I have been developing an application driving a device through COM. I used win32com (brilliant ) and was at a fairly advanced stage being able to access the functions of the device and access/ retrieve its data. A week or two ago I did some overdue upgrading to all the components of the application.win32com, python to 2.4.4 and wxpy to latest. Then the problem began (I think!). My app still accesses the device and some functions still perform as expected. Howeve some important data retrieval functions now behave very differently. Initially a tuple was returned, which was made into a list. This tuple returned (true,'1234xyz'), the first element was the success or failure of the operation, the second the required data. Now all these functions return only the boolean, True or False. I cannot seem to produce the tuple that initially worked extremely well.
eg. initially xx.GetMACAddr(param1,param2) <-- params as per 'intellisense' would return (True,'123xyz') now xx.GetMACAddr(param1,param2) returns True (type boolean) I have exhausted my relative inexperience on this one. Any Ideas BTW VB extracts the data just fine , so I dont think that the Device or firmware is at fault here. Python has been great so far, I trust this problem is an oversight on my part. Thanks in keen anticipation for any ideas to get over this one!! I am in the middle of returning to Python 2.4.3 just to be sure that this is not the issue. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list