Ben Rowland

@mhammond I tried the `DumbDispatch` approach which allowed me to make a call to Status() passing 2 parameters (without supplying the third as "Missing") which allowed COM to accept the...

It does either of two things - zero padding an input (to increase apparent resolution) and truncating an output before returning (which removes oversampling). Both of these operations are endemic...

@roxyboy did you have any further thoughts about this proposal?

@santisoler nice to see someone else with enthusiasm for this. I think that your proposal would work, and as @roxyboy says it would be easy to then add that functionality...

If you want to simply match the xarray `pad()` behaviour, but handling extrapolating coordinates better, then it might be more sensible to approach that directly in xarray. @shoyer for example...

This is very nearly relevant so I will comment here in the hopes of provoking some interesting discussion. I am currently using setuptools_scm for my version management, which relies on...

@junkmd it seems quite plausible to me that the issue is indeed not with com types but with ctypes or something else further up the chain. Indeed it is quite...

@ironfroggy, setup.py in the master branch here is showing version 1.4.2 - where is the 1.5.0 code available? I have a PR I would like to submit but would be...

@junkmd I am not quite sure of the purpose of `VARIANT.missing` (that is a bit deeper into the COM internals than I have gone so far), but I note that...

Thanks, @junkmd, for your thoughts. I would say that adding a pre-commit config file that devs can use to install a commit hook that will run `black` (and optionally other...