Win32 COM irony

Markus Wankus markus_wankusGETRIDOFALLCAPS at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 20 22:42:58 EDT 2004


Robert Brewer wrote:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html says:
> 
> "And there are a few reasons to avoid MakePy:
> ...
> The MakePy-generated files can be huge. The file generated for Microsoft
> Excel is around 800 KB, a large Python source file by anyone's
> standards..."""
> 
> *giggle* The first one I ever made with makepy was (and still is) 3.5
> MB, for The Raiser's Edge from Blackbaud. Anyone got a bigger one
> sitting in their win32com/gen_py? >;)
> 

Damn.  And I thought my 2.991MB Solidworks file was big.  Although - the 
.pyc version is 3.7MB.  ;o)

Markus



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