On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Don Dwiggins <ddwigg...@advpubtech.com> wrote: > On 7/5/2010 10:53 PM, Hugh Emberson wrote: >> I got the order wrong. On further reading of the code, the COM object >> is created in response to a message from the Twisted thread, so at >> that point the event loop has iterated at least once. >> >> In my case the COM object is wrapped in a C++ wrapper that I don't >> have the source for, so I don't know exactly what happens in there. >> That C++ wrapper is then wrapped in a very thin python extension >> module which doesn't do anything interesting. > > OK. In my case, the "wrapper" and Python extension is Hammond's > win32com Dispatch. > > Question: to your knowledge, would it work to run the message pumping > loop in a different thread from the one that creates and calls the COM > object? I think this would simplify things a bit.
You'd have to use a multi-threaded apartment model. See the 'Processes, Threads, and Apartments' article in MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms693344%28v=VS.85%29.aspx ). I guess it should work, but I've never tried it. Please report back if you try it. Hugh _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
