[python-win32] possible data corruption when deleting iTunes playlist items

[Mark Hammond]

Your script is using itunes via COM - 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com. Many many apps 
expose APIs via COM, so almost all languages can use them in some way. 
When you reference song.Name, COM defines how Python asks itunes for a 
"name" property on a "songs" object.

Mark

On 7/03/2023 4:03 pm, Clayton Macleod wrote:
> Perhaps I’m misunderstanding how those things work then. If I print song.Name that isn’t simply printing from the script’s own data? That’s what I thought to be happening. It is instead calling upon the iTunes app to get song.Name at print time?
>
> --
> Clayton Macleod
> If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
>
>> On Mar 6, 2023, at 8:40 PM, Mark Hammond<mhammond at skippinet.com.au>  wrote:
>>
>> On 4/03/2023 9:55 am, Clayton Macleod wrote:
>>> Sorry, forgot to hit reply all.  Been many years since I've used mailing lists, and I'm surprised anyone still does.  Heh.  Anyway...
>>> Perhaps this isn't very clear. I've found a case where the pywin32 COM library is causing data corruption
>> I'm sorry, but I don't think you did. Any bugs here are going to be inside the COM objects exposed by itunes - which doesn't sound particularly surprising given COM doesn't even exist on the platforms they own.
>>
>> It would be like saying that if you can provoke Word to create a corrupt document via COM that it would be a pywin32 bug - it would not - and stranger things have happened with many different COM interfaces over the years.
>>
>> Mark.

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