On Thursday, September 6, 2012 11:07:07 AM UTC-4, Helpful person wrote: > I am a complete novice to Python. I wish to access a dll that has > > been written to be compatible with C and VB6. I have been told that > > after running Python I should enter "from ctypes import *" which > > allows Python to recognize the dll structure. I have placed the dll > > into my active directory (if that's the correct word, one on my path) > > for simplification. > > > > I tried: "import name.dll" but this just gave me an error telling me > > that there was no such module. > > > > Can someone please help? > > > > Richard
I'm new to using the ctypes module also, but what I did to find the library was I appended the location of the dll to my PATH like so: (this is Windows) pth = os.environ['path'].split(';') pth.append(os.path.join(os.environ['userprofile'],'My Documents','DLLs')) os.environ['path'] = ';'.join(pth) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list