After further googling I found an interesting article: "Windows CE .NET Advanced Memory Management" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncenet/html/advmemmgmt.asp
Apparently DLL memory management has a few quirks. The following snipit, while referring to Pocket PC 2002, may still be relevant: "With corporate applications processing vast amounts of data, corporate developers are forced to use large databases in their Windows CE applications. Usually the database engine is implemented as a DLL and it is usually quite large. In the example above, the database DLL is the troublemaking DLL C. With the combination of less than 16 megabytes of virtual memory space available for a Pocket PC 2002 application and the requirements of large, RAM-based DLLs, many developers are discovering that their applications will not run due to lack of space—not RAM, but virtual memory space." Interestingly, I have overcome this error (probably temporarily): time.strptime(datestr, '%d/%m/%y') File "binaries\lib\_strptime.py", line 18, in ? File "binaries\lib\calendar.py", line 8, in ? ImportError: DLL load failed: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. (where line 8 in calendar.py is "import datetime", a DLL) by adding: import datetime to the beginning of my application code. The article above talks about various methods to tackle DLL problems. Maybe someone with a "CE" background can offer some comment in "PYTHONIC" terms about "virtual memory space" and DLL issues. Thanks for the pointer Ulrich. Mark Doukidis _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
