[python-win32] Overlay Icon Question and network drives

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Tim,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> Andrea Gavana wrote:
> > Just an update: I have managed to make it running both as a Python
> > script and as a standalone executable/dll. It's working fine and it's
> > not slowing down our network connections: everything seems as fast as
> > before. A big thank you to Roger and Tim for their kind help!
>
> Thanks for the update, Andrea. Glad we could help.
> Is it worth your posting the solution to the problems you were
> having with py2exe for anyone following this thread?

Yes, sorry I didn't think about it. The main problem I was having was
due to the way I compiled the COM server with py2exe: every time I
opened some file dialogs from my apps I got this traceback:

pythoncom error: PythonCOM Server - The 'win32com.server.policy'
module could not be loaded.

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named server.policy
pythoncom error: CPyFactory::CreateInstance failed to create instance.
(80004005)

Then, I just took the Setup.py file from TortoiseHG, modified it for
my COM server and compiled it using the py2exe option bundle_files=1
(i.e., single executable without external dependencies). This works
very well now. For the curious, this is my Setup.py file for my COM
server:

# ----------------------------------
# BEGIN CODE
# ----------------------------------

# SetupCOMServer.py

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

import sys
import shutil

# Remove the build tree... ALWAYS do that!
shutil.rmtree("build", ignore_errors=True)

# List of modules to exclude from the executable
excludes = ["pywin", "pywin.debugger", "pywin.debugger.dbgcon",
            "pywin.dialogs", "pywin.dialogs.list"]

# List of modules to include in the executable
includes = ["win32com.server"]

# ModuleFinder can't handle runtime changes to __path__, but win32com uses them
try:
    # if this doesn't work, try import modulefinder
    import py2exe.mf as modulefinder
    import win32com

    for p in win32com.__path__[1:]:
        modulefinder.AddPackagePath("win32com", p)

    for extra in ["win32com.shell", "win32com.server"]: #,"win32com.mapi"
        __import__(extra)
        m = sys.modules[extra]
        for p in m.__path__[1:]:
            modulefinder.AddPackagePath(extra, p)

except ImportError:
    # no build path setup, no worries.
    pass

# Set up py2exe with all the options
setup(
    options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 2,
                          "optimize": 2,
                          "bundle_files": 1,
                          "dist_dir": "COMDist",
                          "excludes": excludes,
                          "includes": includes}},
    # The lib directory contains everything except the executables and
the python dll.
    # Can include a subdirectory name.
    zipfile = None,
    com_server = ['KSVR_COMServer'],
    )

# ----------------------------------
# END CODE
# ----------------------------------

I hope this will help someone in the future :-D

Thanks for your help!

Andrea.

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