Vinay Anantharaman wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to translate an error into text by using a library function in > vix com: > > http://www.vmware.com/products/beta/vmware_server/vix_api/ReferenceGuide/lang/com/functions/GetErrorText.html > > My code is as follows: > vixLib = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('VixCom.VixLib') > vixLib.GetErrorText(4, None) > > Instead of getting some explanation that a file was not found I get an > exception: > File > "C:\Users\vinaya\AppData\Local\Temp\gen_py\2.4\7A474EE3-0062-4239-AE91-134AC9BD5FD3x0x1x0.py", > line 1316, in GetErrorText > , locale) > TypeError: The VARIANT type is unknown (0x00000015) >
It's ironic that you posted this the same day as the other recent COM question, because it is exactly the same problem. VARIANT type 0x15 is VT_UI8 -- a 64-bit integer. It's kind of loony for an API to use a 64-bit integer as an error number, but that's what they're doing. As Mark said, pywin32 doesn't support VT_UI8 at all. There may be a hacky way to do this with comtypes. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
