From waseem.afser at gmail.com  Sat Apr 11 09:32:09 2020
From: waseem.afser at gmail.com (Waseem Afser)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:02:09 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] User login details when running a service
Message-ID: <CA+7AGiJm02E-hLrMtKd0iUFVFd3G+Qg5VDAZp6hrzXih9x3tHA@mail.gmail.com>

Is there any possible method to get the logged in user's username from a
windows service ?

FYI: getpass.getuser() and other similar methods return the computer name
instead of the username of the user when the script runs as a service.
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From timr at probo.com  Sat Apr 11 14:09:20 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:09:20 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] User login details when running a service
In-Reply-To: <CA+7AGiJm02E-hLrMtKd0iUFVFd3G+Qg5VDAZp6hrzXih9x3tHA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+7AGiJm02E-hLrMtKd0iUFVFd3G+Qg5VDAZp6hrzXih9x3tHA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <F21FDAAA-68FF-414B-928E-195D1419E879@probo.com>

On Apr 11, 2020, at 6:32 AM, Waseem Afser <waseem.afser at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there any possible method to get the logged in user's username from a windows service ? 

Your assumption that there is only one "logged in user? is false, which is why the information you seek is not readily available.

There is a WMI query that can return the name of all logged in users:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5218778/how-do-i-get-the-currently-logged-username-from-a-windows-service-in-net <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5218778/how-do-i-get-the-currently-logged-username-from-a-windows-service-in-net>
? 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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From waseem.afser at gmail.com  Sat Apr 11 15:16:12 2020
From: waseem.afser at gmail.com (Waseem Afser)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:46:12 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] User login details when running a service
In-Reply-To: <F21FDAAA-68FF-414B-928E-195D1419E879@probo.com>
References: <CA+7AGiJm02E-hLrMtKd0iUFVFd3G+Qg5VDAZp6hrzXih9x3tHA@mail.gmail.com>
 <F21FDAAA-68FF-414B-928E-195D1419E879@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CA+7AGiLGQXWao8c_ovzvxR2w5+oNxZ6xtAe6Ex4h8kG=mROcZw@mail.gmail.com>

 I was kind of blank when I started off with the link you provided but with
some searching i got into a post which got Queries and i used it this way :

objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
strComputer = "."
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer, "root\cimv2")
oos = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("SELECT UserName FROM Win32_ComputerSystem")
oo = oos[0]

# list all object properties
for op in oo.Properties_:
    username = op.Value

while debugging it, i got <COMPUTER_NAME>\<USERNAME> but when i
installed the service and started it it kept crashing and the reason
behind it was :

(-2147221008, 'CoInitialize has not been called.', None, None)

i have no idea whether i did it correctly, please guide me if it's wrong !

Thank you a lot !


On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 11:49 PM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> On Apr 11, 2020, at 6:32 AM, Waseem Afser <waseem.afser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Is there any possible method to get the logged in user's username from a
> windows service ?
>
>
> Your assumption that there is only one "logged in user? is false, which is
> why the information you seek is not readily available.
>
> There is a WMI query that can return the name of all logged in users:
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5218778/how-do-i-get-the-currently-logged-username-from-a-windows-service-in-net
> ?
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
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From waseem.afser at gmail.com  Sat Apr 11 15:34:22 2020
From: waseem.afser at gmail.com (Waseem Afser)
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:04:22 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] OPEN GL error when starting a Kivy App from a service
Message-ID: <CA+7AGiJ86VtoOsNrivP0=LVewu8F-H8iXtZPpweheTJzuBcFTQ@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to start a Kivy App bundled using Pyinstaller from a windows
service made using win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework and the open GL
version it finds  / gets over there is 1.1

I have a GTX 1060 with Open GL verison 4.6.

When i run the Kivy App normally ( not from a service ) everything is fine.
But when it starts from a service as mentioned above this is the result ....

______________________________________

[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case
of problems.

________________________________________

FYI if i run it normally the output would be :
_________________________________________

[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'4.6.0 NVIDIA 445.75'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'NVIDIA Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 4, 6
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Shading version <b'4.60 NVIDIA'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max size <32768>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Texture max units <32>

__________________________________________

I've been nagging behind this issue for days ! with even developers from
Kivy being confused !

Thanks a lot in advance !
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[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_0.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_1.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_2.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_3.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_4.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.
[INFO   ] [Logger      ] Record log in C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\.kivy\logs\kivy_20-04-12_5.txt
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] v1.11.1
[INFO   ] [Kivy        ] Installed at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\kivy\__init__.pyc"
[INFO   ] [Python      ] v3.7.7 (tags/v3.7.7:d7c567b08f, Mar 10 2020, 10:41:24) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
[INFO   ] [Python      ] Interpreter at "D:\PythonVENV\mist-app\dist\app\app.exe"
[INFO   ] [Factory     ] 184 symbols loaded
[INFO   ] [Image       ] Providers: img_tex, img_dds, img_sdl2, img_pil, img_gif (img_ffpyplayer ignored)
[INFO   ] [Window      ] Provider: sdl2
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Using the "OpenGL" graphics system
[INFO   ] [GL          ] GLEW initialization succeeded
[INFO   ] [GL          ] No framebuffers extension is supported
[INFO   ] [GL          ] Backend used <glew>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL version <b'1.1.0'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL vendor <b'Microsoft Corporation'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL renderer <b'GDI Generic'>
[INFO   ] [GL          ] OpenGL parsed version: 1, 1
[CRITICAL] [GL          ] Minimum required OpenGL version (2.0) NOT found!

