[python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 217 released.

[Mark Hammond]

On 21/02/2012 9:05 AM, Luc Kesters wrote:
> Hello Mark,
>
> I installed the new pywin32. I don't have a problem with pywin32 itself.
> But when importing other packages (the ones I mentioned) I still have
> the problem (see below)
> When I read the issues (see first message) it seemed to me a python
> problem and not a pywin32 problem. If I understand your answer correct,
> this isn't the case?
> I should go back to the developers of the packages (I must say that the
> "manifest" issue, is somewhat too technical for me)

Yeah - it appears that the package providing the "tables" module simply 
needs to be rebuilt with a new Python 2.7 - sadly it seems the fix 
didn't make it into 2.7.2, which is the current version, so it really 
needs to be built with a 2.7 built from mercurial.

Mark

>
> Luc
>
> [Error]
> Message="Syntax error in script"
> Number=44804
> [Error Context]
> Error_Description_1="Traceback (most recent call last):"
> Error_Description_2=" File ""<Script Block >"", line 24, in <module>"
> Error_Description_3=" import tables as tb"
> Error_Description_4=" File
> ""C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\tables\__init__.py"", line 63, in <module>"
> Error_Description_5=" from tables.utilsExtension import
> getPyTablesVersion, getHDF5Version"
> Error_Description_6="ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module
> could not be found."
> Error_Source="Python ActiveX Scripting Engine"
> HResult=$80020009
> PreProcessor_Source_LineNr=31
> Script_Error_Column=-1
> Script_Error_LineNr=24
> Script_Error_Text="import tables as tb"
> Win32errorMessage="Exception occurred"
>
>
> [Error]
> Message="Syntax error in script"
> Number=44804
> [Error Context]
> Error_Description_1="Traceback (most recent call last):"
> Error_Description_2=" File ""<Script Block >"", line 24, in <module>"
> Error_Description_3=" import pandas"
> Error_Description_4=" File
> ""C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pandas-0.7.0-py2.7-win32.egg\pandas\__init__.py"",
> line 10, in <module>"
> Error_Description_5=" import pandas._tseries as lib"
> Error_Description_6="ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module
> could not be found."
> Error_Source="Python ActiveX Scripting Engine"
> HResult=$80020009
> PreProcessor_Source_LineNr=31
> Script_Error_Column=-1
> Script_Error_LineNr=24
> Script_Error_Text="import pandas"
> Win32errorMessage="Exception occurred"
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Mark Hammond" <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 12:36 AM
> To: "luc.k" <luc.kesters at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <python-win32 at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 217 released.
>
>> On 20/02/2012 5:10 AM, luc.k wrote:
>>> Hi Marc,
>>> I recently encounterd some problems with pyTables en Pandas. (certain
>>> pyd
>>> files generated an "Import DLL...."problem) After some research i came
>>> accross the folowing issues
>>> - http://bugs.python.org/issue4120
>>> - http://bugs.python.org/issue7833 and
>>> It's unclear to me how this will be solved. Maybe you can shed some
>>> light?
>>
>> Both those issues have had fixed checked in and the new pywin32 has
>> been built with those changes. The end result should be that (almost)
>> none of the .pyd files in pywin32 have a manifest, while
>> pythoncomloaderxx.dll does have a manifest to enable COM objects to be
>> loaded.
>>
>> Are you having the problems with pywin32 extensions or others? If
>> others, then the only solution is probably to have those other
>> extensions rebuilt.
>>
>> Mark
>>