McMillan's Installer problem with win32com

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In article <9Gyh5.18201$4p3.145769 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
  "Mark Hammond" <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:
> "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.
>

Mark,

Where should i write this code??

Thanks..


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