[python-win32] RE: Strange PythonWin IDE crash, now persistent

[Raefer Gabriel]

Thanks for the excellent suggestions Mark.  I just manually nuked the Python
2.3 registry keys as you suggested and reinstalled from the pywin32 build
202 installer, and it seems to have fixed the problem completely.  So it
looks like the crash somehow is corrupting the registry.  I had sort of
assumed before that the Uninstall procedure for pywin32 was cleaning up its
own registry entries - maybe a nice thing to add in the future.

Thanks again!

Raefer

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hammond [mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 7:03 PM
To: 'Raefer Gabriel'; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] Strange PythonWin IDE crash, now persistent

> PythonWin has been working well for me as an IDE, until I started 
> working with wxPython, when I experienced a crash of PythonWin while 
> trying to debug a wxPython app.  After searching around, I've found 
> that PythonWin might not like having code from other toolkits running 
> in its debugger.  While I appreciate that, my problem is much worse:
> even after rebooting, every time I try to start PythonWin, I now get 
> the main PythonWin window with an empty (no prompt) Interactive 
> Window, and a modal error message window pops up titled "Microsoft 
> Visual C++ Runtime Library" with the contents:
>
> "Runtime Error!
>
> Program: C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\Pythonwin.exe
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an 
> unusual way.  Please contact the application's support team for more 
> information."
>
> When I click on the OK button, PythonWin closes down.

That is a bit nasty.  The only guesses off the top of my head are duplicate
python23.dll or pywintypes23.dll.  Another alternative would be a bad
"PythonPath", or more likely, "Modules" key in the Python part of the
registry.

And finally, try nuking the registry key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python
2.3", and all subkeys - that is where Pythonwin config options are stored.

Mark