The Python multi-dispatch dilemma

[Hirazi Blue]

I originally posted this in the ET_AnimStore thread, but I think it's worth it's own thread...

The whole Python Dispatch fix issue still confuses me:
The problem originates

due to XSI returning an object with an incorrectly set multi-dispatch interface (quoted from here)

However, the Softimage WIKI states the following:

In versions prior to v6.0 XSI sometimes returned objects with an incorrectly set (as per PythonWin standards) multi-dispatch interface. This problem has been fixed in v6.0. (quoted from here)

So maybe someone could answer this question once and for all:
is the good-old mult-dispatch fix still necessary, or not?

And as EricTRocks has already written a version of his plugin, that doesn't need the Python Dispatch fix, I wonder, if it's totally avoidable to resort to programming constructs that need the "fix"?

Lastly: if the fix is really still needed in many cases, why hasn't Softimage edited the win32com file themselves in the Python that comes installed with Softimage 2011.

[Hirazi Blue]

Thanks for all your insightful answers so far...