Help, pls: COM local server factory class

[Bill Bell]

Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote, in part:
> You should register your server for debugging.  eg "MyServer.py 
> --debug".  Then startup Pythonwin's "Tools->Collect Remote Debugging
> Output" option.  You should then see a complete traceback pointing to
> the specific line that fails.

Thank you.

In response to your suggestion I've started on a different tack. 
Having lent your Win32 book to a colleague I grabbed its Chapter 
12 "Final Sample" code from the O'Reilly site. I launched the 
Python code from within PythonWin and got "Registered: 
PythonDemos.Parent (for debugging)"--which was encouraging. 
Then I launched the VBA code (minus the comments since I never 
use 'em) from within MS Excel and it croaked on the first line (ie, 
Set ParentObj = CreateObject("PythonDemos.Parent")) with 
"Unexpected Python Error: exceptions.SystemError: NULL result 
without error in call_object".

Any chance that the code on the web site is somehow broken or is 
this just one more embarrassment for me (in a life that has been 
much too full of them already)?

Thanks for your help!