On 09/07/2008, Kelie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think comtypes or pywin32 do take care of some conversion between Python > types and VB types. But they don't work with AutoCAD.
Hi Kelie, This is a short excerpt from _Python Programming on Win32_: """In many cases, PythonCOM can translate between Python objects and VARIANT structures seamlessly. When you call a COM object and pass a Python object, PythonCOM automatically creates a VARIANT of the right type and passes the VARIANT to COM. [...] Python object type: Any other python sequence. VARIANT type: An array of VARIANTs; each element of the sequence is translated using this table. [...] In some cases, these translations aren't suitable; for example, a COM object may be picky about the VARIANT types passed and accept only a VT_I2 integer, not a VT_I4 integer. This should be considered a bug in the COM object, but it does happen. In this case, you must use earlybound COM by using MakePy. [...] If you can't use MakePy for your COM object, you must get your hands dirty and use the PyIDispatch.InvokeTypes() method manually; this is how MakePy gets the behaviour it does. The use of InvokeTypes() is beyond the scope of this book.""" I think your question is beyond the scope of this mailing list :-) I think there's a mailing list dedicated to python on Windows; you might do better there. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