OpenGL version detected: 1.1

Version: b'1.1.0'
Vendor: b'Microsoft Corporation'
Renderer: b'GDI Generic'

Try upgrading your graphics drivers and/or your graphics hardware in case of problems.

The application will leave now.

From lenikur at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 21:56:38 2020
From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:56:38 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] (no subject)
Message-ID: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>

Hello!

I use win32com module and everything is ok but I cannot find the way how to
pass VT_DECIMAL variant value to COM object's method.


There is a COM interface:
interface IProperty : IDispatch
{
...
 [propget, id(DISPID_VALUE)]
 HRESULT Value([out, retval] VARIANT* pVal);

 [propput, id(DISPID_VALUE)]
 HRESULT Value([in] VARIANT new_value);
...
}

This is how the interface is described in gencache:
class IProperty(DispatchBaseClass):
CLSID = IID('{0A4C05A0-107B-4A8B-9E34-44ED9B117A25}')
coclass_clsid = IID('{2171DCF1-B70B-4CAB-9EB7-F7FED71956B4}')

_prop_map_get_ = {
"Value": (0, 2, (12, 0), (), "Value", None),
}
_prop_map_put_ = {
"Value": ((0, LCID, 4, 0),()),
}
...

In python code I get the object by the following way:

comObj = win32com.client.Dispatch("XXX.XXX.4")
prop = comObj.Property # prop is IProperty

The problem is here:
prop.Value = 0.123456

I need to pass here VT_DECIMAL variant (due to data precision requirements)
but it comes to COM object implementation as VT_R8 variant.
I tried to use decimal python type but it comes as VT_CY variant.

Could you help me to find out how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant from python to
COM?
I would appreciate your help very much!


Regards,
Nikita Lepetukhin
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From lenikur at gmail.com  Tue Apr 14 22:09:03 2020
From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 05:09:03 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello!

I use win32com module and everything is ok but I cannot find the way how to
pass VT_DECIMAL variant value to COM object's method.


There is a COM interface:
interface IProperty : IDispatch
{
...
 [propget, id(DISPID_VALUE)]
 HRESULT Value([out, retval] VARIANT* pVal);

 [propput, id(DISPID_VALUE)]
 HRESULT Value([in] VARIANT new_value);
...
}

This is how the interface is described in gencache:
class IProperty(DispatchBaseClass):
CLSID = IID('{0A4C05A0-107B-4A8B-9E34-44ED9B117A25}')
coclass_clsid = IID('{2171DCF1-B70B-4CAB-9EB7-F7FED71956B4}')

_prop_map_get_ = {
"Value": (0, 2, (12, 0), (), "Value", None),
}
_prop_map_put_ = {
"Value": ((0, LCID, 4, 0),()),
}
...

In python code I get the object by the following way:

comObj = win32com.client.Dispatch("XXX.XXX.4")
prop = comObj.Property # prop is IProperty

The problem is here:
prop.Value = 0.123456

I need to pass here VT_DECIMAL variant (due to data precision requirements)
but it comes to COM object implementation as VT_R8 variant.
I tried to use decimal python type but it comes as VT_CY variant.

Could you help me to find out how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant from python to
COM?
I would appreciate your help very much!


Regards,
Nikita Lepetukhin
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Apr 15 02:03:16 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:03:16 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <95CC13F4-905E-44B0-92A4-9780D5E8B787@probo.com>



> On Apr 14, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Nikita Lepetukhin <lenikur at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I use win32com module and everything is ok but I cannot find the way how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant value to COM object's method.
> ...
> This is how the interface is described in gencache:
> class IProperty(DispatchBaseClass):
> CLSID = IID('{0A4C05A0-107B-4A8B-9E34-44ED9B117A25}')
> coclass_clsid = IID('{2171DCF1-B70B-4CAB-9EB7-F7FED71956B4}')
> 
> _prop_map_get_ = {
> "Value": (0, 2, (12, 0), (), "Value", None),
> }

That?s a property that returns a VT_VARIANT.


> In python code I get the object by the following way:
> ...
> I need to pass here VT_DECIMAL variant (due to data precision requirements) but it comes to COM object implementation as VT_R8 variant.
> I tried to use decimal python type but it comes as VT_CY variant.
> 
> Could you help me to find out how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant from python to COM?
> I would appreciate your help very much!

The VT_CY type, the Python decimal type, and the C# decimal type are all the same ? a 128-point fixed point value with 92 bits of precision.  That?s probably what you should use.  In order to use VT_DECIMAL, then you probably can?t use automatic translation.
? 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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From lenikur at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 05:13:00 2020
From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:13:00 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
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References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
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Tim, thanks for replying!


VT_CY number doesn?t fit the precision I need (16 digits to the right of
the decimal point). It has only 4 digits according to this description:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/5a2b34c4-d109-438e-9ec8-84816d8de40d


The decimal (VT_DECIMAL) has precision up to 28 places (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d>).
It is exactly the same as python decimal has. They match to each other
exactly and much better than VT_CY and python decimal. So maybe it wasn?t
the best solution to automatically convert python decimal to VT_CY variant.
Whatever.. what?s done is done.


As I understand there is another way (?manual?) to make the property set
call. Could you show how to make it?


