[python-win32] iTunes 7 vs Juice: ugly!

[David Nicolson]

Hi Garth,

I've been developing a py2exe app that dispatches a COM object since  
iTunes 4 and I've seen this problem a bit.

I'm not exactly sure what causes it, I think in certain circumstances  
the iTunes installer can fail to register the type library.  
Reinstalling iTunes usually solves the problem. It also seems as  
though win32com and py2exe are more sensitive to this.

Dave


On 15/09/2006, at 1:28 PM, Garth T Kidd wrote:

> Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I throw myself on your mercy.
>
> Can anyone help me nut out what happened to the COM interface to
> iTunes with the iTunes 7 upgrade?
>
>     iface = "iTunes.Application"
>     iTunes = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch(iface)
>     iTunes.Stop()
>
> ... used to work just fine. Now we get AttributeError for everything.
> I'm trying both static and dynamic dispatch, with no success, yet the
> makepy output shows lots of familiar interfaces.
>
> I'd much appreciate ANY help anyone can offer with this one. We don't
> necessarily have that much in the way of market-share with Juice, but
> with the size of the market there are still tens of thousands of users
> I'd prefer not to leave in the lurch...
>
> Yours,
> Garth.