sure enough, it contains all the code for 'Workbook', so its known.

And if you look at the AttributeError traceback given above, it 
correctly identifies the object as:
     <win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library._Workbook 
instance at 0x13234048>
despite claiming that it doesn't have the attribute of that class.

Also strange it doesn't seem to happen for all classes of object. For
example, if I continue on:

     >>> sheet = books.Worksheets('sheet1')
     >>> rng = sheet sheet.Range('A2:B11')
     >>> rng
     <win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library.Range instance 
at 0x24277240>


In effect, the Range object is correctly identified and useable without 
having to do this (which I had to do for books):

     >>> rng = win32com.client.Dispatch(rng)

I don't understand the ins and outs of this. I'm left thinking:

     *  there is a bug in the type library suppied which is causing
        win32com to do something odd

     *  there is a bug in win32com

     *  there's something really important that I don't know and I don't
        even know where to look.

I'm on Windows XP, Python 2.4, win32com ???? (something installed within 
the last month), Excel 2003 SP1.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
Mike


From spamtrap at day8.com.au  Wed Nov  2 23:35:42 2005
From: spamtrap at day8.com.au (Michael Thompson)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:35:42 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch
In-Reply-To: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <dkbf01$htk$1@sea.gmane.org>

Michael Thompson wrote:
> 
> Great. So dynamic dispatch works just fine.  Except, of course, I can't 
> get the 'constants' and its a bit inefficient, so I tried switching to 
> static dispatch:
> 
>       >>> dispatch = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch
>       >>> xlApp = dispatch('Excel.Application')
>       >>> books = xlApp.Workbooks.Open('SomeNew.xls')
> 
> But now, when I look at 'books':
> 
>      >>> books
>      <win32com.gen_py.None.Workbook>
> 
> which seems to mean 'books' is unusable:
> 
>      >>> books.WorkSheets('channels')
>      Traceback (most recent call last):
>      ...
>      AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object 
> Library._Workbook instance at 0x13234048>' object has no attribute 
> 'WorkSheets'
> 

I've found the problem. Groan.  Dynamic and Static dispatch differ WRT to case sensitivity.

My tests involved this:

      >>> books.WorkSheets('channels')

You'll see that I'm incorrectly using CamelCase for 'Worksheets'.  Using Dynamic dispatch I got away with this "case" error, but not with static dispatch.

--
Mike


From spamtrap at day8.com.au  Thu Nov  3 00:47:01 2005
From: spamtrap at day8.com.au (Michael Thompson)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:47:01 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and GetRef
Message-ID: <dkbj5r$tju$1@sea.gmane.org>

I'm using win32com to manipulate the DOM inside of Internet
Explorer. Something like this:

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------
import win32com.client

ie = win32com.client.Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.Navigate('about:about')
body = ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0]

#
# Now comes the tricky part, I need to supply a "pointer-to-a-function"
#
def init():
     pass

body.onload = init        # XXXXXX Problem here

#---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Everything works a treat until the line marked XXXXXX. It fails with an exception:

    TypeError: Objects of type 'function' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT

I'm need to effectively supply callback function for an event.

If I where using javascript, this line would be fine as is.  If I was using VB,
then it would look like this:

      body.onload = GetRef("init")

So, my question is how do I make the line marked XXXXX work in python?  Is
it possible?  Any pointers greatly appreciated.

Further Question: if its not possible would I be able to do this using Mozilla and pyxcom?

--
Mike


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Nov  3 02:45:39 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:45:39 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and GetRef
In-Reply-To: <dkbj5r$tju$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNAELAHNAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> I'm using win32com to manipulate the DOM inside of Internet
> Explorer. Something like this:
>
> #-----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> import win32com.client
>
> ie = win32com.client.Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')
> ie.Navigate('about:about')
> body = ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0]
>
> #
> # Now comes the tricky part, I need to supply a "pointer-to-a-function"
> #
> def init():
>      pass
>
> body.onload = init        # XXXXXX Problem here

You need to have a look at win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents.  Python takes
a different approach to hookup events.

>>> import win32com.client
>>> help(win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents)

> Further Question: if its not possible would I be able to do this
> using Mozilla and pyxcom?

Not from an external process, no - xpcom does not work across processes.  If
you wanted to write a Mozilla extension (ie, some "chrome"), then other work
I am doing with the Mozilla guys will soon make this possible - you will be
able to use Python whereever you can currently use JS - but that's a
different story <wink>

Mark


From Ola.Rylow at hiq.se  Thu Nov  3 08:25:44 2005
From: Ola.Rylow at hiq.se (Ola Rylow)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:25:44 +0100 
Subject: [python-win32] Reading custom output parameters from LabVIEW/ActiveX
Message-ID: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A099DB000@mail.kebne.se>

Hi!

I'm running LabVIEW as a ActiveX server and access it from Python (which is
a quit new language for me). Now I have encountered a problem when trying to
read an output control that is a RefNum (actually a strict type def that I
think is based on a DataLogRefNum containing a Enum). I get the following
error message: "pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.',
(0, None, None, None, 0, -2147352571), 2)" 

Has anyone experience of reading LabVIEW RefNums controls using ActiveX from
Python? 
Or any other comments on problems when reading custom output parameters from
COM object? How do you handle parameters of "unknown" type?

Thanks! 

Ola

From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Thu Nov  3 09:26:52 2005
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:26:52 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch
Message-ID: <9A28C052FF32734DACB0A288A3533991044D22E4@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[Michael Thompson]
> I've found the problem. Groan.  
> Dynamic and Static dispatch differ WRT to case sensitivity.

You've probably realised but, just in case, the case-sensitivity
is a by-product of the fact that static dispatch actually
creates a Python module to act as a proxy for the COM objects,
and since Python is case sensitive...

(Just trying to be helpful)
TJG

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From davidf at sjsoft.com  Thu Nov  3 14:52:40 2005
From: davidf at sjsoft.com (David Fraser)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:52:40 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and GetRef
In-Reply-To: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNAELAHNAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
References: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNAELAHNAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <436A1628.9030706@sjsoft.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:

>Not from an external process, no - xpcom does not work across processes.  If
>you wanted to write a Mozilla extension (ie, some "chrome"), then other work
>I am doing with the Mozilla guys will soon make this possible - you will be
>able to use Python whereever you can currently use JS - but that's a
>different story <wink>
>
Any way of helping you out with this / watching updates on your 
progress? Are you committing to the mozilla CVS?
Its very exciting :-)

David

From geon at post.cz  Thu Nov  3 17:18:56 2005
From: geon at post.cz (geon)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:18:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch
In-Reply-To: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <436A3870.1050702@post.cz>

Does there exist any tutorial/manual about static vs. dynamic dispatch?

Thank you
Pavel


From theller at python.net  Thu Nov  3 18:48:35 2005
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:48:35 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch
References: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org> <436A3870.1050702@post.cz>
Message-ID: <wtjpzkp8.fsf@python.net>

geon <geon at post.cz> writes:

> Does there exist any tutorial/manual about static vs. dynamic dispatch?
>
> Thank you
> Pavel

Mark Hammond's book "Programming Python on win32".

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/

A sample chapter is online:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html

Thomas


From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Nov  3 22:55:47 2005
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:55:47 +0100
Subject: [python-win32]  win32com and COM-dynamic-server
References: <dk9fm8$av3$1@sea.gmane.org> <436A3870.1050702@post.cz>
	<wtjpzkp8.fsf@python.net>
Message-ID: <000a01c5e0c1$5d548fa0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Good evening!


I have troubles with dynamic COM.

I made, with PyWin, a dynamic extension of my COM-server.

If I call the COM-server since VB-Script, it is OK, with the names of 
functions (call) in small letters.

If I call the COM-server since ObjectPAL (Paradox), it is OK, with the names 
of functions (call) converted in capital letters.

If I call the COM-server since Javascript, it is OK, with the names of 
functions (call) in small letters.



BUT, if I call the COM-server since Python, no parameter sended!. The names 
of functions are in small letters, but no other parameter is transmitted. 
To check, I supervised the line:
        def _dynamic_(self, name, lcid, wFlags, args):

I tested Dispatch, DispatchEx, dynamic.Dispatch, without more success.

It should be noted that, if I remove the line:
        _ reg_policy_spec _ = "DynamicPolicy"
The problem disappears.


My question: how to use (call functions with parameters) a (my) 
dynamic-COM-server-Python, since Python?

Last infos : Python 2.4.2 ;  PyWin32 205 ; Win-XP-SP2 ; Bedside's book: 
"Programming Python on win32".

Thank you in advance, for any answer


Michel Claveau



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Nov  3 23:19:56 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:19:56 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and GetRef
In-Reply-To: <436A1628.9030706@sjsoft.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNMEBPHOAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> Mark Hammond wrote:
>
> >Not from an external process, no - xpcom does not work across
> processes.  If
> >you wanted to write a Mozilla extension (ie, some "chrome"),
> then other work
> >I am doing with the Mozilla guys will soon make this possible -
> you will be
> >able to use Python whereever you can currently use JS - but that's a
> >different story <wink>
> >
> Any way of helping you out with this / watching updates on your
> progress? Are you committing to the mozilla CVS?
> Its very exciting :-)

Yes, it is good fun!  I'm doing this work on a DOM_AGNOSTIC2_BRANCH branch,
and if you know enough voodoo to pull mozilla CVS and build it from source,
then I would *love* some help - at this stage I would love some better
samples and tests.

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Nov  3 23:19:55 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:19:55 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and COM-dynamic-server
In-Reply-To: <000a01c5e0c1$5d548fa0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEBPHOAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

When Python code does:

obj.foo(1)

On a COM object that has no makepy support, Python will first query the
object if it has a *property* named 'foo' before it asks if it has a
*method* named foo.  I suspect you are seeing this.  To work correctly in
this case, Python will be expecting the property reference to fail (so it
can determine it is indeed a method)


> of functions are in small letters, but no other parameter is transmitted.
> To check, I supervised the line:
>         def _dynamic_(self, name, lcid, wFlags, args):

The wFlags param of that call indicates if it is a property or method
reference.  If it does turn out to be a property reference, there will be no
args passed.

>
> I tested Dispatch, DispatchEx, dynamic.Dispatch, without more success.
>
> It should be noted that, if I remove the line:
>         _ reg_policy_spec _ = "DynamicPolicy"
> The problem disappears.
>
>
> My question: how to use (call functions with parameters) a (my)
> dynamic-COM-server-Python, since Python?
>
> Last infos : Python 2.4.2 ;  PyWin32 205 ; Win-XP-SP2 ; Bedside's book:
> "Programming Python on win32".

Have a look at page 220 - it has an example of _dynamic_ checking wFlags.

Cheers,

Mark


From mc at mclaveau.com  Fri Nov  4 01:25:01 2005
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 01:25:01 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com and COM-dynamic-server
References: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEBPHOAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <000801c5e0d6$356609f0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!


>>> Python will first query the object if it has a *property* named 'foo' 
>>> before it asks if it has a *method* named foo.  I suspect you are seeing 
>>> this.

Yes, you are right!

Python send  wFlags=pythoncom.DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET

With your advice, I had found than :
       if wFlags & pythoncom.DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET:
            raise COMException("inexistant", winerror.DISP_E_MEMBERNOTFOUND)
solve the problem.


Thank, Mark.  You are great, in the Python's hall of fame!

Good night.


Michel Claveau




From rmcburne at telcordia.com  Thu Nov  3 22:39:44 2005
From: rmcburne at telcordia.com (McBurnett, Roe D)
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:39:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] n00b problems accessing Outlook
Message-ID: <B7432F9DDB12A840AB043529D7D384DA029DD3A0@rrc-dte-exs01.dte.telcordia.com>

Hi People,
 
I am new to Python, just installed the ActivePython 2.4.1 and downloaded
pywin32-205.win32-py2.4.exe.
 
I executed the provided demo application outlookAddin.py and got the
following error message:

	C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos\outlookAddin.py", line
38,in ?
	
gencache.EnsureModule('{2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-00AA0044DE52}', 0, 2, 1,
bForDemand=True) # Office 9
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 407,
in EnsureModule
	    module = GetModuleForTypelib(typelibCLSID, tlbAttr[1],
tlbAttr[3], tlbAttr[4])
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 258,
in GetModuleForTypelib
	    mod = _GetModule(modName)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 629,
in _GetModule
	    mod = __import__(mod_name)
	  File
"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-0
0AA0044DE52x0x2x2\__init__.py", line 1691
	win32com.client.constants.__dicts__.append(constants.__dict__)
	    ^
	SyntaxError: invalid syntax
	 
	C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin

I edited the
"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-0
0AA0044DE52x0x2x2\__init__.py" file to remove a few comment lines and
re-executed with the following results:

	C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
	Registered: Python.Test.OutlookAddin

So I followed the instructions in the module:

	# To debug, execute:
	#   outlookAddin.py --debug
	#
	# Then open Pythonwin, and select "Tools->Trace Collector
Debugging Tool"
	# Restart Outlook, and you should see some output generated.

With these results:

	C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
--debug
	Registered: Python.Test.OutlookAddin (for debugging)

When I opened Pythonwin, and selected the Trace collector Debugging Tool
and restarted Outlook I got this in the Python Trace Collector Window:

	# This window will display output from any programs that import
win32traceutil
	# win32com servers registered with '--debug' are in this
category.
	Object with win32trace dispatcher created (object=None)
	pythoncom error: Failed to call the universal dispatcher
	 
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\universal.py",
line 177, in dispatch
	    retVal = ob._InvokeEx_(meth.dispid, 0, meth.invkind, args,
None, None)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 332, in
_InvokeEx_
	    return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs,
serviceProvider)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 653, in
_invokeex_
	    args, kwArgs = self._transform_args_(args, kwArgs, dispid,
lcid, wFlags, serviceProvider)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 640, in
_transform_args_
	    arg = win32com.client.Dispatch(arg)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 96, in
Dispatch
	    return __WrapDispatch(dispatch, userName, resultCLSID,
typeinfo, UnicodeToString, clsctx)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 38, in
__WrapDispatch
	    klass = gencache.GetClassForCLSID(resultCLSID)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 179,
in GetClassForCLSID
	    mod = GetModuleForCLSID(clsid)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 232,
in GetModuleForCLSID
	    __import__(sub_mod_name)
	exceptions.SyntaxError: invalid syntax (_Application.py, line
87)
	pythoncom error: Unexpected gateway error
	 
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\universal.py",
line 177, in dispatch
	    retVal = ob._InvokeEx_(meth.dispid, 0, meth.invkind, args,
None, None)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 332, in
_InvokeEx_
	    return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs,
serviceProvider)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 653, in
_invokeex_
	    args, kwArgs = self._transform_args_(args, kwArgs, dispid,
lcid, wFlags, serviceProvider)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line 640, in
_transform_args_
	    arg = win32com.client.Dispatch(arg)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 96, in
Dispatch
	    return __WrapDispatch(dispatch, userName, resultCLSID,
typeinfo, UnicodeToString, clsctx)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 38, in
__WrapDispatch
	    klass = gencache.GetClassForCLSID(resultCLSID)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 179,
in GetClassForCLSID
	    mod = GetModuleForCLSID(clsid)
	  File
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 232,
in GetModuleForCLSID
	    __import__(sub_mod_name)
	exceptions.SyntaxError: invalid syntax (_Application.py, line
87)

Can anyone shed any light on what is going on?
 
