win32com: use not possible as normal user

[Tim Roberts]

Sibylle Koczian <Sibylle.Koczian at Bibliothek.Uni-Augsburg.de> wrote:
>
>I've installed Python 2.4 and the win32 extensions, using administrator 
>rights, under Windows XP in "C:\Programme". As this is a directory 
>without spaces I didn't expect any problems. But now I can't _use_ 
>win32com as a normal user, because normal users can't write there:

Right.  To use win32com, the site-packages\win32com\gen_py directory must
be writable.  You shouldn't have to change the whole c:\Programme tree; you
should be able to make just that one subdirectory writable by all.
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