Installer vs py2exe: Windows DLLs

[Gordon McMillan]

Paul Moore wrote:

> When building a distribution for the same script using Gordon
> McMillan's Installer and py2exe, I notice that Installer includes
> PyWinTypes22.dll and win32api.pyd, whereas py2exe doesn't. 

[snip]

> More to the point, in some ways, why does Installer think these files
> are needed? Is there some situation in which py2exe generated
> executables will fail because these files aren't there?

David's answer was 100% correct.

The specific call here is os.path.abspath(...). Before 2.2 and 
without win32api, this simply examined its argument. In some
rare corner cases, it would yield an incorrect answer.

-- Gordon
http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/