IID and CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER

[Steve Holden]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
news:a20sln$qf7$1 at serv1.iunet.it...
> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
> news:mVH08.753$Ot.109568 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com...
[ ... COM talk ...]
>
> > Can someone tell me a) whether it's possible to re-initialise with a new
> > object definition without rebooting, and/or b) whether this situation
will
> > be alleviated if I move to using CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER?
>
> You may forcibly kill an out-of-process server, but that's liable to
> crash a client not prepared for such occurrences.  Having coded lots
> of both clients and servers, I think it's far easier for a client to
> have an explicit flush of DLLs than for it to survive a crashed server.
>
Thanks, Alex. So now my question becomes "Does anyone know how to make IIS
flush its DLLs so I don't have to restart the whole system to get new Python
COM objects loaded?".

regards
 Steve
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