[python-win32] Reading properties from office builtin dialogs?

[Bob Gailer]

Anders Quist wrote:
> I have an application that wants to print a large set of documents.
> Therefore, I want to have word display its print dialog so the user
> can supply printer settings once, that I can read and store for use
> with all following prints.
>
> At first glance, this would seem straight-forward; VBA like so:
>
>     Dim dlgPrint As Dialog
>     Set dlgPrint = Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint)
>     dlgPrint.Display
>     MsgBox "printer = " & dlgPrint.Printer
>
> However, when tried in python, the property Printer does not seem to
> be available. A little trial-and-error indicates that no such
> properties are available from Word builtin dialogs:
>
>     >>> import win32com.client
>     >>> x = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
>     >>> p = x.Dialogs(win32com.client.constants.wdDialogFilePrint)
>     >>> p.Display()
>     <dialogs displayed>
>     >>> p.Printer
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>       File "c:\python\env\env11\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 451, in __getattr__
>         raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self), attr)
>     AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Word 10.0 Object Library.Dialog instance at 0x21494960>' object has no attribute 'Printer'
>   
Odd - when I tried this win32com.client.constants did not have an 
attribute wdDialogFilePrint. When I substituted 88 then I got the 
printer dialog, and p.Printer returned my printer name!

Have you run makepy on word.application? If so note that attributes are 
case sensitive. Did you try p.printer?