Ok thanks, I will look into that.
I was looking around in the win32com.client.__init__.py and it appears that if
I delete the folder win32com.client.gen_py then it is created dynamically in
the the user/appdata/temp folder when the program launches. Which is good
because the user doesn't need to be an admin for the app to write in the
appdata folder. I tested this by freezing (py2exe) my app and installed it on
my computer and it lauches up and starts running ok. I checked to confirm that
the gen_py file was created in the appdata folder and it was. This is good.
However I tried to use the features of the app that call
win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents and now it crashes with this error:
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: AttributeError("'<win32com.client.COMEventC
lass instance at 0x78765152>' object has no attribute '_olecp'",) in <bound meth
od COMEventClass.__del__ of <win32com.client.COMEventClass instance at 0x7876515
2>> ignored
It appears that the win32com client I created doesn't have the attribute
'_olecp'. '_olecp' is an attribute in the script within the
users/appdata/temp/gen_py folder. Why would I get this error?
Again with the win32com/client/gen_py folder deleted the cache (is that the
correct word?) is created in the appdata/temp/gen_py folder. My UN-frozen App
appears to work under this condition and uses the cached file in the
appdata/temp/gen_py folder an no longer the win32/client/gen_py folder. I
checked by printing a 'hello world' from this file.
why not the frozen app?
thank you in advance,
Jeff
--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Preston Landers <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Preston Landers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error
To: "Jeff Peery" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 10:30 PM
I don't know if this will work but one workaround may be to set a registry key:
HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore\\2.6\\PythonPath\\win32com
The key is GenPath and the value would be a writable location. See
win32com/__init__.py SetupEnvironment().
You could also look at pre-generating the files in question with makepy.py and
including those in the executable. I don't have much experience with packaging
an app into the executable format.
-Preston
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Jeff Peery <[email protected]> wrote:
hi, yes I can personally do that on my computer but it is not a good solution
for my users to require an administrator to grant acces every time they want to
launch the software. So I will need a more permanent fix.
Is it a significant task to redirect these files to the application data folder
or program data folder?
thanks,
Jeff
--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Preston Landers <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Preston Landers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error
To: "Jeff Peery" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 7:24 PM
Have you tried manually granting a write permission for your user to that
directory?
-Preston
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Jeff Peery <[email protected]> wrote:
hello,
yes, I am using 64 bit vista. and I am using py2exe to distribute my app. At
the moment I'm dead in the water unti lI resolve this issue. Does anyone know
of a quick fix?
thanks,
Jeff
--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Tim Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error
To: "Python-Win32 List" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 10:37 AM
Dave Angel wrote:
> 2) Are you running a 64bit version of Vista?
Yes, he is. The path "Program Files (x86)" is prima facie evidence of
this. He's running 32-bit Python on a 64-bit system. And that's just fine.
> 3) What do you mean by "compile" and "compiled executable"?
It means he has used something like "py2exe" to turn his Python code
into an executable.
This is a real problem, and one that pywin32 probably needs to address.
On Vista and beyond, the "Program Files" directories are not writable by
non-elevated programs. The win32com-generated wrappers need to go
somewhere else, like "Local Settings\Temp" or "Local Settings\Apps".
--
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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