COM makepy problem

Thu Aug 4 02:58:27 EDT 2005

"Alexander Eisenhuth" <newsuser at stacom-software.de> wrote in message 
news:dcqj38$abr$1 at online.de...
> ActivePython 2.4.1
> Windows XP
>
> I write a COM Server in VC++ 6.0 using ATL. So far so good. While I 
> develop I got sometimes strange behaviour with makepy utility. Today 
> again. :-(
>
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I've had the same problems; this pywin32 bug describes it:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1166627&group_id=78018&atid=551954

I've found no way to avoid it except by downgrading to Python 2.4.

James