pyparallel errors

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Thanks chris but I get this error any ideas?
im running xp
i wonder if I have to tell xp to release the printer

PythonWin 2.2.2 (#37, Nov 26 2002, 10:24:37) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (mhammond at skippinet.com.au) - 
see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.


 >>> import parallel
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
   File "G:\Development\Python\Lib\site-packages\parallel\__init__.py", 
line 13, in ?
     from parallelwin32 import *
   File 
"G:\Development\Python\Lib\site-packages\parallel\parallelwin32.py", 
line 53, in ?
     import _pyparallel
ImportError: Couldn't access giveio device