pywin32 201.1 Windows98SE Problem?

[Bob Chapman]

On two different Windows 98SE Systems, I have attempted to upgrade working
Python 2.3.3 and win32all installations to Python 2.3.4.  After  what
appeared to be successful installations of Python-2.3.4.exe, I next
executed:

  > pywin32-201.win32-py2.3.exe

as downloaded from SourceForge, in the belief that it was the appropriate
companion for Python-2.3.4 (perhaps this is my mistake?).  In both cases,
the installed Pythonwin outputs the following error messages and does NOT
run:

 >  File
 >"C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\intpyapp.py",
line
 >163, in InitInstance
 >    import interact
 >  File
 >"C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\interact.py",
line
 >26, in ?
 >    import winout
 >  File
"C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\winout.py",
 >line 26, in ?
 >    from pywintypes import UnicodeType
 >  File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 69,
in
 >?
 >    __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals())
 >  File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 62,
in
 >__import_pywin32_system_module__
 >    raise ImportError, "Can not locate " + filename
 >exceptions.ImportError: Can not locate pywintypes23.dll

On checking, the NEW 'pywintypes23.dll' IS in c:\windows\system

  > 77824 May 28 11:10 c:\windows\system\pywintypes23.dll

If this file is copied to C:\Windows then Pythonwin starts without the error
messages and appears to work.

In previous Windows 98SE installations, the pythonwin dlls have worked OK
from
c:\windows\system where they are installed so I don't understand what's
happening here?

(Note: I've installed Python-2.3.4.exe and pywin32-201.win32-py2.3.exe on a
Windows XP sytem without this problem.)

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