Problem setting COM property using win32com

[Green, Gregory P]

I missed the last line in your example code:

so if I do (using the EnsureModule line):

prmidattrs = MyModule.ISmRecordList()

I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):   
	File "example.py", line 43, in ?     
		prmidattrs = MyModule.ISmRecordList()   
	File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 310, in __init__     
		oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID) pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221164, 'Class not registered', None, None) 
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221164, 'Class not registered', None, None) 

If I use 
prmidattrs = MyModule.SmRecordList()

I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):   
	File "example.py", line 43, in ?     
		prmidattrs = MyModule.SmRecordList()   
	File "win32com\gen_py\C85E7012-8B4F-11D1-8E20-00A02498EA3Cx0x1x0.py", line 1217, in __init__ 
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable 

So either way, that isn't working either. I don't know enough about this stuff to figure it out.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul at prescod.net]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 1:34 PM
To: Green, Gregory P
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Problem setting COM property using win32com


I don't know why that's happening, but I would suggest you take more 
control of the instantiation by doing something like this:

from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureModule
MyModule = EnsureModule('{3BBEE982-742B-11D2-BD0A-00A024C36143}', 0, 1, 0)

reclist = MyModule.SmRecList()

In my recent COM project, I used the "dispatch" mechanism and pythoncom 
was smart enough to pick up my gen_py'd module. But the mechanism above 
is fine too. In fact, it is probably better by virtue of being more 
explicit...

Green, Gregory P wrote:
> I don't think the gen_py class is being used:
> 
> print obj: <COMObject SmRecList.SmRecordList>
> 
> print obj.__class__: win32com.client.CDispatch
> 
> print dir(obj): ['_ApplyTypes_', '_LazyAddAttr_', '_NewEnum', '_Release_', '__AttrToID__', '__LazyMap__', '__call__', '__cmp__', '__doc__', '__getattr__', '__getitem__', '__init__', '__int__', '__len__', '__module__', '__nonzero__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__str__', '_builtMethods_', '_enum_', '_find_dispatch_type_', '_get_good_object_', '_get_good_single_object_', '_lazydata_', '_make_method_', '_mapCachedItems_', '_oleobj_', '_olerepr_', '_print_details_', '_proc_', '_unicode_to_string_', '_username_', '_wrap_dispatch_']