[python-win32] win32com calling IE: OLE error 0x800704a6

[Tim Roberts]

Kees van Schaik wrote:
>
> I have written a Python script that runs on Windows XP with Python 2.5
> and uses Internet Explorer to 'pretty print' some HTML output. This
> has been working perfectly fine for a few years until recently IE was
> upgraded to version 8. Now occasionally Python throws an error that
> originates from the win32com.client.Dispatch() method and has
> description 'OLE error 0x800704a6'. (Occasionally means that sometimes
> it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to figure out
> what the trigger exactly is.) The most recent version of win32com is
> installed. Google on the error code didn't give me a lot of hits, and
> no useful ones.
>

The 80070xxx errors are often COM-wrapped versions of the standard
Windows errors.  0x4A6 is 1190, which is "ERROR_SHUTDOWN_IS_SCHEDULED". 
Is it possible this happens after a Windows Update has occurred but
before the reboot?

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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