[Py2exe-users] COM & unittest program to same dist directory don't work

[Larry B. <lar...@we...>]

First sorry for the long post, but I wanted to document
the problem I found in some detail.

I ran into a rather "odd" problem.  I have written a COM
object and compiled in py2exe and it works perfectly.  I
then wrote unittest program to test all the COM object
methods.  My thought was that I could share the /dist
directory between the two programs so as to not have to
duplicate many of the files.  This DOES NOT work for me
and I've duplicated the problem on the sample interp.exe
and the test_interp.py programs.

Run

cd c:\python25\lib\site-packages\py2exe\samples\pywin32\com_server
python setup.py py2exe

the result goes to ./dist and you can --register/--unregister properly

Create the following testsetup.py script for test_interp.py

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(name="test_interp",
      console=[{"script":"test_interp.py"}],
      version="1.0.0",


# Don't pull in all this MFC stuff used by the makepy UI (excludes)

      options = {"py2exe":{"dll_excludes": ["tcl84.dll", "tk84.dll"],
                          "bundle_files": 3}
                }

     )


python testsetup.py py2exe

cd dist

Now try to register the COM object

interp --register

You get the following error message:

See the logfile '...interp.exe.log' for details.

The file contains the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "boot_com_servers.py", line 32, in <module>
ImportError: No module named server.policy

Now change testsetup.py options to bundle=1 and zipfile=None

Now everything works.  The downsize is that I'm distributing
multiple copies of python25.dll, etc. that I'd rather not do.

Regards,
Larry Bates