[python-win32] Issues with tkinter, COM servers and Python 3.x
Mark Hammond
skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Wed May 20 08:32:11 CEST 2015
On 19/05/2015 9:02 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Diego VĂ©lez Torres wrote:
>>
>> I finally was able to fix this issue in my code. Thanks for your
>> advise. Now I want to share with the community exactly what I did by
>> posting the whole "__init__" method of tkinter's "__init__.py" file:
>>
>> def __init__(self, screenName=None, baseName=None, className='Tk',
>> useTk=1, sync=0, use=None):
>> ... # Condition added by Diego Velez so 'tkinter' can be called
>> from COM Servers. --May 18th, 2015
>> if isinstance(baseName, bytes):
>> baseName = baseName.decode()
>
> That's very bizarre. Did you print out the value of baseName to see
> what it was? I'm wondering if something in the Python COM machinery is
> faking os.path.basename and didn't get the memo about strings in Python 3.
Yeah - argv[0] is created inappropriately for py3k -
http://pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/pywin32/pywin32/file/b57d0d7444fb/com/win32com/src/dllmain.cpp#l68
Mark
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