Help, pls: COM local server factory class

[Bill Bell]

Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:
> Bill Bell wrote:
> 
> > In response to your suggestion I've started on a different tack.
> > Having lent your Win32 book to a colleague I grabbed its Chapter 12
> > "Final Sample" code from the O'Reilly site. I launched the Python
> > code from within PythonWin and got "Registered: PythonDemos.Parent
> > (for debugging)"--which was encouraging. Then I launched the VBA
> > code (minus the comments since I never use 'em) from within MS Excel
> > and it croaked on the first line (ie, Set ParentObj =
> > CreateObject("PythonDemos.Parent")) with "Unexpected Python Error:
> > exceptions.SystemError: NULL result without error in call_object".
> 
> 
> This is a bug in the win32trace module, which is used in "debugging"
> mode.  It has been fixed in the most recent ActivePython and win32all
> builds.

Many thanks!! Can hardly wait to try patched version. - Bill

Bill Bell, Software Developer