Document.activeLayer fails with Photoshop 2025

[BobbyCephy]

Executing

def activeLayer(self) -> PS_Layer:

leads to error

COMError: (-2147352567, 'Ausnahmefehler aufgetreten.', ('Illegal argument - argument 1\n- Required value is missing', 'Adobe Photoshop', None, 0, -2147220262))

caused by

type_ = self.eval_javascript("app.activeDocument.activeLayer.typename")

Desktop

• OS: Windows10
• Photoshop Version: Photoshop-2025
• Python Version: python-3.11

[loonghao]

Test environment Photoshop 2025

from photoshop.api import Application
app = Application()
type_ = app.eval_javascript("app.activeDocument.activeLayer.typename")
print(type_)

[BobbyCephy]

Thanks for the convincing test! Now that I was sure that the error was on my side, I found it: a stupid test script photoshop.py was in my path. Thank you so much for your excellent API!