On Mar 20, 2:38 pm, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 20, 2:29 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20 Mar, 19:09, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The culprit i here: > > > > Before - X = 0, CacheSize = 0, OpenMode = 3, vHandle = 0 > > > This binds these names to Python ints, but byref expects C types. > > > Also observe that CacheSize and OpenMode should be c_short. > > I changed CacheSize and OpenMode to c_short, and commented out that > line producing the "Before" message, and the output is the same. > > Further "tinkering" revealed that it is the byref on the fName and pw > that are causing the error. > > The entire problem appears to be around the production of a BSTR and > the passing of pointers (byref) to the BSTR.
Can anyone shed some light on how to work with BSTR's? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list