Thanks
-Roe McBurnett
rdm2ATmcburnettDOTorg
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From ebiaugustine at yahoo.com  Fri Nov  4 23:42:32 2005
From: ebiaugustine at yahoo.com (John Augustine)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:42:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Installation issues....
Message-ID: <20051104224232.17426.qmail@web60125.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello,
I am trying to install Python 2.4.2 on my XP laptop
using the MS installer
(http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.msi)
and I get this error message when I run it:

The cabinet file "python" required for this
installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could
indicate network error or problem with the package.

I downloaded it several times using both IE and
mozilla just in case it was a download error. That did
not resolve it. 

Has anybody else encountered this and resolved it? Let
me know how you did it.

Thanks,
John.


		
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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Sat Nov  5 18:29:56 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 12:29:56 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark not
	working
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everybody. I originally sent this question to the main Python list to
have it be met with roaring silence ;-)

Someone there suggested I try this group instead. Any help or suggestions
would be greatly appriciated.

Thanks,

-Greg


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From: Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2005 7:55 PM
Subject: Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark not working
To: python-list at python.org

I thought I'd take a shot and see if anyone knows the answer to this? I've
been stuck for a while now on this.

Would anyone happen to know why this my function removewatermark() in this
code isn't working? I copied it from a Word macro I recorded and it did work
when I recorded the macro. When I run it the watermark doesn't go away.

I've also attached the code in case the formatting gets messed up from the
email.


<code>
import sys
import os
from win32com.client import gencache, constants
WORD='Word.Application'
False,True=0,-1

class Word:
def __init__(self):
self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
self.app.Visible = 1
self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0
def open(self,doc):
self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc)
def removewatermark(self):
self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 # wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()
self.app.Selection.Delete()
self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0 #wdSeekMainDocument
</code>


Thanks,

Greg

--
Gregory Pi?ero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
(www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)
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import sys
import os
from win32com.client import gencache, constants
WORD='Word.Application'
False,True=0,-1

class Word:
    def __init__(self):
        self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
        self.app.Visible = 1
        self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0
    def open(self,doc):
        self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc) 
    def removewatermark(self):
        self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
        self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 # wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
        self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()
        self.app.Selection.Delete()
        self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0 #wdSeekMainDocument 



From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Sat Nov  5 20:09:16 2005
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 06:09:16 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark
 not	working
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>
	<312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <436D035C.5080001@lexicon.net>

Gregory Pi?ero wrote:

> 
> Would anyone happen to know why this my function removewatermark() in 
> this code isn't working?  I copied it from a Word macro I recorded and 
> it did work when I recorded the macro.  When I run it the watermark 
> doesn't go away.
> 
> I've also attached the code in case the formatting gets messed up from 
> the email.
> 
> 
> <code>
> import sys
> import os
> from win32com.client import gencache, constants

Idle curiosity: why import constants but not use it?

> WORD='Word.Application'
> False,True=0,-1
> 
> class Word:
>     def __init__(self):
>         self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
>         self.app.Visible = 1
>         self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0

What does this do? Suppress any warnings?

>     def open(self,doc):
>         self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc)
>     def removewatermark(self):
>         self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
>         self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 # 
> wdSeekCurrentPageHeader

... the cause of the "idle curiosity" question.

>         
> self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()

Have you tried inspecting self.app.Selection before and after the 
attempt to .Delete() it?

>         self.app.Selection.Delete()
>         self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0 
> #wdSeekMainDocument
> </code>
> 

How do you know it didn't work?

Your class and its methods don't have any problems that I can see -- 
but it's early here and I'm not quite awake. Is it possible for you to 
show us the few lines of code that you actually used to test this? You 
know, something like:

wc = Word()
wc.open("myfile.doc")
wc.removewatermark()
# then what?

Cheers,
John


From gregpinero at gmail.com  Sat Nov  5 21:15:40 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 15:15:40 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark
	not working
In-Reply-To: <436D035C.5080001@lexicon.net>
References: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>
	<312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>
	<436D035C.5080001@lexicon.net>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511051215w695b6b55h2a68073c1a6026e@mail.gmail.com>

See below:

On 11/5/05, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
>
> >
> > Would anyone happen to know why this my function removewatermark() in
> > this code isn't working? I copied it from a Word macro I recorded and
> > it did work when I recorded the macro. When I run it the watermark
> > doesn't go away.
> >
> > I've also attached the code in case the formatting gets messed up from
> > the email.
> >
> >
> > <code>
> > import sys
> > import os
> > from win32com.client import gencache, constants
>
> Idle curiosity: why import constants but not use it?


It was giving me errors when I tried to use the constants so I stopped using
them. A future question perhaps...

> WORD='Word.Application'
> > False,True=0,-1
> >
> > class Word:
> > def __init__(self):
> > self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
> > self.app.Visible = 1
> > self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0
>
> What does this do? Suppress any warnings?


That is correct.

> def open(self,doc):
> > self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc)
> > def removewatermark(self):
> > self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
> > self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 #
> > wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
>
> ... the cause of the "idle curiosity" question.


This doesn't bother me much to write out numbers.

>
> > self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes
> ("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()
>
> Have you tried inspecting self.app.Selection before and after the
> attempt to .Delete() it?


What do you mean by inspect?

> self.app.Selection.Delete()
> > self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0
> > #wdSeekMainDocument
> > </code>
> >
>
> How do you know it didn't work?


Well I run my code, word opens the file, other changes happen, but the
watermark doesn't dissapear.

Your class and its methods don't have any problems that I can see --
> but it's early here and I'm not quite awake. Is it possible for you to
> show us the few lines of code that you actually used to test this? You
> know, something like:
>
> wc = Word()
> wc.open("myfile.doc")
> wc.removewatermark()
> # then what?


Something like this:

word=Word()
word.open("myfile.doc")
word.replace("[Sender]","Bill Brown") #replace a word
word.removewatermark()
word.printdoc(numcopies=3) #prints, works fine
word.close() #closes doc
word.quit() #shuts down word

I only included the relevant parts of this class. So you see some methods
above that aren't in my class. I guess I should have included the whole
class, sorry. Now I can't get back to that code until Tuesday :-(
But all of the methods work fine except for removewatermark.



--
Gregory Pi?ero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
(www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)
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From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Sun Nov  6 01:25:18 2005
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 11:25:18 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark
 not working
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511051215w695b6b55h2a68073c1a6026e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>	
	<312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>	
	<436D035C.5080001@lexicon.net>
	<312cfe2b0511051215w695b6b55h2a68073c1a6026e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <436D4D6E.2060406@lexicon.net>

Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> See below:
> 
> On 11/5/05, *John Machin* <sjmachin at lexicon.net 
> <mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > Would anyone happen to know why this my function removewatermark() in
>      > this code isn't working?  I copied it from a Word macro I
>     recorded and
>      > it did work when I recorded the macro.  When I run it the watermark
>      > doesn't go away.
>      >
>      > I've also attached the code in case the formatting gets messed up
>     from
>      > the email.
>      >
>      >
>      > <code>
>      > import sys
>      > import os
>      > from win32com.client import gencache, constants
> 
>     Idle curiosity: why import constants but not use it?
> 
> 
> It was giving me errors when I tried to use the constants so I stopped 
> using them.  A future question perhaps...
> 
>      > WORD='Word.Application'
>      > False,True=0,-1
>      >
>      > class Word:
>      >     def __init__(self):
>      >         self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
>      >         self.app.Visible = 1
>      >         self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0
> 
>     What does this do? Suppress any warnings?
> 
> 
> That is correct.

Try unsuppressing warnings. You may learn something.


>  
> 
>      >     def open(self,doc):
>      >         self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc)
>      >     def removewatermark(self):
>      >         self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
>      >         self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 #
>      > wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
> 
>     ... the cause of the "idle curiosity" question. 
> 
> 
> This doesn't bother me much to write out numbers.

It mightn't bother you. Seeing hard-coded magic numbers bothers the 
bejasus out of many people.

> 
>      >
>      >
>     self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()
> 
> 
>     Have you tried inspecting self.app.Selection before and after the
>     attempt to .Delete() it?
> 
> 
> What do you mean by inspect?

It is an object. It must have some properties that you can retrieve and 
display so that you have some reassurance that you've actually got the 
object you think you've got.



> 
>      >         self.app.Selection.Delete()

What happens if you try foo.Delete() and foo is 
frozen/write-protected/whatever?


>      >         self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0
>      > #wdSeekMainDocument
>      > </code>
>      >
> 
>     How do you know it didn't work?
> 
> 
> Well I run my code, word opens the file, other changes happen, but the 
> watermark doesn't dissapear.
> 
>     Your class and its methods don't have any problems that I can see --
>     but it's early here and I'm not quite awake. Is it possible for you to
>     show us the few lines of code that you actually used to test this? You
>     know, something like:
> 
>     wc = Word()
>     wc.open("myfile.doc")
>     wc.removewatermark()
>     # then what?
> 
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> word=Word()
> word.open("myfile.doc")
> word.replace("[Sender]","Bill Brown") #replace a word
> word.removewatermark()
> word.printdoc(numcopies=3) #prints, works fine
> word.close() #closes doc
> word.quit() #shuts down word
>  
> I only included the relevant parts of this class. So you see some 
> methods above that aren't in my class.  I guess I should have included 
> the whole class, sorry.  Now I can't get back to that code until Tuesday :-(
> But all of the methods work fine except for removewatermark.
> 

We're not interested in the parts of your class that are irrelevant to 
the problem. If by Tuesday, no-one has been able to help you by 
inspecting the code that you have shown so far, considering doing this:

1. Make up a *small* .doc file with your watermark in it. Make it from 
scratch i.e. don't copy an existing file and delete your proprietary 
info -- it may not actually be deleted.
2. Assemble the *minimal* Python script that demonstrates the problem.
3. Send it to this mailing list. Include in your message which version 
of (a) Python (2) win32com (3) MS Word (4) MS Windows you are using.

HTH,
John

From gregpinero at gmail.com  Sun Nov  6 04:32:27 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:32:27 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Pythonwin - Word automation - Removing watermark
	not working
In-Reply-To: <436D4D6E.2060406@lexicon.net>
References: <312cfe2b0511031655x22c866cdj8bd213d4d3be4ea7@mail.gmail.com>
	<312cfe2b0511050929u410f4266gcb280a149b97d1d0@mail.gmail.com>
	<436D035C.5080001@lexicon.net>
	<312cfe2b0511051215w695b6b55h2a68073c1a6026e@mail.gmail.com>
	<436D4D6E.2060406@lexicon.net>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511051932i67f9f5e7sa32969661f3ff91f@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, John. I'll try your ideas on Tuesday and see what happens. They
sound promising. If I'm still having problems I'll try sending a sample word
file like you said.

-Greg


On 11/5/05, John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> wrote:
>
> Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> > See below:
> >
> > On 11/5/05, *John Machin* <sjmachin at lexicon.net
> > <mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net>> wrote:
> >
> > Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Would anyone happen to know why this my function removewatermark() in
> > > this code isn't working? I copied it from a Word macro I
> > recorded and
> > > it did work when I recorded the macro. When I run it the watermark
> > > doesn't go away.
> > >
> > > I've also attached the code in case the formatting gets messed up
> > from
> > > the email.
> > >
> > >
> > > <code>
> > > import sys
> > > import os
> > > from win32com.client import gencache, constants
> >
> > Idle curiosity: why import constants but not use it?
> >
> >
> > It was giving me errors when I tried to use the constants so I stopped
> > using them. A future question perhaps...
> >
> > > WORD='Word.Application'
> > > False,True=0,-1
> > >
> > > class Word:
> > > def __init__(self):
> > > self.app=gencache.EnsureDispatch(WORD)
> > > self.app.Visible = 1
> > > self.app.DisplayAlerts = 0
> >
> > What does this do? Suppress any warnings?
> >
> >
> > That is correct.
>
> Try unsuppressing warnings. You may learn something.
>
>
> >
> >
> > > def open(self,doc):
> > > self.app.Documents.Open(FileName=doc)
> > > def removewatermark(self):
> > > self.app.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Range.Select()
> > > self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 9 #
> > > wdSeekCurrentPageHeader
> >
> > ... the cause of the "idle curiosity" question.
> >
> >
> > This doesn't bother me much to write out numbers.
>
> It mightn't bother you. Seeing hard-coded magic numbers bothers the
> bejasus out of many people.
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > self.app.Selection.HeaderFooter.Shapes
> ("PowerPlusWaterMarkObject1").Select()
> >
> >
> > Have you tried inspecting self.app.Selection before and after the
> > attempt to .Delete() it?
> >
> >
> > What do you mean by inspect?
>
> It is an object. It must have some properties that you can retrieve and
> display so that you have some reassurance that you've actually got the
> object you think you've got.
>
>
>
> >
> > > self.app.Selection.Delete()
>
> What happens if you try foo.Delete() and foo is
> frozen/write-protected/whatever?
>
>
> > > self.app.ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.SeekView = 0
> > > #wdSeekMainDocument
> > > </code>
> > >
> >
> > How do you know it didn't work?
> >
> >
> > Well I run my code, word opens the file, other changes happen, but the
> > watermark doesn't dissapear.
> >
> > Your class and its methods don't have any problems that I can see --
> > but it's early here and I'm not quite awake. Is it possible for you to
> > show us the few lines of code that you actually used to test this? You
> > know, something like:
> >
> > wc = Word()
> > wc.open("myfile.doc")
> > wc.removewatermark()
> > # then what?
> >
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> > word=Word()
> > word.open("myfile.doc")
> > word.replace("[Sender]","Bill Brown") #replace a word
> > word.removewatermark()
> > word.printdoc(numcopies=3) #prints, works fine
> > word.close() #closes doc
> > word.quit() #shuts down word
> >
> > I only included the relevant parts of this class. So you see some
> > methods above that aren't in my class. I guess I should have included
> > the whole class, sorry. Now I can't get back to that code until Tuesday
> :-(
> > But all of the methods work fine except for removewatermark.
> >
>
> We're not interested in the parts of your class that are irrelevant to
> the problem. If by Tuesday, no-one has been able to help you by
> inspecting the code that you have shown so far, considering doing this:
>
> 1. Make up a *small* .doc file with your watermark in it. Make it from
> scratch i.e. don't copy an existing file and delete your proprietary
> info -- it may not actually be deleted.
> 2. Assemble the *minimal* Python script that demonstrates the problem.
> 3. Send it to this mailing list. Include in your message which version
> of (a) Python (2) win32com (3) MS Word (4) MS Windows you are using.
>
> HTH,
> John
>



--
Gregory Pi?ero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
(www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)
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From avl at cad.ru  Sun Nov  6 15:47:59 2005
From: avl at cad.ru (Alexey Lubimov)
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:47:59 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] com_error wrong conversation from python sequense
 (float, float, float)  to Variant (double, double, double)
Message-ID: <436E179F.9070207@cad.ru>


- testcase begin ----------------------

import win32com.client

acad=win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application.16")
ms=acad.ActiveDocument.ModelSpace

point = win32com.client.CastTo(ms.Item(0), "IAcadPoint") # get iterface
coord = point.Coordinates

# some debug information
print "Object Summary - type numeric: %d, type name: %s, coordinates: 
%s" % (point.EntityType,point.EntityName,coord)


point.Coordinates=coord # Trouble!

