MS COM early and late binding

[Olaf Meding]

Is there a way to find out if I am using early or late binding given
the reference ("excel" in the example below) returned by Dispatch()?

import win32com.client
excel = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')

Thanks much for your help.

Olaf

[Thomas Heller]

Ol********@compuserve.com (Olaf Meding) writes:

Is there a way to find out if I am using early or late binding given
the reference ("excel" in the example below) returned by Dispatch()?

import win32com.client
excel = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')

try:
excel.visible
except AttributeError:
print "late bound"
else:
print "early bound"

Hint: Attributes are case sensitive when early bound ;-)

Thomas

[Olaf Meding]

Thomas

What you suggest might work, but does not look to elegant. Can anyone else
perhaps suggest a more elegant solution? Thanks.

Olaf
try:
excel.visible
except AttributeError:
print "late bound"
else:
print "early bound"

Hint: Attributes are case sensitive when early bound ;-)

[Mark Hammond]

Olaf Meding wrote:

Is there a way to find out if I am using early or late binding given
the reference ("excel" in the example below) returned by Dispatch()?

import win32com.client
excel = win32com.client.Dispatch('Excel.Application')

There is no great way to find out (other than looking at the repr() of
the object or trying Thomas's trick), but there is a way to force one or
the other.

excel = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch(excel)

Will ensure you have early bound, executing makepy if necessary.

excel = win32com.client.dynamic.DumbDispatch(excel)

Will force late bound, even if the object is currently early.

Mark.

[Simon Brunning]

"Olaf Meding" <Ol********@noSpam.compuserve.com> wrote in message news:<40**********@newspeer2.tds.net>...

What you suggest might work, but does not look to elegant. Can anyone else
perhaps suggest a more elegant solution? Thanks.

Not elegant? This is COM, you know!

Anyway, I do this:

excel = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Excel.App lication')

Then I know I'm using early binding.

Cheers,
Simon B.