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Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2012-12-11 07:54 -0800
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Subject Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params"
From bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:48:53 AM UTC-5, bitbucket wrote:
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> I noticed that the argument type is different for the out param (16392 instead of 8).  However, it doesn't appear to me that its generating return values instead of args (though I'm not very experienced in python).
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I see that the value 16392 is really VT_BYREF | VT_BSTR and 8 is just VT_BSTR.  So in that case it appears MakePy is taking noticed at least of the VT_BYREF and including that in the generated code (since it uses 16392).

So maybe there's a special way I need to call the generated wrapper?

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accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 11:13 -0800
  Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-10 15:58 -0500
    Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 13:39 -0800
      Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-12-10 18:39 -0500
      Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 12:16 +1100
        Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:48 -0800
          Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:54 -0800
          Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:54 -0800
          Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> - 2012-12-12 08:55 +1100
        Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:48 -0800
    Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-10 13:39 -0800
  Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" Paul Kölle <paul@subsignal.org> - 2012-12-11 09:42 +0100
    Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:37 -0800
    Re: accessing an OLE Automation (IDispatch) server from python which requires the use of "out params" bitbucket <coder1024@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 07:37 -0800

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