[python-win32] PythonWin on Win 200s Server

[Bob Gailer]

At 12:08 PM 2/19/2004, jkreps at rev.state.ne.us wrote:
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>Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> 
>wrote: 
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>I am having one hell of a time getting PythonWin 163 to work reliably on
>Win 2003 Server.
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>I have been thru a number of reinstalls of the op sys, installing each time
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>less software, and still running into problems. What manifests now is (1)
>PythonWin starts and runs slow. (2) when debugging
>it reports a loadbarstate failure, and now even the menus don't drop down.
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>I can't even uninstall it! Could not open INSTALL.LOG fiile.
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>Am I just out of luck? It seems that I've worked with PythonWin with great
>success for 2 or so years Win 2000 and Win 2003) , and now it it just dying
>on me.
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>I will (once again) install the op sys, and ONE program at a time (which is
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>what I was doing), till I see the point at which something is destroyed
>that causes PythonWin to fail.
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>Bob Gailer
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>Bob,
>Maybe it's not Python.
>Perhaps the problems you're having are reflective of a lot of problems
>other users of Win2003 servers are having.   Forbes recently moved them out
>of their data processing center because of reiliability, compatibility and 
>other problems ....

I just backed up to Win 2000 and things seem to be working OK. I wonder why 
MS is so good at advertising and not so good at delivery.

Sigh. I was enjoying many of the Win 2003 features, but just could not get 
my job done.

Bob Gailer
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