[pywin32-bugs] Build 214 with python 2.7 gen_py selecting wrong type, can't override

[Oliver N. <ol...@oo...>]

I'm using mappoint 2010 (16.0) with python.  I'm having a problem due to 
a MP bug, but I can't find a way around this problem in Python.  MP has 
a property on an object called StartTime.  It is documented in MP help 
as a Date type.  Python thinks its a Time.  In another early binding 
language I use, it is detected as a VT_DATE, but in fact it is none of 
these.  Its a BSTR.  I edited the generate python package, and changed 
this in the get property map:
         "StartTime": (100670213, 2, (7, 0), (), "StartTime", None),
to:
         "StartTime": (100670213, 2, (8, 0), (), "StartTime", None),

and then in the vtable:

     (( u'Directions' , u'ppVal' , ), 100670210, (100670210, (), [ 
(16393, 10, None, "IID('{9EE7CB66-2A15-4CFF-9DEC-A9D162DCD38D}')") , ], 
1 , 2 , 4 , 0 , 52 , (3, 0, None, None) , 0 , )),

I changed 16393 to 16392 which is the value all the BSTR properties were 
using (and 16393 is the value all the date properties were using)

Even after doing this, python still sees the property as a Time type 
which is a problem because when you try to access the property, it 
crashes python.  It seems that the code being generated for this early 
bound control is being dynamically overridden at some point?  Is there 
some other place I'm unaware of that this data is set?

This same project doesn't have this problem in python 2.5 and in fact it 
works as a time variable.

OLIVER