Dispatch("Excel.Application") failed

[lialie]

Hi,
Maybe it 's quite simple, but I can't fix it. Do I make some mistakes in
my env setting? My excel version is 2003.
any suggestion? Thanks.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testexcel.py", line 3, in ?
excel = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
95, in
Dispatch
dispatch, userName = dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userN ame,c
lsctx)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
98, in _
GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
78, in _
GetGoodDispatch
IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, pythoncom.II
D_IDispatch)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005,
'\xce\xde\xd0\xa7\xb5\xc4\xc0\xe0\xb1\xf0\xd7\xd6\ xb7\xfb\xb4\xae',
None, None)

[Mike Driscoll]

On Mar 13, 1:02 am, lialie <[e-mail]:

Hi,
Maybe it 's quite simple, but I can't fix it. Do I make some mistakes in
my env setting? My excel version is 2003.
any suggestion? Thanks.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testexcel.py", line 3, in ?
excel = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
95, in
Dispatch
dispatch, userName = dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userN ame,c
lsctx)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
98, in _
GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
78, in _
GetGoodDispatch
IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, pythoncom.II
D_IDispatch)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005,
'\xce\xde\xd0\xa7\xb5\xc4\xc0\xe0\xb1\xf0\xd7\xd6\ xb7\xfb\xb4\xae',
None, None)

I'm not seeing anything obviously wrong. What version of Windows are
you using? Are you logged in as an admin?

You also might try the PyWin32 user's mailing list:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

Mike

[John Machin]

On Mar 13, 5:02 pm, lialie <[e-mail]:

Hi,
Maybe it 's quite simple, but I can't fix it. Do I make some mistakes in
my env setting? My excel version is 2003.
any suggestion? Thanks.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testexcel.py", line 3, in ?
excel = Dispatch("Excel.Application")

[snip]

pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005,
'\xce\xde\xd0\xa7\xb5\xc4\xc0\xe0\xb1\xf0\xd7\xd6\ xb7\xfb\xb4\xae',
None, None)

Googling for 2147221005 gives some clues.

That string of hex stuff appears where an error message is expected --
it's not utf8, and makes no sense when I attempt to decode it with
cp1250 to cp1258 inclusive. If you start IDLE and type:

import sys; sys.stdout.encoding

what do you see?