Gertjan Klein wrote: > Ah, but this is what confuses me. I don't have a DLL: I have a .py file, > which gets interpreted by python. The DDLs that get loaded are > python25.dll and two pywin32 dlls (don't remember offhand which). So, > when the extension is first loaded, pywin32 must load python, compile > the extension, and execute its methods. If it were possible to replace > the compiled python code with a newer version this should work, > shouldn't it? Because the dlls that Windows sees are still there. >
It's not that easy. In Python, an object's method functions are just another piece of data in the object. When a client instantiates your COM object, the Python code creates an instance of your object, including pointers to the intermediate language for the method functions. That single object will live until the COM object is released. Even if you were to use Python magic to reload the module source, that would only affect new instances. All of the existing instances will continue to point to the original intermediate language code snippets. > I haven't even though about using something like py2exe to compile the > entire app into something distibutable yet, but it seems safe to assume > that in that situation, replacing the code wouldn't work (but I don't > mind that). > Well, remember that py2exe doesn't really "compile" the app. It just bundles all of the source modules and DLLs together into a single unit. When you run a py2exe app, it just unzips the contents to a temporary directory and launches the interpreter as usual. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
