Help with COM_error

Mon Feb 6 23:56:45 EST 2012

Unfortunately this just means that Word threw an error and it's not 
giving many details about what that might be. Are you sure out_TOC is 
valid on the other computer? eg, 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730428/why-cant-i-save-as-an-excel-file-from-my-python-code 
indicates Office fails in that way when the path isn't valid...
Mark
On 4/02/2012 12:10 AM, John Lay wrote:
> I am not a programmer, but this past week I have had a crash course in
> python scripting am have been rather impressed with myself for having
> written a fairly complicated script that among many other processes
> reads a database table via SearchCursor, populates a word template via
> Bookmarks, then saves the document out as a PDF.
>> The only problem is that it only works on my computer. When I move the
> script to another computer with the same setup, I continue to receive
> a Com_error.
>> The script fails at my SaveAs(out_TOC, FileFormat=wdFormatPDF)
> statement. I have tried both win32com.client and comtypes.client and
> receive a similar error for both.
>> win32.client:
> com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, u'Microsoft Word',
> u'Command failed', u'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\
> 1033円\\WDMAIN11.CHM', 36966, ), None)
>> comtypes.client:
> COMError: (-2146824090, None, (u'Command failed', u'Microsoft Word',
> u'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\1033円\\WDMAIN11.CHM',
> 36966, None))
>> It has been suggested that I try python-docx, but I have not been able
> to get the module to work for me and I have been unable to find any
> documentation on it.
>> Can anyone help with the com errors? What do they mean? How do I
> resolve them?
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> John