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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list ActivePython@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
