Re: [python-win32] COM server registering, but getting The specified module could not be found on dispatch

2012-12-18 Thread Russell Warren
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Mark Hammond mhamm...@skippinet.com.auwrote: The VS2008 redistributables should probably be in the same directory (ie, msvc*90*.dll in system32) or else they might not be loaded. If you use the depends tool from MS/sysinternals, you will see both Python

[python-win32] COM server registering, but getting The specified module could not be found on dispatch

2012-12-17 Thread Russell Warren
I'm having a really difficult time trying to get a simple COM server demo working with win32com. No matter what I do I'm getting an automation error (The specified module could not be found.) when I try and create the object from VBA with CreateObject(). The latest COM server I'm trying to create

Re: [python-win32] COM server registering, but getting The specified module could not be found on dispatch

2012-12-17 Thread Russell Warren
Update - it seems to be the pythoncom27.dll somehow. I tried deleting the InprocServer32 key and my com server works now. I see that I can dodge this issue by specifying _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER, but I'm concerned about what the problem could be with pythoncom27.dll and