This happens if you import first an admin user, as admin user in python run
from comtypes.client import CreateObject
This works, then as an ordinary user run the same command.
I get the following tracebacks when I interrupt with control c (I had to do this as the process hangs).
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\tempfile.py", line 260, in _mkstemp_inner
fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0o600)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files\\Python35\\lib\\site-packages\\comtypes\\gen\\tmpmcqbrj43
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\site-packages\comtypes\client\__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
gen_dir = _find_gen_dir()
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\site-packages\comtypes\client\_code_cache.py", line 30, in _find_gen_dir
if not _is_writeable(gen.__path__):
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\site-packages\comtypes\client\_code_cache.py", line 110, in _is_writeable
tempfile.TemporaryFile(dir=path[0])
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\tempfile.py", line 549, in NamedTemporaryFile
(fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags, output_type)
File "C:\Program Files\Python35\lib\tempfile.py", line 260, in _mkstemp_inner
fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0o600)
KeyboardInterruptDeleting the gen folder allows the non admin user to import CreateObject.
This happens if you import first an admin user, as admin user in python run
from comtypes.client import CreateObjectThis works, then as an ordinary user run the same command.
I get the following tracebacks when I interrupt with control c (I had to do this as the process hangs).
Deleting the gen folder allows the non admin user to import CreateObject.