Ross Ridge wrote: > Larry Bates wrote: >> I tested in VB and by golly it works! What is odd is that this looks >> NOTHING like what we got from the docs earlier. No GetEnumerator >> method, no MoveNext method. I'm glad it works, but I'm a little >> puzzled as to why it works. > > The documention Carsten Haese referenced earlier was for the .NET version > of VisualBasic, and shows how to use .NET's IEnumerate and IEnumerable > interfaces. > > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Presumably the magic of mark Hammond's wrapper classes providing >> adaptation between Python iteration and COM enumerable collection >> objects. win32all is *very* Pythonic. > > Maybe Mark Hammond's win32all provides such a magic wrapper, but Cartsen > Haese's example didn't use it. Instead it provided it own implementation > of the COM IEnumVARIANT interface, the OLE Automation (ie. VisualBasic > 6 compatable) way implementing iteratable objects. > > Ross Ridge > So I saw when I read Carsten's reply to my post. Thanks. It's the difference between COM and .NET (something I am currently having to come to terms with myself, but strangely in C# rather than Python).
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