[PATCH 1 of 2] demandimport: blacklist pythoncom

[Steve Borho]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Steve Borho <steve at borho.org> wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Steve Borho <steve at borho.org>
> # Date 1236650437 18000
> # Node ID 57fa116520f56e5ea21e65489586388787f7b335
> # Parent  55bd03e2e13c65eeb7175abfc60f9a6ef5e6f0f4
> demandimport: blacklist pythoncom
>
> win32com.shell would segfault at import time if pythoncom
> was demand loaded.
>
> diff --git a/mercurial/demandimport.py b/mercurial/demandimport.py
> --- a/mercurial/demandimport.py
> +++ b/mercurial/demandimport.py
> @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
>     '_xmlplus',
>     'fcntl',
>     'win32com.gen_py',
> +    'pythoncom',
>     # imported by tarfile, not available under Windows
>     'pwd',
>     'grp',


Could this patch make it into 1.2.1?   TortoiseHg is using
demandimport internally
and it calls win32com.shell functions to notify the overlays when
files have changed.
There have been a few segfaults reported since we started using demandimport and
I believe they would be fixed by this patch.

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Steve Borho