- testcase end ---------------------------

- output begin --------------------------

Object Summary - type numeric: 22, type name: AcDbPoint, coordinates: 
(-33.414681873609801, 243.83545432672364, 0.0)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", 
line 307, in RunScript
    debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0)
  File 
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\__init__.py", 
line 60, in run
    _GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping)
  File 
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\debugger.py", 
line 631, in run
    exec cmd in globals, locals
  File "C:\decoder\Convert\testcase.py", line 13, in ?
    point.Coordinates=point.Coordinates
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
463, in __setattr__
    self._oleobj_.Invoke(*(args + (value,) + defArgs))
com_error: (-2147352567, 'error', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), 
None)

-  output end -------------------------------------------------

Any idea?




From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Nov  7 09:36:57 2005
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 08:36:57 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Installation issues....
Message-ID: <9A28C052FF32734DACB0A288A3533991044D22F2@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[John Augustine]

> I am trying to install Python 2.4.2 on my XP laptop
> using the MS installer
> (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/python-2.4.2.msi)
> and I get this error message when I run it:

> The cabinet file "python" required for this
> installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could
>< indicate network error or problem with the package.

No consolation, I'm sure, but I recently installed exactly
the same version on my XP desktop (SP2, in case it matters)
without problems. Have you tried ActiveState? They're only
on 2.4.1, but unless you're after a particular bugfix I
doubt it'll matter. At least it's a different packaging.

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/

TJG

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From fepeacock at bulldoghome.com  Mon Nov  7 16:34:01 2005
From: fepeacock at bulldoghome.com (Frank Peacock)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:34:01 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] VBScript compilation error - expected end of
	statement
Message-ID: <JIENJFLOCNHLBIPCKGAJOEGFCMAA.fepeacock@bulldoghome.com>

Hello

I am running a python script which calls an ESRI ArcGIS COM function called
calculatefield. If the text variable I pass to this function is longer than
10 characters I get the following error: "Microsoft VBScript compilation
error - expected end of statement". I do not know what I need to do to solve
this problem. I have installed the latest WSH 5.6 but to no avail.

The following is my code:

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
# Create Time Field.py
# Created on: Sun Nov 06 2005 11:37:26 PM
#   (generated by ArcGIS/ModelBuilder)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-

# Import system modules
import sys, string, os, win32com.client

# Create the Geoprocessor object
gp = win32com.client.Dispatch("esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1")
gp.SetProduct("ArcView")

# Load required toolboxes...
gp.AddToolbox("C:/Program Files/ArcGIS/ArcToolbox/Toolboxes/Data Management
Tools.tbx")

# Local variables...
gp.workspace = "C:\\GIS_DATA\\Satellite\\CLAUS\\I2-235\\"

try:
    fas=gp.ListFeatureClasses("*","POLYGON")
    fas.reset()
    fa=fas.next()
    while fa:
        text=fa[0:11]
        print text
        # Process: Calculate Field...
        gp.CalculateField_management(fa, "Time", text)
        fa=fas.next()
except:
    gp.AddMessage(gp.GetMessages(2))
    print gp.GetMessages(2)


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From eric.powell at srs.gov  Mon Nov  7 17:50:57 2005
From: eric.powell at srs.gov (eric.powell@srs.gov)
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:50:57 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] VBScript compilation error - expected end
	of	statement
In-Reply-To: <JIENJFLOCNHLBIPCKGAJOEGFCMAA.fepeacock@bulldoghome.com>
Message-ID: <OF1E9B2B34.0A7EE7EF-ON852570B2.005C3AF9-852570B2.005C8E97@srs.gov>

Frank-

How are you trying to run the script?

Are you trying to use a front-end through ArcTool box, running it from the 
command line, or running it in PythonWin?

All three should be roughly equivalent, however, it sounds like you trying 
to Access the script the Toolbox or Model Builder and ArcGIS is 
interpreting the script as being a VBScript and not python.

Send me a private e-mail and we can discuss this some more (and I will 
bring my training materials to the office tommorrow), but I don' t think 
this is an issue for the general list, as it is an ESRI issue and not a 
Python issue.

HTH-

Eric

Eric B. Powell
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Hello

I am running a python script which calls an ESRI ArcGIS COM function 
called
calculatefield. If the text variable I pass to this function is longer 
than
10 characters I get the following error: "Microsoft VBScript compilation
error - expected end of statement". I do not know what I need to do to 
solve
this problem. I have installed the latest WSH 5.6 but to no avail.

The following is my code:

# 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
# Create Time Field.py
# Created on: Sun Nov 06 2005 11:37:26 PM
#   (generated by ArcGIS/ModelBuilder)
# 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-

# Import system modules
import sys, string, os, win32com.client

# Create the Geoprocessor object
gp = win32com.client.Dispatch("esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1")
gp.SetProduct("ArcView")

# Load required toolboxes...
gp.AddToolbox("C:/Program Files/ArcGIS/ArcToolbox/Toolboxes/Data 
Management
Tools.tbx")

# Local variables...
gp.workspace = "C:\\GIS_DATA\\Satellite\\CLAUS\\I2-235\\"

try:
    fas=gp.ListFeatureClasses("*","POLYGON")
    fas.reset()
    fa=fas.next()
    while fa:
        text=fa[0:11]
        print text
        # Process: Calculate Field...
        gp.CalculateField_management(fa, "Time", text)
        fa=fas.next()
except:
    gp.AddMessage(gp.GetMessages(2))
    print gp.GetMessages(2)


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From mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au  Tue Nov  8 03:14:10 2005
From: mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au (Michael Johnstone)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 13:14:10 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] com error
Message-ID: <20051108021410.42557.qmail@web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi

I was hoping to get some help trouble shooting the
following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 310, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File
"C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
line 103, in ?
    Sensor(1)
  File
"C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
line 100, in Sensor
    grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(num, sh, listval, errors)#,
CID, SID)
  File
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\F5F1FC84-DB0B-11D3-883B-0050041DD057x0x1x0.py",
line 302, in SyncWrite
    , ServerHandles, Values, Errors)
  File
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
    return self._get_good_object_(
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), None)


This is occuring whenever I try to use a method of a
COM object. If I use VB this method doesn't fail.

Thanks in advance for any help
mike


		
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov  8 04:11:15 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:11:15 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <20051108021410.42557.qmail@web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNCEEAIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
>     return self._get_good_object_(
> com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), None)

The second value in that error tuple is the error code provided by the
object.  It didn't bother to fill in a message, but we can get one if it is
a standard COM error:

>>> pythoncom.GetScodeString(-2147024809)
'The parameter is incorrect.'
>>>

I'm not sure why it is throwing that specific error.  I guess it may be
"default params".  Try passing explicit values for all params - explicitly
pass pythoncom.Missing for ones you don't know the correct value for (the
win32com framework will currently be passing pythoncom.Empty for them - the
difference is subtle, but some objects are very picky about which one you
choose (basically, 'Empty' means an empty param will be supplied to the
object, whereas 'Missing' will tell pythoncom to not present that argument
at all))

Mark


From graham.bloice at trihedral.com  Tue Nov  8 09:28:15 2005
From: graham.bloice at trihedral.com (Graham Bloice)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:28:15 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <20051108021410.42557.qmail@web33607.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <HHELKAFKNIPBHCKKLBJOOEMNLGAA.graham.bloice@trihedral.com>

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 310, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File
> "C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
> line 103, in ?
>     Sensor(1)
>   File
> "C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
> line 100, in Sensor
>     grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(num, sh, listval, errors)#,
> CID, SID)
>   File
> "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\F5F1FC84-DB0B-11D3-
> 883B-0050041DD057x0x1x0.py",
> line 302, in SyncWrite
>     , ServerHandles, Values, Errors)
>   File
> "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
>     return self._get_good_object_(
> com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), None)
>
>

Have you set errors to be an empty list before the call ?

Graham


From Ola.Rylow at hiq.se  Tue Nov  8 14:35:26 2005
From: Ola.Rylow at hiq.se (Ola Rylow)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:35:26 +0100 
Subject: [python-win32] Reading custom output parameters from
	LabVIEW/Acti	veX
Message-ID: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A099DB007@mail.kebne.se>

By using pythoncom.Missing, which I read about in another thread, I got a
LabVIEW error message instead:
    return self._get_good_object_(
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (5002, 'LabVIEW',
'LabVIEW : paramVals type mismatch. Expected 1D array of variants.', None,
0, 0), None)

So the new question is: how do you create a 1D array of variants in python?
>From what I've read this is normally handled behind the scenes by
PythonCom...?


/Ola

From mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au  Tue Nov  8 23:25:42 2005
From: mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au (Michael Johnstone)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:25:42 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <HHELKAFKNIPBHCKKLBJOOEMNLGAA.graham.bloice@trihedral.com>
Message-ID: <20051108222542.59387.qmail@web33605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Graham Bloice <graham.bloice at trihedral.com> wrote:

> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File
> >
>
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> > line 310, in RunScript
> >     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
> >   File
> >
>
"C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
> > line 103, in ?
> >     Sensor(1)
> >   File
> >
>
"C:\Deneb\BHSS\Projects\AKL_0502\VC\PythonApplications\OPCWriteTestor.py",
> > line 100, in Sensor
> >     grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(num, sh, listval,
> errors)#,
> > CID, SID)
> >   File
> >
>
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\F5F1FC84-DB0B-11D3-
> > 883B-0050041DD057x0x1x0.py",
> > line 302, in SyncWrite
> >     , ServerHandles, Values, Errors)
> >   File
> >
>
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> > line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
> >     return self._get_good_object_(
> > com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.',
> (0,
> > None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), None)
> >
> >
> 
> Have you set errors to be an empty list before the
> call ?
> 
> Graham
> 
> 

Yes I have tried errors as an empty list and array
without success. I have also tried to use
pythoncom.missing as this argument.

cheers
Mike


		
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov  8 23:31:55 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:31:55 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Reading custom output parameters
	fromLabVIEW/Acti	veX
In-Reply-To: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A099DB007@mail.kebne.se>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEMNIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> So the new question is: how do you create a 1D array of variants
> in python?
> >From what I've read this is normally handled behind the scenes by
> PythonCom...?

That's correct - just pass a list or tuple.  However, that is rarely the
complete answer - what *type* of variant should be in the array?  Since you
only received this error when you changed to Missing, it appears LabView
*is* seeing the real param as an array of variants, as it does not return
this specific error.

Sadly there is no easy way to explicitly specify the exact variant type,
other than using InvokeTypes.

Mark


From mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au  Tue Nov  8 23:59:18 2005
From: mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au (Michael Johnstone)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:59:18 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNCEEAIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <20051108225918.42976.qmail@web33614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> >
>
"C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> > line 446, in _ApplyTypes_
> >     return self._get_good_object_(
> > com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.',
> (0,
> > None, None, None, 0, -2147024809), None)
> 
> The second value in that error tuple is the error
> code provided by the
> object.  It didn't bother to fill in a message, but
> we can get one if it is
> a standard COM error:
> 
> >>> pythoncom.GetScodeString(-2147024809)
> 'The parameter is incorrect.'
> >>>
> 
> I'm not sure why it is throwing that specific error.
>  I guess it may be
> "default params".  Try passing explicit values for
> all params - explicitly
> pass pythoncom.Missing for ones you don't know the
> correct value for (the
> win32com framework will currently be passing
> pythoncom.Empty for them - the
> difference is subtle, but some objects are very
> picky about which one you
> choose (basically, 'Empty' means an empty param will
> be supplied to the
> object, whereas 'Missing' will tell pythoncom to not
> present that argument
> at all))
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
Hi Mark

Not sure if I got what you suggested correct. The
method I am trying to use is defined as:

def SyncWrite(self, NumItems=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
ServerHandles=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
Values=defaultNamedNotOptArg),
Errors=pythoncom.Missing):

I have tried calling this different ways:
grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num, ServerHandles=sh,
Values=listval, Errors=errors)
grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num, ServerHandles=sh,
Values=listval, Errors=pythoncom.Missing)

I still get the same error.  I have also tried using
arrays and lists for the variables but these don"t
seem to make a difference>

cheers
michael


		
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Nov  9 00:32:55 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:32:55 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <20051108225918.42976.qmail@web33614.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNCENEIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> Hi Mark
>
> Not sure if I got what you suggested correct. The
> method I am trying to use is defined as:
>
> def SyncWrite(self, NumItems=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> ServerHandles=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> Values=defaultNamedNotOptArg),
> Errors=pythoncom.Missing):

There appears to be an extra close paren there...

> I have tried calling this different ways:
> grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num, ServerHandles=sh,
> Values=listval, Errors=errors)
> grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num, ServerHandles=sh,
> Values=listval, Errors=pythoncom.Missing)

Try pythoncom.Empty too.  You should find from the decls at the top of the
generated file that 'defaultNamedNotOptArg' is actually pythoncom.Empty -
and that is what I assumed would be used for 'Errors'.  It appears however
that pythoncom.Missing is *already* being used for that param.

