Help, pls: COM local server factory class

[Mark Hammond]

Bill Bell wrote:

> 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".


This is a bug in the win32trace module, which is used in "debugging" 
mode.  It has been fixed in the most recent ActivePython and win32all 
builds.

Mark.