Re: [python-win32] Pythoncom PROPVARIANT

On 26/04/2022 5:00 am, Nicholas Pfeiffer wrote: Hi there, Where is the PROPVARIANT class located in the pythoncom library? The docs are not helpful about this: http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/PyPROPVARIANT.html I've seen postings th

[python-win32] Pythoncom PROPVARIANT

Hi there, Where is the PROPVARIANT class located in the pythoncom library? The docs are not helpful about this: http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/PyPROPVARIANT.html I've seen postings that use the propsys module but that one no longer contains the PROPVARIANT class unfortunately. I'm wondering

[python-win32] pythoncom

On 20/10/2014 11:27, Mark Hammond wrote: On 16/10/2014 8:25 pm, John Sampson wrote: at lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py I see more files in the version causing trouble than in the version that works OK. How would I recognise the generated support you mention? Those files *are* the generated s

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom

On 16/10/2014 8:25 pm, John Sampson wrote: at lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py I see more files in the version causing trouble than in the version that works OK. How would I recognise the generated support you mention? Those files *are* the generated support. Try removing all files in that d

[python-win32] pythoncom

On 16/10/2014 07:48, Mark Hammond wrote: On 16/10/2014 12:50 AM, John Sampson wrote: The interface has a function which returns a string from an array of strings as it is supposed to in Windows 64-bit, or if called from VBA. In 32-bit Windows Python it returns the number of the item in the array

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom

On 16/10/2014 12:50 AM, John Sampson wrote: The interface has a function which returns a string from an array of strings as it is supposed to in Windows 64-bit, or if called from VBA. In 32-bit Windows Python it returns the number of the item in the array instead. So to be clear - you have a 64

[python-win32] pythoncom

On 14/10/2014 18:15, Tim Roberts wrote: John Sampson wrote: I have a proprietary program with a command interface implemented as an ActiveX DLL. Importing win32com.client and pythoncom, I can call functions from Python scripts. Some of these work properly in 32-bit Windows 7, but others only in

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom

John Sampson wrote: > I have a proprietary program with a command interface implemented as an > ActiveX DLL. Importing win32com.client and pythoncom, I can call > functions from Python scripts. Some of these work properly in 32-bit > Windows 7, but others only in 64-bit Windows. Is this because

[python-win32] pythoncom

I have a proprietary program with a command interface implemented as an ActiveX DLL. Importing win32com.client and pythoncom, I can call functions from Python scripts. Some of these work properly in 32-bit Windows 7, but others only in 64-bit Windows. Is this because pythoncom is designed to wo

[python-win32] Pythoncom IEnum weird behaviour

I have a COM server implemented in Python. I've created the following object implementing IEnum to automatically wrap the sequence elements in PyIDispatch objects: from win32com.server.util import ListEnumerator class Iterator(ListEnumerator): def Next(self, count): item

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom error -2147180508. What is it?

Thanks, for some reason I couldn't find anything with google. Turns out it is a bug with windows, hotfix here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530185 Thanks. *Joss Gray* d3 Operator/Technician *d3 Technologies.* T. +44 20 7234 9840 M. +44 7969 542 844 d3technologies.com **

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom error -2147180508. What is it?

On 04/01/2014 6:52 AM, Joss Gray wrote: I'm using the awesome wmi package in my application which I understand uses pythoncom. I'm using wmi to perform operations like setting the IP of a network adapter, reading various bits of system information. I'm finding that once in a while calls star

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom error -2147180508. What is it?

On 01/04/2014 11:52, Joss Gray wrote: > I'm using the awesome wmi package in my application which I understand > uses pythoncom. > > I'm using wmi to perform operations like setting the IP of a network > adapter, reading various bits of system information. > > I'm finding that once in a while cal

[python-win32] pythoncom error -2147180508. What is it?

