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<p>Does something like `python -c "from win32com.client.gencache
import EnsureDispatch; EnsureDispatch('ADODB.Connection.6.0');`
work? That should generate directly into the expected output
directory.</p>
<p>Mark<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-30 1:44 p.m., Steven Manross
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Command I ran:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client>python
makepy.py "ADODB.Connection.6.0"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Output:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Generating to
C:\Users\someuser\AppData\Local\Temp\13\gen_py\3.11\B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Building definitions from type library...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Generating...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Importing module<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am running the command above, and if I do
this, my Classic ASP does not see the resulting
B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py file because it
saved the file in the user temp directory as opposed to in the
site-packages directory structure.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph"
style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">When I
installed Python, I told it to install the application for
“All Users” (Default Directory = C:\Program Files\Python311
-- but I removed the Program Files portion for the
installation)<o:p></o:p></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is there some way to make it save the file
in the correct place for the python installation from the
command line so I don’t have to move the files it generates?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keep in mind that the files it generates
seems to live in a 3.11 directory, but python seems to want it
in:<br>
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C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\B691E011-1797-432E-907A-4D8C69339129x0x6x1.py<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\dicts.dat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">C:\Python311\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\__init__.py<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I saw the -o parameter in the makepy.py
script but if I use that, it doesn’t seem to build the
dicts.dat or __init__.py files – which already exist (is that
a problem?).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please and thank you for any comments,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steven<o:p></o:p></p>
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