Nikita Lepetukhin

??, 15 ???. 2020 ?. ? 09:03, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>:

>
>
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Nikita Lepetukhin <lenikur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I use win32com module and everything is ok but I cannot find the way how
> to pass VT_DECIMAL variant value to COM object's method.
> ...
> This is how the interface is described in gencache:
> class IProperty(DispatchBaseClass):
> CLSID = IID('{0A4C05A0-107B-4A8B-9E34-44ED9B117A25}')
> coclass_clsid = IID('{2171DCF1-B70B-4CAB-9EB7-F7FED71956B4}')
>
> _prop_map_get_ = {
> "Value": (0, 2, (12, 0), (), "Value", None),
> }
>
>
> That?s a property that returns a VT_VARIANT.
>
>
> In python code I get the object by the following way:
> ...
> I need to pass here VT_DECIMAL variant (due to data precision
> requirements) but it comes to COM object implementation as VT_R8 variant.
> I tried to use decimal python type but it comes as VT_CY variant.
>
> Could you help me to find out how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant from python
> to COM?
> I would appreciate your help very much!
>
>
> The VT_CY type, the Python decimal type, and the C# decimal type are all
> the same ? a 128-point fixed point value with 92 bits of precision.  That?s
> probably what you should use.  In order to use VT_DECIMAL, then you
> probably can?t use automatic translation.
> ?
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:47:41 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <CAKq30XW-bXpB-9jfx1ir7Z_6UrztUF7yje1xOwT3EfYeFjpkfA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAKq30XXyWMHY4Y2NEnjukxdTyVOVenVUZj4o60JHR03R-nm7DQ@mail.gmail.com>

Tim, thanks for replying!


VT_CY number doesn?t fit the precision I need (16 digits to the right of
the decimal point). It has only 4 digits according to this description:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/5a2b34c4-d109-438e-9ec8-84816d8de40d


The decimal (VT_DECIMAL) has precision up to 28 places (
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d>).
It is exactly the same as python decimal has. They match to each other
exactly and much better than VT_CY and python decimal. So maybe it wasn?t
the best solution to automatically convert python decimal to VT_CY variant.
Whatever.. what?s done is done.


As I understand there is another way (?manual?) to make the property set
call. Could you show how to make it?


Nikita Lepetukhin

??, 15 ???. 2020 ?. ? 09:03, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>:

>
>
> On Apr 14, 2020, at 7:09 PM, Nikita Lepetukhin <lenikur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I use win32com module and everything is ok but I cannot find the way how
> to pass VT_DECIMAL variant value to COM object's method.
> ...
> This is how the interface is described in gencache:
> class IProperty(DispatchBaseClass):
> CLSID = IID('{0A4C05A0-107B-4A8B-9E34-44ED9B117A25}')
> coclass_clsid = IID('{2171DCF1-B70B-4CAB-9EB7-F7FED71956B4}')
>
> _prop_map_get_ = {
> "Value": (0, 2, (12, 0), (), "Value", None),
> }
>
>
> That?s a property that returns a VT_VARIANT.
>
>
> In python code I get the object by the following way:
> ...
> I need to pass here VT_DECIMAL variant (due to data precision
> requirements) but it comes to COM object implementation as VT_R8 variant.
> I tried to use decimal python type but it comes as VT_CY variant.
>
> Could you help me to find out how to pass VT_DECIMAL variant from python
> to COM?
> I would appreciate your help very much!
>
>
> The VT_CY type, the Python decimal type, and the C# decimal type are all
> the same ? a 128-point fixed point value with 92 bits of precision.  That?s
> probably what you should use.  In order to use VT_DECIMAL, then you
> probably can?t use automatic translation.
> ?
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Apr 15 14:05:16 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:05:16 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <CAKq30XW-bXpB-9jfx1ir7Z_6UrztUF7yje1xOwT3EfYeFjpkfA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
 <95CC13F4-905E-44B0-92A4-9780D5E8B787@probo.com>
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Message-ID: <85e88ac3-c6fb-c16f-c258-b54067542e72@probo.com>

Nikita Lepetukhin wrote:
>
> Tim, thanks for replying!
>
>
> VT_CY number doesn?t fit the precision I need (16 digits to the right 
> of the decimal point). It has only 4 digits according to this description:
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/5a2b34c4-d109-438e-9ec8-84816d8de40d
>
>
> The decimal (VT_DECIMAL) has precision up to 28 places 
> (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d 
> <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d>). 
> It is exactly the same as python decimal has. They match to each other 
> exactly and much better than VT_CY and python decimal. So maybe it 
> wasn?t the best solution to automatically convert python decimal to 
> VT_CY variant. Whatever.. what?s done is done.
>
It's possible this is a misunderstanding in the pythoncom code. CURRENCY 
goes back to the days of Visual Basic 6, whereas DECIMAL is much more 
recent.? It may be appropriate to file a bug report.

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


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From timr at probo.com  Wed Apr 15 15:08:56 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:08:56 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <CAKq30XV0nL-28tC4S9Rc9C=LNcd7SVCU7QcEJ9KL1GCO7q9bug@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
 <95CC13F4-905E-44B0-92A4-9780D5E8B787@probo.com>
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Nikita Lepetukhin wrote:
> ok, I will report a bug. But to be honest I'm trying to find the 
> solution.
> Do I understand right that currently there is no way to pass 
> VT_DECIMAL variant from python to com?

Oh, it is possible; the library does many automatic conversions, but 
it's possible to do it by hand.? I just don't know the recipe.? If Tim 
Golden is listening, perhaps he can point us to a reference.

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


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From lenikur at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 14:21:44 2020
From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:21:44 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <85e88ac3-c6fb-c16f-c258-b54067542e72@probo.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
 <95CC13F4-905E-44B0-92A4-9780D5E8B787@probo.com>
 <CAKq30XW-bXpB-9jfx1ir7Z_6UrztUF7yje1xOwT3EfYeFjpkfA@mail.gmail.com>
 <85e88ac3-c6fb-c16f-c258-b54067542e72@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CAKq30XV0nL-28tC4S9Rc9C=LNcd7SVCU7QcEJ9KL1GCO7q9bug@mail.gmail.com>

ok, I will report a bug. But to be honest I'm trying to find the solution.
Do I understand right that currently there is no way to pass VT_DECIMAL
variant from python to com?

