Kees van Schaik wrote: > > I have written a Python script that runs on Windows XP with Python 2.5 > and uses Internet Explorer to 'pretty print' some HTML output. This > has been working perfectly fine for a few years until recently IE was > upgraded to version 8. Now occasionally Python throws an error that > originates from the win32com.client.Dispatch() method and has > description 'OLE error 0x800704a6'. (Occasionally means that sometimes > it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to figure out > what the trigger exactly is.) The most recent version of win32com is > installed. Google on the error code didn't give me a lot of hits, and > no useful ones. >
The 80070xxx errors are often COM-wrapped versions of the standard Windows errors. 0x4A6 is 1190, which is "ERROR_SHUTDOWN_IS_SCHEDULED". Is it possible this happens after a Windows Update has occurred but before the reboot? -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32