pywin32 201.1 Windows98SE Problem?

[Roger Upole]

One workaround is to copy pywintypes23.dll to your \windows directory.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=917702&group_id=78018&atid=551954

             Roger

"Bob Chapman" <rechapman at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On two different Windows 98SE Systems, I have attempted to upgrade working
> Python 2.3.3 and win32all installations to Python 2.3.4.  After  what
> appeared to be successful installations of Python-2.3.4.exe, I next
> executed:
>
>   > pywin32-201.win32-py2.3.exe
>
> as downloaded from SourceForge, in the belief that it was the appropriate
> companion for Python-2.3.4 (perhaps this is my mistake?).  In both cases,
> the installed Pythonwin outputs the following error messages and does NOT
> run:
>
>  >  File
>  >"C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\intpyapp.py",
> line
>  >163, in InitInstance
>  >    import interact
>  >  File
>  >"C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\interact.py",
> line
>  >26, in ?
>  >    import winout
>  >  File
> "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\winout.py",
>  >line 26, in ?
>  >    from pywintypes import UnicodeType
>  >  File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 69,
> in
>  >?
>  >    __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals())
>  >  File "C:\PYTHON23\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 62,
> in
>  >__import_pywin32_system_module__
>  >    raise ImportError, "Can not locate " + filename
>  >exceptions.ImportError: Can not locate pywintypes23.dll
>
> On checking, the NEW 'pywintypes23.dll' IS in c:\windows\system
>
>   > 77824 May 28 11:10 c:\windows\system\pywintypes23.dll
>
> If this file is copied to C:\Windows then Pythonwin starts without the
error
> messages and appears to work.
>
> In previous Windows 98SE installations, the pythonwin dlls have worked OK
> from
> c:\windows\system where they are installed so I don't understand what's
> happening here?
>
> (Note: I've installed Python-2.3.4.exe and pywin32-201.win32-py2.3.exe on
a
> Windows XP sytem without this problem.)
>
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>