Scripting with win32api fails in Python 3.12 about pywin32

[mhammond]

pywin32 needs a new release, which I'm still working out how to do, sorry about that.

[bkline]

Any way I can assist?

[mhammond]

Not really, but there are unreleased versions available from every change - eg, the latest can be found at https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/actions/runs/8890105083, where you can scroll down and download the "artifacts".

[bkline]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

[bkline]

I pulled pywin32-306-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl from that set and installed it with

py -m pip install --force-reinstall pywin32-306-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl

However, when I tried registering Python as a scripting language (step 3 in the repro instructions above), I hit an exception complaining that pythonw_d.exe could not be found. Is it possible that those artifacts are built with debugging versions of the package? This step succeeded with the release version of pywin32.

C:\Users\bkline\Desktop\CdrSetup17\PythonFiles>py C:\Python312\lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py  1>>pyscript.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python312\lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py", line 443, in <module>
    Register()
  File "C:\Python312\lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py", line 436, in Register
    ret = win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 648, in UseCommandLine
    RegisterClasses(*classes, **flags)
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 464, in RegisterClasses
    RegisterServer(
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 272, in RegisterServer
    exeName = _find_localserver_exe(1)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Python312\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 125, in _find_localserver_exe
    raise RuntimeError("Can not locate the program '%s'" % exeBaseName)
RuntimeError: Can not locate the program 'pythonw_d.exe'

[Avasam]

To address the original post, this would be a duplicate of #2104 and has been fixed by #2113

I'm working on writing the huge changelog from all my recent changes. I can at least help with that, concerning the next release.

[Avasam]

As for your second issue, I think I flipped the condition accidentally in https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/pull/2169/files#diff-cb7b8aef3604d303af86f90cf1bbc9ad12ff857e8fba1f537fe429fef7e3e9e5R100 , should be an easy fix

[bkline]

Right. Just change line 100 of register.py to if not ... (or swap lines 101 and 103). Adjusting for possible line number drift in later commits.

[bkline]

Any wild guesses on the timeline for the next release?

[bkline]

I have tested PR #2257 and I can confirm that it fixes the last failure I reported, and running the artifacts produced for that run also eliminates the first failure reported by this ticket. We're still hoping for some information on when we should expect a new release.