Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-07 Thread Bob Kline
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 2:14 PM Tim Roberts wrote: > ... > Ah, you youngsters who don't remember the glory days. Well, I'll be 75 in a couple of weeks, so I don't know how well I still qualify as a "youngster."  It's more likely that I knew about that "feature" at one time (I used Pine on

Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-07 Thread Tim Roberts
On 1/7/23 7:11 AM, Bob Kline wrote: As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..."

Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-07 Thread Bob Kline
As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..." was not in the message that I sent, but

Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-04 Thread Bob Kline
On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 9:08 PM Mark Hammond wrote: > ... > This is probably just defined by IDispatch and related interfaces. There > is a good chance that JScript magically uses multiple interfaces at the > same time for an object, whereas Python only tends to use one. Right. Presumably JScript

Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-03 Thread Mark Hammond
On 4/01/2023 12:58 am, Bob Kline wrote: I've made good progress on our project to port our XMetaL JScript macros to Python (see the thread from about a month ago referring to the project). All the macros (a couple of hundred of them) have been rewritten in Python, and they all appear to work

[python-win32] Object type puzzle

2023-01-03 Thread Bob Kline
I've made good progress on our project to port our XMetaL JScript macros to Python (see the thread from about a month ago referring to the project). All the macros (a couple of hundred of them) have been rewritten in Python, and they all appear to work correctly (though testing in earnest is still