[python-win32] python com and py2exe

[Floris van Nee]

Hi,

No-one answered to my previous email, maybe you didn't know the answer
or maybe it wasn't received properly. Anyway here is it again, does
any of you know the answer? Im still struggling with it..

Previous email:
I'm trying to convert my Python script, which is a COM server, to an
exe file. I'm using py2exe 0.6.5. But I ran into a few problems. After
a lot of work I was able to run py2exe on my script and create the exe
file. I was able to use exectablename.exe --register and --unregister
and it returned text that it registered/unregistered the com server,
but I wasn't able to connect to it using VB .NET. VB gave me an error
saying that it couldn't create the ActiveX component. The normal
python file works normally if I try to import the com object from VB,
but the exe doesn't work. So I think there's something I do wrong in
the setup file or so, or maybe I have to put something else in my
Python file, I dont know, I hope some of you do. Here is my Python
script and the setup.py (for py2exe) script:
setup.py:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['testcomserver.py'],
     scripts=['testcomserver.py'],
     name='testcomserver')




actual script:

from urllib import urlopen
import sys
import pythoncom
class Runescape1:
   _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
   if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
       # In the py2exe-packed version, specify the module.class
       # to use. In the python script version, python is able
       # to figure it out itself.
       _reg_class_spec_ = "__main__.Runescape1"
   _reg_clsid_ = "{6CF99217-4AE8-486A-9858-BE798F8671BC}"
   _reg_progid_ = "Python.Runescape1"
   _public_methods_ = ['Lookup', 'ChangeXP', 'ServerStatus', 'MultiplyString']
   _public_attrs_ = ['softspace', 'noCalls']
   _readonly_attrs_ = ['noCalls']
   def __init__(self):
       self.softspace = 1
       self.noCalls = 0
   def Lookup(self, nick):
       url = "http://hiscore.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.ws?user1="
+ nick
       f = urlopen(url, 'r').read()
       search_start = '<a href="overall.ws?table=0&user='
       search_end = '</table>'
       f = f[f.find(search_start):f.find(search_end)]
       f = f.replace('Not Ranked', 'N/A N/A N/A')
       while '<' in f:
           a = f.find('<')
           b = f.find('>')
           f = f[:a] + f[b+1:]
       if 'does not feature in the hiscores' in f:
           f = ''
           for x in range(89):
               f += ' '
       return f
   def ChangeXP(self, xp):
       if len(xp) > 3:
           xp = xp[:len(xp)-3] + ',' + xp[len(xp)-3:]
       if len(xp) > 7:
           xp = xp[:len(xp)-7] + ',' + xp[len(xp)-7:]
       return xp
   def ServerStatus(self):
       servers = []
       servers1 = ''
       url = 'http://www.runescape.com/serverlist.ws?plugin=0&lores.x=232&lores.y=82'
       f = urlopen(url).read()
       f = f[f.find('<img
src="http://www.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/img/serverlist/harrow_down.gif'):]
       while '<' in f:
           a = f.find('<')
           b = f.find('>')
           f = f[:a] + f[b+1:]
       for a in range(1,122):
           search = 'World ' + str(a) + ' '
           start = f.find(search)
           servers += [f[start+6:start+len(search)+4]]
       if ';Type Wo' in servers:
           del servers[servers.index(';Type Wo')]
       servers = servers[:115] + ['116 DOWN'] + servers[115:]
       for a in servers:
           servers1 += a + ','
       return servers1
   def MultiplyString(self, string, times):
       string = times*string
       return string
if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
   # we are running as py2exe-packed executable
   pythoncom.frozen = 1

if __name__=='__main__':
   if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
       # running as packed executable.
       if '--register' in sys.argv[1:]            or '--unregister'
in sys.argv[1:]:
           # --register and --unregister work as usual
           import win32com.server.register
           win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(Runescape1)
       else:
           # start the server.
           from win32com.server import localserver
           localserver.main()
   else:
       import win32com.server.register
       win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(Runescape1)




That was my whole file, not all of this is probably needed for an
answer, but I thought I'd mail the whole py file. You can ignore every
function in the Runescape1 class if you want :P.


Thanks in advance,


Floris