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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You probably want to take a copy of interp.py and modify it so
that when a dictionary is returned, you return something like the
Python.Dictionary object (see win32com\servers\dictionary.py). You can
create such an object via something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>>>> from win32com.servers.dictionary import
DictionaryPolicy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>>>> from win32com.server.util import wrap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>>>> ob = wrap({"foo":"bar"},
usePolicy=DictionaryPolicy)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>>>> ob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><PyIDispatch at 0x01507A88 with obj at 0x01511620><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>If interp.py returned 'ob', VB should be able to access it
somewhat like a regular VB collection - so instead of simply:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> return eval(str(exp),
self.dict)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>you checked the result, and if it’s a dict, execute the
lines above and return 'ob' instead of the dict (and obviously using a real
dict instead of the constant one in the example above)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hope this helps (and works ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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python-win32-bounces@python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 5 February 2008 4:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cappy2112@gmail.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> bgailer@alum.rpi.edu; python-win32@python.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>yes i want to
have python functionality in excel,</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>iam trying to
call python functions from VBscript,</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>more like
evaluating a python expression say dictionary or list in VBscript</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For evaluating
a python expression , python has some library functions like eval which takes
python expressions</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> in string
format and checks whether it is a valid python expression or not</span> <br>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>so i thought of
calling that python eval function in VBscript and validate my datas</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>but the problem
is when i tried to pass dictionaries for eg, "{'key':value}" this is
the format of dictionary in python</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>VBscript throws
error like type mismatch</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>since VB
dictionary representation of VB and python are different</span> <br>
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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks and
Regards!<br>
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<p><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>02/05/2008
01:51 AM</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[python-win32]
Executing eval function in VBscript</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05:11 -0500</span></tt><span
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<tt>From: bob gailer <bgailer@alum.rpi.edu></tt><br>
<tt>Subject: Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript</tt><br>
<tt>To: Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan <janakiraman.mohanakrishnan@tcs.com></tt><br>
<tt>Cc: python-win32@python.org</tt><br>
<tt>Message-ID: <47A729A7.5030709@alum.rpi.edu></tt><br>
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<tt>>>That's hard to answer until we know what you want to accomplish!
Tell us</tt><br>
<tt>>>more. What problem are you trying to solve?</tt><br>
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<tt>I think he wants to have python functionality from excel, which is</tt><br>
<tt>what I'd like to accomplish as well.</tt><br>
<tt>(Python embedded into excel, as opposed to launching Excel from Python)</tt><br>
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<tt>>>Also I'm not very familiar with MSScriptControl. I googled it and
found</tt><br>
<tt>>>no useful documentation. Do you have any references to it?</tt><br>
<tt>Everything you want to know about the MSScriptControl is on microsoft's
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