[Python.NET] dotnet, threading and py2exe

[Sebastian Stang]

Dear pythoneers,
i want to deliver my program, which runs perfectly 'uncompiled', as an  
exe file to customers.

The problem: i have to use an activeX component in a windows-form, and  
com-components can only be created in single-thread apartments.
But when i use py2exe to compile it, the application is run in a multi- 
threaded-apartment  
(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.GetApartmentState() is MTA).

I tried some workarounds, e.g. create the form in an STA-thread or  
create the activex in an STA like this:

thread_is_ready = False
axBrowser = None
def create_browser_thread(*args):
	global thread_is_ready
	global axBrowser
	print System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.GetApartmentState()
	axBrowser = AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser()
	thread_is_ready = True

#and the initialization function in my main form class:
def InitializeComponent(self):
	global thread_is_ready
	global axBrowser
	job = System.Threading.ThreadStart(create_browser_thread)
	thread = System.Threading.Thread(job)
	thread.SetApartmentState(System.Threading.ApartmentState.STA)
	thread.Start()
	while not thread_is_ready:
		pass
	self.Controls.Add(axBrowser)
	
This all worked fine when run with python.exe from command-line.
However, compiled with py2exe, the initialization function ends  
without exceptions, but the form is not shown and the program hangs.
Telling the form to shop does not help either.

Did anyone experience similar problems?

best regards,
Pablo