pywin32

I have installed both virtualenv and pywin32 on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop, and each of them seems to work, but not with each other. More specifically, if a virtualenv is active, then running import win32com.client in a python interactive shell fails with No module named win32com.client . The same expression succeeds, however, if no virtualenv is active. When I try to install pywin32 with pip (which is how I normally install modules when a virtualenv is active), I get the error: Could not find any donwloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32 No distributions at all found for pywin32 ...even

Here is part of a stack-trace from a recent run of an unreliable application written in Python which controls another application written in Excel: pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2146788248), None) Obviously something has gone wrong ... but what?[1] These COM error codes seem to be excessively cryptic. How can I decode this error message? Is there a table somewhere that allows me to convert this numerical error code into something more meaningful? [1] I actually know what went wrong in this case, it was attempting to access a Name prperty

What library should I use to connect to odbc from python on windows? Is there a good alternative for pywin32 when it comes to odbc? I'm looking for something well-documented, robust, actively maintained, etc. pyodbc looks good -- are there any others? You already suggested pyodbc , and I am going to agree with you. It has given me the least amount of issues in my experience; I've used pymssql and adodbapi , and when those threw exceptions/created issues, I swapped out the code and replaced it with pyodbc and it either fixed the problem, or gave better error messages so I could debug faster. It

I want to use the credentials of the logged-in Windows user to authenticate an SMTP connection to an Exchange server using NTLM. I'm aware of the python-ntlm module and the two patches that enable NTLM authentication for SMTP, however I want to use the current user's security token and not have to supply a username and password. Very similar problem to Windows Authentication with Python and urllib2 . Although the solution below only uses the Python Win32 extensions (the sspi example code included with the Python Win32 extensions was very helpful), the python-ntlm IMAP & SMTP patches mentioned

This is my code, and I found many answers for VBA , .NET framework and is pretty strange. When I execute this, Excel closes. from win32com.client import DispatchEx excel = DispatchEx('Excel.Application') wbs = excel.Workbooks wbs.Close() excel.Quit() wbs = None excel = None # <-- Excel Closes here But when I do the following, it does not close. excel = DispatchEx('Excel.Application') wbs = excel.Workbooks wb = wbs.Open('D:\\Xaguar\\A1.xlsm') wb.Close(False) wbs.Close() excel.Quit() wb = None wbs = None excel = None # <-- NOT Closing !!! I found some possible answer in Stack Overflow question

Does Tkinter provide a way to temporarily turn off screen updates (when performing a large amount of screen activity) and then turn on screen updates when the UI updates are complete? Many GUI frameworks have this feature. wxPython provides Freeze and Thaw methods for this functionality. The Windows Win32api supports this as well via LockWindowUpdate( hWnd | 0 ). Googling on "tkinter freeze thaw" and "tkinter lockwindowupdate" came up emtpy. No, Tkinter has no such thing. However, the screen is only updated via the event loop, so if all of your "large amount of screen activity" is happening in

i'm learning win32com for python and I've got a strange problem. I'e trying to export Outlook Contacts in a List of Dictionnary. My code works perfectly with win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application). But it returns 0 contacts with win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Outlook.Application) that is supposed to be faster and "safer". Here's my code : class MapiImport(): def __init__(self): self.olApp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application") self.namespace = self.olApp.GetNamespace(u"MAPI") # olFolderContacts = 10 : self.mapiContacts = self.namespace.GetDefaultFolder(10).Items