[python-win32] I need to make a COM object with py2exe. Please HELP!

[Tim Roberts]

Diego Vélez Torres wrote:
>
> I need to make a COM object upon my Python code, so I can call it from
> .NET programs (ie. Visual Basic, VB6).  I need the COM object (or DLL)
> to be stand alone, because the target PCs where the final programs are
> going to run won't have Python installed. I know so far that py2exe
> supports this directly:
> http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Py2exeAndCtypesComDllServer
>
> I've tried to make some samples with the given link's instructions,
> but I haven't been lucky. I only got empty 'dist' and 'build' folders.
> I've search for documentation on the web for quite a long time with no
> luck. I realized that I need more information besides the one provided
> by the above's link:
>
>  1. How the Python module that I want to compile must be written?  I
>     mean, all functions and classes in module will be available for
>     the outside code through the COM Object?  That module needs
>     specific lines of code?
>

What you are trying to create is a COM server.  If you search for
"python COM server", you will find many examples.  It does have to be
written in a particular way.  You have to identify the functions you
want to be exposed, the registry program ID, and the registry GUID in
specially named class members (_public_methods_, _reg_progid_, _reg_clsid_).

I suggest you make the COM part work first.  Once you have that working,
then you can dig in to py2exe to make it standalone.

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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