[python-win32] pywin32-214 DLL install error

[Freking John]

Paul,
                Thanks that worked great.

But, I don't understand what you mean by the import hook doesn't work properly.  The .pyd files were in the site-packages subfolders so why couldn't Python find them?

Thanks,
John Freking

From: Paul Keating [mailto:keating at acm.org]
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 6:26 AM
To: Freking John
Subject: Re: [python-win32] pywin32-214 DLL install error

You're on the right track with your focus on .dlls but I'd say the loader can't find a .pyd (which is a .dll really) that win32api wants. A brute-force solution is to search for win32*.pyd and *winxp*.pyd in python26 and subtree (which will be in site-packages\win32 and site-packages\pythonwin), and copy them next to python.exe. It should be a total of 30 files.

This is klugy and ugly but it may work. (It's also easy to back out if it doesn't work!)

I support an embedded-Python environment where the vendor's import hook that doesn't quite work properly with packages, so I have to do that routinely.

If it does work then you can ask again here for a tidier solution.

Paul Keating

----- Original Message -----
From: Freking John<mailto:FrekingJohnA at JohnDeere.com>
To: 'python-win32 at python.org'<mailto:'python-win32 at python.org'>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 5:01 AM
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32-214 DLL install error

Hi,
I'm running  XP SP3 and  Python 2.6.2 and I'm trying to install  pywin32-214 but it fails to load a DLL.  The following is the error message I get at the end of the install.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 601, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 313, in install
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

When I try to use the module in a python program I get the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\WorkArea\Python\excel2007", line 2, in <module>
    import win32com.client as win32
  File "C:\Python26\lib\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
    import win32api, sys, os
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>>>

I have tried to uninstall and reinstall install pywin32 but that didn't work. And I have tried  moving two DLLs, Pythoncom26.dll and PyWinTypes26.dll, into the system32 directory which also didn't work.

Thanks,
John Freking
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