[python-win32] Insufficient notification of installer failure

2016-03-08 Thread Fredrik Orderud
I'm working in a corporate environment where user account control and corporate policies are used to restrict application installation privileges. As a consequence of this the PyWin32 installer fails when not being started from a command prompt with administrative privileges (right click and select

[python-win32] pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)

2016-03-08 Thread Blair, Colin S
All, Please assist me with this error: Traceback (most recent call last): print msg.Body File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 466, in __getattr__ return self._ApplyTypes_(*args) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py"

Re: [python-win32] pywintypes.com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)

2016-03-08 Thread Tim Roberts
Blair, Colin S wrote: > Please assist me with this error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > print msg.Body > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 466, > in > __getattr__ > return self._ApplyTypes_(*args) > File "C:\Python27\lib\site-pa

Re: [python-win32] Insufficient notification of installer failure

2016-03-08 Thread Mark Hammond
pywin32 is using the installer capabilities built into Python itself (as part of distutils), so the changes would need to be made there. Sadly, that capability is slowly rotting as the world moves to other ways of installing Python modules, and I no longer have the time to make improvements the