Zlib problem on Windows XP??

[Gerhard Häring]

Kevin Ollivier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When using the latest Python 2.2.x releases as well as the Python 2.3 
> betas and rc1 on Win XP, I cannot import zlib. When I try, I get an 
> error about the dynamic module not having an 'initzlib' symbol. The 
> strange thing is that this problem seems to be XP-specific - on Windows 
> 2K I do not get this error. I've installed Python 2.2.3 on two XP 
> machines with the same results. I installed the latest beta on one of 
> the machines, but the results were the same. (Haven't tried RC1 yet.) [...]

I cannot confirm this. Windows XP Professional SP 1 (English):

- Python 2.3b2 works
- Python 2.3c1 works

-- Gerhard