Problems with gencache on Windows NT

[Mark Hammond]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> "Geoff Talvola" <gtalvola at nameconnector.com> wrote in message


>>So far I haven't had any problems, but I haven't seen anyone else
>>recommending the use of EnsureDispatch, so I'll ask the question: Is there
>>any reason _not_ to just use EnsureDispatch?
>>
> 
> I'd be interested, because I don't know of any such reasons -- I've
> gradually switched just about all my COM clients to
>     from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch as Dispatch
> over from
>     from win32com.client import Dispatch
> so if there ARE counterindications I didn't notice I'd really
> like being informed about them!-)

   There is one slight problem remaining with events.  In some cases, 
the module is needed before it is generated. I can't remember the exact 
problem at the moment.

  However, this is just an implementation problem, and the only thing 
left from moving to use this as the default.

Mark.