[Webware-discuss] Why is Webware not using COM early-bound dispatch?

[Moof <mo...@me...>]

Hi there:
I have the following bit of test code:

from WebKit.Page import Page
from win32com.client import Dispatch

class COMTest(Page):
     def __init__(self):
         Page.__init__(self)

     def writeContent(self):
         # grab the COM object
         bestOffer = Dispatch("ComTMW.tmwBestOffer")
         self.writeln('<pre>')
         self.writeln('bestOffer: %s' % repr(bestOffer))
         demands = bestOffer.SetDemand(2)
         self.writeln('demands: %s' % repr(demands))
         self.writeln('</pre>')

I do have COMKit installed.

If I run this code from the python shell I get:

 >>> foo = COMTest.COMTest()
 >>> def writeln(foo):
... 	print foo
... 	
 >>> foo.writeln = writeln
 >>> foo.writeContent()
<pre>
bestOffer: 
<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._tmwBestOffer 
instance at 0x22765200>
demands: 
((<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._Demand 
instance at 0x22764120>, 
<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._Demand 
instance at 0x22765440>), 2)
</pre>

However, If I run it from within Webware, I get this returned as content:

<pre>
bestOffer: <COMObject ComTMW.tmwBestOffer>
demands: ((<PyIDispatch at 0x9963f4 with obj at 0x1bc864>, <PyIDispatch 
at 0x995b04 with obj at 0x1bcf3c>), 2)
</pre>

The problem I get is that if I now try to set an attribute in one fo the 
objects in the demands array by writing:

demands[0][0].Adults = 2

this works fine on the python shell but with webware I get the error:

TypeError: PyIDispatch has read-only attributes

This is because I'm tryign to assign a variable to what I thoguht was an 
early-bound COM object. So I'm wondering how to convince Webware to use 
early-bound COM objects.

Webware is 0.8.2, Python is 2.3 and both the Webware and Python shell 
had the win32com\gen_py directory in the correct location in sys.path

Any ideas?

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