[python-win32] pywintypes24.dll necessary??

[Tim Roberts]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:49:35 -0600, Dean Allen Provins
<dprovins at tridentexploration.ca> wrote:

>The user's requirement was for a batch program to process hundreds of files - so
>I wrote one on Linux, and ported it to WinXP Professional.  It is a command line
>driven routine that works very well on Linux, but is hampered (as I discovered)
>by the MS treatment of DOS windows (no copy/paste allowed - as far as I can tell).
>
>It works fine, EXCEPT the python mainline (batch.py) suggests that it will NOT
>execute unless file 'pywintypes24.dll' is in the same directory.  A dialog pops
>up to say that the application can't execute because a required component (the
>DLL) can't be found, but then it starts up with the message:
>
>"import testing -> failed:  DLL load failed:  The specified module could not be
>found."
>

Are you using py2exe to run this on a machine that does not already have
Python?  If not, then pywintypes24.dll should be in \Windows\System32,
and the default pywin32 installation should have put it there.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.