[python-win32] OpenOffice automation

[Raymond Yee]

Please clarify.  We typed

objDesktop = objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")

Isn't the syntax we used calling the *method*  creatInstance with the parameter
"com.sun.star.frame.Desktop" of  objServiceManager -- not the property?

(I consulted
http://aspn.activestate.com//ASPN/Python/Reference/Products/ActivePython/win32com/win32com/win32com/HTML/QuickStartClientCom.html
which
gives the example:

import win32com.client
o = win32com.client.Dispatch("Object.Name")
o.Method()
o.property = "New Value"
print o.property

to distinguish between calling a method and a property

What am I missing here?

-Raymond

Mark Hammond wrote:

> > > >>> objDesktop =
> > > objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > > TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
>
> It appears that the COM object is returning "None" when a *property* called
> "createInstance" is requested.  However, "createInstance" is a method, so an
> attempt to reference it as a property should fail.
>
> You could confirm this by printing "objServiceManager.createInstance" - try
> that in any language - you should find None/Nothing/NULL is returned instead
> of an error.
>
> Mark.
>
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