what is pythonwin?

[Gordon McMillan]

Robert Kiendl wrote:

> i ve got embedded the normal pyhton (python15.dll) into a windows
> mfc-app.
> 
> now i want to use some of the win32ui stuff, but cannot load that
> mysterious *.pyd files, whereas normal python.exe from the winall
> distribution does it. are these dll's? 

Yup.

> is pythonwin not based on the
> normal python? 

Normal python.

> do i have to handle the pythonwin source-distribution?
> link another dll?
> i do not get the right track from the standard docs.

Are you by chance using a debug build? Then all the .pyd's 
need to built for debug too. Otherwise it's probably something 
silly, like your PYTHONPATH.


- Gordon