[python-win32] pywin32, virtual environments and com dlls

[Mark Hammond]

On 1/04/2014 9:43 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> By default, when pywin32 is installed from the .exe, the *com dlls are
> instsalled in %WINDOWSDIR%. If the exe is installed in a virtualenv,
> they are installed in the virtualenv itself, and nothing gets written in
> %WINDOWSDIR%.
>
> Is there any consequence in putting those dlls outside %WINDOWSDIR% ?
> And is it ok to have multiple parallel installs of pywin32 (each in its
> own virtualenv) without causing trouble ?

So long as you don't implement COM objects using Python, things should 
be fine.  Simply using COM objects shouldn't cause a problem.

HTH,

Mark