Sadly though, this may be a red herring, and the problem may be related to
the types of the other params.  Without more useful info from the object
itself, it is very hard to speculate.

Mark


From mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au  Wed Nov  9 02:06:08 2005
From: mpjoh1977 at yahoo.com.au (Michael Johnstone)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:06:08 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] com error
In-Reply-To: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNCENEIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <20051109010608.99481.qmail@web33609.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


--- Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> > Hi Mark
> >
> > Not sure if I got what you suggested correct. The
> > method I am trying to use is defined as:
> >
> > def SyncWrite(self,
> NumItems=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> > ServerHandles=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> > Values=defaultNamedNotOptArg),
> > Errors=pythoncom.Missing):
> 
> There appears to be an extra close paren there...
> 
> > I have tried calling this different ways:
> > grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num,
> ServerHandles=sh,
> > Values=listval, Errors=errors)
> > grpPinWheel.SyncWrite(NumItems=num,
> ServerHandles=sh,
> > Values=listval, Errors=pythoncom.Missing)
> 
> Try pythoncom.Empty too.  You should find from the
> decls at the top of the
> generated file that 'defaultNamedNotOptArg' is
> actually pythoncom.Empty -
> and that is what I assumed would be used for
> 'Errors'.  It appears however
> that pythoncom.Missing is *already* being used for
> that param.
> 
> Sadly though, this may be a red herring, and the
> problem may be related to
> the types of the other params.  Without more useful
> info from the object
> itself, it is very hard to speculate.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
I am using arrays for two for of the variables. If I
append the item in the array twice it seems to solve
the problem, so it looks like the com object is
indexing arrays from 1 rather than 0.

cheers
Michael


		
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Nov  9 02:36:57 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:36:57 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Bug in pythoncom.CoInitialize(Ex)
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNEEOGIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

There is a subtle bug in CoInitialize and CoInitializeEx.  I'd like some
feedback on how to best fix it.

The problem is that error results from these functions are not reported
correctly.  This is best demonstrated by example:

--- coinit.py ---
import thread, time
import pythoncom

def wtf():
    pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(0)
    pythoncom.CoInitialize()
    # Uncomment the next line to see the error ignored.
    #getattr(pythoncom, "foo", None)
    if type(0) in [int, str]:
        pass

thread.start_new(wtf, ())
time.sleep(0.5)

--- end ---

Running this as it stands yields:

Unhandled exception in thread started by <function wtf at 0x008EF458>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "coinit.py", line 9, in wtf
    if type(0) in [int, str]:
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147417850, 'Cannot change thread mode after it is
set.', None, None)

Note that the traceback does *not* point at the CoInit calls - it points at
the 'if' statement.  This also means an exception handler around the CoInit
call fails to catch the error.

If you uncomment the line indicated, the error is completely ignored - the
"getattr" for a non-existing attribute internally masks the "pending" error
set by pythoncom.CoInitialize().

I can see the underlying problem that causes this.  My concern is how to fix
with without breaking code, as there may be code out there today that is
managing to mask this error.  Interestingly though, a thread that calls
CoInit then immediately calls win32com.client.Dispatch *will* see the
error - but as in my example, the traceback will point at the wrong place.
I suspect that many people calling CoInit from a thread *will* immediately
call win32com.client.Dispatch, so I would be quite surprised if it would
break things.

What I propose is that I change CoInitialize() to ignore this specific
RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE error.  My reasoning is that people calling
CoInitialize() don't care about the threading model - all they want is to be
able to use a COM object from their thread.  However, I think
CoInitializeEx() should always raise an exception on error return, including
for that specific error.  My reasoning is that people explicitly calling
CoInitializeEx(thread_model) *do* care about the threading model, and may
take great interest in the fact the thread has already been initialized
differently.  If it is prepared to work in a different threading model, it
just needs to catch the exception.

Does anyone have any comments?

Thanks,

Mark


From upadhyay at gmail.com  Wed Nov  9 07:42:44 2005
From: upadhyay at gmail.com (Amit Upadhyay)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:12:44 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] COM object has been seperated from its underlying
	RCW cannot be used.
Message-ID: <349edb380511082242u6e549a19p292b4d9b39cbd23d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am getting a crash with message: "COM object has been seperated from its
underlying RCW cannot be used.", when using a COM server written in win32com
and being accessed by .NET client. I have win2k-sp3 on that machine, and its
not very reproducable. I get no results on msdn about this message, and
can't locate any informaiton about how to solve it via google either, just
that it is somehow related to threading. Can anyone tell me how to go about
solving it?

Thanks,

--
Amit Upadhyay
Blog: http://www.rootshell.be/~upadhyay
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From gagenellina at softlab.com.ar  Wed Nov  9 09:59:57 2005
From: gagenellina at softlab.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:59:57 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] Bug in pythoncom.CoInitialize(Ex)
In-Reply-To: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNEEOGIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
References: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNEEOGIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051109055614.03c1ac60@192.168.0.115>

At Tuesday 8/11/2005 22:36, Mark Hammond wrote:

>What I propose is that I change CoInitialize() to ignore this specific
>RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE error.  My reasoning is that people calling
>CoInitialize() don't care about the threading model - all they want is to be
>able to use a COM object from their thread.  However, I think
>CoInitializeEx() should always raise an exception on error return, including
>for that specific error.  My reasoning is that people explicitly calling
>CoInitializeEx(thread_model) *do* care about the threading model, and may
>take great interest in the fact the thread has already been initialized
>differently.  If it is prepared to work in a different threading model, it
>just needs to catch the exception.

I think these are reasonable asumptions so it's unlikely you would break 
existing code. None mine, FWIW.


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


From gagenellina at softlab.com.ar  Wed Nov  9 10:14:54 2005
From: gagenellina at softlab.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:14:54 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] COM object has been seperated from its
 underlying RCW cannot be used.
In-Reply-To: <349edb380511082242u6e549a19p292b4d9b39cbd23d@mail.gmail.co
 m>
References: <349edb380511082242u6e549a19p292b4d9b39cbd23d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051109061155.03c18b50@192.168.0.115>

At Wednesday 9/11/2005 03:42, Amit Upadhyay wrote:

>I am getting a crash with message: "COM object has been seperated from its 
>underlying RCW cannot be used.", when using a COM server written in 
>win32com and being accessed by .NET client. I have win2k-sp3 on that 
>machine, and its not very reproducable. I get no results on msdn about 
>this message, and can't locate any informaiton about how to solve it via 
>google either, just that it is somehow related to threading. Can anyone 
>tell me how to go about solving it?

Perhaps updating your .NET would help: 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;818612
An explanation of the problem:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105852/stories/2002/12/21/comInteropNotFundamentallyFlawedButHard.html


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


From wccppp at gmail.com  Wed Nov  9 19:04:01 2005
From: wccppp at gmail.com (wccppp)
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 08:04:01 -1000
Subject: [python-win32] COM - respond to other application's event
Message-ID: <87bd46aa0511091004i3c61c32fmd476a2d0f7f33a9e@mail.gmail.com>

Hello group,

I'm a beginner learning Python. Trying to automate AutoCAD. What I wanted to
know is how to receive event fired by the AutoCAD application. When a
drawing opening process is done, the application will fire an event EndOpen.
In VBA, I know how to catch and respond to this event. But do not know how
to accomplish it with Python.

import win32com.client
acad = win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
acad.Visible = True
acad.WindowState = 3
doc = acad.Documents.Open(r"C:\Drawings\test.dwg")
print ("Drawing opened.")

 <python-win32 at python.org>Thanks for your time and help,

--

Regards,
- wcc
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Nov 10 06:57:27 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:57:27 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM - respond to other application's event
In-Reply-To: <87bd46aa0511091004i3c61c32fmd476a2d0f7f33a9e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNGEKGIBAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

Check out DispatchWithEvents

>>> import win32com.client
>>> help(win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents)

Mark
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of wccppp
  Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 5:04 AM
  To: python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] COM - respond to other application's event


  Hello group,

  I'm a beginner learning Python.  Trying to automate AutoCAD.  What I
wanted to know is how to receive event fired by the AutoCAD application.
When a drawing opening process is done, the application will fire an event
EndOpen.  In VBA, I know how to catch and respond to this event.  But do not
know how to accomplish it with Python.

  import win32com.client
  acad = win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
  acad.Visible = True
  acad.WindowState = 3
  doc = acad.Documents.Open(r"C:\Drawings\test.dwg")
  print ("Drawing opened.")

  Thanks for your time and help,

  --

  Regards,
  - wcc

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Nov 10 06:57:27 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:57:27 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] n00b problems accessing Outlook
In-Reply-To: <B7432F9DDB12A840AB043529D7D384DA029DD3A0@rrc-dte-exs01.dte.telcordia.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNIEKGIBAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

MessageSorry for the delay!  I think you may find this is a problem with
pywin32 on Python 2.4.  I'll look at it as I find time, but for now, try
Python 2.3.

Mark
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of McBurnett, Roe D
  Sent: Friday, 4 November 2005 8:40 AM
  To: python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] n00b problems accessing Outlook


  Hi People,

  I am new to Python, just installed the ActivePython 2.4.1 and downloaded
pywin32-205.win32-py2.4.exe.

  I executed the provided demo application outlookAddin.py and got the
following error message:
    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos\outlookAddin.py",
line 38,in ?
        gencache.EnsureModule('{2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-00AA0044DE52}', 0,
2, 1, bForDemand=True) # Office 9
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
407, in EnsureModule
        module = GetModuleForTypelib(typelibCLSID, tlbAttr[1], tlbAttr[3],
tlbAttr[4])
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
258, in GetModuleForTypelib
        mod = _GetModule(modName)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
629, in _GetModule
        mod = __import__(mod_name)
      File
"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-00AA0
044DE52x0x2x2\__init__.py", line 1691
    win32com.client.constants.__dicts__.append(constants.__dict__)
        ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
  I edited the
"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-00AA0
044DE52x0x2x2\__init__.py" file to remove a few comment lines and
re-executed with the following results:
    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin
    Registered: Python.Test.OutlookAddin
  So I followed the instructions in the module:
    # To debug, execute:
    #   outlookAddin.py --debug
    #
    # Then open Pythonwin, and select "Tools->Trace Collector Debugging
Tool"
    # Restart Outlook, and you should see some output generated.
  With these results:
    C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos>outlookAddin --debug
    Registered: Python.Test.OutlookAddin (for debugging)
  When I opened Pythonwin, and selected the Trace collector Debugging Tool
and restarted Outlook I got this in the Python Trace Collector Window:
    # This window will display output from any programs that import
win32traceutil
    # win32com servers registered with '--debug' are in this category.
    Object with win32trace dispatcher created (object=None)
    pythoncom error: Failed to call the universal dispatcher

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\universal.py", line 177,
in dispatch
        retVal = ob._InvokeEx_(meth.dispid, 0, meth.invkind, args, None,
None)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
332, in _InvokeEx_
        return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs,
serviceProvider)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
653, in _invokeex_
        args, kwArgs = self._transform_args_(args, kwArgs, dispid, lcid,
wFlags, serviceProvider)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
640, in _transform_args_
        arg = win32com.client.Dispatch(arg)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
96, in Dispatch
        return __WrapDispatch(dispatch, userName, resultCLSID, typeinfo,
UnicodeToString, clsctx)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
38, in __WrapDispatch
        klass = gencache.GetClassForCLSID(resultCLSID)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
179, in GetClassForCLSID
        mod = GetModuleForCLSID(clsid)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
232, in GetModuleForCLSID
        __import__(sub_mod_name)
    exceptions.SyntaxError: invalid syntax (_Application.py, line 87)
    pythoncom error: Unexpected gateway error

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\universal.py", line 177,
in dispatch
        retVal = ob._InvokeEx_(meth.dispid, 0, meth.invkind, args, None,
None)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
332, in _InvokeEx_
        return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs,
serviceProvider)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
653, in _invokeex_
        args, kwArgs = self._transform_args_(args, kwArgs, dispid, lcid,
wFlags, serviceProvider)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
640, in _transform_args_
        arg = win32com.client.Dispatch(arg)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
96, in Dispatch
        return __WrapDispatch(dispatch, userName, resultCLSID, typeinfo,
UnicodeToString, clsctx)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
38, in __WrapDispatch
        klass = gencache.GetClassForCLSID(resultCLSID)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
179, in GetClassForCLSID
        mod = GetModuleForCLSID(clsid)
      File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
232, in GetModuleForCLSID
        __import__(sub_mod_name)
    exceptions.SyntaxError: invalid syntax (_Application.py, line 87)
  Can anyone shed any light on what is going on?

  Thanks
  -Roe McBurnett
  rdm2ATmcburnettDOTorg
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From kshepitzki at yahoo.com  Thu Nov 10 23:35:04 2005
From: kshepitzki at yahoo.com (Gary Kshepitzki)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:35:04 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] COM server with events
Message-ID: <BAY112-DAV120633CF9ED28263F60573C8660@phx.gbl>

Hi
I am trying to implement a COM server in python that supports events.
I went over the available documentation, I looked in the example in win32com/demos/connect.py (which mixes client and server too much) and still I find it hard to understand what I need to do.
I am looking for a complete, straight forward example (templatish if you will) that shows how to implement a full COM server with an event interface and an event.

In particular I don't understand how to define an EventInterface in my server that can be retrived by FindConnectionPoint()
and getting mixed up on what needs to be implemented for supporting the ConnectionPointContainer and ConnectionPoint interfaces.

Anyone can point me to something?
Regards
G.
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From mark.mclarnon at gmail.com  Sat Nov 12 00:54:34 2005
From: mark.mclarnon at gmail.com (mark mclarnon)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:54:34 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Pipe output of tethereal to python
Message-ID: <253738580511111554l407671cam342f5ec1d60a678f@mail.gmail.com>

Anyone have any idea how to startup a program like tethereal which when run
with a '-w - -l' set of flags produces A LOT of output on stdout and pipe
this output to a python class?

I noticed the object subprocess.Popen might be best suited to this but it
doesnt seem to work right. The flag combination I provided above will cause
tethereal to print each packet it recieves to stdout and then hopefully
flush the stream. I want to "pipe" this output to a python script which will
block read on that process stdout until a packet is recieved and then
perform some processing on that packet.

I realize that 3rd party modules are available like pcapy but there is added
value in using tethereal that just isnt worth discussing here.

