[python-win32] Building pywin32 msi installers

2013-06-19 Thread Will Sadkin
Hi All, I really need to be able to do a silent install of the pywin32 package for python2.7, so I started looking at the distutils bdist_msi option, to see if I could get that working for pywin32. Although I *was eventually able to do so,* I ran into several problems that I had to work around

Re: [python-win32] Killing a subprocess spawned by a service

2013-06-19 Thread Tom
Have you tried spawning "pythonw.exe" instead of "python.exe"? http://bugs.python.org/issue3905 might help you. A bit of googling suggests this is a recurring issue with subprocess and non-windowed applications. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Patrick Tisdale wrote: > I can get rid of the shel

Re: [python-win32] Killing a subprocess spawned by a service

2013-06-19 Thread Patrick Tisdale
I can get rid of the shell=1 using subprocess.Popen(["python.exe", "C:\\Python27\\Scripts\\test.py"]). This also works fine using debug mode. I can kill it via os.kill() or Popen.send_signal(). It also runs fine via "net start". But when I stop it via "net stop", it gives me the following error