[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > OK, I've asked this earlier this week with no response. Since then I've > also received a suggestion from the app developers but that failed with > the same type error problem. Hopefully Mark Hammond or other experts > can offer a suggestion as to how to get around this problem. I'm > foolish enough to think that a solution can be found. Or can someone > suggest how to pm Mark. > > --------------------------- > > I'm using pywin32com to drive a 3rd party app. The app has a VBS based > API. In VBS a specific query for data goes like this: > > Plot.QueryBegin datacode, Nothing > > where datacode is a number and Nothing is a VBS type/keyword > > The nominal python equivalent doesn't work. Plot.QueryBegin(datacode, > None) gives a type mismatch error as follows: com_error: (-2147352571, > 'Type mismatch.', None, 2) > >>From what I've been able to discover Nothing is not a null, 0, False, > "" > > Table 12.2 of > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html does not > mention Nothing in its list of Variant types. > > Please, any clues about how to handle this (apart from running the > query in VBS). I so much more prefer python.
Try either pythoncom.Missing, pythoncom.Empty, or pythoncom.ArgNotFound. Roger ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list