Hope this makes sense
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From bjarrett at garcoschools.org  Sat Nov 12 20:40:03 2005
From: bjarrett at garcoschools.org (Brian Jarrett)
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:40:03 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] monitoring application controls...
Message-ID: <0067E36738F75E4BB04832584BAED63CA7A0DC@localdns.garcoschools.org>

Hello all,

 

I'm currently researching ways to use Python to monitor the state, data,
and events associated with controls (comboboxes, editboxes, etc.) using
Python and the win32 extensions.  I'd like to write a script that would
allow me to observe the changes that occur to an application's controls
while I use the application.  For example, logging the text that gets
entered in a combo box to a text file.

 

I've already found the necessary information for enumerating windows and
their controls, mostly by looking at the winguiauto.py example.

 

I guess I'm used to working with OnChange and OnClick events when
writing an application, but now I want to be able to "hook" into these
sort of events when outside of the application itself.

 

Where should I be looking?  Any help would be appreciated.

 

Brian

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From adnan.chowdhury at gmail.com  Mon Nov 14 04:45:20 2005
From: adnan.chowdhury at gmail.com (Adnan Chowdhury)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:45:20 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com.client.Dispatch("MAPI.Session") error
	exchange 2003
Message-ID: <66bd0e60511131945y487177c2w@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to connect to an Exchange 2003 server win ActiveState's
python implementation 2.4.1.

When I run the following code:
import win32com.client
session = win32com.client.Dispatch ("MAPI.Session")
session.Logon (ProfileName="Adnan Chowdhury")

I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "MAPI Test.py", line 3, in ?
    session = win32com.client.Dispatch ("MAPI.Session")
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 95, in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName =
dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
line 91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
    return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
line 79, in _GetGoodDispatch
    IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)

Is there something more that I need to define?

From adnan.chowdhury at gmail.com  Mon Nov 14 05:13:18 2005
From: adnan.chowdhury at gmail.com (Adnan Chowdhury)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:13:18 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com.client.Dispatch("MAPI.Session") error
	exchange 2003
In-Reply-To: <66bd0e60511131945y487177c2w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <66bd0e60511131945y487177c2w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <66bd0e60511132013t36cb3dd0o@mail.gmail.com>

Found the answer at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/20f31e67c4d01d31/4d984204876e3319?q=exchange&rnum=35#4d984204876e3319
(comp.lang.python:"Q: Basic MAPI")

You have to specifically install CDO components when installing
Outlook 2003, it is not installed by default.

ac

On 14/11/05, Adnan Chowdhury <adnan.chowdhury at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to an Exchange 2003 server win ActiveState's
> python implementation 2.4.1.
>
> When I run the following code:
> import win32com.client
> session = win32com.client.Dispatch ("MAPI.Session")
> session.Logon (ProfileName="Adnan Chowdhury")
>
> I get this error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "MAPI Test.py", line 3, in ?
>     session = win32com.client.Dispatch ("MAPI.Session")
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 95, in Dispatch
>     dispatch, userName =
> dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> line 79, in _GetGoodDispatch
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)
>
> Is there something more that I need to define?
>

From python at kareta.de  Mon Nov 14 16:42:51 2005
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:42:51 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] error message after many win32pipe.popen calls
Message-ID: <4378B07B.5090704@kareta.de>

Hi all,

currently I'm testing a scipt which converts many (>500) ps files to 
pdf. I use ghostscript and the conversion is done by win32pipe.popen( 
ps2pdf.bat inputfile outputfile). I got the following error message, but 
it seems that all files were correctly converted:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py", 
line 301, in Run
    win32api.PostMessage(self.hwnd, MSG_CHECK_EXTERNAL_FILE, 0, 0)
pywintypes.error: (1816, 'PostMessage', 'Nicht gen\xfcgend Quoten 
verf\xfcgbar, um diesen Befehl zu verarbeiten.')
win32ui: Run() virtual handler (<bound method FileWatchingThread.Run of 
<pywin.framework.editor.document.FileWatchingThread instance at 
0x06A45878>>) raised an exception

Is there a way to avoid this error ? (win2k, py2.4.1, pywin205)

thanks in advance
J?rgen

From timr at probo.com  Mon Nov 14 19:13:38 2005
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:13:38 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] monitoring application controls...
In-Reply-To: <mailman.25.1131879614.3249.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.25.1131879614.3249.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <4378D3D2.7040802@probo.com>

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:40:03 -0700, "Brian Jarrett" 
<bjarrett at garcoschools.org> wrote:

> 
>I'm currently researching ways to use Python to monitor the state, data,
>and events associated with controls (comboboxes, editboxes, etc.) using
>Python and the win32 extensions.  I'd like to write a script that would
>allow me to observe the changes that occur to an application's controls
>while I use the application.  For example, logging the text that gets
>entered in a combo box to a text file.
>
>I've already found the necessary information for enumerating windows and
>their controls, mostly by looking at the winguiauto.py example.
>
>I guess I'm used to working with OnChange and OnClick events when
>writing an application, but now I want to be able to "hook" into these
>sort of events when outside of the application itself.
>
>Where should I be looking?  Any help would be appreciated.
>  
>

Well, I started to reply that I believed this could not be done entirely 
in Python, but I thought I'd better do a quick web search first, and it 
appears I am wrong.

What you need are Windows hooks, which allows you to participate in the 
window procedures for other processes.  Implementing a hook requires 
code in a DLL, because the DLL has to actually be "injected" into 
another process, to run in that processes context.  That would usually 
make Python unsuitable, but there are people doing research in 
accessability that have done it:

    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr01.shtml

Note particularly the libraries for pyHook and pyAA.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From kehilanyas at hotmail.com  Tue Nov 15 10:58:55 2005
From: kehilanyas at hotmail.com (Gary)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:58:55 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Sending an event from a python COM server to a VB
	COM client
Message-ID: <BAY112-DAV12C2C909D44F1B2422F39BC85D0@phx.gbl>

Hello
I am trying to send an event from a Python COM server to a VB (or VB.NET) COM client.
I am a newbe both in VB and in python.
Can anyone give me a simple (but complete) code example both of the Python server side and the VB client side for raising a single event.

Any answer would be highly appreciated.
Regards
Gary
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From billburns at pennswoods.net  Tue Nov 15 12:45:52 2005
From: billburns at pennswoods.net (Bill Burns)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:45:52 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] error message after many win32pipe.popen calls
In-Reply-To: <4378B07B.5090704@kareta.de>
References: <4378B07B.5090704@kareta.de>
Message-ID: <4379CA70.4020600@pennswoods.net>

[J?rgen wrote]
> Hi all,
> 
> currently I'm testing a scipt which converts many (>500) ps files to 
> pdf. I use ghostscript and the conversion is done by win32pipe.popen( 
> ps2pdf.bat inputfile outputfile). I got the following error message, but 
> it seems that all files were correctly converted:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py", 
> line 301, in Run
>     win32api.PostMessage(self.hwnd, MSG_CHECK_EXTERNAL_FILE, 0, 0)
> pywintypes.error: (1816, 'PostMessage', 'Nicht gen\xfcgend Quoten 
> verf\xfcgbar, um diesen Befehl zu verarbeiten.')
> win32ui: Run() virtual handler (<bound method FileWatchingThread.Run of 
> <pywin.framework.editor.document.FileWatchingThread instance at 
> 0x06A45878>>) raised an exception
> 
> Is there a way to avoid this error ? (win2k, py2.4.1, pywin205)
> 

Hi J?rgen,

Achtung - The following does not address your win32pipe.open() problem,
but you can continue to read it if you want to :-)

I routinely convert many ps files myself and I use something like this:

<CODE>

import os

def convert2pdf(directory):
     os.chdir(directory)
     for f in os.listdir('.'):
         if f.endswith('.ps'):
             path, filename = os.path.split(f)
             name, ext = os.path.splitext(f)
             newName = os.path.join(path, name + ".pdf")
             command = 'ps2pdf "%s" "%s"' % (filename, newName)
             os.popen(command)

if __name__ == '__main__':
     convert2pdf(r'C:\ps_files')

</CODE>

The above just uses os.popen(). I've converted thousands of ps files
with no problems at all.

My specs are:
Windows 2000 Pro SP4
Python 2.4.1
GPL GhostScript 8.15

HTH,

Bill





From python at kareta.de  Tue Nov 15 16:13:24 2005
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:13:24 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] error message after many win32pipe.popen calls
In-Reply-To: <4379CA70.4020600@pennswoods.net>
References: <4378B07B.5090704@kareta.de> <4379CA70.4020600@pennswoods.net>
Message-ID: <4379FB14.4020500@kareta.de>

Hi Bill,

thanks for your help, it works for me too :-)
J?rgen

> [J?rgen wrote]
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> currently I'm testing a scipt which converts many (>500) ps files to 
>> pdf. I use ghostscript and the conversion is done by win32pipe.popen( 
>> ps2pdf.bat inputfile outputfile). I got the following error message, 
>> but it seems that all files were correctly converted:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File 
>> "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py", 
>> line 301, in Run
>>     win32api.PostMessage(self.hwnd, MSG_CHECK_EXTERNAL_FILE, 0, 0)
>> pywintypes.error: (1816, 'PostMessage', 'Nicht gen\xfcgend Quoten 
>> verf\xfcgbar, um diesen Befehl zu verarbeiten.')
>> win32ui: Run() virtual handler (<bound method FileWatchingThread.Run 
>> of <pywin.framework.editor.document.FileWatchingThread instance at 
>> 0x06A45878>>) raised an exception
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid this error ? (win2k, py2.4.1, pywin205)
>>
>
> Hi J?rgen,
>
> Achtung - The following does not address your win32pipe.open() problem,
> but you can continue to read it if you want to :-)
>
> I routinely convert many ps files myself and I use something like this:
>
> <CODE>
>
> import os
>
> def convert2pdf(directory):
>     os.chdir(directory)
>     for f in os.listdir('.'):
>         if f.endswith('.ps'):
>             path, filename = os.path.split(f)
>             name, ext = os.path.splitext(f)
>             newName = os.path.join(path, name + ".pdf")
>             command = 'ps2pdf "%s" "%s"' % (filename, newName)
>             os.popen(command)
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     convert2pdf(r'C:\ps_files')
>
> </CODE>
>
> The above just uses os.popen(). I've converted thousands of ps files
> with no problems at all.
>
> My specs are:
> Windows 2000 Pro SP4
> Python 2.4.1
> GPL GhostScript 8.15
>
> HTH,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>


From timr at probo.com  Tue Nov 15 18:49:28 2005
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:49:28 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] error message after many win32pipe.popen calls
In-Reply-To: <mailman.27.1132052416.11669.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.27.1132052416.11669.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <437A1FA8.3030808@probo.com>

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:42:51 +0100, J?rgen Kareta <python at kareta.de> wrote:

>currently I'm testing a scipt which converts many (>500) ps files to 
>pdf. I use ghostscript and the conversion is done by win32pipe.popen( 
>ps2pdf.bat inputfile outputfile). I got the following error message, but 
>it seems that all files were correctly converted:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File 
>"C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py", 
>line 301, in Run
>    win32api.PostMessage(self.hwnd, MSG_CHECK_EXTERNAL_FILE, 0, 0)
>pywintypes.error: (1816, 'PostMessage', 'Nicht gen\xfcgend Quoten 
>verf\xfcgbar, um diesen Befehl zu verarbeiten.')
>win32ui: Run() virtual handler (<bound method FileWatchingThread.Run of 
><pywin.framework.editor.document.FileWatchingThread instance at 
>0x06A45878>>) raised an exception
>
>Is there a way to avoid this error ? (win2k, py2.4.1, pywin205)
>


Does it fail if you run it outside of Pythonwin?  Are you sure you're 
closing all of the pipes properly before starting a new one?  Have you 
tried this with the new "subprocess" module?

Error 1816 is an "exceeded quota" sort of error.  You've hit some kind 
of limit, although I'm not sure which one.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From bjarrett at garcoschools.org  Tue Nov 15 21:01:44 2005
From: bjarrett at garcoschools.org (Brian Jarrett)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:01:44 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] monitoring application controls...
Message-ID: <0067E36738F75E4BB04832584BAED63CA7A0DD@localdns.garcoschools.org>


What you need are Windows hooks, which allows you to participate in the 
window procedures for other processes.  Implementing a hook requires 
code in a DLL, because the DLL has to actually be "injected" into 
another process, to run in that processes context.  That would usually 
make Python unsuitable, but there are people doing research in 
accessability that have done it:

    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr01.shtml

Note particularly the libraries for pyHook and pyAA.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Tim,

Thanks for your reply.  I had looked at pyHook before, but not the pyAA
module.  That definitely looks more promising, but so far I haven't
found a way to make it track events for something like a combobox, just
the actual windows.  Of course I'm working from extremely limited
experience with the Windows (COM) API, etc.  I've also found some
information on WM_COMMAND messages(?) that might hold some answers as
well.  

Here is MSDN information specifically on the ComboBox message that
indicates when it has been updated:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc
/platform/commctls/comboboxes/comboboxreference/comboboxmessages/cbn_edi
tchange.asp

If I could find a way to hook in and receive those sorts of messages, I
think that'd be the ticket, but again I am not well versed in these
matters.

As I find more info I'll post to this list.

Thanks for the tips.

Brian



From gregpinero at gmail.com  Wed Nov 16 00:21:40 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:21:40 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] mapisend.py - How does it work?
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511151521w648ad178x6e477db9a5e7177b@mail.gmail.com>

Would anyone be kind enough to explain a bit about how this
Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\mapi\demos\mapisend.py demo program
works?

Specifically I was wondering:
Does it require that I have outlook installed?
Does it require that there is an exchange server somewhere?
What is the role of the email server in all of this? Is there an SMTP server
somewhere in the process?

Background:
A. I'm curious how it works.
B. I was asked to send emails through my company's exchange server. (will
this count?) Any pointers on how to do this otherwise?

Much thanks!

--
Gregory Pi?ero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
(www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)
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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""module to send mail with Extended MAPI using the pywin32 mapi wrappers..."""

