[Pythonmac-SIG] accessing .xsl files

[Jack Jansen]

On zaterdag, apr 12, 2003, at 18:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:

>
> On Thursday, Apr 10, 2003, at 22:11 Europe/Amsterdam, Jack Jansen 
> wrote:
>> Possibly this will work with Python from CVS. I've been pounding hard 
>> on the Python OSA
>> implementation, and the things I've tried work. But: I don't have 
>> Excel, so I can't test it.
>
> I have Excel, and generating the Microsoft_Excel module doesn't work 
> (MS Office X), I get a backtrace in gensuitemodule.addmodule, 
> specifically on line 866: Module is '<module StdSuites.Required_Suite 
> from /Library...>' and it doesn't have an attribute named 
> '_propdeclarations' (nor '_enumdeclarations' and '_compdeclarations').
>
> This is using a CVS Python of about a week old.

Oops, my fault. I did away with _propdeclarations, but they are indeed 
needed. I've fixed gensuitemodule and regenerated the suites, please do 
an update and try again.

> The output window of the IDE said:
> > ASKING FOR aete DICTIONARY IN '/Applications/Microsoft Office 
> X/Microsoft Excel'
> > GetAppTerminology failed with errAEDescNotFound/resNotFound, trying 
> manually
>
> Excell was automaticly lauched during this processes.

This seems to be how it always goes on OSX. Should I change the error 
message to show that the "error" is somewhat expected?
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