Hi again,
An answer of sorts..
The original problem disappeared when I took some care about *the order*
of generation of several .tlb's
What I did not reveal in my original post was that I have *many* tlb's
associated with SmarTeam.
The following snippet shows a successful makepy on the form
I'm afraid I've never seen that before. The code in build.py at line 261 is
looping over each method defined in an object, and seems to be havng trouble
loading the info for one of them. It might be that a dependent typelib
hasn't been loaded - I don't think we handle dependent typelibs correctly