Missing python27.dll on Win 7 64-bit

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/16/2011 12:44 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:26:31 +0100, David Aldrich
> <David.Aldrich at EMEA.NEC.COM>  declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>>
>> ... python27.dll is missing from your computer ...
>>
>> and, indeed, it is in neither C:\Windows\System32 nor C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
>>
> 	Didn't M$ decree, some years ago, that application specific DLLs (in
> this situation, Python is the application) should install in the
> application path, and NOT in any system path.
>
>> Please will someone suggest what I am doing wrong?
>>
> 	I find the corresponding DLL in
>
> e:\Python25\libs
>
> (I've started putting third party applications on the e: partition as my
> C: partition was getting too tight for defrag operations)... Oh,
> ActiveState Python 2.5 install here...

Python3.2, WinXP
All .dll and .pyd files in Python32/DLLs
libpython.a and .lib files in Python32/libs
there is one .lib for each .dll and .pyd.

>
> 	Most likely you need to put the Python libs directory into your
> system PATH (not PYTHONPATH) variable.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy