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I am using pywin32 mapi routines to interact with my outlook contacts store. I am trying to set the PT_BIRTHDAY property and have the following code for doing that:</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, &#39;Liberation Sans&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
The conversion from and to FILETIME values is from filetimes.py available at:<a href="http://reliablybroken.com/b/wp-content/filetimes.py" rel="nofollow" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; ">http://reliablybroken.com/b/wp-content/filetimes.py</a></p>
<pre style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, &#39;Lucida Console&#39;, &#39;Liberation Mono&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans Mono&#39;, &#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&#39;, &#39;Courier New&#39;, monospace, serif; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; width: auto; max-height: 600px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
<code style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, &#39;Lucida Console&#39;, &#39;Liberation Mono&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans Mono&#39;, &#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&#39;, &#39;Courier New&#39;, monospace, serif; ">    dt = datetime.strptime(&#39;1980-01-01&#39;,&#39;%Y-%m-%d&#39;)
    filetime = filetimes.dt_to_filetime(dt)
    msg.SetProps([(mapitags.PR_BIRTHDAY, filetime)])
</code></pre><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, &#39;Liberation Sans&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
I get an OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to c long</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, &#39;Liberation Sans&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
I am on a 32 bit machine, and I understand FILETME is a 64 bit value. I am at a loss. How can I set the underlying MAPI property using this library? Is there a workaround?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, &#39;Liberation Sans&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
(Setup: Outlook 2010, Window 7 running on a 32bit virtual machine via VMWare Fusion 4 on Mac OS X Lion)</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; font-family: Arial, &#39;Liberation Sans&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; ">
Thanks!</p>