PythonMagick on Windows DLL load failed

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/16/2015 7:17 AM, julien levasseur wrote:
> I am using Python 2.7 on Windows 8.1.
>
> Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 07:43:08) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
> on win32

I *strongly* suggest that you update to 2.7.9.

> I installed ImageMagick from imagemagick.org
> <http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows>
>
> Then installed PythonMagick with pip from
> http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pythonmagick

When I have used that site (most recently last July), I have directly 
downloaded and unzipped files.  I see that nearly all .zips have
since been replaced with .whl wheels.

> When I import PythonMagick it says:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>    File "magic.py", line 2, in <module>
>
>      import PythonMagick
>
>    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\PythonMagick\__init__.py", line
> 1, in <module>
>
>      from . import _PythonMagick
>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The application has failed to start
> because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the
> application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more
> detail.

With 64 bit python, you must use 64 bit binaries.  If so, search 
"side-by-side configuration is incorrect" (Google, etc).

> Any clues on where do look?
> Question on stackoverflow
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28538973/pythonmagick-on-windows-dll-load-failed

I see 'cgohlke', who I presume is the C. Gohlke who made the 
PythonMagick binary, has already given you his best guess.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy