Win32 COM irony

[Robert Brewer]

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html says:

"And there are a few reasons to avoid MakePy:
....
The MakePy-generated files can be huge. The file generated for Microsoft
Excel is around 800 KB, a large Python source file by anyone's
standards..."""

*giggle* The first one I ever made with makepy was (and still is) 3.5
MB, for The Raiser's Edge from Blackbaud. Anyone got a bigger one
sitting in their win32com/gen_py? >


Robert Brewer
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[Markus Wankus]

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html says:

"And there are a few reasons to avoid MakePy:
...
The MakePy-generated files can be huge. The file generated for Microsoft
Excel is around 800 KB, a large Python source file by anyone's
standards..."""

*giggle* The first one I ever made with makepy was (and still is) 3.5
MB, for The Raiser's Edge from Blackbaud. Anyone got a bigger one
sitting in their win32com/gen_py? >

Damn. And I thought my 2.991MB Solidworks file was big. Although - the
..pyc version is 3.7MB. ;o)

Markus