STrange error importing win32gui

[John J. Lee]

joconnor at cybermesa.com (Jay O'Connor) writes:

> I'm using Python 2.3 on windows and trying to use the win32 libs.  I
> keep getting the following error
> 
> >>> import win32gui
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in -toplevel-
>     import win32gui
> ImportError: DLL load failed: A device attached to the system is not
> functioning.
> 
> I'm not sure what it means ot how to fix it.  Any thoughts?

Don't you just love those informative Windows error messages?

I had that error message before (can't remember the circumstances),
and never found out what the problem was.  Had to work around it
rather than fix it.


John