Oh, and I'm not sure if this is by design or not (I'll need to ping the DLR team), but it seems you can do:
wd.Variables.Item('foo') instead. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dino Viehland Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:44 AM To: Discussion of IronPython Subject: Re: [IronPython] COM Object Issue Is the exception you're seeing "Error while invoking Item"? Just want to make sure I'm seeing the same thing and the actual exception is cut off in your snippet below. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zaur Shibzoukhov Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:51 AM To: users@lists.ironpython.com Subject: [IronPython] COM Object Issue There is an error in RC 1: IronPython 2.0 (2.0.0.0) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import System >>> wa = >>> System.Activator.CreateInstance(System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application")) >>> wd = wa.Documents.Add() >>> wd.Variables.Add("foo") <System.__ComObject (Variable) object at 0x000000000000002B> >>> wd.Variables["foo"] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> In IronPython Beta 5 it worked as expected: IronPython 2.0 Beta (2.0.0.5000) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import System >>> wa = >>> System.Activator.CreateInstance(System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Word.Application")) >>> wd = wa.Documents.Add() >>> wd.Variables.Add("foo") <System.__ComObject (Variable) object at 0x000000000000002B> >>> wd.Variables["foo"] <System.__ComObject (Variable) object at 0x000000000000002C> Best regards, Zaur _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.ironpython.com http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com