[python-win32] how can I do marshall.ReleaseComObject in python ?? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Andrew MacIntyre]

[sorry for top-post]

You probably need to release the Python object that is wrapping the COM object.

Given a variable x holding a COM object reference, either:

    del x

or

    x = None

should force release of any COM object reference.

Which to use depends on taste and context - the latter approach for example being perhaps more usual when dealing with object attributes.

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From: python-win32 [mailto:python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org] On Behalf Of Matteo Boscolo
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2012 4:00 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] how can I do marshall.ReleaseComObject in python ??

Hi All,

I'm Working on a cad program using the it's com interface

I have a python com object in witch I call a method as follows ..

    props=ent.Properties(True)
    #Ent is a IDocument
    this method is working well, and return a tuple of ITDProperty that are the property of the document.

The problem is when I close the document from the Cad application, the Cad application is unable to close the document because there is some reference still active.
I tried several way using the gc.collect(), to set to null each document pointer but with no result.
I tried to do the some kind of operation with c# and using the Marshal.ReleaseComObject(doc);, where doc is the  IDocument, and document is released and I'm free to close it from the interface.

now the question is how can I do the some staff as ReleaseComObject dose in python ?

its the Release method of the IUnknown interface the right way to do that ?

any hint is really appreciated, thanks

Regards,
Matteo




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