[python-win32] Python 3.7: difficulties importing adodbapi after installation

[Vernon D. Cole]

The hassle is because I have not fulfilled my responsibility to keep
adodbapi maintained properly for these last few years. I now work in a
Linux shop and have almost nothing to do with databases, so my work on
Windows database software keeps taking a back seat to other
responsibilities.  This weekend, I will finally have some time.

  That said: this is an open invitation for someone to step in and help out.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:10 AM Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola at web.de>
wrote:

> Fresh install of Python 3.7 on Windows 10.
>
> Installed pywin32-223.win-amd64.py3.7.exe (from python.org) without
> error messages, but the adodbapi directory didn't contain apibase.py and
> so adodbapi couldn't be imported.
>
> Next step: "pip install adodbapi --upgrade" again seemed to work
> normally, but now 4 files contained line endings "\r\r\n":
> apibase.py
> is64bit.py
> process_connect_string.py
> server.py
> This caused an IndentationError at the first line continuation in
> apibase.py (whitespace after the \):
> line 249, pythonDateTimeConverter.DateObjectFromCOMDate,
>          dte=datetime.datetime.fromordinal(integerPart +
> self._ordinal_1899_12_31) \
>              + datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=floatpart*86400000)
>
> I couldn't find differences to the module version in my Python 3.6
> installation, other than the line endings, so I copied the 4 files from
> there.
>
> Last problem: now adodbapi missed
> ...\python37\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\dicts.dat. The second
> exception in the traceback said something about missing rights, so I
> opened a Python shell as administrator and imported adodbapi there. That
> created the file.
>
> Now everything works as it should, but why the hassle?
>
> Greetings
> Sibylle
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