[python-win32] why do I get error 1804 from win32print.SetJob?

[Glenn Linderman]

On 11/16/2018 12:08 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Glenn Linderman wrote:
>>
>> Here is the code I'm using. Note that the variables js and rename are 
>> the control variables if you need to tweak this to run in your 
>> environment. js contains a substring of an existing document name, 
>> and the idea is that the document name of the first matching spool 
>> job having a document name containing that fragment will be changed 
>> to the content of the rename variable by the code.
>> ...
>> Here is the error I'm getting:
>>
>> {'JobId': 27, 'pPrinterName': 'HL6180dw', 'pMachineName': 
>> '\\\\STEPHEN', 'pUserName': 'Glenn', 'pDocument': 'duh', 'pDatatype': 
>> 'NT EMF 1.008', 'pStatus': None, 'Status': 8210, 'Priority': 1, 
>> 'Position': 0, 'TotalPages': 22, 'PagesPrinted': 0, 'Submitted': 
>> pywintypes.datetime(2018, 11, 14, 21, 1, 27, 882000, 
>> tzinfo=TimeZoneInfo('GMT Standard Time', True))}
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "D:\my\py\spool.py", line 109, in <module>
>>     win32print.SetJob( phandle, res[ 1 ], 1, jobinfo, 0 )
>> pywintypes.error: (1804, 'SetJob', 'The specified datatype is invalid.')
>
> That's very odd.  This is not from the Pywin32 code --  it has 
> correctly parsed your structure.  That error is coming from the SetJob 
> API itself (ERROR_INVALID_DATATYPE).  As an experiment, have you tried 
> coding up the exact same sequence as a C program to see if you get the 
> same error?
>
Hi Tim,

Thanks for your response.

I've not coded up the equivalent C program, as I don't have a C compiler 
installed here, and haven't done any C coding for 8 or 10 years.

Were you able to reproduce the problem, or is your error analysis based 
on code reading?

Glenn
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