erstand this in the context of a single method call.  In short, this is
a relatively advanced feature.  The good news though is that use of these
objects should never cause your program to hard-crash - the worst you should
expect are Python or COM exceptions being thrown.

<h2>The VARIANT object</h2>

The VARIANT object lives in <code>win32com.client</code>.  The constructor
takes 2 parameters - the 'variant type' and the value.  The 'variant type' is
an integer and can be one or more of the <code>pythoncom