# this was based on Jason Hattingh's C++ code at http://www.codeproject.com/internet/mapadmin.asp
# written by David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft.com> and Stephen Emslie <stephene at sjsoft.com>
# you can test this by changing the variables at the bottom and running from the command line

from win32com.mapi import mapi
from win32com.mapi import mapitags

# Pre 2.2.1 compat.
try: True, False
except NameError: True = 1==1; False = 1==0

def SendEMAPIMail(Subject="", Message="", SendTo=None, SendCC=None, SendBCC=None, MAPIProfile=None):
    """Sends an email to the recipient using the extended MAPI interface
    Subject and Message are strings
    Send{To,CC,BCC} are comma-separated address lists
    MAPIProfile is the name of the MAPI profile"""

    # initialize and log on
    mapi.MAPIInitialize(None)
    session = mapi.MAPILogonEx(0, MAPIProfile, None, mapi.MAPI_EXTENDED | mapi.MAPI_USE_DEFAULT)
    messagestorestable = session.GetMsgStoresTable(0)
    messagestorestable.SetColumns((mapitags.PR_ENTRYID, mapitags.PR_DISPLAY_NAME_A, mapitags.PR_DEFAULT_STORE),0)

    while True:
        rows = messagestorestable.QueryRows(1, 0)
        #if this is the last row then stop
        if len(rows) != 1:
            break
        row = rows[0]
        #if this is the default store then stop
        if ((mapitags.PR_DEFAULT_STORE,True) in row):
            break

    # unpack the row and open the message store
    (eid_tag, eid), (name_tag, name), (def_store_tag, def_store) = row
    msgstore = session.OpenMsgStore(0,eid,None,mapi.MDB_NO_DIALOG | mapi.MAPI_BEST_ACCESS)

    # get the outbox
    hr, props = msgstore.GetProps((mapitags.PR_IPM_OUTBOX_ENTRYID), 0)
    (tag, eid) = props[0]
    #check for errors
    if mapitags.PROP_TYPE(tag) == mapitags.PT_ERROR:
        raise TypeError,'got PT_ERROR instead of PT_BINARY: %s'%eid
    outboxfolder = msgstore.OpenEntry(eid,None,mapi.MAPI_BEST_ACCESS)

    # create the message and the addrlist
    message = outboxfolder.CreateMessage(None,0)
    # note: you can use the resolveaddress functions for this. but you may get headaches
    pal = []
    def makeentry(recipient, recipienttype):
      return ((mapitags.PR_RECIPIENT_TYPE, recipienttype),
              (mapitags.PR_SEND_RICH_INFO, False),
              (mapitags.PR_DISPLAY_TYPE, 0),
              (mapitags.PR_OBJECT_TYPE, 6),
              (mapitags.PR_EMAIL_ADDRESS_A, recipient),
              (mapitags.PR_ADDRTYPE_A, 'SMTP'),
              (mapitags.PR_DISPLAY_NAME_A, recipient))
    
    if SendTo:
      pal.extend([makeentry(recipient, mapi.MAPI_TO) for recipient in SendTo.split(",")])
    if SendCC:
      pal.extend([makeentry(recipient, mapi.MAPI_CC) for recipient in SendCC.split(",")])
    if SendBCC:
      pal.extend([makeentry(recipient, mapi.MAPI_BCC) for recipient in SendBCC.split(",")])

    # add the resolved recipients to the message
    message.ModifyRecipients(mapi.MODRECIP_ADD,pal)
    message.SetProps([(mapitags.PR_BODY_A,Message),
                      (mapitags.PR_SUBJECT_A,Subject)])

    # save changes and submit
    outboxfolder.SaveChanges(0)
    message.SubmitMessage(0)

if __name__ == '__main__':
   MAPIProfile = ""
   # Change this to a valid email address to test
   SendTo = "an.invalid at address"
   SendMessage = "testing one two three"
   SendSubject = "Testing Extended MAPI!!"
   SendEMAPIMail(SendSubject, SendMessage, SendTo, MAPIProfile=MAPIProfile)





From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Nov 16 02:23:49 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:23:49 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] mapisend.py - How does it work?
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511151521w648ad178x6e477db9a5e7177b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEIGIEAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> Specifically I was wondering:
> Does it require that I have outlook installed?

It requires outlook plus the "simple mapi", or "cdo" libraries.  These are
an optional component of the office 2000 install that is de-selected by
default (ie, you need to explicitly install it).  Worse, for later Outlook
versions you always get "nag" dialogs in MS' attempt at stopping malware
from sending mail or accessing your contacts.

> Does it require that there is an exchange server somewhere?
> What is the role of the email server in all of this?  Is there
> an SMTP server somewhere in the process?

The MAPI libraries themselves take care of this detail.  Really, it is just
Outlook that sends the mail however it is configured to do so (ie, either
directly to an smtp server, or to an exchange server).  So it does not
*need* an exchange server.

> B. I was asked to send emails through my company's exchange server.  (will
this count?)
> Any pointers on how to do this otherwise?

If your exchange server is acting as an SMTP server you could just use
smptlib.  Otherwise you could use "extended MAPI", which is fully supported
by Python, but somewhat tricky to use.  Also, something like:

app = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
new_msg = app.CreateItem(0)
new_msg.Body = "hello"
...
new_msg.Send()

may work - I've actually no idea if it does, but something similar should :)
The trick here would be to find docs for the Outlook object model (eg, VB
code that uses it).  This will obviously depend on Outlook being installed.

Mark


From jek at zer0.org  Wed Nov 16 02:35:46 2005
From: jek at zer0.org (Joshua Kaderlan)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:35:46 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] mapisend.py - How does it work?
In-Reply-To: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEIGIEAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
References: <312cfe2b0511151521w648ad178x6e477db9a5e7177b@mail.gmail.com>
	<DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEIGIEAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <20051116013545.GD74484@klapaucius.zer0.org>

On 2005-11-16 12:23 +1100, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > B. I was asked to send emails through my company's exchange server.  (will
> > this count?)
> > Any pointers on how to do this otherwise?
> 
> If your exchange server is acting as an SMTP server you could just use
> smptlib.  Otherwise you could use "extended MAPI", which is fully supported
> by Python, but somewhat tricky to use.  Also, something like:
> 
> app = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
> new_msg = app.CreateItem(0)
> new_msg.Body = "hello"
> ...
> new_msg.Send()
> 
> may work - I've actually no idea if it does, but something similar should :)
> The trick here would be to find docs for the Outlook object model (eg, VB
> code that uses it).  This will obviously depend on Outlook being installed.

You can download the Outlook 2003 Visual Basic Application Reference (which, 
despite the name, is the Simple MAPI documentation; it uses VB for sample code 
though) from MSDN:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A1CEAD80-23E2-456F-8618-4DA50CC2C38C&displaylang=en>

Doing what you suggest above (or something very similar to it) will probably
work, although it'll trigger the Outlook security dialog.  If you want to get
around that, either use Extended MAPI or the Outlook Redemption DLL:
<http://www.dimastr.com/redemption>  
There are also a couple of apps which will allow you to use the regular Simple
MAPI calls and programmatically suppress the dialog.


-Josh

From python at kareta.de  Wed Nov 16 11:31:55 2005
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:31:55 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] error message after many win32pipe.popen calls
In-Reply-To: <437A1FA8.3030808@probo.com>
References: <mailman.27.1132052416.11669.python-win32@python.org>
	<437A1FA8.3030808@probo.com>
Message-ID: <437B0A9B.6010200@kareta.de>

Hi Tim,

thanks for your suggestions.

>Does it fail if you run it outside of Pythonwin? 
>
No it doesn't. So I can ignore this error, as the script will normally 
run outside Pythonwin.

> Are you sure you're 
>closing all of the pipes properly before starting a new one?
>
Yes, I explicitly close the pipes

>  Have you 
>tried this with the new "subprocess" module?
>  
>
Yes, but I have to investigate a bit more. In the first try gostscipt 
opens its own viewer for every file :-(
J?rgen

From mark.mclarnon at gmail.com  Wed Nov 16 19:13:40 2005
From: mark.mclarnon at gmail.com (mark mclarnon)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:13:40 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] inspect32.exe python equivalent?
Message-ID: <253738580511161013s7ec3d155l73d96f2d3f8abd56@mail.gmail.com>

The Microsoft SDK contains an EXE called inspect32.exe which implements an
active accessibility API interface. Is anyone aware of work in the Python
community to interface with the ActiveAccessibility API? This program
inspect32 is wonderful in that it can programmatically invoke actions of the
GUI items it identifies on screen it is this functionality that I desire. I
know of some fantastic projects like cPAMIE but they only work for
particular software titles.

Mark
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From peter.schuetz at gmail.com  Thu Nov 17 13:36:27 2005
From: peter.schuetz at gmail.com (=?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Peter_Sch=FCtz?=)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:36:27 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Creating pivot tables in excel using python
Message-ID: <50de3d0511170436u2901b261ifc948518c07b6d51@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am using Python 2.4.1 and I want to retrieve data from an Access database
and display the results in an Excel pivot table. To get the data out of
Access is no problem, but I have problems creating the pivot table in Excel.
The following code is what I came up with (after running makepy on the Excel
library):
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
>>> xl = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>> xl.Workbooks.Add()
<win32com.gen_py.None.Workbook>
>>> xl.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(r'd:\pivottable.xls')
>>> pc = xl.ActiveWorkbook.PivotCaches().Add(constants.xlExternal)
>>> pc
<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library.PivotCache instance at
0x29486656>
>>> conn = Dispatch('ADODB.Connection')
>>> rs = Dispatch('ADODB.Recordset')
>>> ado = r'Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=d:\test.mdb;'
>>> sql = 'SELECT * FROM whatever'
>>> conn.Open(ado)
>>> rs.Open(sql,conn)
>>> pc.Recordset = rs
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 463,
in __setattr__
self._oleobj_.Invoke(*(args + (value,) + defArgs))
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None,
None, 0, -2146827284), None)

As you can see, I get the PivotCache object, but I need to set the Recordset
in order to use rs. I get the same error message when want to set
pc.OptimizeCache to True. Honestly, I have no idea what is going on, so if
someone could help me?

Thanks in advance

peter
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From durumdara at mailpont.hu  Thu Nov 17 16:35:37 2005
From: durumdara at mailpont.hu (durumdara@mailpont.hu)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:35:37 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Midi files to Wav files
Message-ID: <437CA349.3030608@mailpont.hu>

Hi !

I want to convert my mid files to way files in MS Windows.

I know that I can play the mid files, and I can record them as wav  - 
with MMSystem unit.
I need to play a midi file and record it in in-line. But how can I do it ?
Anybody can help me ? I need some informations to start this work.

Thanx for help: dd

From timr at probo.com  Thu Nov 17 19:13:40 2005
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:13:40 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] inspect32.exe python equivalent?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.27.1132225215.15007.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.27.1132225215.15007.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <437CC854.1060402@probo.com>

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:13:40 -0500, mark mclarnon 
<mark.mclarnon at gmail.com> wrote:

>The Microsoft SDK contains an EXE called inspect32.exe which implements an
>active accessibility API interface. Is anyone aware of work in the Python
>community to interface with the ActiveAccessibility API? This program
>inspect32 is wonderful in that it can programmatically invoke actions of the
>GUI items it identifies on screen it is this functionality that I desire. I
>know of some fantastic projects like cPAMIE but they only work for
>particular software titles.
>  
>

Are you new to the mailing list?  This very topic was discussed earlier 
this week.  Here's part of my reply:

>What you need are Windows hooks, which allows you to participate in the 
>window procedures for other processes.  Implementing a hook requires 
>code in a DLL, because the DLL has to actually be "injected" into 
>another process, to run in that processes context.  That would usually 
>make Python unsuitable, but there are people doing research in 
>accessability that have done it:
>
>    http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr01.shtml
>
>Note particularly the libraries for pyHook and pyAA.
>

Note that the "AA" in "pyAA" stands for "Active Accessibility".

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From gregpinero at gmail.com  Thu Nov 17 19:23:31 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:23:31 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] mapisend.py - How does it work?
In-Reply-To: <20051116013545.GD74484@klapaucius.zer0.org>
References: <312cfe2b0511151521w648ad178x6e477db9a5e7177b@mail.gmail.com>
	<DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEIGIEAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
	<20051116013545.GD74484@klapaucius.zer0.org>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511171023j729ce944scbab461e6edbbeae@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for all the help guys. It turns out that their exchange server does
act as an SMTP server. So I'll just go that route for now.

-Greg


On 11/15/05, Joshua Kaderlan <jek at zer0.org> wrote:
>
> On 2005-11-16 12:23 +1100, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > B. I was asked to send emails through my company's exchange server.
> (will
> > > this count?)
> > > Any pointers on how to do this otherwise?
> >
> > If your exchange server is acting as an SMTP server you could just use
> > smptlib. Otherwise you could use "extended MAPI", which is fully
> supported
> > by Python, but somewhat tricky to use. Also, something like:
> >
> > app = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
> > new_msg = app.CreateItem(0)
> > new_msg.Body = "hello"
> > ...
> > new_msg.Send()
> >
> > may work - I've actually no idea if it does, but something similar
> should :)
> > The trick here would be to find docs for the Outlook object model (eg,
> VB
> > code that uses it). This will obviously depend on Outlook being
> installed.
>
> You can download the Outlook 2003 Visual Basic Application Reference
> (which,
> despite the name, is the Simple MAPI documentation; it uses VB for sample
> code
> though) from MSDN:
> <
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A1CEAD80-23E2-456F-8618-4DA50CC2C38C&displaylang=en
> >
>
> Doing what you suggest above (or something very similar to it) will
> probably
> work, although it'll trigger the Outlook security dialog. If you want to
> get
> around that, either use Extended MAPI or the Outlook Redemption DLL:
> <http://www.dimastr.com/redemption>
> There are also a couple of apps which will allow you to use the regular
> Simple
> MAPI calls and programmatically suppress the dialog.
>
>
> -Josh
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



--
Gregory Pi?ero
Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
(www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)
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From tony at tcapp.com  Fri Nov 18 16:45:10 2005
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:45:10 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Midi files to Wav files
In-Reply-To: <mailman.27.1132311617.27456.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.27.1132311617.27456.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20051118074411.049aad60@mail.yamato.com>




Try pysonic
http://pysonic.sourceforge.net/


Message: 2
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:35:37 +0100
From: "durumdara at mailpont.hu" <durumdara at mailpont.hu>
Subject: [python-win32] Midi files to Wav files
To: python-win32 at python.org
Message-ID: <437CA349.3030608 at mailpont.hu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Hi !

I want to convert my mid files to way files in MS Windows.

I know that I can play the mid files, and I can record them as wav  -
with MMSystem unit.
I need to play a midi file and record it in in-line. But how can I do it ?
Anybody can help me ? I need some informations to start this work.

Thanx for help: dd


From haraldarminmassa at gmail.com  Fri Nov 18 13:11:55 2005
From: haraldarminmassa at gmail.com (Harald Armin Massa)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:11:55 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Pivot in Excel from Python
Message-ID: <7be3f35d0511180411q6350b645y@mail.gmail.com>

Peter,

I had similiar challenges. After trying in vain for some time, I decided to
add a VB-macro to the Excel Templates which does all the pivot creation and
refresh of data, and to call that macro from Python.

