Re: [python-win32] meaning of bin string representation ofPR_ENTRYID

2007-06-29 Thread Mark Hammond
> This sounds as if there was no point at all to do anything with the > eids. If I am not even allowed to compare two ids, how could > they point > at different mail items? I'm just paraphrasing the MS docs - that property is documented as "Binary comparable (as with memcmp): No". mapi.CompareEn

Re: [python-win32] meaning of bin string representation ofPR_ENTRYID

2007-06-28 Thread Christian K.
Mark Hammond wrote: >> > The values above already *are* a hexadecimal value - you >> > can't safely change any part of it. >> >> I do not want to change it. I hoped that the extracted part might be >> enough to identify a message within one message store. > > That's what I meant - I should have sa

Re: [python-win32] meaning of bin string representation ofPR_ENTRYID

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Hammond
> > The values above already *are* a hexadecimal value - you > > can't safely change any part of it. > > I do not want to change it. I hoped that the extracted part might be > enough to identify a message within one message store. That's what I meant - I should have said "you can't make any assump