Python / Win32 extensions compatibility with Windows XP

[Jim Sizelove]

Matthew wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I recently installed Python 2.4 and the Win 32 extensions on
> Windows XP.  I had some problems with the COM makepy utility for the
> Excel COM libraries.  I reported this problem to the sourceforge bug
> tracker.
> 
> My question is , is python 2.3 and the win32 extensions more stable
> than Python 2.4?
> 
> Thank You
> 
> Matthew Harelick
> 

There were some memory issues that caused makepy on Python 2.4 to crash 
for some large type libraries (including Excel).  This problem has been 
fixed in build 204 of pywin32, released just today.

Regards,

Jim