Help! example DLL crashes Python on NT

[d. savitsky]

I am not sure if this is what you need, but to connect to dll's (that is, to
call functions in them) I use windll/calldll (in the Dynwin package from Sam
Rushing @ http://www.nightmare.com)
Once it is extracted try something like

>>> from dynwin.windll import *
>>> m = module('mydll32') # note no .dll extension
>>> x = m.SomeFunction()
>>> x
'returned stuff'

I don't know if this is what you are asking, but it is all i know how to do
:)
doug

"Ed Stauff" <Ed_Stauff at avid.com> wrote in message
news:8m2fqq+kecb at eGroups.com...
> When I try to import the example DLL on Windows NT, I get an
> "Application Error" dialog for python.exe (with the usual unreadable
> hex junk), and then python quits after printing "Fatal Python error:
> PyThreadState_Get: no current thread".  I typed "import example"
> right after launching Python.
>
> I've got Python 1.5.2 on Windows NT, and I'm using the python.exe
> that came with it (I didn't rebuild it from sources).  I'm trying to
> get the example DLL from /python/PC/example_nt to work using Visual
> C++ 6.0, and I get this error using the example right out of the box,
> without modification, as described in the readme.
>
> Anybody knows what's going on?
>
> I'm very experienced with Windows, C, C++, and Visual C++, but I'm a
> Python and DLL newbie.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Ed
>
>
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