Ah, ok. Thanks for the info. So it sounds like iTunes may be doing something weird then. And thanks for your time. Have a good one.
-- Clayton Macleod If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be? On Mar 6, 2023, at 9:09 PM, Mark Hammond <mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> wrote:
Your script is using itunes via COM -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com. Many many
apps expose APIs via COM, so almost all languages can use them in
some way. When you reference song.Name, COM defines how Python
asks itunes for a "name" property on a "songs" object.
Mark
On 7/03/2023 4:03 pm, Clayton Macleod
wrote:
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how those things work then. If I print song.Name that isn’t simply printing from the script’s own data? That’s what I thought to be happening. It is instead calling upon the iTunes app to get song.Name at print time?
--
Clayton Macleod
If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
On Mar 6, 2023, at 8:40 PM, Mark Hammond <mhamm...@skippinet.com.au> wrote:
On 4/03/2023 9:55 am, Clayton Macleod wrote:
Sorry, forgot to hit reply all. Been many years since I've used mailing lists, and I'm surprised anyone still does. Heh. Anyway...
Perhaps this isn't very clear. I've found a case where the pywin32 COM library is causing data corruption
I'm sorry, but I don't think you did. Any bugs here are going to be inside the COM objects exposed by itunes - which doesn't sound particularly surprising given COM doesn't even exist on the platforms they own.
It would be like saying that if you can provoke Word to create a corrupt document via COM that it would be a pywin32 bug - it would not - and stranger things have happened with many different COM interfaces over the years.
Mark.
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