[Setup] setup error on win xp: calls different pythonwin

Volkan Kepoglu vkepoglu at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 12:46:09 UTC 2008


Hi,

i am trying to install plone on win xp sp3 with Plone-3.1.7.exe, but getting
error: 'pythonw.exe entry point'
this error occures when i clicked start > programs > plone > plone, so i
cannot see plone controller window.

however, plone runs without error from start > programs > plone >
development > plone debug and i can see Plone site with http://localhost/ on
internet explorer 7.

i found an error description at wxApp.log as:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Plone 3\XController\wxApp.py", line 91, in ?
    respawn_sub()
  File "C:\Program Files\Plone 3\XController\wxApp.py", line 63, in
respawn_sub
    import pythoncom
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythoncom.py", line 3, in ?
    pywintypes.__import_pywin32_system_module__("pythoncom", globals())
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 93, in
__import_pywin32_system_module__
    raise ImportError, \
ImportError: No system module 'pythoncom' (pythoncom24.dll)

on my machine, ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 is also installed and uses python 2.4.1 as
scripting language and pythonwin pywin32-207.win32-py2.4.exe. these versions
should not be changed. so, i have separate python installation at
C:\Python24 (and also C:\Python25, python 2.5.2 has also pythonwin).

it seems from the log error that ESRI python and plone python confused,
because C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib should belong to ESRI. Plone
has his own python and pythonw at C:\Program Files\Plone 3\Python

NEXT thing i did: i uninstalled python24 and plone, and then reinstall the
plone. the error gone and now i can see the plone controller window.
everything working well.

how can i use both python (ESRI python 2.4.1 and Plone python 2.4.4) at the
same machine?
could you help me, please?

i mean that not running plone controller window is not big deal but will
this error be a problem in the future if i uses both python at the same
time.
thanks for help.

note: there is no pythonpath or pythonhome variable and no python path
definition for path variable for this user.

-- 
Regards,
Volkan Osman Kepoglu
PhD Candidate
GGIT Department in METU,
Ankara, Turkey.
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