Hello, trying to install fdb 0.9.9 using Python 3.3 I get the same error message as in July with 0.8.5 and Python 3.2:
D:\home\Sibylle\Downloads\setup\fdb-0.9.9>python setup.py install Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 7, in from fdb import __version__ File "D:\home\Sibylle\Downloads\setup\fdb-0.9.9\fdb\__init__.py", line 23, in from fdb.fbcore import * File "D:\home\Sibylle\Downloads\setup\fdb-0.9.9\fdb\fbcore.py", line 26, in from . import ibase File "D:\home\Sibylle\Downloads\setup\fdb-0.9.9\fdb\ibase.py", line 39, in fb_library = WinDLL(fb_library_name) File "c:\Python33\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 353, in __init__ self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode) TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation Only this time it doesn't help that fbclient.dll (64bit version)is in the Windows\system32 directory _and_ the firebird bin directory is in the path. Everything is 64bit: Windows 7 Home Premium Firebird 2.5.2 Python 3.3 Testing with ctypes gives quite normal results: >>> libname_fb 'c:\\program files\\firebird\\firebird_2_5\\bin\\fbclient.dll' >>> import ctypes >>> fb_library = ctypes.WinDLL(libname_fb) >>> fb_library < WinDLL 'c:\program files\firebird\firebird_2_5\bin\fbclient.dll', handle 10000000 at 32ca0f0 > >>> libdir_win = r"c:\windows\system32" >>> libname_win = os.path.join(libdir_win, fbcname) >>> win_library = ctypes.WinDLL(libname_win) >>> win_library < WinDLL 'c:\windows\system32\fbclient.dll', handle 3fb0000 at 33407f0 > >>> So what could be wrong this time?