on Mon Feb 04 2008, "Mark Hammond" <mhammond-AT-skippinet.com.au> wrote:
>> I have a couple of type libraries that I've run makepy on.
>>
>> The first can be loaded with
>>
>> s = win32com.client.Dispatch('nameof.Lib1')
>>
>> I have verified that the above gets the ILib1Session object, which
>> the documentation for that library says is the entry point for
>> everything.
>>
>> The documentation then states I'm to call the GetProvider method to get
>> an instance of ILib2Provider, which, naturally, is defined in Lib2.
>> The
>> GetProvider method is declared thus:
>>
>> HRESULT GetProvider (
>> ILib2Provider **ppProvider)
>>
>> When I do
>
> Unfortunately, win32com doesn't support arbitrary interfaces. If the object
> you are using doesn't support IDispatch, then you can't use it from
> win32com. You may like to try something like:
>
> ob = win32com.client.Dispatch(s.GetProvider())
>
> to see if it does support IDispatch,
Hmm, thanks, I guess it doesn't:
'PyIUnknown' object has no attribute 'GetTypeInfo'
> in which case you could then start calling methods etc on it.
So I guess I need to resort to wrapping the C++ API into an extension
module.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://boost-consulting.com
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