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:05 PM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Nikita Lepetukhin wrote:
> >
> > Tim, thanks for replying!
> >
> >
> > VT_CY number doesn?t fit the precision I need (16 digits to the right
> > of the decimal point). It has only 4 digits according to this
> description:
> >
> >
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/5a2b34c4-d109-438e-9ec8-84816d8de40d
> >
> >
> > The decimal (VT_DECIMAL) has precision up to 28 places
> > (
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d
> > <
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-oaut/b5493025-e447-4109-93a8-ac29c48d018d>).
>
> > It is exactly the same as python decimal has. They match to each other
> > exactly and much better than VT_CY and python decimal. So maybe it
> > wasn?t the best solution to automatically convert python decimal to
> > VT_CY variant. Whatever.. what?s done is done.
> >
> It's possible this is a misunderstanding in the pythoncom code. CURRENCY
> goes back to the days of Visual Basic 6, whereas DECIMAL is much more
> recent.  It may be appropriate to file a bug report.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
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From lenikur at gmail.com  Wed Apr 15 15:16:55 2020
From: lenikur at gmail.com (Nikita Lepetukhin)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:16:55 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant
In-Reply-To: <602434d6-f6bb-d650-b026-328c6431764c@probo.com>
References: <CAKq30XVTs7thGmR90wKahxytPQmWLPi9tm0R8KLXEYmTQshh5A@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAKq30XWehbsOWdDUXoZRWm1Vr9-VcToN0R_UFLTQtEiz63J2Tw@mail.gmail.com>
 <95CC13F4-905E-44B0-92A4-9780D5E8B787@probo.com>
 <CAKq30XW-bXpB-9jfx1ir7Z_6UrztUF7yje1xOwT3EfYeFjpkfA@mail.gmail.com>
 <85e88ac3-c6fb-c16f-c258-b54067542e72@probo.com>
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Message-ID: <CAKq30XV3HC+r-koAhyp7+hQpVBoPJ8qun_FChZTRGBUE3cyrPg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Tim! Now I have a hope ))
Could I reach Tim Golden somehow?


On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 10:09 PM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Nikita Lepetukhin wrote:
> > ok, I will report a bug. But to be honest I'm trying to find the
> > solution.
> > Do I understand right that currently there is no way to pass
> > VT_DECIMAL variant from python to com?
>
> Oh, it is possible; the library does many automatic conversions, but
> it's possible to do it by hand.  I just don't know the recipe.  If Tim
> Golden is listening, perhaps he can point us to a reference.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From coderx7 at gmail.com  Tue Apr 21 03:25:30 2020
From: coderx7 at gmail.com (Hossein Hasanpour)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:55:30 +0430
Subject: [python-win32] Pywin32 latest documentation
Message-ID: <CALgPgEdL7DkJyOtc1EvQXd0jujyyacjCB15s9oYCn=Qp4bP5gA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello everyone,
Is there any kind of updated documentation concerning Pywin32?
The only online documentation that I know of is
http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs which is the online version of the
Pywin32.chm located in the site-packages. It is old and it doesn't have
anything regarding the new modules for example.
It be greatly appreciated if we could have some kind of documentation that
reflect the latest changes in the library.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Seyyed Hossein
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Apr 22 01:50:41 2020
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:50:41 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Pywin32 latest documentation
In-Reply-To: <CALgPgEdL7DkJyOtc1EvQXd0jujyyacjCB15s9oYCn=Qp4bP5gA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CALgPgEdL7DkJyOtc1EvQXd0jujyyacjCB15s9oYCn=Qp4bP5gA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b6e1f941-a648-419c-34fb-b80e08052dda@timgolden.me.uk>

Well I've just updated those docs from the latest release

TJG

On 21/04/2020 08:25, Hossein Hasanpour wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Is there any kind of updated documentation concerning Pywin32?
> The only online documentation that I know of is 
> http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs which is the online version of the 
> Pywin32.chm located in the site-packages. It is old and it doesn't 
> have anything regarding the new modules for example.
> It be greatly appreciated if we could have some kind of documentation 
> that reflect the latest changes in the library.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Seyyed Hossein
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Apr 22 06:05:59 2020
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:05:59 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Pywin32 latest documentation
In-Reply-To: <CALgPgEenxYHn4Qrd5S=cZh6dskZhw5eLARec2SRTR+n2E47F2Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CALgPgEdL7DkJyOtc1EvQXd0jujyyacjCB15s9oYCn=Qp4bP5gA@mail.gmail.com>
 <b6e1f941-a648-419c-34fb-b80e08052dda@timgolden.me.uk>
 <CALgPgEenxYHn4Qrd5S=cZh6dskZhw5eLARec2SRTR+n2E47F2Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8fad8290-afd3-ed12-c10a-122ae2a8f601@timgolden.me.uk>

All my code does is to take the .chm file which ships with pywin32, 
unpick it, and turn it into a series of HTML pages. There's a tiny bit 
of tidying-up but that's all.

