[python-win32] SIGSEGV crash at the end of apps using win32uiole / OCX

2011-12-27 Thread Robert
This is about a ugly old bug which I dislike for long, which I can only suppress by a os._exit() near Python end. Now I found some more info. Perhaps somebody sees what it is about? When a GUI app has ever used a win32uiole OCX like shown in the attached minimal example (pythonwin\pywin\Demos\

Re: [python-win32] Several, totally isolated Python interpreters in the same process

2011-12-27 Thread Robert
Thomas Heller wrote: I made an experiment that I wanted to share because it is imo kind of cool: I managed to embed a second Python interpreter in a Python process, with help of WinSxS (WinSxS is a Microsoft technology that allows to isolate plugins from other plugins, or from the calling proces