py2exe vs. winPython

[Thomas Heller]

"James J. Besemer" <jb at cascade-sys.com> writes:

> The rather trivial script, below, fails pitifully on a windows 98
> system with the following message:
> 
> 
> 	findfonts > c:/temp/fontdata
> 	Traceback (most recent call last):
> 	    File "<string>", line 31, in ?
> 	pywintypes.api_error: (120, 'OpenThreadToken', 'This function is only valid in Win32 mode.')
> 
> 
> 
> I don't get it.  Win98 is win32 based, right?  This was supposed to be
> a trivial little, knock-off script for a client to catalog fonts on
> his computers.  Far as I understood things, it should just work.  It
> DOES work fine on XP and NT 4.0.
> 
> 
> I need the py2exe functionality, as it's not practical or at all
> desirable for the client to install python on all his machines just to
> gather these statistics.
> 
> 
> Any and all help will be appreciated.
> 

IMO for win95/win98 you have to copy the win32popenWin9x.exe
helper module, it is used to implement the popen() functionality.

Thomas