Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; '+0100,': 0.07; 'indeed,': 0.07; 'path,': 0.07; 'terry': 0.07; 'python': 0.08; 'libs': 0.09; 'oh,': 0.09; 'path.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.12': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:lo.gmane.org': 0.09; 'pm,': 0.10; 'wrote:': 0.14; '.dll': 0.16; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'dlls': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:bit': 0.16; 'variable.': 0.16; 'suggest': 0.19; 'jan': 0.20; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.21; 'thu,': 0.22; 'wrong?': 0.23; '(in': 0.26; '(not': 0.28; 'lee': 0.29; 'putting': 0.30; 'situation,': 0.30; "didn't": 0.31; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.32; 'someone': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'david': 0.33; 'too': 0.33; '...': 0.34; 'install': 0.34; 'there': 0.35; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.35; 'dll': 0.35; 'put': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'third': 0.38; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'doing': 0.39; 'should': 0.39; 'header:Mime-Version:1': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'getting': 0.40; 'missing': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'dennis': 0.77; "(i've": 0.84; '12:44': 0.84; 'here...': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Missing python27.dll on Win 7 64-bit Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:14:25 -0400 References: <0CCCA5445D7FCB4298BBF0739D4FDD52031DBFE7AE56@EUEXCLU01.EU.NEC.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rain.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 37 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.94.164.166 X-Trace: 1308248080 news.xs4all.nl 49180 [::ffff:82.94.164.166]:48804 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7758 On 6/16/2011 12:44 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:26:31 +0100, David Aldrich > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> >> ... python27.dll is missing from your computer ... >> >> and, indeed, it is in neither C:\Windows\System32 nor C:\Windows\SysWOW64. >> > Didn't M$ decree, some years ago, that application specific DLLs (in > this situation, Python is the application) should install in the > application path, and NOT in any system path. > >> Please will someone suggest what I am doing wrong? >> > I find the corresponding DLL in > > e:\Python25\libs > > (I've started putting third party applications on the e: partition as my > C: partition was getting too tight for defrag operations)... Oh, > ActiveState Python 2.5 install here... Python3.2, WinXP All .dll and .pyd files in Python32/DLLs libpython.a and .lib files in Python32/libs there is one .lib for each .dll and .pyd. > > Most likely you need to put the Python libs directory into your > system PATH (not PYTHONPATH) variable. -- Terry Jan Reedy