So if there are no docs in that Help file for some modules, there won't 
be any on those web pages. If they *are* there and I'm somehow skipping 
them, please let me know and I'll try to fix the problem. Or see if you 
can spot the problem and fix it yourself:

 ? https://github.com/tjguk/pywin32-docs

If your question is: why aren't there any docs for those modules at all? 
Then the answer will be: because no-one's written any. I would think 
that a PR for the repo would probably be welcome:

 ? https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32

TJG

On 22/04/2020 10:13, Hossein Hasanpour wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks a lot, but why aren't there any information concerning the 
> python modules there?
> I mean, I can't find any entry for win32serviceutils 
> <https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/blob/master/win32/Lib/win32serviceutil.py>module 
> for example!
> In fact, none of the modules in the /*Lib 
> */directory(https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/tree/master/win32/Lib) 
> seem to be exposed in the documentation!
>
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From terry.y.davis at gmail.com  Wed Apr 22 12:28:10 2020
From: terry.y.davis at gmail.com (Terry Davis)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:28:10 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] [win32com] Meaning of "TypeError: Only
 com_record objects can be used as records"?
In-Reply-To: <CAEziGD8ub_H=z9aBw994N5gEcsAWg0-L2+4Jbkp8SmJZYuJZAw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEziGD-iYQNDwh2m681XSjbXhcsb55qKqMurc5V2OFHsPHZb3g@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAEziGD_zuJo1hdMGJ-P-PD1u--hYyssi5M+qyBBPAz8NL8BYrA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAEziGD9Cpb4YcGCGx-7PeJ_Y5zKBW8r2-OGd_7C2ZqBhi_65PA@mail.gmail.com>

Any ideas?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:06 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Update 2: After discovering the `pythoncom.GetRecordFromGuids` and
> `.GetRecordFromTypeInfo` (with the comment: "This function will fail if the
> specified type info does not have a guid defined").
>
> I found that the Record types don't appear to have a GUID.
> lib_pyITypelib.GetDocumentation(4) = ('SoftwareInfo', None, 0, None)
> lib_pyITypelib.GetTypeInfo(4).GetTypeAttr().iid
> = IID('{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}')
>
> So, is it possible to create a Record object without a GUID?
> (Assuming that passing a Record object `ccs.GetSoftwareInfo(info=<some
> Record Object>)` is the correct approach here.)
>
> I also tried assigning a `pythoncom.CreateGuid() to the `iid` attribute
> above, but `GetRecordFromGuids` failed with `pywintypes.com_error:
> (-2147319765, 'Element not found.', None, None)`. So I assume the GUID
> assignment didn't make it outside of python into COM-space.
>
> P.S.
> I also found this old thread:
>
> https://grokbase.com/t/python/python-win32/0821b2n4e5/how-to-create-a-com-record
> which appears to be related to my problem, but no solutions were
> identified.
> (I tried the `DumbDispatch` solution; it didn't work).
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:31 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Update: The functions that don't work return Record types, and the ones
>> that do work just return multiple values (a tuple).
>> Do I need to pass in the appropriate Record type (or an empty record)
>> during each function call?
>> If so, how do I get to the Record types that I see in the python object
>> browser (python -m win32com.client.combrowse)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Terry
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:33 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I tried searching the mailing list archives for "com_record" but didn't
>>> find anything relevant.
>>>
>>> For context, I'm trying to access a COM interface defined in a .tlb file.
>>>
>>> Here's a skeleton of the script I'm using to expose this interface:
>>> import pythoncom
>>> from win32com.client import gencache
>>>
>>> lib_GUID = "{<GUID>}"
>>> lib_major = 1
>>> lib_minor = 0
>>> lib_pyITypelib = pythoncom.LoadRegTypeLib(lib_GUID, lib_major, lib_minor)
>>> lib = gencache.EnsureModuleForTypelibInterface(_lib_pyITypelib)
>>>
>>> ccs = lib.CControlServer()  # CControlServer is a CoClass
>>> eid, *other = ccs.LoadExperiment(**path to file**)  # Works
>>> ccs.GetSoftwareInfo()  # Fails with exception below.
>>> ccs.GetSolvent(eid)  # also fails
>>>
>>> I can't dig down in the debugger to find the source of the exception, so
>>> I'm hoping someone here can help!
>>>
>>>
>>> Exception:
>>>
>>> def GetSoftwareInfo(self, info=pythoncom.Missing):
>>>
>>>
>>> <ipython-input-8-7304ad54d54a> in <module>
>>> ----> 1 ccs.GetSoftwareInfo()
>>>
>>> ~\AppData\Local\Temp\gen_py\3.7\<GUID>x0x1x0.py in GetSoftwareInfo(self,
>>> info)
>>>     279         def GetSoftwareInfo(self, info=pythoncom.Missing):
>>>     280                 'method GetSoftwareInfo'
>>> --> 281                 return self._ApplyTypes_(13, 1, (24, 0), ((36,
>>> 2),), 'GetSoftwareInfo', None,info
>>>     282                         )
>>>     283
>>>
>>> C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py in
>>> _ApplyTypes_(self, dispid, wFlags, retType, argTypes, user, resultCLSID,
>>> *args)
>>>     465         def _ApplyTypes_(self, dispid, wFlags, retType,
>>> argTypes, user, resultCLSID, *args):
>>>     466                 return self._get_good_object_(
>>> --> 467                         self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(dispid, 0,
>>> wFlags, retType, argTypes, *args),
>>>     468                         user, resultCLSID)
>>>     469
>>>
>>> TypeError: Only com_record objects can be used as records
>>>
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From pavel.olifer at gmail.com  Thu Apr 23 01:10:58 2020
From: pavel.olifer at gmail.com (Pavel Olifer)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:10:58 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] How to change print copies
Message-ID: <E3E7ECF9-A6C5-4C6A-ADD4-AE9EA03C79E2@gmail.com>

Good day!

i use your package for changing  printer settings (duplex, copies).
for duplex it is work, but for copies it doesn't.

