Re: [python-win32] win32com Documentation On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Jon Peck  wrote: > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:25:52 +0000 > From: Tim Golden  > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Launch a New Instance of Excel > Cc: kpitck-aew45@python.org > Message-ID: <51j2r891.4773486@timgolden.me.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > [>>>Peck, Jon] Thanks for the pointer.  It worked perfectly.  But, in > the > > spirit of self help, where could I have found DispatchEx documentation > that > > would have explained this (other than the website above)? > > One of those perennially unanswerable questions, I'm afraid. A lot > of the pywin32 stuff is pretty much raw Win32 API. The win32com > stuff is a little more wrapped, but still fairly much expects you > to dive into MSDN to find out what you want and then look for > the equivalent thing in the pywin32.chm file! > > Which is why I try to put things up on my site, and why I and > others try our best to field questions on this and the main > Python list. Mark Hammond, Roger Upole and the other contributors > to the pywin32 extensions do a great job of getting things in > there and trying to track the moving target that is the Windows > API. I feel that one way in which the rest of us can contribute > is to produce documentation at whatever level we can. > > (I have a long-unrealised plan to start a documentation site > for Python-on-Windows, but as they say: The best-laid plans > of mice and men... Maybe one day I'll realise it :) > > TJG > > >>>JKP > The documentation is the most frustrating part of the win32com library. > And DispatchEx does not even appear in pywin32.chm (or in the MH book). > At least I couldn't find it. > > --  Jon K Peck cbscmd@gmail.com 505-983-1955