THANKS, AGAIN, for the reply! :) Okay, now I -really- feel silly... :>
So, when I was going to try what you'd suggested, I noticed something peculiar: I hadn't "changed" anything on my system, but now, when I tried to "import magic" I got a missing DLL error. For a DIFFERENT DLL! This got me to thinking... Turns out, when I was having "success" earlier, I was -in- the C: \Program Files\GnuWin32\bin directory (where file.exe and related .dll files are). So I added C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin to the (system/Windows) PATH. Everything worked. I removed all the copious copies of the DLL, the magic files, etc., littering my hard drive in every other location. Still worked. 'Course, I don't honestly know why it didn't work with the files copied to other locales contained in the sys/Py paths... perhaps it was, as you mentioned, wanting the tree-structure to be the same? (I haven't the heart to check this out fully right now... *maybe* at a later time... ;) ) Yeah, I know. But HONESTLY! I could have -sworn- I'd already tried THAT... you know, all the "obvious"/"I've been programming/working in computers (albeit 'Windows' until lately) for ~25 years; yeah, I'm a 'hacker'..." stuff. I -swear-! [EGG ON FACE] [SIGH] Well, I'd say "live and learn", but I'm still scratching my head. But, 'nough of that. Thanks for your replies, Michael, and I'm off to work _with_ the module now, then work-up my HowTo (and experiment with making an "egg"?? ;) )... Caio! -Larry :P :) On May 11, 11:09 pm, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Hale wrote: > > ALSO: I've even tried putting the 4 "magic" files INTO the .egg > > file... still no-go. :/ > > It's often the custom of programs ported from unix to windows to use the > dll location as a key to find the other files that are typically in > share, or etc. GTK, for example uses ../share and ../etc from the > location where the dlls are stored (if the dlls are in a folder called bin). > > In this case I'd try making a folder in the Python25 folder called > "share" and put the contents of the gnuwin32 share/file stuff in there. > Should look something like this: > > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mime.mgc > c:/python25/share/file/magic > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mgc > c:/python25/share/file/magic.mime > > Or, judging by a string I found in the dll itself, you might have to put > the files here: > > c:/progra~1/File/share/file/magic > > Although if such a path really is hardcoded into the dll, this is > certainly a bug, since it will fail on certain non-english windows systems. > > Anyway, who knows. Give these options a try. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