@source_code
def set_duplex(printer_name):
    # print_defaults = {"DesiredAccess": win32print.PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER}
    print_defaults = {"DesiredAccess": win32print.PRINTER_ACCESS_USE}
    handle = win32print.OpenPrinter(printer_name, print_defaults)

    level = 2
    attributes = win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)

    print('Printer= ', printer_name)
    print('Copies= ', win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)['pDevMode'].Copies)
    print('Duplex= ', win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)['pDevMode'].Duplex)

    # attributes['pDevMode'].Duplex = 1    # no flip
    attributes['pDevMode'].Duplex = 2    # flip up
    # attributes['pDevMode'].Duplex = 3  # flip over

    attributes['pDevMode'].Copies = 4

    #for key in attributes:
    #    print('{}'.format(key))
    
    #for n in dir(attributes['DevMode']):
    #    print('{} {}'.format(n, getattr(attributes['DevMode'], n)))

    try:
        print('try')
        win32print.SetPrinter(handle, level, attributes, 0)
        print('Copies= ', win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)['pDevMode'].Copies)
        print('Duplex= ', win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)['pDevMode'].Duplex)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)
    win32print.ClosePrinter(handle)


def print_excel(printer_no, path_to_file, duplex='Y', copies=4):
    printer_name = app_config.PRINTER_NAMES[printer_no]

    if duplex == 'Y':
        set_duplex(printer_name=printer_name)

    win32api.ShellExecute(
        1,
        'printto',
        path_to_file,
        '{}'.format(printer_name),
        '.',
        0
    )

if __name__ == '__main__':
    set_duplex(printer_name='\\\\server_name\\printer_name')


if i change and then check (just print) properties changed and document printed on both sides, but only 1 copy, not 4.
may be you know what did i miss ?

My question on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58415047/python-win32print-how-to-change-copies <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58415047/python-win32print-how-to-change-copies>


-- Pavel

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From timr at probo.com  Fri Apr 24 01:06:20 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:06:20 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] How to change print copies
In-Reply-To: <E3E7ECF9-A6C5-4C6A-ADD4-AE9EA03C79E2@gmail.com>
References: <E3E7ECF9-A6C5-4C6A-ADD4-AE9EA03C79E2@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <638D5144-F5A6-43A9-B56C-7CD4E799FD2C@probo.com>

On Apr 22, 2020, at 10:10 PM, Pavel Olifer <pavel.olifer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i use your package for changing  printer settings (duplex, copies).
> for duplex it is work, but for copies it doesn?t.

Some Windows printers don?t honor the ?Copies? selection directly.  The application has to generate multiple copies on its own.  Have you seen a multi-copy setting work using the native driver?
? 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From pavel.olifer at gmail.com  Fri Apr 24 01:35:09 2020
From: pavel.olifer at gmail.com (Pavel Olifer)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:35:09 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] How to change print copies
In-Reply-To: <638D5144-F5A6-43A9-B56C-7CD4E799FD2C@probo.com>
References: <E3E7ECF9-A6C5-4C6A-ADD4-AE9EA03C79E2@gmail.com>
 <638D5144-F5A6-43A9-B56C-7CD4E799FD2C@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CALOnRhcUT+-Az=8oWRzTnLz3mfQntZCKuSV28Ds02WPiujZQ2g@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Tim,
"Have you seen a multi-copy setting work using the native driver?" - i
didn't catch this sentence... did you mean did i use native driver in
python code?
All MFP on my job only Konika-Minolta devices.
-- pavel


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:11 AM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2020, at 10:10 PM, Pavel Olifer <pavel.olifer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > i use your package for changing  printer settings (duplex, copies).
> > for duplex it is work, but for copies it doesn?t.
>
> Some Windows printers don?t honor the ?Copies? selection directly.  The
> application has to generate multiple copies on its own.  Have you seen a
> multi-copy setting work using the native driver?
> ?
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


-- 
-- po
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From pavel.olifer at gmail.com  Fri Apr 24 06:00:07 2020
From: pavel.olifer at gmail.com (Pavel Olifer)
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:00:07 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] How to change print copies
In-Reply-To: <CALOnRhcUT+-Az=8oWRzTnLz3mfQntZCKuSV28Ds02WPiujZQ2g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <E3E7ECF9-A6C5-4C6A-ADD4-AE9EA03C79E2@gmail.com>
 <638D5144-F5A6-43A9-B56C-7CD4E799FD2C@probo.com>
 <CALOnRhcUT+-Az=8oWRzTnLz3mfQntZCKuSV28Ds02WPiujZQ2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CALOnRhf0RGBym5afhQ+1uSq0yRBJrPSdUJ13dvdna+6Z5+6Zpg@mail.gmail.com>

and some  interesting things that if i change copies using this
attributes['pDevMode'].Copies = 4
and than
print('Copies= ', win32print.GetPrinter(handle, level)['pDevMode'].Copies)
i see 4 qty. but if i print using

win32api.ShellExecute(
        1,
        'printto',
        path_to_file,
        '{}'.format(printer_name),
        '.',
        0
    )

printer printed only 1 copy.

