RE: [Py2exe-users] genpy error

[Jimmy R. <ji...@re...>]

Jim Carroll wrote:
> Hi, I've got python 2.4.2 & pythonwin 207 & py2exe 0.6.4 (I also tried
> 0.6.3)
>=20
> The other day I tried to run makepy on Excel.Application and got a
> strange error... today I am getting something similar trying to py2exe
> something that I've had luck with before.  I'm getting the following
> error:
>=20
>=20
> running py2exe
> *** generate typelib stubs ***
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\jimc\prj\bright\scripts\vsEdit\setup.py", line 69, in ?
>    windows=3D[vsEdit])
...
>
"C:\jimc\prj\bright\scripts\vsEdit\build\bdist.win32\winexe\temp\win32co
m
> \gen_py\565783C6-CB41-11D1-8B02-00600806D9B6x0x1x2.py", line 1484
> class ISWbemRefreshableItem(DispatchBaseClass):
>    ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm not sure what would be causing the error, but I'll tell you how I
handle COM automation clients in the apps I package...  I use makepy to
generate the Python file referenced above. I then copy that file into my
application directory and rename it something like excel.py and simply
include that whenever I use it. I've been doing it this way for years
and back when I started doing it a lot of issues I was having with
py2exe (more at run time than packaging time if IIRC) cleared up and
have never returned.

Jimmy