Help needed on COM issue

[Mike Howard]

I'm doing some conversion of vb code to python code and I have a
problem with a COM object

Specifically in VB I can do
Set oR = oA.Action
debug.print oR.Item(1,2)
[returns say "1"]
oR.Item(1,2)="4"
debug.print oR
[returns "4"]

In Python I need to do ..

oR=oA.Action()
print oR.Item(1,2)[0]
[returns say "1"]
oR.Update
[saves the record with the new item]

But when I ty to update the value

oR.Item(1,2)[0]="4"

I get a TypeError : object doesn't support item assignment.

I presume this is because Python is returning oR as a tupe - hence the
need to refer to Item(1,2)[0] - but I can't figure out the equivalent
method to update the value I need.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Mike Howard]

Should read ...
I'm doing some conversion of vb code to python code and I have a
problem with a COM object

Specifically in VB I can do
Set oR = oA.Action
debug.print oR.Item(1,2)
[returns say "1"]
oR.Item(1,2)="4"
debug.print oR
[returns "4"]
oR.Update
[saves the record with the new item]

In Python I need to do ..

oR=oA.Action()
print oR.Item(1,2)[0]
[returns say "1"]

But when I ty to update the value

oR.Item(1,2)[0]="4"

I get a TypeError : object doesn't support item assignment.

I presume this is because Python is returning oR as a tupe - hence the
need to refer to Item(1,2)[0] - but I can't figure out the equivalent
method to update the value I need.

Any help appreciated.

 

[Philippe Martin]

Hi,

First I'd check if the type is indeed tuple.

How about converting the tuple to a list, modifying the list, then making it
a tuple again ?

Philippe