pycrypto problem

Kirk Benson kbenson at choice.net
Wed Dec 4 08:52:54 EST 2002


Kirk Benson <kbenson at choice.net> wrote in message news:<3ded520b$0$1416$4c5ecdc7 at news.erinet.com>...
> I have been using the Python Cryptography Toolkit v1.9a2 from
> sourceforge for a few months to encrypt userids and passwords on several
> AIX and Win2000 servers that have python installed.  However, when I
> create an .exe, using the installer package from McMillian, to
> distribute to windows servers that do not have python installed, the
> resulting .exe always crashes with the "Instruction at xxxxxx referenced
> memory at xxxxx.  The memory could not be read".
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem?  If so, what was your
> solution?
> 
> I am using Python 2.2.1.  Compiler for the pycrypto package was VC++
> 6.0.  OS compiled under was Win2000 SP2.
> 
> Thanks.
> Kirk


I just built my test python script using py2exe and the resulting .exe
runs without issue?  Does anyone know of an existing issue with the
Installer package handling C extended python modules?

FYI   The test script I used simply imports Crypto.Cipher.RC5 and
prints the available functions.



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