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 <pland...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Preston Landers <pland...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error To: "Jeff Peery" <jeffpe...@yahoo.com> 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 <jeffpe...@yahoo.com> 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 <pland...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Preston Landers <pland...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error To: "Jeff Peery" <jeffpe...@yahoo.com> 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 <jeffpe...@yahoo.com> 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 <t...@probo.com> wrote: From: Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions error To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32@python.org> 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, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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