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win32com problems with Visible property

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Tue Sep 2 14:07:25 EDT 2003 
Rebecca Taylor wrote:
> 
> I have been working with win32com on python for 2 years now.  I
> recently tried to modify an older script I had made which creates and
> excel workbook, fills it with data and then graphs the data.
> 
> Nothing is working!
> When I try to run it I get this error:
> 
> "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." % (self._username_, attr)
> AttributeError: Property 'Excel.Application.visible' can not be set."
> 
> Does anyone know why this is happening?  I can't figure out if windows
> has changed or if win32all or the new python distribution is the
> problem.  Worse yet, I reinstalled my old versions of python and
> win32all and that isn't working either!

I'm not sure what the problem is, but cutting and pasting the *actual*
traceback instead of retyping might help us find it, or at least would
help us trust everything you're saying.  Not having 100% confidence 
in a problem report (as in this case) tends to make one investigate
less intensely, I've found...

-Peter
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