win32com:MakePy -- Early Binding without the size jitters?

[Mark Hammond]

Clark C. Evans wrote:

> Hello.  I'd like to use early-binding with about three COM 
> libraries, each one of the stub.pyc files over 100KB (with 
> one in particular over 300KB).  However, I'm only using
> about a dozen methods (including constructors, etc) from
> each library.  I was wondering... is it safe to delete
> methods/interfaces which I'm not using?  I've deleted
> a few, and it still works for my purposes, so I was 
> wondering if I'm shooting myself in the foot -- or if
> there is a methodological approach to this pruning?
> It'd be cool to get the .pyc alot smaller; no use
> toossing away 1MB of memory when I only need a few K...
> 

If you are using the gencache functions to create makepy files, try 
passing "bForDemand=1" to the functions.  This will only generate what 
is actually used by the program, as it is used.

Mark.