pyexpat ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found

Asked Nov 21 '12 at 13:26

Active Nov 21 '12 at 13:26

Viewed 3,531 times

I use Python 2.7.3 (32bit) on windows XP when I try to use the standard XML parser in python:

from pyexpat import *

I get the error:

 from pyexpat import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

The problem started after I installed python(x,y). when I tried to "fix" python installation with the python windows installer it still gives the same error.

what is the problem?

asked Nov 21 '12 at 13:26

Dror Hilman

6,837
9
39
56

It seems you have a mismatched version of pyexpat.pyd in your DLLs directory. – Eryk Sun Nov 21 '12 at 13:46
So how can I solve that? – Dror Hilman Nov 21 '12 at 14:14
1

Install to a different directory. Run `python.exe` specifically from that directory. If the import works, then you know the old installation is corrupt. – Eryk Sun Nov 21 '12 at 14:29

pyexpat ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found

0 Answers0