Re: [python-win32] Concurrent Access to COM object from Python and VB6

[Bryan Berrett]

Deleting the object and object instances allow the other applications to 
run.

Any other thoughts?

On 2/5/2010 12:25 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
Bryan Berrett wrote:
I have a number of programs written in VB6 that use an ActiveX control
that allows access to a shared memory pool of variables. I
successfully used the following code to hook into this and access the
shared memory variables. The only problem is that when this program is
active I can not launch any of my other programs that use the same
ActiveX. They hang upon initialization. As soon as I terminate the
Python process, the VB6 program will finish loading and functions as
expected.
I am not sure what I need to do in order for the Python program to not
block access. If I start all the VB6 programs first and the Python
program last, everything works and can access the shared memory
variables.

  I don't know why a COM object would behave like this.  That's unusual.
As an experiment, you could try deleting the object to see if that's
enough to let the other apps run:
     del beWise

However, since you have other object instances hanging around (the
varInt and varString), I'm dubious that it will make much difference.

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