Re: Unable to install pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-09-03 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:16:13 -0300, David Lees debl2nos...@verizon.net escribió: In case anyone else has this problem, my mistake was a PYTHONPATH that pointed to my Python 2.5 installation. I simply changed it to: C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages and reran the Pywin32 installer and all is

Unable to install pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-09-02 Thread David Lees
I install Python 2.6.2 with no problem, but then run the installer for pywin32 from Source Forge and get this message at the end. IDLE works, but Pywin32 does not. Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 601, in module File string, line 313, in install ImportError: DLL load

Re: Unable to install pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-09-02 Thread David Lees
David Lees wrote: I install Python 2.6.2 with no problem, but then run the installer for pywin32 from Source Forge and get this message at the end. IDLE works, but Pywin32 does not. Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 601, in module File string, line 313, in install

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-13 Thread Thomas Heller
David Lyon schrieb: On Wed, 13 May 2009 05:32:16 +0200, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I think this was a case of obscure misconfiguration of the system. It is always possible to configure a system in such a way that even the most resilient installation procedure will break.

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-13 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:54:49 +0200, Thomas Heller thel...@python.net Well, if you don't like the windows installer than you can always install from the sources. Please go ahead and try it out. Thanks for the offer... but aren't python .eggs supposed to remove the need for doing that ?

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-13 Thread Mark Hammond
On 13/05/2009 2:18 PM, David Lyon wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 05:32:16 +0200, Martin v. Löwismar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I think this was a case of obscure misconfiguration of the system. It is always possible to configure a system in such a way that even the most resilient installation procedure

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-13 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:33:12 +1000, Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: But if PYTHONPATH was set incorrectly it really doesn't matter how Python was installed, it would still fail. The installer didn't set PYTHONPATH, a human did. Hi Mark, Well I am just trying to write a

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread Mark Hammond
Probably some import statement is finding a .pyd module built against Python 2.5 instead of Python 2.6; it might be that PYTHONPATH points somewhere wrong, or the registry for Python 2.6 is setup wrong, or something else entirely... Cheers, Mark On 12/05/2009 3:13 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi,

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread David Lees
Mark Hammond wrote: Probably some import statement is finding a .pyd module built against Python 2.5 instead of Python 2.6; it might be that PYTHONPATH points somewhere wrong, or the registry for Python 2.6 is setup wrong, or something else entirely... Cheers, Mark On 12/05/2009 3:13 PM,

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, 12 May 2009 23:57:48 GMT, David Lees debl2nos...@verizon.net Mark and David, Thanks for the help. I just got it to install for Python 2.6. All I did was change PYTHONPATH (as suggested by Mark) from C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages lol - so

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread David Robinow
Thanks for the help.  I just got it to install for Python 2.6.  All I did was change PYTHONPATH (as suggested by Mark) from C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages Why do you have PYTHONPATH set at all? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
lol - so simple... Thankfully, we got a quick answer by the package writing master himself.. but imho - package installation shouldn't be that tricky.. it should be click and shoot... which is what i'm working on doing.. I have to say that I don't mind being corrected because I learnt

Re: Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-12 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, 13 May 2009 05:32:16 +0200, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I think this was a case of obscure misconfiguration of the system. It is always possible to configure a system in such a way that even the most resilient installation procedure will break. Technically, you are

Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-11 Thread David Lees
I have no problem installing Python 2.6.2 for windows under XP SP3 and IDLE and the command line versions work fine. When I run the pywin32 installer downloaded from sourceforge (pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe) I get the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File string,

Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-11 Thread David Lyon
On Tue, 12 May 2009 02:22:56 GMT, David Lees debl2nos...@verizon.net wrote: I have no problem installing Python 2.6.2 for windows under XP SP3 and IDLE and the command line versions work fine. When I run the pywin32 installer downloaded from sourceforge (pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe) I get

Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-11 Thread David Lyon
Hi, hmmm... that's annoying.. Whilst I don't have an exact answer I have a few hunches... Perphaps what has happened is that the windows installer between the versions of pywin32 has installed newer versions of the same dlls over the top of older ones. Or, possibly, the installer hasn't

Fwd: Re: Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

2009-05-11 Thread David Lyon
Hi, hmmm... that's annoying.. Whilst I don't have an exact answer I have a few hunches... Perphaps what has happened is that the windows installer between the versions of pywin32 has installed newer versions of the same dlls over the top of older ones. Or, possibly, the installer hasn't wanted