[python-win32] Module not found weirdness

[Derick Van Niekerk]

>
> You might try running the dependency walker on
> site-packages/win32/win32clipboard.pyd just in case, but I suspect you
> won't find anything.


I don't know how...yet :)

win32clipboard.SetClipboardViewer is a function inside of
> win32clipboard.pyd, which is a DLL in the Python directory.  It,
> eventually, calls SetClipboardViewer inside of user32.dll.  User32.dll
> has been a part of Windows since 1992; I'm 100% confident you'll find
> the problem in the Python wrapper somewhere.
>
> On a whim, can you try checksumming the DLL?  I'm running pywin32-204.
> If you have the same version, you should get the same number:


I'm using pywin32-206. I'm using the exact same python packages on my
machine at work
as on my machine a home - I installed it on both PC's using the same files
on my USB
thumb drive...So if it is a problem with the dlls, it must have happened
*after* I installed it.
I'm not ruling out a virus yet, but that is a strange attack for a virus to
follow :-/

Of course it might just be a fluke corruption on one of the files that could
only possibly
happen to me because of bad karma and planets being perfectly positioned or
something.

I'm going to try a fresh reinstall of all things python tonight. It's very
frustrating not to be
able to replicate the error on another machine.


> Is there any way I could have broken the clipboard view chain in a way
> > that doesn't fix itself after a restart?
>
>
> No, that's all in-memory.  If it were me, I'd load up Python.exe in a C
> debugger and single-step through the function call, but then I'm not
> like most people...


*blink blink*. A bit over my head at this time...

I did try the cookbook script here, and it works fine.


As it does with every other machine I've tried it on, and every person on
#python that tested it. I can't even
find anything remotely similar to my problem on Google - so chances are it's
some freak situation I created
on my PC.

I tried running some clipboard managers at home (Clippy and Clipmagic - both
nice programs by the way)
and they don't seem to have a problem recieving the clipboard draw event, so
I am sure you are right
about it having nothing to do with the windows dll. It *has* to be in the
python wrapper...

Anyway, if my reinstall of python doesn't work - I'll do a reinstall of
Windows. A dirty job but somebody has to
do it. If nothing else, it has therapeutic value...fdisk. No compromise.

-d-
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