GetErrorText(TPCANStatus, int)

def GetErrorText(
    self,
    Error,
    Language = 0)

The return value is a 2-touple. The order of the returned values is as follow: 

[0]: The method's return value as a TPCANStatus code. PCAN_ERROR_OK is returned on success. The typical errors in case of failure are:  

[1]: The text corresponding to the given TPCANStatus code.

The "Primary language IDs" are codes used by Windows OS from Microsoft, to identify a human language. The PCAN-Basic API currently support the following languages:

Python Notes

• Class-Method: Unlike the .NET Framework, under Python a variable has to be instantiated with an object of type PCANBasic in order to use the API functionality.
• Python's first argument convention: Under Python, 'self' is a parameter that is automatically included within the call of this method, within a PCANBasic object and hasn't to be indicated in a method call. This parameter represents the calling object itself.

The following example shows the use of the method GetErrorText to get the description of an error. The language of the description's text will be in Spanish. 

Python:  

# Gets the description text for PCAN_ERROR_INITIALIZE using the language ID for Spanish
#
objPCAN = PCANBasic()
result = objPCAN.GetErrorText(PCAN_ERROR_INITIALIZE, 10)
if result[0] != PCAN_ERROR_OK:
    # An error occurred, show a message indicating it
    #
    print "Error when recovering Error-Code's description"
else:
    print result[1]

Primary Language ID 

Plain function Version: CAN_GetErrorText