Re: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Heller
geon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does there exist any tutorial/manual about static vs. dynamic dispatch? > > Thank you > Pavel Mark Hammond's book "Programming Python on win32". http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/ A sample chapter is online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32

Re: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch

2005-11-03 Thread geon
Does there exist any tutorial/manual about static vs. dynamic dispatch? Thank you Pavel ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

Re: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch

2005-11-03 Thread Tim Golden
[Michael Thompson] > I've found the problem. Groan. > Dynamic and Static dispatch differ WRT to case sensitivity. You've probably realised but, just in case, the case-sensitivity is a by-product of the fact that static dispatch actually creates a Python module to act as a proxy for the COM objec

Re: [python-win32] win32com and static dispatch

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson wrote: > > Great. So dynamic dispatch works just fine. Except, of course, I can't > get the 'constants' and its a bit inefficient, so I tried switching to > static dispatch: > > >>> dispatch = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch > >>> xlApp = dispatch('Excel.Ap

[python-win32] win32com and static dispatch

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Thompson
I've come across something puzzling about static dispatch. I've used win32com a bit and normally understand what is going on, but I've stubed my toe on something here that I just can't understand. It almost looks like a bug ... Dynamic dispatch works: (First I go to 'C:\Python24\Lib\site-