My impression was that there is some missing link within the Excel COM
Interface, which integrated VBA does not care.

Harald


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From timr at probo.com  Fri Nov 18 20:32:11 2005
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:32:11 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Creating pivot tables in excel using python
In-Reply-To: <mailman.27.1132311617.27456.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.27.1132311617.27456.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <437E2C3B.5060508@probo.com>

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:36:27 +0100,  Peter Sch?tz 
<peter.schuetz at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am using Python 2.4.1 and I want to retrieve data from an Access database
>and display the results in an Excel pivot table. To get the data out of
>Access is no problem, but I have problems creating the pivot table in Excel.what I came up with
>
...

>Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 463,
>in __setattr__
>self._oleobj_.Invoke(*(args + (value,) + defArgs))
>pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None,
>None, 0, -2146827284), None)
>
>As you can see, I get the PivotCache object, but I need to set the Recordset
>in order to use rs. I get the same error message when want to set
>pc.OptimizeCache to True. Honestly, I have no idea what is going on, so if
>someone could help me?
>


Well, -2146827284 is 800A03EC, which is some kind of generic "access 
denied" error within Excel.

Can you run this EXACT sequence in VBA within Excel?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From peter.schuetz at gmail.com  Fri Nov 18 21:15:51 2005
From: peter.schuetz at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Sch=FCtz?=)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:15:51 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Creating pivot tables in excel using python
Message-ID: <50de3d0511181215u6ae852eaj33f0918b65304e38@mail.gmail.com>

I tried VBA and it didn't work either. Some sort of Application Object error

(don't remember the exact error message). However, I managed to create a
pivot table in Excel by means of an ODBC connection. So I gave up trying to
figure out why it didn't work.
The following code created the Pivot table in Excel, all that is left to do
is
do define the row, column, and data fields. It should be no problem to
program this in Python. Otherwise the user can set up the table in Excel
himself.

from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
xl = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
xl.Workbooks.Add()
xl.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(r'd:\pivottable.xls')
ws = xl.ActiveWorkbook.ActiveSheet
pc = xl.ActiveWorkbook.PivotCaches().Add(constants.xlExternal)
pc.Connection = r'ODBC;DSN=MS Access Database;DBQ=d:\test.mdb;'
pc.CommandType = constants.xlCmdSql
pc.CommandText = 'SELECT * FROM whatever'
pc.CreatePivotTable(ws.Cells(3,1),'pivot')
xl.ActiveWorkbook.Save()

Thanks for all the help
peter

> >Traceback (most recent call last):
> >File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> > 463, in __setattr__
> >self._oleobj_.Invoke(*(args + (value,) + defArgs))
> >pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None,
None,
> >None, 0, -2146827284), None)
> >
> >As you can see, I get the PivotCache object, but I need to set the
> > Recordset in order to use rs. I get the same error message when want to
> > set pc.OptimizeCache to True. Honestly, I have no idea what is going on,
> > so if someone could help me?
>
> Well, -2146827284 is 800A03EC, which is some kind of generic "access
> denied" error within Excel.
>
> Can you run this EXACT sequence in VBA within Excel?
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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Mon Nov 21 15:14:46 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:14:46 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin Not starting - Windows Server 2003 OS
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511210614j32b6b34m5edf260bbfc2badb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I just installed PythonWin on a fresh install of Windows Server 2003. When I
try to launch the PythonWin IDE it starts up and shows the IDE for about 1
second and then shuts down.

If you need more information, just let me know what to check to get.

Thanks!

--
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Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
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We had the same problem recently - we were missing mfc71.dll in the
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Hi,

I just installed PythonWin on a fresh install of Windows Server 2003.
When I try to launch the PythonWin IDE it starts up and shows the IDE
for about 1 second and then shuts down.

If you need more information, just let me know what to check to get.

Thanks!

--
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Chief Innovation Officer
Blended Technologies
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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Tue Nov 22 15:22:54 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:22:54 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin Not starting - Windows Server 2003 OS
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511210614j32b6b34m5edf260bbfc2badb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511210614j32b6b34m5edf260bbfc2badb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511220622p781b45ecwb196c6fcd46514d1@mail.gmail.com>

Yeah, I know this is a pretty vague question. I'm willing to try to debug it
myself. Could anyone point me towards where to start? Is there a error log
file somewhere or any known issues with Windows Server 2003?

Thanks,

Greg


On 11/21/05, Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed PythonWin on a fresh install of Windows Server 2003. When
> I try to launch the PythonWin IDE it starts up and shows the IDE for about 1
> second and then shuts down.
>
> If you need more information, just let me know what to check to get.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Gregory Pi?ero
> Chief Innovation Officer
> Blended Technologies
> (www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)




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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Tue Nov 22 18:22:37 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:22:37 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin - Start in script's directory
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.com>

I'm not sure how to phrase this question. How can I make PythonWin have it's
current directory automatically set to the same directory as my script?

For example I want the statement:
file('test.txt','w')
to make a file in the same directory as my script, instead of wherever
PythonWin wants to put it by default, I think somewhere in C:\Python?

Thanks,

--
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From gagenellina at softlab.com.ar  Tue Nov 22 18:35:56 2005
From: gagenellina at softlab.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:35:56 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin - Start in script's directory
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.co
 m>
References: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051122143152.033d42a0@192.168.0.115>

At Tuesday 22/11/2005 14:22, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:

>I'm not sure how to phrase this question.  How can I make PythonWin have 
>it's current directory automatically set to the same directory as my script?
>
>For example I want the statement:
>file('test.txt','w')
>to make a file in the same directory as my script, instead of wherever 
>PythonWin wants to put it by default, I think somewhere in C:\Python?

os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])) returns the directory where 
your script is.
You can make it the current dir using os.chdir


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


From gregpinero at gmail.com  Tue Nov 22 19:14:51 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:14:51 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin - Start in script's directory
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20051122143152.033d42a0@192.168.0.115>
References: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.com>
	<6.2.1.2.0.20051122143152.033d42a0@192.168.0.115>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511221014g3fd1eb2fs7f374933e2e9a47b@mail.gmail.com>

And then is there a way to make Pythonwin run that automatically or do I
have to add that to my script:
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))

-Greg

On 11/22/05, Gabriel Genellina <gagenellina at softlab.com.ar> wrote:
>
> At Tuesday 22/11/2005 14:22, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:
>
> >I'm not sure how to phrase this question. How can I make PythonWin have
> >it's current directory automatically set to the same directory as my
> script?
> >
> >For example I want the statement:
> >file('test.txt','w')
> >to make a file in the same directory as my script, instead of wherever
> >PythonWin wants to put it by default, I think somewhere in C:\Python?
>
> os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])) returns the directory where
> your script is.
> You can make it the current dir using os.chdir
>
>
> Gabriel Genellina
> Softlab SRL
>
>


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From gagenellina at softlab.com.ar  Tue Nov 22 19:37:49 2005
From: gagenellina at softlab.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:37:49 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin - Start in script's directory
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511221014g3fd1eb2fs7f374933e2e9a47b@mail.gmail.co
 m>
References: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.com>
	<6.2.1.2.0.20051122143152.033d42a0@192.168.0.115>
	<312cfe2b0511221014g3fd1eb2fs7f374933e2e9a47b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051122152646.033dee10@192.168.0.115>

At Tuesday 22/11/2005 15:14, Gregory Pi?ero wrote:

>And then is there a way to make Pythonwin run that automatically or do I 
>have to add that to my script:
>os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))

I'm not sure what Pythonwin has to do with this exactly...
You always can run a process with a "startup directory" different from 
where it is located. If you want to ensure that they are the same, you must 
do something like above. Or create a shortcut icon.


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


From gregpinero at gmail.com  Tue Nov 22 23:50:58 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:50:58 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin - Start in script's directory
In-Reply-To: <6fae95540511221352i375d0980v512a6ac08f55564d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511220922x6b75a5e3m6988fbb916083e39@mail.gmail.com>
	<6.2.1.2.0.20051122143152.033d42a0@192.168.0.115>
	<312cfe2b0511221014g3fd1eb2fs7f374933e2e9a47b@mail.gmail.com>
	<6fae95540511221352i375d0980v512a6ac08f55564d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511221450j7ddf7a54y8aef1f02b8cc483@mail.gmail.com>

Ah, very good idea! I just tried that and it works.

For posterity you can add an "edit with" option to a file type in windows by
going to folder options, selecting the file types tab, go to the file type
you want to change, select change, select new, type in a name like edit with
pythonwin, and finally browse for the pythonwin exe.

-Greg


On 11/22/05, Waldemar Osuch <waldemar.osuch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/22/05, Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And then is there a way to make Pythonwin run that automatically or do I
> > have to add that to my script:
> > os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])))
> >
> My work around is to right click on the script and select "Edit with
> Pythonwin".
> This way the current directory stays the same as the script's.
>
> If you do not the "Edit with Pythonwin" option it is easy to create it
> manually.
>
> Waldemar
>



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From andrew.markebo at comhem.se  Wed Nov 23 14:19:30 2005
From: andrew.markebo at comhem.se (Andrew Markebo)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:19:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Reading custom output parameters
	fromLabVIEW/Acti	veX
References: <31A473DBB655D21180850008C71E251A099DB007@mail.kebne.se>
	<DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNKEMNIAAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <m3psora4d9.fsf@flognat.dyndns.org>

Hello!

Sorry for getting in so late, are there any god notes/examples on how
to use InvokeTypes? Been looking around a little but don't get it
straight.

/ "Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
|> So the new question is: how do you create a 1D array of variants
|> in python?
|> >From what I've read this is normally handled behind the scenes by
|> PythonCom...?
|
| That's correct - just pass a list or tuple.  However, that is rarely the
| complete answer - what *type* of variant should be in the array?  Since you
| only received this error when you changed to Missing, it appears LabView
| *is* seeing the real param as an array of variants, as it does not return
| this specific error.
|
| Sadly there is no easy way to explicitly specify the exact variant type,
| other than using InvokeTypes.

-- 
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From Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com  Wed Nov 23 18:14:51 2005
From: Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com (Tom_RobbinsMilne@swissre.com)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:14:51 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Application exception in Python.dll
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511221450j7ddf7a54y8aef1f02b8cc483@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <OF7F34BAC3.7A3CB42F-ON852570C2.00596A7B-852570C2.005EAE2E@swissre.com>

Hi,

I have a series of python programs that communicate over sockets. 
The server is using asyncore, the clients just the bare socket library.
The system is just storing strings of XML associated with a particular 
name, kinda like a poor man's file system.

The trouble is that it mostly runs fine, but every once in a while (lots 
of activity each day, but trouble once every week or so) one of the 
applications dies mysteriously. Is there anyway to track down the trouble? 
Would a different version of python be better? These processes are 
launched and then run until they die. I'm thinking of bouncing them 
nightly, but would prefer to find the trouble and fix it.  Advice very 
much appreciated.

The error I'm getting is:
 Event viewer:
Faulting application python.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module 
python24.dll, version 2.4.150.1012, fault address 0x000t2f60
Doctor Watson:
                The application, C:\Python24\python.exe, generated an 
application error.
                ....
                The exception generated was c0000005 at address 1E07EF60 
(python24!PyObject_GetAttr).


BTW, I did post a query awhile ago about launching excel as part of this 
system, which would respond to a remote query. I have that working, but 
we're not in production yet so I thought I'd hold off on letting y'all 
know that it worked until it actually got used in anger.
 
Thanks,
Tom




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From rogelio.flores at gmail.com  Wed Nov 23 18:30:01 2005
From: rogelio.flores at gmail.com (Rogelio Flores)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:30:01 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Changing the name of a service
Message-ID: <dc8540ff0511230930y560b0528p730704870ebdf3f8@mail.gmail.com>

Is there a way to override the name of a service when installing it?
What I want to do is use the same python script to install more than
one copies of the same service, under a different name, on the same
machine. I know I can simply copy the python file and change the
_svc_name_ and have two clones of the service I can install with
different names, but I want something like providing the service name
on the command line when I do the install. I already have a
customOptionHandler function that can take arguments, but I cannot
change the _svc_name_ property since

win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(MyService,
                                      argv = sys.argv,
                                      customInstallOptions = 'c:',
                                      customOptionHandler = customOptionHandler)

takes the class name and I guess it gets the name from there so
anything I do in customOptionHandler to the name doesn't get recorded
at install time.


--
Rogelio

From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Wed Nov 23 20:21:17 2005
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:21:17 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Application exception in Python.dll
In-Reply-To: <OF7F34BAC3.7A3CB42F-ON852570C2.00596A7B-852570C2.005EAE2E@swissre.com>
References: <OF7F34BAC3.7A3CB42F-ON852570C2.00596A7B-852570C2.005EAE2E@swissre.com>
Message-ID: <4384C12D.7060608@lexicon.net>

Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com wrote:
> 
[snip]
> The error I'm getting is:
>  Event viewer:
> 
> Faulting application python.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module 
> python24.dll, version 2.4.150.1012, fault address 0x000t2f60

What is that "t" in the middle of a hexadecimal number?

> 
> Doctor Watson:
>                 The application, C:\Python24\python.exe, generated an 
> application error.
>                 ....
>                 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 1E07EF60 
> (python24!PyObject_GetAttr).

Tom, this points squarely at a bug in core Python. Report the problem 
using the SourceForge bug tracker. This mailing list is for Mark 
Hammond's win32all aka pywin32 package.
Cheers,
John

From Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com  Wed Nov 23 20:31:11 2005
From: Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com (Tom_RobbinsMilne@swissre.com)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:31:11 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Application exception in Python.dll
In-Reply-To: <4384C12D.7060608@lexicon.net>
Message-ID: <OF3DAA4EE8.DDB255B5-ON852570C2.006B05F0-852570C2.006B2946@swissre.com>

John,

Thanks very much. I'll try there. I thought it may be something specific 
to windows, as running it on Linux seems to work fine.

My apologies for the typo, the correct hex number is : fault address 
0x0007ef60

Thanks,
Tom



John Machin <sjmachin at lexicon.net> 

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Re: [python-win32] Application exception in Python.dll






Tom_RobbinsMilne at swissre.com wrote:
> 
[snip]
> The error I'm getting is:
>  Event viewer:
> 
> Faulting application python.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module 
> python24.dll, version 2.4.150.1012, fault address 0x000t2f60

What is that "t" in the middle of a hexadecimal number?

> 
> Doctor Watson:
>                 The application, C:\Python24\python.exe, generated an 
> application error.
>                 ....
>                 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 1E07EF60 

> (python24!PyObject_GetAttr).

