[pyOpenSSL] DLL load failed.

[patrick flaherty]

well dumpbin recognizes, say, ssl.pyd as a to-at-least-some-extent
well-formed DLL.

 > C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\OpenSSL>dumpbin ssl.pyd
 > Microsoft (R) COFF/PE Dumper Version 9.00.21022.08
 > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 >
 >
 > Dump of file ssl.pyd
 >
 > File Type: DLL
 >
 > Summary
 >
 >       1000 .bss
 >       4000 .data
 >       1000 .edata
 >       2000 .idata
 >       2000 .rdata
 >       1000 .reloc
 >       4000 .text
 >
 > C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\OpenSSL>

But even when I put the prebuilt ( the pyopenssl-win download )
module into place, the DLLs (not unsurprisingly) refused to import.

So how does this work and what's the problem?

thanx - pat