win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

Albert-Jan Roskam fomcl at yahoo.com
Mon May 26 08:57:54 EDT 2014


---- Original Message -----
> From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 11:49 PM
> Subject: Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found
> 
> On 5/25/2014 1:40 PM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
>>   >>> import win32service
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>  ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found
>> 
>>  I have no problem loading the same module with Python 2.7.
> 
> So the above is with ???
> 
>>  Strange thing is that win32serviceutil.py is part of the pywin32
>>  distribution, so I guess I should be able to import it, right?
> 
> Make sure you have a pywin32 that matches ???. Matching includes python 
> version and bitness.

In addition, c:\python27\DLLs should also be on your %PATH%:
setx PATH "%PATH%;c:\python27\DLLs" 



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