Vernon: You may be right that I was doing too much, but I wanted to get as close as possible to a clean install.
I was using the recommended method for installation and downloading the version matching python. I went back to python 2.7 and got pywin32 to work, but only after uninstalling everything, rebooting, and reinstalling from scratch. Lynn On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Vernon Cole wrote: > Lynn: > First, you were working too hard. You did not need to remove 2.7.n to > install 2.6.n -- they install side-by-side in C:\python27 and C:\python26. > Here on my laptop, at the present moment, I have 2.3.5, 2.7.1, and 3.2 all > installed. [also two versions of IronPython, one of Jython, and two others on > the Linux partition.] > In order to run the one I want, I have a group of batch files on my search > path. For example, py32.bat contains:... > c:\python32\python.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > > Second, You did not say what installation method you were using to install > pywin32. The recommended way is to download the latest installer from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32. > For 32 bit Python 2.6, it should be > Build216/pywin32-216.win32-py2.6.exe > Each installer should automatically find its own correct version of python. > Is that what you tried? > -- > Vernon Cole > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Lynn Oliver <rayco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > New here, so I hope I'm following correct procedures. > > Yesterday I installed python 2.7.2 on win xp and then successfully installed > pywin32-216. Today I needed to use a different version of python, so I > uninstalled both and installed python 2.6.7 and pywin-216. The installation > failed and this was displayed on the final screen: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<string>", line 604, in <module> > File "<string>", line 314, in install > File "<string>", line 152, in LoadSystemModule > ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. > > I also tried pywin32-215 with the same result. > > I didn't find anything that related in the troubleshooting or FAQ pages. > Since there is a request to report bugs for win xp install problems I went > ahead and did that (#3356683). > > Is there anything else I should try? > > Regards, > Lynn > > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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