My apologies if this isn't the correct forum for such a question, however I was having a problem with Python and couldn't find the cause. I have two systems running Python. My laptop and a server:
laptop: WinXP SP2 x86 Python 2.5 pymssql 0.8.0 (for 2.5) pywin32-210 (for 2.5) server: Win2003 no SP dual XEON x86 Python 2.4.1 I develop and test my program on my laptop. I move them to my server and test again. Then, they go into "production". The few programs I have running on the server were operating fine until I tried to start running a program with pymssql. I installed pymssql 0.8.0 (for 2.5) on my laptop so that I could write and test a new program. When it was ready to move to the server, I upgraded the server to Python 2.5 and installed pymssql 0.8.0 (for 2.5). I uninstaled Python 2.4.. The first running of this program gave me a pop-up error stating that the program failed to start because python24.dll wasn't found and it recommended reinstalling Python. Python output an error stating that it couldn't "import _socket". I don't have the exact error because I was under pressure to restore normal operations. I performed the following: 1. Reinstalled Python 2.5 and execute the program. I received the same error. 2. Uninstall Python 2.5 and pymssql. Ensure the Python25 directory was removed. Reinstall Python 2.5 and pymssql. I received the same error. 3. Uninstall Python and pymssql. Ensure the Python25 directory was removed. Reboot. Reinstall Python 2.5 and pymssql. I received the same error. 4. Uninstall Python 2.5 and pymssql. Ensure the Python25 directory was removed. Install Python 2.4.2 and pymssql 0.8.0 (for 2.4). The error went away. Now all my programs, including the new one, are working again. I have no clue what caused this. I've searched Google but I can't find a hit similar to my configuration and situation. Does anyone have an idea as to what could have caused this? Chris
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