Py2exe / pyinstaller and DispatchWithEvents

Question

I have a program that uses the win32com library to control iTunes, but I had some problems compiling it into an executable file. The problem seems to revolve around using DispatchWithEventsinstead Dispatch. I created a very simple program to illustrate my problem:

import win32com.client
win32com.client.gencache.is_readonly = False #From py2exe wiki

class ITunesEvents(object):
    def __init__(self): self.comEnabled = True
    def OnCOMCallsDisabledEvent(self, reason): self.comEnabled = False
    def OnCOMCallsEnabledEvent(self): self.comEnabled = True

# The first line works in the exe, the second doesn't.
itunes = win32com.client.Dispatch("iTunes.Application")
#itunes = win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("iTunes.Application", ITunesEvents)

lib = getattr(itunes, "LibraryPlaylist")
src = getattr(lib, "Source")
playlists = getattr(src, "Playlists")

print "Found %i playlists." % getattr(playlists, "Count")

Using Dispatch, the program compiles and works correctly. Using DispatchWithEvents, the program works fine when called from the command line, but when starting exe it creates the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sandbox.py", line 16, in <module>
  itunes = win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("iTunes.Application", ITunesEvents)
File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 252, in DispatchWithEvents
File "win32com\client\gencache.pyc", line 520, in EnsureModule
File "win32com\client\gencache.pyc", line 287, in MakeModuleForTypelib
File "win32com\client\makepy.pyc", line 259, in GenerateFromTypeLibSpec
File "win32com\client\gencache.pyc", line 141, in GetGeneratePath
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '[distDir]\\library.zip\\win32com\\gen_py\\__init__.py'

I also tried using PyInstaller, which gives a similar error:

File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
File "[outDir]/win32com.client", line 252, in DispatchWithEvents
File "[outDir]/win32com.client.gencache", line 520, in EnsureModule
File "[outDir]/win32com.client.gencache", line 287, in MakeModuleForTypelib
File "[outDir]/win32com.client.makepy", line 286, in GenerateFromTypeLibSpec
File "[outDir]/win32com.client.gencache", line 550, in AddModuleToCache
File "[outDir]/win32com.client.gencache", line 629, in _GetModule
File "[pyinstallerDir]\iu.py", line 455, in importHook
    raise ImportError, "No module named %s" % fqname
ImportError: No module named win32com.gen_py.9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370712x0x1x13

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import cominterface
from types import ClassType
from win32com.client import EventsProxy, _event_setattr_

class ItunesEvents:
    '''iTunes events class. See cominterface for details.'''
    def OnPlayerPlayEvent(self, t):print "Playing..."
    def OnPlayerStopEvent(self, t): print "Stopping..."

itunes = cominterface.iTunesApp()
rClass = ClassType("COMEventClass", (itunes.__class__, itunes.default_source, ItunesEvents), {'__setattr__': _event_setattr_})
instance = rClass(itunes._oleobj_)
itunes.default_source.__init__(instance, instance)
#ItunesEvents.__init__(instance) #Uncomment this line if your events class has __init__.
itunes = EventsProxy(instance)

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Answer 1

, , , - ITunesInterface.py . py2exe .

Answer 2

. → http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/UsingEnsureDispatch , : NB , python...\win32com.client.gen_py dir % temp% . "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py" "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_pybak" ( py2exe)

Answer 3

This is the official way to do this.

(Editing: copied verbatim example from this link above)

import win32com.client
if win32com.client.gencache.is_readonly == True:

    #allow gencache to create the cached wrapper objects
    win32com.client.gencache.is_readonly = False

    # under p2exe the call in gencache to __init__() does not happen
    # so we use Rebuild() to force the creation of the gen_py folder
    win32com.client.gencache.Rebuild()

    # NB You must ensure that the python...\win32com.client.gen_py dir does not exist
    # to allow creation of the cache in %temp%

# Use SAPI speech through IDispatch
from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch
from win32com.client import constants
voice = EnsureDispatch("Sapi.SpVoice", bForDemand=0)
voice.Speak( "Hello World.", constants.SVSFlagsAsync )