I'm going to ask this question in the more general Python discussion groups,
but I find alot of expertise on the Win32 platform in this forum.
I'm trying to distribute my applications to user with "locked" down Windows2000
machines, which means I don't have full control to the "Software" installation
part of the registry. Prior to this I could control the registry and get
things working just fine.
This means for adding in win32 com extensions I can use a setup program to put
the modules and DLL's into the System32 folder, but cannot create my own
registry keys to point pythoncom, pywintypes, etc. modules to the correct path.
I'm kind of surprised defaults don't get used.
Does anyone know how to set up my own "path" definition without relying on the
Windows registry?
This is easy enough for the base Python modules using "os.path", but I cannot
seem to get the win32 modules to find their proper paths.
The following link has a couple "clues" but is more interesting, but is more on
how the registry is used.
http://www.python.org/windows/python/registry.html
The other newsgroups have only some statements on editing the registry.