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running a COM server in Python

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Mon Feb 25 19:31:48 EST 2002 
Mark Barclay wrote:
> Thanks Mark. I have your book, and it is invaluable. I should have credited you
> personally.
> 
> Is there a way of coding a COM server that can be running before it is accessed
> by a COM client? I'm not sure if this makes sense, but I'd like to have a program
> running, that can be connected to, perhaps multiple times, without it having to
> create multiple instances of teh server, just have multiple clients using it.

IIRC, it gets a little messy - you need to implement a LocalServer 
object, and add it to the running object table (ROT).  Searching old 
posts at groups.google.com is probably your best bet.

Mark.
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