Evidence of pythoncom bug?

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Fri Sep 7 09:34:29 EDT 2001


[Bill]

> MSHTMLIDispatch = CoCreateInstance ( '{25336920-03F9-11CF-
> 8FD0-00AA00686F13}', None, pythoncom .
> CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch )
>
> appears to work. However, a query for the interrface I want (so that
> I can walk the document) croaks:

Yes - pythoncom does not support arbitary vtable based interfaces.  This
limitation has existed since day 1, and may soon be able to be removed.
However, it still exists today.  So I am afraid it is a simple case of it
being a known and documented limitation.

Mark.





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