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Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

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On Monday, May 26, 2014 6:32:19 AM UTC-7, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 26/05/2014 14:24, Nagy L�szl� Zsolt wrote:
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> >
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> >>>>   Strange thing is that win32serviceutil.py is part of the pywin32
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> >>>>   distribution, so I guess I should be able to import it, right?
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> >>> Make sure you have a pywin32 that matches ???. Matching includes python
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> >>> version and bitness.
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> >> In addition, c:\python27\DLLs should also be on your %PATH%:
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> >> setx PATH "%PATH%;c:\python27\DLLs"
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> > Just curious: what if I don't have python2.7 installed at all? How on
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> > earth python3.4 + pywin32 requires DLL files from python2.7 ?
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> >
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> > BTW it did not help. Here is my path:
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> >
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> > Path=C:\Python34\;C:\Python34\Scripts;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA
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> > Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
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> > Files\SlikSvn\bin;C:\texlive\2013\bin\win32;c:\Python34\DLLs;c:\Python27\DLLs
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> >
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> >
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> > I have both Python27 and Python34 installed.
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> >
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> > Python 3.4: "import win32service" still throws ImportError: DLL load
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> > failed.
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> > Python 2.7: "import win32service" succeeds
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> >
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> > Build information:
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> >
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> > Python 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 10:45:13) [MSC v.1600 64
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> > bit (AMD64)] on win32
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> >
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> > It is the official latest. pywin32 is also the latest (build 219).
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> 
> Nagy -- could you post to the python-win32 list? There's nothing wrong 
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> with putting it out here, but I don't know if the pywin32 guys hang out 
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> here, and I know they definitely do there. (Which is also lower volume).
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> I'm not seeing any changes to the win32service code, but a "missing DLL" 
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> error is almost always about some combination of permissions / UAC on 
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> install. Adding anything to your PATH is unlikely to help (unless you 
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> have a truly outlandish PATH).
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> 
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> I'll try to reproduce later if I can but I don't have time right now.
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> 
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> TJG

Python 3.4 does not run any bdist_wininst postinstall scripts. Try to run `C:\Python34\python.exe C:\Python34\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install` manually from an elevated command prompt.

Christoph

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Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2014-05-26 14:32 +0100
  Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found cjgohlke@gmail.com - 2014-05-26 08:06 -0700
    Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found [SOLVED] Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2014-05-26 21:18 +0200
    Re: win32serviceutil: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2014-05-26 21:22 +0200

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