[python-win32] looking for testers

2016-01-11 Thread Ulli Horlacher
I have written a Python client for F*EX(*). It is designed for Windows users, though it runs on UNIX, too. I am now looking for testers. If you are interested, I will give you an account. (*) Frams' Fast File EXchange is a service to send files of any size to any user anywhere in the intern

[python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 220 released.

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Hammond
Hi all, I'm happy to announce the release of pywin32 build 220. This release has addressed a number of bugs with previous builds (most notably failure to install in Python 3.5) and has added a few new features - I've appended the change log at the end of this mail. Downloads are available

Re: [python-win32] Calling unregistered COM libraries via Python

2016-01-11 Thread Manowitz, David
Since I knew the path to the library, I wasn't sure if that was the case, but I guess so. --David Original message From: Mark Hammond Date: 1/11/2016 5:55 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "Manowitz, David" , "'comtypes-us...@lists.sourceforge.net'" , "'python-win32@python.org'" Subjec

Re: [python-win32] Calling unregistered COM libraries via Python

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Hammond
On 12/01/2016 4:21 AM, Manowitz, David wrote: Is it possible, either via the win32com extensions or the comtypes package (or some other package), to call to an unregistered COM library? It doesn’t seem so, but I wanted to check. COM uses the registration info to locate and load the library, so

Re: [python-win32] Have icon overlays persist after machine restart in Python

2016-01-11 Thread Mark Hammond
setup_2.py has: > setup(console=['overlays.py']) So that's going to create a console program with no COM support. setup.py has: ># specify which type of com server you want (exe and/or dll) >create_exe=True, >create_dll=False So you are only going to get a COM object

Re: [python-win32] Have icon overlays persist after machine restart in Python

2016-01-11 Thread Alexander Jewell
Hi Mark, I followed your suggestion and the SO threads touching on this area. ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619701/python-64-bit-dll-com-server-registration-problem-on-64-bit-windows-7 ) Using py2exe I generated a dist folder with an exe of my overlay script. Running this on a machine with

[python-win32] Calling unregistered COM libraries via Python

2016-01-11 Thread Manowitz, David
Is it possible, either via the win32com extensions or the comtypes package (or some other package), to call to an unregistered COM library? It doesn't seem so, but I wanted to check. Thanks, David Manowitz Office of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuels Analysis Energy Information Administration