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richard_chamberlain richard_chamberlain at ntlworld.com
Sat Jun 17 17:58:55 EDT 2000 
Hi David,

I had the same problem with a PC at work running W95, but not on any of the
others. I finally narrowed it down to be the only one without Internet
Explorer 5 installed. And from that I presume that DCOM needs to be
installed.

Hope that helps,

Richard


David Steffen <steffen at biomedcomp.com> wrote in message
news:2F466A4F08768158.E7F19F943AD91E75.0C469CA3C5F346B1 at lp.airnews.net...
> Howdy:
>
>   I'm trying to use Pythonwin with Python 1.52 under Windows 95 and am
> consistently running into a problem that I don't understand at all,
> probably because I know relatively little about Windows.
>
>   When I selected "COM Makepy Utility" from the Tools menu of
> Pythonwin, I got the following error message:
>
> """
> >>> Failed to execute command:
> from win32com.client import makepy;makepy.main()
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "C:\Program Files\Python\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\toolmenu.py"\
> , line 103, in HandleToolCommand
>     exec "%s\n" % pyCmd  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>   File "C:\Program Files\Python\win32com\client\makepy.py", line 46, \
> in ?
>     import genpy, string, sys, os, types, pythoncom
>   File "C:\Program Files\Python\win32com\client\genpy.py", line 16, in ?
>     import pythoncom
>     Import Error: DLL load failed: A device attached to the system is \
> not functioning.
> """
>
>   I noted that what I had was version 1.25, and that version 1.32 was
> up on Mark Hammond's site on starship python, so I installed the newer
> version.  The installed completed, but with three error messages near
> the end:
>
> """
> Registering COM Server AXScript Engine
>
> Registration of the AXScript Engine COM server failed.
>
> Installation will continue, but this server will require manual
> registration before it will function.
>
> exceptions.ImportError: DLL load failed: A device attached to the
> system is not functioning.
> """
>
> ...with the other two messages being similar ones about the Python
> Interpreter COM server and the Dictionary COM server.
>
> I'd be delighted to RTFM, if I could find the relevant M (I've looked
> in the included Python docs and on the python.org and starship python
> websites).
>
> I'd be happy to register the servers manually, if that would solve the
> problem and if I had a clue as to what than meant.
>
> If there is a device not functioning on my laptop, I'd love to know
> that, but a disk scan indicates no problems and I haven't noticed any
> other problems with my laptop.  I'm thinking I may be missing a DLL,
> driver, or other software component; if anyone could suggest which one,
> I'd be pleased as punch.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -David Steffen-
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