Win32-COM pass by ref for long arguments

[vng1 at mac.com]

I figured it out eventually.  It wasn't  clear from any of the 
Python/COM documentation that pass byref variables are returned as 
'extra' values in the return value.

So a COM function like:

Function OpenTable(ByRef hTableRef As Long, ByVal TableNo As Long) As 
Boolean

becomes translated to this:

def OpenTable( discardedhTableRef, tableNo):
	# COM bridge does stuff here
	return (boolResult, hTableRef)

Well - it wasn't obvious to _me_ anyway.

vic

On 24-Sep-04, at 04:16 PM, Stephen Prinster wrote:

> Victor Ng wrote:
>> My call is using an initial value of pythoncom.Empty for hTableRef,
>> but I'm getting the following stacktrace from within the PythonCOM
>> library:
>>
> Have you tried pythoncom.Missing instead of pythoncom.Empty?  I don't 
> know what the difference is, but I remember seeing a comment in a 
> makepy-generated file about trying both because sometimes one works 
> better than the other.
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