newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

[Thomas Heller]

marcus.tettmar at gmail.com writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is all I get:
>
> error 250477278
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "script1.py", line 5, in ?
>     Inst = lib.Initialize(0)
> WindowsError: exception code 0xeedfade
>
> I get this when running python.exe script1.py
>
> ** When run from inside PythonWin it runs beautifully and returns with
> no errors **
>
> Regardless of what the error actually is it *works* when run from
> PythonWin.  It fails only when run from the command line.  I'm trying
> to find out why there is a difference.  Clearly both either run a
> different interpreter or with different switches.  I was hoping someone
> knows what the difference is.

One difference is that PythonWin runs a messageloop.  Does the
documentation of the library you call say something about the error code
you get?

Thomas