McMillan's Installer problem with win32com

[Mark Hammond]

"richard_chamberlain" <richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:d8yh5.309$8N1.4906 at news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Hi,
>
> If you do a search on your drive for pywintypes15.dll you'll find the
file.
> Make a copy of it and change the name to pywintypes.dll and it should
work.
> It hasn't worked on all my work with com but at least some of it.

It won't work with anything that links against pythoncom - eg, active
scripting, or any other "win32com extension".

Below is some code I use to get around the "wrong name" problem with the
DLL.

# pythoncom and pywintypes are special, and require these hacks when
# built into a .EXE
def magic_import(modulename, filename):
 # win32 can find the DLL name.
 h = win32api.LoadLibrary(filename)
 found = win32api.GetModuleFileName(h)
 # Python can load the module
 mod = imp.load_module(modulename, None, found, ('.dll', 'rb',
imp.C_EXTENSION))
 # inject it into the global module list.
 sys.modules[modulename] = mod
 # And finally inject it into the namespace.
 globals()[modulename] = mod
 win32api.FreeLibrary(h)

try:
 import pywintypes
except ImportError:
 magic_import("pywintypes", "pywintypes15.dll")
try:
 import pythoncom
except ImportError:
 magic_import("pythoncom", "pythoncom15.dll")

Mark.

>
> Richard
> <ryzam at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8m67q0$h9g$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting trouble to compile with McMillan's Installer on wxPython
> > GUI application that import win32com module.
> > No error when running in interpreter mode like python mycoding.py.
> >
> > This is an example in my coding that using win32com module
> > class ComInternetExplorer:
> >    '''An interfce to Microsoft Internet Explorer using COM.
> >    The MSIE objects can be used directly, this class just wraps some
of
> > the
> >    behaviors for convenience.
> >    jjk  09/02/99'''
> >
> >   def __init__(self, visible=1, timeout=200, waitInterval=1):
> >     '''Initialize the receiver: opens an Internet Explorer application
> >     jjk  09/02/99'''
> >     self.ie = win32com.client.Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application")
> >     self.ie.Visible = visible
> >     #self.ie.StatusBar=0
> >     #self.ie.Width=400
> >     #self.ie.Height=400
> >     #self.ie.ToolBar=0
> >     self.timeout = timeout # seconds before waitWhileBusy() times out
> >     self.waitInterval = waitInterval # interval (seconds) between busy
> > tests
> >
> > bla bla.....continue coding here....
> >
> > I get the following error when i run python Standalone.py:
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >    File "Builder.py", line 502, in ?
> >       main(opts,args)
> >    File "Builder.py", line 484, in main
> >       target.build()
> >    File "Builder.py", line 87, in build
> >       self.assemble()
> >    File "Builder.py", line 234, in assemble
> >       shutil.copy2(path,self.name)
> >    File "C:\Program Files\Python\Lib\shutil.py",
> >       copyfile(src,dst)
> >    File "C:\Program Files\Python\Lib\shutil.py",
> >       fsrc=open(src,'rb')
> > IOError:[Errno 2] No such file or
> > directory: 'c:\\windows\\system\\pywintypes.dll'
> >
> >
> >
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