[sorry for the late reply...]
Suraj Barkale schrieb:
> On 12/13/07, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It would probably be a good idea to change the "magic" that comtypes
>> currently implements into something that is more compatible with VB
>> (or other scripting languages).
>> However, I fear that changing this may break some existing programs.
>>
> It would be good to have same conventions as VB because most of the
> examples on web use it and similar syntax means lesser brain power
> required :) But ultimately, only you can decide whether its
> appropriate to make the change.
I will do this change later (in 0.5, maybe), because I fear backwards compat
problems.
> Continuing with the 'Range' object, I ran into a problem that it is
> not iterable; although it provides _NewEnum member. I don't know if it
> is a problem specific to my installation of Office 2000. I tried
> following on the shell:
>
>>>> from comtypes.client import CreateObject
>>>> xl = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>>>> wb = xl.Workbooks.Add()
>>>> rng = xl.Range['A1:C1']
>>>> rng.Value[()] = (10,"20",31.4)
>>>> for c in rng:
> print c.Value()
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module>
> for c in rng:
> TypeError: 'POINTER(Range)' object is not iterable
>
> I think following test case would cover this scenario. My sincerest
> apologies for not providing a proper patch but I don't have access to
> svn now.
Well, tests are sometimes even more valuable than code patches ;-).
I have fixed the problem in SVN, and will release this as 0.4.2 shortly.
In the meantime you could probably test the attached patch which fixes it.
Thomas
--- snip ---
Modified: ctypes/trunk/comtypes/comtypes/__init__.py
==============================================================================
--- ctypes/trunk/comtypes/comtypes/__init__.py (original)
+++ ctypes/trunk/comtypes/comtypes/__init__.py Wed Dec 19 18:01:33 2007
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
import new, types, sys, os
-__version__ = "0.4.1"
+__version__ = "0.4.2"
from ctypes import *
from _ctypes import COMError
@@ -232,9 +232,14 @@
def __setattr__(self, name, value):
if name == "_methods_":
+ # XXX I'm no longer sure why the code generator generates
+ # "_methods_ = []" in the interface definition, and later
+ # overrides this by "Interface._methods_ = [...]
+## assert self.__dict__.get("_methods_", None) is None
self._make_methods(value)
self._make_specials()
elif name == "_disp_methods_":
+ assert self.__dict__.get("_disp_methods_", None) is None
self._make_dispmethods(value)
self._make_specials()
type.__setattr__(self, name, value)
@@ -328,6 +333,9 @@
for m in methods:
what, name, idlflags, restype, argspec = m
+ # is it a property set or property get?
+ is_prop = False
+
# argspec is a sequence of tuples, each tuple is:
# ([paramflags], type, name)
try:
@@ -337,6 +345,7 @@
if what == "DISPPROPERTY": # DISPPROPERTY
assert not argspec # XXX does not yet work for properties with
parameters
accessor = self._disp_property(memid, idlflags)
+ is_prop = True
setattr(self, name, accessor)
elif what == "DISPMETHOD": # DISPMETHOD
# argspec is a tuple of (idlflags, type, name[,
@@ -346,14 +355,26 @@
if 'propget' in idlflags:
nargs = len(argspec)
properties.setdefault((name, nargs), [None, None,
None])[0] = method
+ is_prop = True
elif 'propput' in idlflags:
nargs = len(argspec)-1
properties.setdefault((name, nargs), [None, None,
None])[1] = method
+ is_prop = True
elif 'propputref' in idlflags:
nargs = len(argspec)-1
properties.setdefault((name, nargs), [None, None,
None])[2] = method
+ is_prop = True
else:
setattr(self, name, method)
+ # COM is case insensitive.
+ #
+ # For a method, this is the real name. For a property,
+ # this is the name WITHOUT the _set_ or _get_ prefix.
+ if self._case_insensitive_:
+ self.__map_case__[name.lower()] = name
+ if is_prop:
+ self.__map_case__[name[5:].lower()] = name[5:]
+
for (name, nargs), methods in properties.items():
# methods contains [propget or None, propput or None, propputref
or None]
if methods[1] and methods[2]:
@@ -383,6 +404,10 @@
assert len(methods) <= 2
setattr(self, name, property(*methods))
+ # COM is case insensitive
+ if self._case_insensitive_:
+ self.__map_case__[name.lower()] = name
+
# Some ideas, (not only) related to disp_methods:
#
# Should the functions/methods we create have restype and/or
--- snip ---
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