Tom, this points squarely at a bug in core Python. Report the problem 
using the SourceForge bug tracker. This mailing list is for Mark 
Hammond's win32all aka pywin32 package.
Cheers,
John
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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Wed Nov 23 21:01:26 2005
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:01:26 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin Not starting - Windows Server 2003 OS
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0511220622p781b45ecwb196c6fcd46514d1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0511210614j32b6b34m5edf260bbfc2badb@mail.gmail.com>
	<312cfe2b0511220622p781b45ecwb196c6fcd46514d1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0511231201h129e135ctb7b833b64ed3410e@mail.gmail.com>

Ok, I got it working.  I had to log in as administrator on that computer and
then it asked me to allow Pythonwin to run.  Something about data execution
prevention.

-Greg

On 11/22/05, Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I know this is a pretty vague question.  I'm willing to try to debug
> it myself.  Could anyone point me towards where to start?  Is there a error
> log file somewhere or any known issues with Windows Server 2003?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
>
> On 11/21/05, Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed PythonWin on a fresh install of Windows Server 2003.
> > When I try to launch the PythonWin IDE it starts up and shows the IDE for
> > about 1 second and then shuts down.
> >
> > If you need more information, just let me know what to check to get.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Gregory Pi?ero
> > Chief Innovation Officer
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From janez.jere at void.si  Fri Nov 25 09:47:56 2005
From: janez.jere at void.si (Janez Jere)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:47:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Wrong string indentation in PyWin
Message-ID: <20051125085231.7CA8333C3A@gw.void.si>

Starting with python 2.4.2 and pywin32 205, opening file with multiline
comment, where at least two lines are "not correctly indented" causes
huge traceback in Pythonwin.exe

Example of ill string:
"""
  - a
 - b
"""

I am not 100% sure, but problem might be in python's tokenize.py, so I
am asking, that someone more competent helps to clear the bug.

Janez


From Klaus.Noekel at ptv.de  Fri Nov 25 08:54:29 2005
From: Klaus.Noekel at ptv.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Klaus_N=F6kel?=)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:54:29 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Can I pass non-VARIANT SAFARRAYs via COM without
	converting to VA	RIANT?
Message-ID: <A924D8EEEB29CC4FAA949E4FCDE9806466EFD6@ska-wn-e04.ptv.ptv.de>

Hi,

I am working on an application where one of our own number crunching
products acts as a COM server. From a Python script which is the COM client
I want to retrieve large matrices, manipulate them with numarray, and store
the result back in the COM server. I currently pass the matrices as VT_ARRAY
| VT_VARIANT objects, but this is a waste of time and space compared to
VT_ARRAY | VT_R8. Tests with a VBA client show that the latter are passed
~20 times faster, and in less memory. For matrices of 3000x3000 elements
this is a concern. Interestingly, win32com accepts matrices of VT_V8 element
type, but actually takes longer (!) than in the case of VT_VARIANT,
presumably because of an extra conversion (instead of one less).

Is there any way that I can configure python-win32 to use VT_V8 as the
element type of a SAFE_ARRAY and suppress any conversion to VT_VARIANT?

Any hints are appreciated!

Cheers,

Klaus Noekel
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Nov 27 01:08:45 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:08:45 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Can I pass non-VARIANT SAFARRAYs via COM
	withoutconverting to VA	RIANT?
In-Reply-To: <A924D8EEEB29CC4FAA949E4FCDE9806466EFD6@ska-wn-e04.ptv.ptv.de>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNMEOEIIAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

> Is there any way that I can configure python-win32 to use VT_V8 as
> the element type of a SAFE_ARRAY and suppress any conversion to
> VT_VARIANT?

Not without patching the code, I'm afraid.  The code (oleargs.cpp) has
explicit support for VT_UI1, but everything else does go through the generic
variant conversion.  Additional support for other types could be added, but
I'm wondering if specific support for numarray would make sense.  I'd be
happy to offer guidance should you choose to look at these enhancements.

Mark


From flamexx7 at yahoo.co.in  Sun Nov 27 18:57:45 2005
From: flamexx7 at yahoo.co.in (flame burns)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:57:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [python-win32] Question on .pyw extension in Python
Message-ID: <20051127175745.69368.qmail@web8605.mail.in.yahoo.com>

I've installed Python 2.4 on my pc which runs Windows xp. I downloaded scripts from some sites which uses .pyw extension. When I use them the script runs without popping up a console. But when I try to write my own script with pyw extension it doesn't work. Can any one help me?

		
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From durumdara at mailpont.hu  Mon Nov 28 13:55:00 2005
From: durumdara at mailpont.hu (durumdara@mailpont.hu)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:55:00 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] mciSendCommand from win32 ???
Message-ID: <438AFE24.8020703@mailpont.hu>

Hi !

I want to call mciSendCommand to record a music in Windows.

I want to do same thing like in this code (Delphi):

procedure TForm1.OpenMedia;
var
  MyOpenParms: TMCI_Open_Parms;
begin
  Flags:=mci_Wait or mci_Open_Element or mci_Open_Type;
  with MyOpenParms do
    begin
      dwCallback:=Handle; // TForm1.Handle
      lpstrDeviceType:=PChar('WaveAudio');
      lpstrElementName:=PChar('');
    end;
  MyError:=mciSendCommand(0, mci_Open, Flags,Cardinal(@MyOpenParms));
  if MyError = 0 then FDeviceID:=MyOpenParms.wDeviceID;
end;

procedure TForm1.RecordMedia;
var
  MyRecordParms: TMCI_Record_Parms;
  set_parms: MCI_WAVE_SET_PARMS;
begin
  set_parms.wFormatTag      := WAVE_FORMAT_PCM;
  set_parms.wBitsPerSample  := 16;
  set_parms.nChannels       := 1;
  set_parms.nBlockAlign     := 
(set_parms.nChannels*set_parms.wBitsPerSample) div 8;
  set_parms.nSamplesPerSec  := 44100;
  set_parms.nAvgBytesPerSec := ((set_parms.wBitsPerSample) *
                                set_parms.nChannels *
                                set_parms.nSamplesPerSec) div 8;
  MyError:=mciSendCommand(FDeviceID,MCI_SET,
                           MCI_WAIT
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_FORMATTAG
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_BITSPERSAMPLE
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_CHANNELS
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_SAMPLESPERSEC
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_AVGBYTESPERSEC
                           or MCI_WAVE_SET_BLOCKALIGN,
                           Cardinal(@set_parms));
  Flags:=mci_Notify;
  with MyRecordParms do
  begin
    dwCallback:=Handle;  // TForm1.Handle
    dwFrom:=0;
    dwTo:=10000;
  end;
  MyError:=mciSendCommand(FDeviceID, mci_Record, Flags, 
Longint(@MyRecordParms));
end;

procedure TForm1.StopMedia;
var
  MyGenParms: TMCI_Generic_Parms;
begin
if FDeviceID <> 0 then
  begin
    Flags:=mci_Wait;
    MyGenParms.dwCallback:=Handle;  // TForm1.Handle
    MyError:=mciSendCommand(FDeviceID, mci_Stop, Flags,Longint(MyGenParms));
  end;
end;

procedure TForm1.SaveMedia(OrgFileName,FileName:string);
  type    // not implemented by Delphi
    PMCI_Save_Parms = ^TMCI_Save_Parms;
    TMCI_Save_Parms = record
    dwCallback: DWord;
    lpstrFileName: PAnsiChar;  // name of file to save
  end;
var
  MySaveParms: TMCI_Save_Parms;
begin
  if FDeviceID <> 0 then
  begin
      // save the file...
    Flags:=mci_Save_File or mci_Wait;
    with MySaveParms do
      begin
        dwCallback:=Handle;
        lpstrFileName:=PChar(FileName);
      end;
    MyError:=mciSendCommand(FDeviceID, mci_Save, Flags,
    Longint(@MySaveParms));
  end;
end;

procedure TForm1.CloseMedia;
var
  MyGenParms: TMCI_Generic_Parms;
begin
  if FDeviceID <> 0 then
  begin
    Flags:=0;
    MyGenParms.dwCallback:=Handle; // TForm1.Handle
    MyError:=mciSendCommand(FDeviceID, mci_Close, Flags, 
Longint(MyGenParms));
    if MyError = 0 then
      FDeviceID:=0;
  end;
end;


1. Can I do it ?
2. If not, what is the solution (I haven't Delphi... I have only 
freeware things)


Thanx for help: dd

From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Nov 28 16:45:52 2005
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:45:52 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Question on .pyw extension in Python
Message-ID: <9A28C052FF32734DACB0A288A3533991044D2383@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[flame burns]

> I've installed Python 2.4 on my pc which runs Windows xp. 
> I downloaded scripts from some sites which uses .pyw 
> extension. When I use them the script runs without popping 
> up a console. But when I try to write my own script with
> pyw extension it doesn't work. Can any one help me?

Just to clarify: the .pyw extension simply means: run this
Python script without creating a console window. This is
generally what you want if you have a program which is
GUI-based. You can run *exactly* the same program with a
console window simply by renaming it to <something>.py.

In general, you'll want to name your scripts .py until
you've debugged everything, That way, any errors will
appear on your console window.

If you haven't already, have a look at the FAQ:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/

and in particular the Python Windows FAQ:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/windows.html

TJG

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From gagenellina at softlab.com.ar  Mon Nov 28 20:23:06 2005
From: gagenellina at softlab.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:23:06 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] mciSendCommand from win32 ???
In-Reply-To: <438AFE24.8020703@mailpont.hu>
References: <438AFE24.8020703@mailpont.hu>
Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20051128161705.03a4ba00@192.168.0.115>

At Monday 28/11/2005 09:55, durumdara at mailpont.hu wrote:

>I want to call mciSendCommand to record a music in Windows.
>I want to do same thing like in this code (Delphi):
>1. Can I do it ?
>2. If not, what is the solution (I haven't Delphi... I have only
>freeware things)

Try http://www.freepascal.org/ and Lazarus.
Or, there is a small DirectSound example, see the PyWin32 help.


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


From rogelio.flores at gmail.com  Tue Nov 29 00:03:48 2005
From: rogelio.flores at gmail.com (Rogelio Flores)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:03:48 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Error calling win32pdh.EnumObjectItems
Message-ID: <dc8540ff0511281503l78ff3bf7ubcc2cc26b59d8384@mail.gmail.com>

Can anyone tell me what this error message means?

>>> win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "c:\...\win32pdhutil.py", line 67, in ShowAllProcesses
    items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object, win32pdh.PERF_
DETAIL_WIZARD)
pywintypes.api_error: (-2147481646, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
 message is available')


Thanks.

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov 29 05:45:48 2005
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:45:48 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Error calling win32pdh.EnumObjectItems
In-Reply-To: <dc8540ff0511281503l78ff3bf7ubcc2cc26b59d8384@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DAELJHBGPBHPJKEBGGLNOELMIJAD.mhammond@skippinet.com.au>

It looks like you have an old win32all version (it looks like it was fixed
in win32all-154).  This should be fixed in all pywin32 versions available
from sourceforge.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Rogelio Flores
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 November 2005 10:04 AM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Error calling win32pdh.EnumObjectItems
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what this error message means?
>
> >>> win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "c:\...\win32pdhutil.py", line 67, in ShowAllProcesses
>     items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object,
> win32pdh.PERF_
> DETAIL_WIZARD)
> pywintypes.api_error: (-2147481646, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer
> size', 'No error
>  message is available')
>
>
> Thanks.
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From timr at probo.com  Tue Nov 29 18:31:40 2005
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:31:40 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] mciSendCommand from win32 ???
In-Reply-To: <mailman.31.1133262006.22798.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.31.1133262006.22798.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <438C907C.6070404@probo.com>

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:55:00 +0100, <durumdara at mailpont.hu> wrote:

>I want to call mciSendCommand to record a music in Windows.
>
>I want to do same thing like in this code (Delphi):
>...
>
>1. Can I do it ?
>2. If not, what is the solution (I haven't Delphi... I have only 
>freeware things)
>  
>

I have not seen a Python wrapper for the multimedia APIs in winmm.dll.  
There are a couple of references in Google, but no good hits.

However, you could certainly construct one with ctypes.  In your case, 
all you should need is the mciSendString command.  Everything you have 
done with mciSendCommand can be done with the simpler mciSendString 
commands, kind of like this:

  mciSendString( "open new type waveaudio alias cap" )
  mciSendString( "set cap bitspersample 16 channels 1 samplespersec 44100" )
  mciSendString( "record cap" )

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From mc at mclaveau.com  Wed Nov 30 08:50:47 2005
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:50:47 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] mciSendCommand from win32 ???
References: <mailman.31.1133262006.22798.python-win32@python.org>
	<438C907C.6070404@probo.com>
Message-ID: <000301c5f582$c87854d0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

I had wrapped MCI with ctypes.
Here, begin of my source :

from ctypes import windll, c_buffer
class mci:
    def __init__(self):
        self.w32mci      = windll.winmm.mciSendStringA
        self.w32mcierror = windll.winmm.mciGetErrorStringA

    def send(self,commande):
        buffer  = c_buffer(255)
        errorcode = self.w32mci(str(commande),buffer,254,0)
        if errorcode:   # il y a une erreur
            return errorcode, self.w32mcierror(errorcode,buffer,254)
        else:           # commande Ok retourne 0
            return errorcode,buffer.value



@-salutation

MCI  (Michel Claveau Informatique)



From ralf at brainbot.com  Wed Nov 30 17:41:32 2005
From: ralf at brainbot.com (Ralf Schmitt)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:41:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32 service not receiving shutdown notification on
	reboot
Message-ID: <438DD63C.1040805@brainbot.com>

Hi all,

I use the attached program to start a win32 service.
Stopping the service using the service manager works fine, but when I 
reboot the machine, the service just seems to be killed, without 
SvcStop/SvcShutdown being called (i.e. it never prints "DONE" on reboot).
Tested on w2k using python2.3, and on XP using Python 2.4, both using 
pywin 205.

Does anybody have an idea?

TIA,
- Ralf




#! /usr/bin/env python

import sys
import time
import win32serviceutil, win32service

class MyTwistedService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
     _svc_name_ = 'AA'
     _svc_display_name_ = 'AA'
     def SvcDoRun(self):
         # Can't use stdout for logging -- .flush will barf
         sys.stdout = open('c:/mylog.txt','a', 0)
         self.shouldStop = False
         while not self.shouldStop:
             print time.ctime(), "running"
             time.sleep(1)

         print "DONE"

     def SvcStop(self):
         self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
         self.shouldStop = True


     SvcShutdown = SvcStop

if __name__ == '__main__':
     win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(MyTwistedService)