[Python-Dev] urllib2 EP + decr. startup time (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 21:52:29 CET 2007

On 16/02/07, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

Hm. Interesting, actually. Does anybody know why it's looking for 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\python25.zip'? That seems wrong to me.

It looks alongside python25.dll, which is installed in windows\system32 by default.

If you then ask why the DLL goes in the system directory, I believe this is to help with Python COM objects, which don't otherwise have the Python directory on their PATH (and so wouldn't find python25.dll if it were there).

Paul.

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