--po

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:35 AM Pavel Olifer <pavel.olifer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Tim,
> "Have you seen a multi-copy setting work using the native driver?" - i
> didn't catch this sentence... did you mean did i use native driver in
> python code?
> All MFP on my job only Konika-Minolta devices.
> -- pavel
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:11 AM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 22, 2020, at 10:10 PM, Pavel Olifer <pavel.olifer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > i use your package for changing  printer settings (duplex, copies).
>> > for duplex it is work, but for copies it doesn?t.
>>
>> Some Windows printers don?t honor the ?Copies? selection directly.  The
>> application has to generate multiple copies on its own.  Have you seen a
>> multi-copy setting work using the native driver?
>> ?
>> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>
>
>
> --
> -- po
> +7 (977) 004 67 53
>


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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Apr 27 06:29:59 2020
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:29:59 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Pywin32 latest documentation
In-Reply-To: <b6e1f941-a648-419c-34fb-b80e08052dda@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <CALgPgEdL7DkJyOtc1EvQXd0jujyyacjCB15s9oYCn=Qp4bP5gA@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <31463414-06ed-c794-dce5-71ca2d894d5e@timgolden.me.uk>

Just a quick follow-up to say that I'd spotted a couple of bugs in the 
code which generates the website copy, so I think that what's now 
showing contains everything in the CHM file. Feel free to ping me if you 
spot anything missing:

http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/

TJG

On 22/04/2020 06:50, Tim Golden wrote:
>
> Well I've just updated those docs from the latest release
>
> TJG
>
> On 21/04/2020 08:25, Hossein Hasanpour wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> Is there any kind of updated documentation concerning Pywin32?
>> The only online documentation that I know of is 
>> http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs which is the online version of 
>> the Pywin32.chm located in the site-packages. It is old and it 
>> doesn't have anything regarding the new modules for example.
>> It be greatly appreciated if we could have some kind of documentation 
>> that reflect the latest changes in the library.
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>> Seyyed Hossein
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> python-win32 at python.org
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From terry.y.davis at gmail.com  Mon Apr 27 15:58:43 2020
From: terry.y.davis at gmail.com (Terry Davis)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:58:43 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] [win32com] Meaning of "TypeError: Only
 com_record objects can be used as records"?
In-Reply-To: <CAEziGD9Cpb4YcGCGx-7PeJ_Y5zKBW8r2-OGd_7C2ZqBhi_65PA@mail.gmail.com>
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I just discovered this message:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-August/214888.html
and when I tried getting a com_record:
client.Record("SoftwareInfo",app._com)
I got this error:
ValueError: The structure 'SoftwareInfo' is not defined in module '<module
'win32com.gen_py.<GUID>x1x0'

I looked in the generated file, and its RecordMap dict was empty, with a
comment. There are a dozen or so structs that should be available to the
interface. Is there any workaround for this, such as manually defining each
com_record?

RecordMap = {
###'LegacyMicroSamplerInfo': '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}', #
Record disabled because it doesn't have a non-null GUID
}

I was also given an idl file, which includes record definitions, like this
one:

typedef struct SoftwareInfo {
   BSTR name;
   BSTR version;
} SoftwareInfo;

Is there something missing from the idl file that's causing these to be
missed by win32com?


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:28 AM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any ideas?
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:06 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Update 2: After discovering the `pythoncom.GetRecordFromGuids` and
>> `.GetRecordFromTypeInfo` (with the comment: "This function will fail if the
>> specified type info does not have a guid defined").
>>
>> I found that the Record types don't appear to have a GUID.
>> lib_pyITypelib.GetDocumentation(4) = ('SoftwareInfo', None, 0, None)
>> lib_pyITypelib.GetTypeInfo(4).GetTypeAttr().iid
>> = IID('{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}')
>>
>> So, is it possible to create a Record object without a GUID?
>> (Assuming that passing a Record object `ccs.GetSoftwareInfo(info=<some
>> Record Object>)` is the correct approach here.)
>>
>> I also tried assigning a `pythoncom.CreateGuid() to the `iid` attribute
>> above, but `GetRecordFromGuids` failed with `pywintypes.com_error:
>> (-2147319765, 'Element not found.', None, None)`. So I assume the GUID
>> assignment didn't make it outside of python into COM-space.
>>
>> P.S.
>> I also found this old thread:
>>
>> https://grokbase.com/t/python/python-win32/0821b2n4e5/how-to-create-a-com-record
>> which appears to be related to my problem, but no solutions were
>> identified.
>> (I tried the `DumbDispatch` solution; it didn't work).
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:31 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Update: The functions that don't work return Record types, and the ones
>>> that do work just return multiple values (a tuple).
>>> Do I need to pass in the appropriate Record type (or an empty record)
>>> during each function call?
>>> If so, how do I get to the Record types that I see in the python object
>>> browser (python -m win32com.client.combrowse)?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Terry
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 3:33 PM Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I tried searching the mailing list archives for "com_record" but didn't
>>>> find anything relevant.
>>>>
>>>> For context, I'm trying to access a COM interface defined in a .tlb
>>>> file.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a skeleton of the script I'm using to expose this interface:
>>>> import pythoncom
>>>> from win32com.client import gencache
>>>>
>>>> lib_GUID = "{<GUID>}"
>>>> lib_major = 1
>>>> lib_minor = 0
>>>> lib_pyITypelib = pythoncom.LoadRegTypeLib(lib_GUID, lib_major,
>>>> lib_minor)
>>>> lib = gencache.EnsureModuleForTypelibInterface(_lib_pyITypelib)
>>>>
>>>> ccs = lib.CControlServer()  # CControlServer is a CoClass
>>>> eid, *other = ccs.LoadExperiment(**path to file**)  # Works
>>>> ccs.GetSoftwareInfo()  # Fails with exception below.
>>>> ccs.GetSolvent(eid)  # also fails
>>>>
>>>> I can't dig down in the debugger to find the source of the exception,
>>>> so I'm hoping someone here can help!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Exception:
>>>>
>>>> def GetSoftwareInfo(self, info=pythoncom.Missing):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <ipython-input-8-7304ad54d54a> in <module>
>>>> ----> 1 ccs.GetSoftwareInfo()
>>>>
>>>> ~\AppData\Local\Temp\gen_py\3.7\<GUID>x0x1x0.py in
>>>> GetSoftwareInfo(self, info)
>>>>     279         def GetSoftwareInfo(self, info=pythoncom.Missing):
>>>>     280                 'method GetSoftwareInfo'
>>>> --> 281                 return self._ApplyTypes_(13, 1, (24, 0), ((36,
>>>> 2),), 'GetSoftwareInfo', None,info
>>>>     282                         )
>>>>     283
>>>>
>>>> C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py in
>>>> _ApplyTypes_(self, dispid, wFlags, retType, argTypes, user, resultCLSID,
>>>> *args)
>>>>     465         def _ApplyTypes_(self, dispid, wFlags, retType,
>>>> argTypes, user, resultCLSID, *args):
>>>>     466                 return self._get_good_object_(
>>>> --> 467                         self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(dispid, 0,
>>>> wFlags, retType, argTypes, *args),
>>>>     468                         user, resultCLSID)
>>>>     469
>>>>
>>>> TypeError: Only com_record objects can be used as records
>>>>
>>>
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From timr at probo.com  Tue Apr 28 02:31:32 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:31:32 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] [win32com] Meaning of "TypeError: Only
 com_record objects can be used as records"?
In-Reply-To: <CAEziGD-Q0qOJMUoaYgX_mGQfgaFcCptWS2wJKLLNsqGc+tXiyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 27, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I looked in the generated file, and its RecordMap dict was empty, with a comment. There are a dozen or so structs that should be available to the interface. Is there any workaround for this, such as manually defining each com_record?
> 
> RecordMap = {
> ###'LegacyMicroSamplerInfo': '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}', # Record disabled because it doesn't have a non-null GUID 
> }
> 
> I was also given an idl file, which includes record definitions, like this one:
> 
> typedef struct SoftwareInfo {
>    BSTR name;
>    BSTR version;
> } SoftwareInfo;
> 
> Is there something missing from the idl file that's causing these to be missed by win32com?

