[python-win32] RE: Finding attributes of COM objects (was: Translating vbs GetOb ject("LDAP://...") to Pyt hon?)

[Tim Golden]

[R. Alan Monroe]

| > schema = GetObject (ad.Schema)
| > print schema.mandatoryProperties
| > print schema.optionalProperties
| 
| I see what you're getting at, but I'm looking at the
| "PasswordLastChanged" property, which isn't part of the AD schema per
| se. It's a property of the in-memory object only. I want to see what
| other properties are available to me also.

This is always a slightly tricky one, I find. I hope that
Mark H or someone equally knowledgeable can pitch in. My
experience is that if you have done an EnsureDispatch on
a Dispatchable object (or have otherwise generated the 
Python proxy module) then running the standard Python
help on the dispatched object's class will show the
methods in the usual way. eg,

<code>

import win32com.client
word = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Word.Application")
help (word.__class__)

</code>

Other than that, I usually fall back on Googling in the way
I described and/or looking for other people's examples. I
don't believe there's any more official way than that.

TJG

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