Packaging problem[py2exe, Inno setup] - pywintypes.com_error

[Thomas Heller]

"Radhika Bodapatla" <rbodapatla at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a1d2cfb3.0109261009.183099fc at posting.google.com...
> My application[eclient.py, on winNT4.0] uses
> win32com.client[win32com.client.Dispatch('MSXML2.XMLHTTP'),
> win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("Excel.Application")]  and also
> xml.sax for xml parsing.
> I create a setup.py file:
> ;-----setup.py-----------
> from distutils.core import setup
> import py2exe
> setup(name="eclient",
>       scripts=["eclient.py"],
>       data_files=[("template",["expenseform.xls"])],)
> ;------------------------
> I run it using py2exe:
> python setup.py py2exe -p _xmlplus,win32com
> This creates 2folders build and dist. In the dist folder it creates
> eclient folder in which it has the eclient.exe and other .dlls. Also
> creates a folder tcl with 2more folders in it- tcl8.3 and tk8.3.
> Then I use Inno setup[I only include the files in the dist folder] to
> create my .exe so that I can install it on a machine that doesn't have
> python installed on it.
> But this is the error I get when I try to run it from another machine:
> Traceback <most recent call last>:
>   File "<string>", line 332, in ?
>   File "<string>", line 12, in __init__
>   File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc, line 94, in Dispatch
>   File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyc, line 81, in
> _GetGoodDispatchandUserName
>   File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyc, line 72, in _GetGoodDispatch
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None,
> None)
win32com\client\dynamic, line 72 is
   IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)

I could be wrong, but doesn't this error say that CoCreateInstance fails
because the COM object you are trying to use is not registered on the other machine?

Thomas