win32com: getting a list of longs from a C++ COM object

[Mark Hammond]

Achim Domma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have written a COM object (in C++) which returns a list of longs. To make
> this list accessible for other scripting languages like VBScript and JScript
> I have to declare my function like this:
> 
> HRESULT myFkt([in]BSTR column,[out,retval]VARIANT* ids);
> 
> 'ids' will be a pointer to a variant which contains a SafeArray(ids->vt =
> VT_ARRAY|VT_VARIANT). The SafeArray contains variants, which contain the
> longs. Is it possible to access this array from python? It works, if I don't
> wrap the SafeArray in a Variant, but then it does not work for VBScript and
> JScript.

It should work.  Can you mail me some source - I will try and get 
similar code to fail in the win32com test harness.

Mark.