[python-win32] How to access Visual Basic's "Application" obj ect, in Python

[Tim Golden]

[Tony Cappellini]
| 
| I am trying to mimic a short VB program in Python, which 
| iterates over an
| Outlook 2002 global address list.
| 
| However, I don't know what to use  in Python, for VB's 
| Application object, which is like a pointer to the entire 
| process that is running the application. From Application, 
| I can access the name of the executable,
| the version number, tha path, and some other attibutes.

I admit I hadn't heard of the Application object as
something outside Outlook. Care to give an example of
these extra attributes. At the risk of stating the obvious,
the code below seems to reproduce what your own code
is doing. (But maybe you knew that).

<code>

import win32com.client

outlook = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Outlook.Application")

#
# Assume you've got an Outlook session running,
#  so don't bother specifying a profile.
#
outlook.Session.Logon ()

namespace = outlook.GetNamespace ("MAPI")
global_address_list = namespace.AddressLists["Global Address List"]
address_entries = global_address_list.AddressEntries["!IT Development"]

print address_entries.Members.Count
for i in range (address_entries.Members.Count):
  member = address_entries.Members[i + 1]
  print member.Name, member.Address

</code>

TJG

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