[PyCrust] Re: Great PyCrust and Great Unicode

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"Massa, Harald" <har...@su...> writes:

> Patrick,
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> have you allready been complemented on how great it is to use PyCrust to =
do
> MS-COM develepment?

No. This is a first.

> It is really phantastic: if I instantiate a COM-Object (let's say an
> Excel-Spreadsheet)=20
> 	xlw=3DExcel.Aplication()
> With a lot of "subobject" in the COM-Tree PyCrust really displays the
> Method-Names INCLUDING the named Parameters from Excel / Word Object mode=
l!
> that is MORE THAN GREAT. Even Microsofts own development tools don't prov=
ide
> this in this quality.

Cool.

> Do you use PyCrust for COM-Develepment? I am thinking about entering a
> speech-proposal for Europython concerning Python in business, and the gre=
at
> ease of COM-Development with Python and the additional help of PyCrust
> should be in it - but if you are planning to speek about sth. similiar I
> would be in the audience :-)

I've not done any COM using PyCrust or Python for that matter. I'm in
the US and I'm not attending this EuroPython so please feel free to
enter a proposal.

> Big compliments!

Thanks!

> With Unicode there is a bug in pycrust: I type the following letters
> >>>datei=3D"c:/test/n=E4senb=F6r.
> in Pycrust, and with typing the "." dot, autocomplete tries to jump in an=
d:
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> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\lib\PyCrust\shell.py", line
> 523, in OnKeyDown
>     self.processLine()
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\lib\PyCrust\shell.py", line
> 742, in processLine
>     self.push(command)
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\lib\PyCrust\shell.py", line
> 824, in push
>     self.more =3D self.interp.push(command)
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\lib\PyCrust\interpreter.py=
",
> line 62, in push
>     command =3D str(command)  # In case the command is unicode.
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
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> fails terrible.=20
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> This happens if site.py is on the default:
> encoding =3D "ascii" # Default value set by _PyUnicode_Init()
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> changing it to
> encoding =3D "UTF-8"=20
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> stopps this error from appearing.
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> International characters ... causing as many problems then international
> ways of life, aren't they?
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> If I find a fix, I will pass it to you.

That would be great. I don't fully understand these international
issues.

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> Thank you very much for this great tool,

You're most welcome. It's nice to hear from you.

--=20
Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech      http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien
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