[python-win32] win32com v.s. win32comext?

[Thomas Heller]

aurora <aurora00 at gmail.com> writes:

> I use win32com.shell. There are something special going on I don't  
> understand. Notice the commands below. I imported win32com.shell. But the  
> module is being loaded from win32comext\shell\__init__.pyc.
>
>>>> import win32com.shell
>>>> win32com.shell
> <module 'win32com.shell' from  
> 'c:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\shell\__init__.pyc'>
>
> What is the mechanism to make this happen?

It is __path__ trickery in win32com\__init__.py:

c:\>py24
Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com
>>> win32com.__path__
['c:\\python24\\lib\\site-packages\\win32com', 'c:\\python24\\lib\\site-packages\\win32comext']
>>>


> I am digging into this because when I try to use py2exe, I got this
> error:
>
> The following modules appear to be missing
> ['win32com.shell']


http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/WinShell

Thomas