Bob Kline wrote:
>  We're building a new production server for one of our systems, and 
>  thought it would be a good time to bump up that system from Python 2.4 
>  to 2.5.  Problem is, the web server, running under the machine's system 
>  account, can't see the registered COM libraries we've hooked in with the 
>  MakePy tool.  After much hair pulling, we noticed that when we run 
>  MakePy on the servers running AS Python 2.4, the generated modules are 
>  dropped right into the 
>  <python-installation>lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py directory, 
>  whereas on the new machine, running AS Python 2.5, the modules are built 
>  in the current user's %TEMP% directory, so of course the web server 
>  can't find them.
>  
>  So, two questions.
>  
>   1. Why the change?

This was a change in core PyWin32. I don't want to put words in the 
mouths of the PyWin32 developers, but I suspect the change was to (a) 
avoid putting temp info in the install area and (b) it would seem to 
allow per-user COM registration.

>   2. What do we need to do to make the generated modules available to any 
>  account on the system?

Poking aroiund in the sources, the directory where these generated files 
get places in win32com.__gen_path__. That is determined (via quite a bit 
of code) in win32com/__init__.py.

It *looks* (tho I'm just eyeballing the code), that you can control it 
with a registry setting (tho perhaps that's mainly for debugging/dev). 
Also it appears that if .../Lib/site-packages/win32com/gen_py exists, 
then that will be used.

...tries it...

Yup. Try creating that dir.


I'd also ask on python-win32@[...].org to verify the reasoning for the 
change. Now that I think about it, the change could also be that 
ActivePython's installer just now doesn't create that dir. It is 
possible that that was an unintended subtle change.


Trent

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Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com
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