I've noticed that the GetModuleForTypelib always (or at least once per program-run) calls AddModuleToCache (both in win32com.client.gencache).
This results in an attempt to write to the pickled dictionary gen_py/dicts.dat. Unfortunately the program I'm writing that uses GetModuleForLib is run by users who dont have write access to the Python directory. I've ensured early binding for the type library I'm interested in by setting it up in the application installer, so from my limited understanding of win32com dicts.dat cache should already contain my module. My program appears to run fine as a normal user with a nasty hack ("win32com.client.gencache.AddModuleToCache.func_defaults=(1,False)") that prevents the cache getting written to. So, I'd be grateful of anyone with a more solid understanding than me could a) Confirm that disabling the dicts.dat cache write will work fine and not break randomly in the future b) Let me know if there's a more robust way of preventing the cache write (there appears to be code supporting freezing functionality that should help but I couldn't figure out a neat way of using it) Many thanks again. -ross _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32