Newbie Question about COM Objects

[Jeremy Howard]

Hi everyone,

I'm having some problems finding any documentation on sending parameters to
COM objects in Python.  I've included how the object is called from VB also
I've included how I'm *trying* to call the Object from Python.

VB code that works....

Dim SiebelConf as String
Dim oSiebel as Objectt
Dim ErrCode as Integer

SiebelConf = "C:\Temp\Siebel.cfg"
Set oSiebel = CreateObject("SiebelDataServer.ApplicationObject")
oSiebel.LoadObjects SiebelConf, ErrCode

All that happens here is I call the oSiebel.LoadObjects with two parameters,
first one is a string containing the name of the file I want the load and
the second parameter is an integer filled with an error code (0 if
successful) upon completion.

When I try to do the same thing in Python I get an Error..

>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>> from pywintypes import com_error
>>> oSiebel = Dispatch('SiebelDataServer.ApplicationObject')
>>> SiebelConf = 'c:\\Temp\\Siebel.cfg'
>>> ErrCode = 0
>>> oSiebel.LoadObjects(SiebelConf, ErrCode)
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 0, in ?
  File "<COMObject SiebelDataServer.ApplicationObject>", line 2, in
LoadObjects
com_error: (-2147352571, 'Type mismatch.', None, 2)

I was under the impression that if I assign a number to ErrCode, Python
would see that variable as an Integer type.  Or maybe I'm just way off
base.. Any help would be really appreciated. :)

Jeremy Howard
jeremyho at flashcom.com