Problem Installing/Using Windows Extensions

[Stefan Migowsky]

Hi,

the problem is not the dcom package but a DLL. Mircosoft removed an
interface
from the comcat.dll which the win32all package needs. 

Try to get hold of a comcat.dll version 4.71 and register it using
regsvr32.exe before
you install win23all. After the install you can register again the DLL which
is in your system32 
or system directory.  With this patch your packages will install. 

	Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	richard_chamberlain [SMTP:richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, June 17, 2000 10:59 PM
> To:	python-list at python.org
> Subject:	Re: Problem Installing/Using Windows Extensions
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> I had the same problem with a PC at work running W95, but not on any of
> the
> others. I finally narrowed it down to be the only one without Internet
> Explorer 5 installed. And from that I presume that DCOM needs to be
> installed.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> David Steffen <steffen at biomedcomp.com> wrote in message
> news:2F466A4F08768158.E7F19F943AD91E75.0C469CA3C5F346B1 at lp.airnews.net...
> > Howdy:
> >
> >   I'm trying to use Pythonwin with Python 1.52 under Windows 95 and am
> > consistently running into a problem that I don't understand at all,
> > probably because I know relatively little about Windows.
> >
> >   When I selected "COM Makepy Utility" from the Tools menu of
> > Pythonwin, I got the following error message:
> >
> > """
> > >>> Failed to execute command:
> > from win32com.client import makepy;makepy.main()
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >   File "C:\Program Files\Python\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\toolmenu.py"\
> > , line 103, in HandleToolCommand
> >     exec "%s\n" % pyCmd  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "C:\Program Files\Python\win32com\client\makepy.py", line 46, \
> > in ?
> >     import genpy, string, sys, os, types, pythoncom
> >   File "C:\Program Files\Python\win32com\client\genpy.py", line 16, in ?
> >     import pythoncom
> >     Import Error: DLL load failed: A device attached to the system is \
> > not functioning.
> > """
> >
> >   I noted that what I had was version 1.25, and that version 1.32 was
> > up on Mark Hammond's site on starship python, so I installed the newer
> > version.  The installed completed, but with three error messages near
> > the end:
> >
> > """
> > Registering COM Server AXScript Engine
> >
> > Registration of the AXScript Engine COM server failed.
> >
> > Installation will continue, but this server will require manual
> > registration before it will function.
> >
> > exceptions.ImportError: DLL load failed: A device attached to the
> > system is not functioning.
> > """
> >
> > ...with the other two messages being similar ones about the Python
> > Interpreter COM server and the Dictionary COM server.
> >
> > I'd be delighted to RTFM, if I could find the relevant M (I've looked
> > in the included Python docs and on the python.org and starship python
> > websites).
> >
> > I'd be happy to register the servers manually, if that would solve the
> > problem and if I had a clue as to what than meant.
> >
> > If there is a device not functioning on my laptop, I'd love to know
> > that, but a disk scan indicates no problems and I haven't noticed any
> > other problems with my laptop.  I'm thinking I may be missing a DLL,
> > driver, or other software component; if anyone could suggest which one,
> > I'd be pleased as punch.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -David Steffen-
> 
> 
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