Class not registered???

[maximilianscherr]

thanks,

how can i make a check if wsh2.0 or newer is installed? so that i can 
show a nice error messagebox:)


--- In python-list at y..., Alex Martelli <aleax at a...> wrote:
> maximilianscherr wrote:
> 
> > i'm doing this and getting this error
> > 
> > import win32com.client
> >>>> shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
>         ...
> >     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, 
clsctx,
> > pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> > com_error: (-2147221164, 'Klasse nicht registriert', None, None)
> > ____________________________^
> > ____________________________| "Class not registered"
> > 
> > also happens with activepython 2.2.0 alpha
> 
> So, is WSH (the Windows Scripting Host, containing WScript etc)
> in fact registered on the machine on which you're trying that?
> 
> You can check by editing the Windows registry e.g. with regedit or
> regedt32.  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, does it have an entry whose
> key is WScript.Shell?  If so does it point to a GUID which is in 
turn
> undes CLSID?  These are all Windows and COM problems, of
> course, not Python ones.
> 
> If WSH is not registered, uninstall it, find and download the latest
> release from the Microsoft site, install it again: it should 
register.
> 
> 
> Alex
> 
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