[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Steve Dower added the comment: Fixed in 2.7 - using issue39553 for removing the code in master. -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Steve Dower added the comment: Merged the 2.7 fix. Let's just delete the whole block in master. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset 009a6928727b23344613ab6a9a52b9da56ab905c by Steve Dower (Zackery Spytz) in branch '2.7': bpo-37025: AddRefActCtx() shouldn't be checked for failure (GH-16897) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/009a6928727b23344613ab6a9a52b9da56ab905c

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- pull_requests: +16435 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16897 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Steve Dower added the comment: This doesn't apply since Python 3.5, as the HAVE_SXS preprocessor variable is not defined. We should just delete this code entirely in 3.9, and patch the message in 2.7. -- versions: -Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Zackery Spytz added the comment: Thank you for the report. I've created a pull request to fix this issue. -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +16170 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16579 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue37025] Misleading error message "Python failed to load the default activation context"

New submission from Ralf Habacker : When I started Kicad under Windows I got the following error message in dbgview: "Python could not load the default activation context". This message is issued by the Python runtime environment when checking the return value of the Windows API function