I copied and pasted your code (except for removing the line break in your line
2) and it worked fine for me.
import win32com.client
o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
o.Visible = 1
o.Workbooks.Add()
o.Cells(1,1).Value = "Hello"
This produced a visible Excel window, with Book1 visible and active, with the
word "Hello" in row 1 column A.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murr Von Kater
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:35 AM
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with simple example
Hi all!
I'm beginer in python-win32 and i try a simple example which is described in
"Python for Win32 Extensions Help":
import win32com.client
o = win32com.client.Dispatch("
Excel.Application")
o.Visible = 1
o.Workbooks.Add() # for office 97 - 95 a bit different!
o.Cells(1,1).Value = "Hello"
But this example falls with traceback:
File "D:\Python25\pyprojects\pyexample\pyexample.py", line 6, in <module>
o.Workbooks.Add() # for office 97 - 95 a bit different!
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 467, in
__getattr__
if self._olerepr_.mapFuncs.has_key(attr): return self._make_method_(attr)
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 295, in
_make_method_
methodCodeList =
self._olerepr_.MakeFuncMethod(self._olerepr_.mapFuncs[name], methodName,0)
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line 297, in
MakeFuncMethod
return self.MakeDispatchFuncMethod(entry, name, bMakeClass)
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line 318, in
MakeDispatchFuncMethod
s = linePrefix + 'def ' + name + '(self' + BuildCallList(fdesc, names,
defNamedOptArg, defNamedNotOptArg, defUnnamedArg, defOutArg) + '):'
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line 604, in
BuildCallList
argName = MakePublicAttributeName(argName)
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line 542, in
MakePublicAttributeName
return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className)
File "D:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py", line 542, in
<lambda>
return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 52:
ordinal not in range(128)
Is it bug or may be i should set some settings to make it works? I use WinXP
and MS Office 2003. Python-win32 has been intalled on my PC with
pywin32-211.win32-py2.5.exe installer.
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