Christian K. schrieb:
>
> I successfully read out the Outlook inbox using comtpyes but finally
> switched back to pywin32 because I was not able to interprete the value
> of MailItem.CreationTime,
> e.g:
> obj.Session.Folders['mail.server.com'].Folders['INBOX'].Items.Item(1).CreationTime
> which looks like a posix timestamp which dates back to the 70th. I guess
> pywin32 is doing some conversion there and comtypes is not?
Here is a little hack that automatically converts COM date/time objects
(doubles)
from or to Python datetime objects. You have to insert this code near the top
of the
generated comtypes.gen._00062FFF_0000_0000_C000_000000000046_0_9_1 module (this
is the module
that is imported by comtypes.gen.Outlook on my system. BTW I have outlook
2002, if you
have a different version the module name may be different).
It replaces the c_double datetype used in that module with a subclass that
converts
automatically in COM method calls:
<code>
import datetime
_com_null_date = datetime.datetime(1899, 12, 30, 0, 0, 0)
class com_datetime(c_double):
"""COM represents date/time values as double. The value is the number
of days since 1899, Dec 30."""
def __ctypes_from_outparam__(self):
# When an [out] parameter is retrived from a COM method call,
# this special method is called. Return a datetime object.
return datetime.timedelta(seconds=self.value * 86400.) + _com_null_date
@classmethod
def from_param(cls, value):
if isinstance(value, (float, int, long)):
# convert a unix timestamp into a datetime instance.
value = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(value)
if isinstance(value, datetime.datetime):
# Convert a datetime instance into a COM date.
delta = value - _com_null_date
# a day has 24 * 60 * 60 = 86400 seconds
com_days = delta.days + (delta.seconds + delta.microseconds * 1e-6)
/ 86400.
return cls(com_days)
raise TypeError("need timestamp or datetime object")
c_double = com_datetime
<code/>
Thomas
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