[python-win32] win32api.FindFiles hangs (was COM registration hangs up: 32 bit Python 3.7 on 64 bit Win 7)

[Tim Roberts]

Boylan, Ross wrote:
>
> Is this some kind of string conversion issue?  My installation is borked?
> Manual debugging statements show sys.argv[0] is 'BSTImport.py'.
>
> win32api.FindFiles('BSTImport.py')
> in a python 3.7 shell (32 bit) hangs.

That's quite bizarre.  The code for win32api.FindFiles is 
straightforward.  Is this a special directory, like a net share or 
something?  If you ask for *.py, is BSTImport.py in the list you get back?

Do you code in C?  You might code up a trivial C app to run a 
FindFirstFile/FindNextFile loop with the same parameters to see if the 
same thing happens.  Of course, I'm not sure what the next step would 
be, whether that worked or failed.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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