[python-win32] VT_DECIMAL variant

[Nikita Lepetukhin]

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.
>
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