How to increase PythonWin v2.0: COM browser limits?

[Mark Hammond]

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> In fact, by adding a print statement to the loop that's iterating over
> the categories to add them to the tree, I discovered that it yields
> more or less the same results as OLEView (a similar program available
> from Microsoft).  The exception is only raised after these results
> have been returned.

Ahh - excellent.  Thats for tracking that down - it has always worked for me.

Does the following patch solve the problem?

Index: combrowse.py
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RCS file: /home/cvsroot/PyWin32/com/win32com/client/combrowse.py,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -r1.4 combrowse.py
101,102c101,106
< 		for catid, lcid, desc in enum:
< 			ret.append(HLICategory((catid, lcid, desc)))
---
> 		try:
> 			for catid, lcid, desc in enum:
> 				ret.append(HLICategory((catid, lcid, desc)))
> 		except pythoncom.com_error:
> 			# Registered categories occasionally seem to give spurious errors.
> 			pass # Use what we already have.



Mark.