[python-win32] InstallService TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances not str

[James Mills]

Hello all,

I've been trying to build a simple prototype Windows Services
but am running into a problem when trying to install it.

Running:

$ test_service.exe install

Produces the following error:

ERROR: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "service.pyc", line 71, in install_service
  File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 295, in InstallService
  File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 83, in LocatePythonServiceExe
TypeError: exceptions must be classes or instances, not str

Now. We are using the latest version of pywin32 (214)
for Python 2.6.x

We tried deleting the *.pyc files in C:\Python26\Lib\ to no avail..

The code is here:
https://bitbucket.org/prologic/circuits/src/5e17015df110/tmp/win32_service/

I'd appreciate any insight into this as my own research
into this problem has yielded nothing positive so far.

Thanks,

cheers
James

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