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> From: Thomas Heller
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 5:43 AM
> Subject: [ctypes-users] New VARIANT code

{...}

> Please, everyone using VARIANT's in their code, let me know if this is
> what you need.

Looks good so far, but I needed the attached patch to get past a 
"ValueError: NULL pointer in callback" (not exact words) exception in
connectionpoints.py when my Venster application was initialising.

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Might help if I attached said patch...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew MacIntyre [mailto:Andrew.MacIntyre@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:49 PM
> To: 'Thomas Heller'; ctypes-users@...
> Subject: RE: [ctypes-users] New VARIANT code
> 
> 
> > From: Thomas Heller
> > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2003 5:43 AM
> > Subject: [ctypes-users] New VARIANT code
> 
> {...}
> 
> > Please, everyone using VARIANT's in their code, let me know 
> if this is
> > what you need.
> 
> Looks good so far, but I needed the attached patch to get past a 
> "ValueError: NULL pointer in callback" (not exact words) exception in
> connectionpoints.py when my Venster application was initialising.
> 
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Andrew MacIntyre <Andrew.MacIntyre@...> writes:

> Might help if I attached said patch...

> *** variant.py.orig	Tue Oct 21 05:44:22 2003
> --- variant.py	Tue Oct 21 12:48:07 2003
> ***************
> *** 237,247 ****
>               return self._.wstrVal
>           elif self.vt == VT_UNKNOWN:
>               result = self._.VT_UNKNOWN
> !             result.AddRef()
>               return result
>           elif self.vt == VT_DISPATCH:
>               result = self._.VT_DISPATCH
> !             result.AddRef()
>               return result
>           elif self.vt == VT_BOOL:
>               return bool(self._.VT_BOOL)
> --- 237,249 ----
>               return self._.wstrVal
>           elif self.vt == VT_UNKNOWN:
>               result = self._.VT_UNKNOWN
> !             if result:
> !                 result.AddRef()
>               return result
>           elif self.vt == VT_DISPATCH:
>               result = self._.VT_DISPATCH
> !             if result:
> !                 result.AddRef()
>               return result
>           elif self.vt == VT_BOOL:
>               return bool(self._.VT_BOOL)

Yes, that's an important fix.

Thanks, Thomas