Well, yes.  There are rigid rules for writing IDL to make a valid dispatch interface, and generic structs like that are not in those rules.  Some people get the idea that anything they can express in C++ can be shoved in a COM interface, but it ain?t so.

You should be able to add a GUID attribute to the IDL:

[ uuid(12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789ABC) ]
typedef struct SoftwareInfo {
?
} SoftwareInfo;

Just generate a new GUID for each one.
? 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From timr at probo.com  Thu Apr 30 22:45:34 2020
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:45:34 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] [win32com] Meaning of "TypeError: Only
 com_record objects can be used as records"?
In-Reply-To: <CAEziGD-inARL6NQCHuGCdV+ETi2F8Q3-8gmc5RqHxXf6R7LcPw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 30, 2020, at 11:47 AM, Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the pointer! I'll let the maintainers of this software know.
> 
> Do you know if applying this fix is sufficient for win32com to successfully handle returned structs?

I don?t know.  That was the fix suggested by the old mailing list threads I found.
? 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From joaopedrosp at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 12:10:21 2020
From: joaopedrosp at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Jo=C3=A3o_Pereira?=)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:10:21 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] INotificationActivationCallback interface in
 python-pywin32
Message-ID: <CAKQa4XOXTBi0G4JjgCBPsf70kf3QudEMg_Tj6Da6_Zsn1uLpZw@mail.gmail.com>

Looking through the respond to toast activations
<https://docs.microsoft.com/pt-br/previous-versions/windows/desktop/win32_tile_badge_notif/respond-to-toast-activations>
page,
amongst other requirements, an implementation of the
INotificationActivationCallback
<https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/api/NotificationActivationCallback/nn-notificationactivationcallback-inotificationactivationcallback>interface
is required. However, after searching the repo for the structures
identified in the sample code nothing yielded. Did I miss something or does
the wrapper not support this yet?

Thank you,
Jo?o Pereira
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From terry.y.davis at gmail.com  Thu Apr 30 14:47:59 2020
From: terry.y.davis at gmail.com (Terry Davis)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:47:59 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] [win32com] Meaning of "TypeError: Only
 com_record objects can be used as records"?
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Hi Tim,

Thanks for the pointer! I'll let the maintainers of this software know.

Do you know if applying this fix is sufficient for win32com to successfully
handle returned structs?

-Terry

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:32 PM Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Terry Davis <terry.y.davis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I looked in the generated file, and its RecordMap dict was empty, with a
> comment. There are a dozen or so structs that should be available to the
> interface. Is there any workaround for this, such as manually defining each
> com_record?
> >
> > RecordMap = {
> > ###'LegacyMicroSamplerInfo': '{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}', #
> Record disabled because it doesn't have a non-null GUID
> > }
> >
> > I was also given an idl file, which includes record definitions, like
> this one:
> >
> > typedef struct SoftwareInfo {
> >    BSTR name;
> >    BSTR version;
> > } SoftwareInfo;
> >
> > Is there something missing from the idl file that's causing these to be
> missed by win32com?
>
> Well, yes.  There are rigid rules for writing IDL to make a valid dispatch
> interface, and generic structs like that are not in those rules.  Some
> people get the idea that anything they can express in C++ can be shoved in
> a COM interface, but it ain?t so.
>
> You should be able to add a GUID attribute to the IDL:
>
> [ uuid(12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789ABC) ]
> typedef struct SoftwareInfo {
> ?
> } SoftwareInfo;
>
> Just generate a new GUID for each one.
> ?
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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