[python-win32] playing with scintillacon

[Jim Bell]

"... not a valid Win32 application" sounds like a 32/64-bit issue to me. 
The 32/64-bit version of python you're running: does it match the DLLs?


On 2017-12-14 6:10 PM, Kurt Eilander wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I recently noticed that pythonwin comes with a scintilla wrapper. 
> Seems USEFUL!  so I decided to (scientifically) try poking it with a 
> stick to see what it does.
> (https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/tree/7da19cd2ca3fac06638d9af690b8b6f5fcc65e8b/Pythonwin/pywin/scintilla) 
>
>
> I didn't get too far, for when I do:
>     from scintilla import scintillacon
> I get:
>     ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>
> Presumably this means there's a dll it can't find?  Unfortunately the 
> %1 is not replaced with what it's looking for.  (If there's not a bug 
> out on this somewhere, there probably should be.) That's not the point 
> though.  Point is: what are we looking for?
>
> Thanks,
> -Kurt
>
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