"""Testing pasing object between multiple COM threads Uses standard COM marshalling to pass objects between threads. Even though Python generally seems to work when you just pass COM objects between threads, it shouldnt. This shows the "correct" way to do it. It shows that although we create new threads to use the Python.Interpreter, COM marshalls back all calls to that object to the main Python thread, which must be running a message loop (as this sample does). When this test is run in "free threaded" mode (at this stage, you must manually mark the COM objects as "ThreadingModel=Free", or run from a service which has marked itself as free-threaded), then no marshalling is done, and the Python.Interpreter object start doing the "expected" thing - ie, it reports being on the same thread as its caller! Python.exe needs a good way to mark itself as FreeThreaded - at the moment this is a pain in the but! """ import _thread import traceback import pythoncom import win32api import win32com.client import win32event def TestInterp(interp): if interp.Eval("1+1") != 2: raise ValueError("The interpreter returned the wrong result.") try: interp.Eval(1 + 1) raise ValueError("The interpreter did not raise an exception") except pythoncom.com_error as details: import winerror if details[0] != winerror.DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH: raise ValueError( "The interpreter exception was not winerror.DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH." ) def TestInterpInThread(stopEvent, cookie): try: DoTestInterpInThread(cookie) finally: win32event.SetEvent(stopEvent) def CreateGIT(): return pythoncom.CoCreateInstance( pythoncom.CLSID_StdGlobalInterfaceTable, None, pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC, pythoncom.IID_IGlobalInterfaceTable, ) def DoTestInterpInThread(cookie): try: pythoncom.CoInitialize() myThread = win32api.GetCurrentThreadId() GIT = CreateGIT() interp = GIT.GetInterfaceFromGlobal(cookie, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch) interp = win32com.client.Dispatch(interp) TestInterp(interp) interp.Exec("import win32api") print( "The test thread id is %d, Python.Interpreter's thread ID is %d" % (myThread, interp.Eval("win32api.GetCurrentThreadId()")) ) interp = None pythoncom.CoUninitialize() except: traceback.print_exc() def BeginThreadsSimpleMarshal(numThreads, cookie): """Creates multiple threads using simple (but slower) marshalling. Single interpreter object, but a new stream is created per thread. Returns the handles the threads will set when complete. """ ret = [] for i in range(numThreads): hEvent = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) _thread.start_new(TestInterpInThread, (hEvent, cookie)) ret.append(hEvent) return ret def test(fn): print("The main thread is %d" % (win32api.GetCurrentThreadId())) GIT = CreateGIT() interp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Python.Interpreter") cookie = GIT.RegisterInterfaceInGlobal(interp._oleobj_, pythoncom.IID_IDispatch) events = fn(4, cookie) numFinished = 0 while 1: try: rc = win32event.MsgWaitForMultipleObjects( events, 0, 2000, win32event.QS_ALLINPUT ) if rc >= win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0 and rc < win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0 + len( events ): numFinished = numFinished + 1 if numFinished >= len(events): break elif rc == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0 + len(events): # a message # This is critical - whole apartment model demo will hang. pythoncom.PumpWaitingMessages() else: # Timeout print( "Waiting for thread to stop with interfaces=%d, gateways=%d" % (pythoncom._GetInterfaceCount(), pythoncom._GetGatewayCount()) ) except KeyboardInterrupt: break GIT.RevokeInterfaceFromGlobal(cookie) del interp del GIT if __name__ == "__main__": test(BeginThreadsSimpleMarshal) win32api.Sleep(500) # Doing CoUninit here stop Pythoncom.dll hanging when DLLMain shuts-down the process pythoncom.CoUninitialize() if pythoncom._GetInterfaceCount() != 0 or pythoncom._GetGatewayCount() != 0: print( "Done with interfaces=%d, gateways=%d" % (pythoncom._GetInterfaceCount(), pythoncom._GetGatewayCount()) ) else: print("Done.")