I'm using the awesome wmi package in my application which I understand uses pythoncom. I'm using wmi to perform operations like setting the IP of a network adapter, reading various bits of system information. I'm finding that once in a while calls start failing with an error -2147180508 ( 0x8004A

[python-win32] pythoncom question

Hi all, I am working on a python application which is a multi-threaded application. I just want to make sure that I am doing the right thing or if not, please let me know. I have a parent thread which initalize the COM object inside a python object. This parent thread instantiates 4 other child

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC

Hi! Sorry for late... An example: Create the file C:\tst3.htm, with this content: var ooo = new Object(); ooo.txt='Mark Hammond is a genious'; AAA BBB then use this Python script: import win32com.client import time navig = win32com.client.Dis

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC

Tim: > > It appears we are hitting a VARKIND of VAR_DISPATCH. Does it happen > > for you on any typelibs I'm likely to have installed? Any idea what > > in your typelibs could cause this, so I can repro it in the test suite? > MAPI.Session definitely does this Sadly I don't have that installed

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC

Mark Hammond wrote: Since release 211, I have dozens & dozens messages, like this: pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning None pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning None pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - ret

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC

> Since release 211, I have dozens & dozens messages, like this: > > pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning > None > pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning > None > pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning >

[python-win32] pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC

Hi! Since release 211, I have dozens & dozens messages, like this: pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning None pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning None pythoncom warning: PyVARDESC ctor has unknown varkind (3) - returning None pyth

[python-win32] pythoncom/win32com hangs

I've been working on a class and module to automate IE. All seemed to be working including several hundred test, so I decided to stress test by visiting a large number of pages (400 plus) for several hours to see if the code was stable in the face of repeated use. After roughly 40 minutes of oper

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles

> What I have tried: > > - Use DispatchEx instead of Dispatch: this works with other COM > servers, like MS Word and Excel, but not with mine. Probalby has to do > with the fact that they are local servers, whereas mine is inproc. > > - CoInitialize, CoInitializeEx with flags: no luck > > - using C

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles

Hello Thomas, Thanks for your quick reply. I do not marshal anything because I don't need to pass objects between threads, each thread currently only deals with its own objects. I have also tried using a surrogate process to host the dll server (dllhost.exe) through the registry, but although the

Re: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles

Kostas Eleftheriou schrieb: > Hi, > > I have built a python application that uses a COM server from multiple > threads, and despite some initial problems, I got it to work. I found > out (the hard way) that the COM server would have undefined behaviour > if some of its functions were called at the

[python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles

Hi, I have built a python application that uses a COM server from multiple threads, and despite some initial problems, I got it to work. I found out (the hard way) that the COM server would have undefined behaviour if some of its functions were called at the same time form multiple threads (so it

[python-win32] Pythoncom error with Excel

Hi all, I have built a script that communicates with Excel and plots some data using win32com. Everything goes fine as long as the data series do not contain many points. If I have more that few points (let's say 50 points to plot), I get this error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, '

Re: [python-win32] PythonCOM & Windows Firewall

Again, thanks to Roger to the perfect tip. As I feared, non-admins don't get prompted to "allow" an app that's requesting access or I'm doing something wrong. But, this did lead me to write a couple of quick routines for detecting the FW condition for the users and providing a nice little

Re: [python-win32] PythonCOM & Windows Firewall

Roger, thanks for the code. I'll give it a try. Having read a bunch of the documentation though, I'm concerned it may not work as some of our users won't have admin rights. I was hoping this would provide them the Zone Alarm type prompt so that non-admin could approve the listening app upon exec

[python-win32] PythonCOM & Windows Firewall

Anyone out there ever attempted to use win32com to register applications with Windows Firewall as allowed applications for incoming TCP/UDP connections? Was going to try my hand at this and wondered, if so, that anyone who had already might share some tips. I'm working this so that a non-stand

Re: [python-win32] Pythoncom error

> Here's the thing; I took your advice and kept an eye out for errors > related to the debugger support and fixed them when I found them > (often with a just quick try except clause as you suggested, I'll > revisit them when I get time), Please do, and feed the changes you made back to me (even if

Re: [python-win32] Pythoncom error

On 3/15/06, Mark Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm stress testing an application I have written using the Python Asp > > bindings, on occasions I get an ASP 0147 error (Internal Server > > Error), In the IIS logs it manifests itself as a c005 trapable > > error. > > That sou

Re: [python-win32] Pythoncom error

> Hello, > I'm stress testing an application I have written using the Python Asp > bindings, on occasions I get an ASP 0147 error (Internal Server > Error), In the IIS logs it manifests itself as a c005 trapable > error. That sounds like an Access Violation is happening - which probably is *no

[python-win32] Pythoncom error

Hello, I'm stress testing an application I have written using the Python Asp bindings, on occasions I get an ASP 0147 error (Internal Server Error), In the IIS logs it manifests itself as a c005 trapable error. Having attatched a debugger I noticed this in the resulting logs ..snip.. Wed M