[Tutor] ctypes question

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Pacific Morrowind <
pacificmorrowind at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi
>
>
> On 07/03/2011 7:02 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> I want to use a dll to read Spss data files. But when I use
> lib = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibary("d:/temp/spssio32.dll")
> I get a WindowsError (cannot find module), even though the path exists. Why
> is that? Do I need to extend some environment variable (add another dir)? I
> am using Python 2.5 on Windows 2000, but I also unsuccessfully tried
> it using Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 10 (however, I don't want to write the program
> on a linux system because I'll be using it on windows only). I also got the
> same error when I tried some other dll's.
>
>
> but that path doesn't actually exist... replace that path with either
> r"d:/temp/spssio32.dll" or with "d://temp//spssio32.dll"; otherwise the /t
> will be transformed into a tab.
> Nick
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>
> Cheers!!
> Albert-Jan
>
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"but that path doesn't actually exist... replace that path with either
r"d:/temp/spssio32.dll" or with "d://temp//spssio32.dll"; otherwise the /t
will be transformed into a tab.
Nick"

I don't think that is the problem.  '\t' would transform to tab, but not
'/t'.  Right?

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Joel Goldstick
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