[python-win32] Trouble Automating Alibre CAD package

[duanek at chorus.net]

Hello,

I am trying to use pywin32 to automate a CAD package from Alibre (www.alibre.com) called Design Express.

The documentation I can get is written for Visual Basic (and not all that well at that), and I get the following error from the following lines:

[Python Code]
        import win32com.client
                        AlibreObject=win32com.client.Dispatch(r"AlibreX.AutomationHook")
[End Python code]

Error traceback:
    AlibreObject = win32com.client.Dispatch(r"AlibreX.AutomationHook")
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 95, in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName = dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 98, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
    return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 78, in _GetGoodDispatch
    IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)


Any ideas what to try next?

Thanks,
Duane