WSAStartup failed: error code 10107

[Rob Wolfe]

ralphdepping at googlemail.com wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Rob.  All I can find are 2 copies of
> winsock.dll:
> c:/WINNT/system32/winsock.dll
> c:/WINNT/system32/dllcache/winsock.dll
> They're both the same version 3.10.0.13
>
> I assume it's ok to have a copy in the dllcach directory and that's not
> a source of the problem?
>
> Does python require a specific version of winsock.dll?  The OS is
> windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 4.

No, python doesn't require specific version of winsock.dll.

On my XP I have:

winsock.dll  - 3.10.0.103
ws2_32.dll   - 5.1.2600.2180
wsock32.dll - 5.1.2600.2180

and everything works fine.

No other idea, but I'm almost sure that problem
is on the OS side not on python side.

Regards,
Rob