On 240211-12:29, Mark Hammond wrote: > I think there might be a misconception here - the if > name=='__main__' block is *only* doing registration and > unregistration - the COM object is not running in that process. > Excel will be loading the COM object in-process and manage its > lifetime itself. There really isn't a need to have your main block > like that - you can just register it once and leave it registered > until explicitly unregistered.
Yes. I guess I didn't realize that the process isn't tied to that terminal/console instance. I am use to doing something like 'myprogram &' in a bash terminal, and the myprogram process is dependent on the console process. > What should happen is that py2exe will create a DLL (and possibly a > .exe) for you - but similarly to as mentioned above, this DLL is > loaded by excel automatically - you just register it once (probably > via regsvr32.exe) and Excel can then use it as necessary. If I can get out of my own way and get through the learning curve maybe I can get these results... :) > Check out the win32com\Demos directory - but AFAIK, the excel > samples there haven't been tested with recent versions of excel. I will try this tomorrow on my work PC and see if things don't go better. By the way, I look forward to reading your book. It should be here this week. Regards, Bill _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
