[python-win32] makepy problem with Win XP and Word 2000

[oktaysafak]

Mark, thanks for the reply. I am very glad to hear that you'll be 
releasing the fix soon. I forgot to mention in my previous mail but I 
had already tried taking out the "mbcs" encoding and it had not worked. 
After your mail I tried once more. It doesn't crash the same way; now I 
get an uncaught exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Automation\\run.py", line 3, in ?
    run()
  File "D:\Automation\generate.py", line 440, in run
    i.App.visible = False
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
462, in __setattr__
    raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % 
(repr(self), attr)
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Word 9.0 Object 
Library._Application instance at 0x17041488>' object has no attribute 
'visible'

The module is imported correctly but  now the attributes aren't there. I 
thought this could be of help while preparing the fix. Looking forward 
to the release.

By the way, thanks for this wonderful package. I owe you a lot. Your 
work saves me countless hours. I hope to meet you one day and buy you 
the finest meal :)

Bye,

Oktay


Mark Hammond wrote:

>For now, you could take the "mbcs" encoding line from the generated file.
>This has been fixed here and will be in build 204 (along with a fix for the
>"thousands of registry entries when using the debugger" (yay!).  I hope to
>have this out within a week.  The new build will also have a new "sspi"
>module from Roger Upole which gives us full access to the Windows security
>system, which is very cool (eg, automatically exchange credentials with IIS,
>etc)
>
>Mark
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
>>[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of oktaysafak
>>Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:09 AM
>>To: python-win32 at python.org
>>Subject: [python-win32] makepy problem with Win XP and Word 2000
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>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>My problem:
>>Thanks to the absolutely fabulous win32com package by Mark Hammond, I
>>have been using Python for MS Word automation for a long
>>time. My script
>>was working perfectly until I upgraded to Python 2.4 (from
>>2.3) and Win
>>XP (from Win Millenium). It's still working perfectly but it has
>>substantially slowed down since the upgrade. (But very
>>rarely, it works
>>as fast as before - quite puzzling)
>>
>>What I have tried:
>>I tried to use the makepy script on Word but it fails. It
>>successfully
>>generates the .py file under genpy directory but it crashes during
>>importing the generated file. I googled on the subject and
>>scanned the
>>recent archives of this list and but couldn't find anything
>>useful. Mark
>>Hammond has suggested using the -d switch with makepy but it
>>also fails
>>in the same way. Someone else has written that this problem
>>is caused by
>>lines longer than 512 chars in the generated file and has
>>suggested to
>>replace some default arguments on those lines with shorter ones. I
>>couldn't do it because there are too many lines over 512 chars in the
>>generated file.
>>
>>Any ideas on what's causing this and how to successfully run
>>makepy on
>>MS Word (or any other info for solving this problem)?  Any
>>hints would
>>be very much appreciated.
>>
>>Oktay
>>
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