[python-win32] Issues with tkinter, COM servers and Python 3.x

[Tim Roberts]

Diego Vélez Torres wrote:
>
> The VALUES were an empty string and an empty bytes respectively.
>
> Before applying your advise, I put some 'prints' in order to
> understand what is happening to 'baseName' variable. What I found was
> that when I initiate an instance of tkinter app:  app = tkinter.Tk()  
> outside a COM object (eg. directly from the interactive window),  the
> value was '' (I mean an empty string).  The same code, but called from
> a COM the value was a b'' (an empty variable of the type bytes).  I
> don't know if I'm answering your question.  I hope I do.

Absolutely, yes.  Thanks.  I have to think this is a bug in the Python
COM interface layer, injecting a value into sys.argv without
implementing the Python 3 string changes.  I don't see the problem in 5
minutes of perusal, but we should get this on a bug list.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.