[python-win32] python COM-Server and VBScript

[Tim Roberts]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:40:47 +0200, Frank G?nther <f.g.- at gmx.de>

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>>>> >I found a strange behaviour when I use a python-COM-Server together with VB.
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>>> Not VB, but rather VBS.  They are two rather different languages.
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>Hi Tim, 
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>Thanks for your answer. 
>Actually the same problem arises if you use VB or VBA. So the difference
>between VB and VBS is at least for this problem not to wide.
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I'll be darned, you're quite right.  Even VB 2005 behaves this way.  I
checked the generated IL, and this weird behavior is definitely there. 
The compiled code is storing the return value in the first non-constant
parameter.

I've worked with COM for a long time, and I don't remember seeing that
behavior written down anywhere.

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