kernel32 module not found

Question

Running pymatlab , more specifically the command session = pymatlab.session_factory() results in

Exception AttributeError: "'MatlabSession' object has no attribute 'engine'" in > ignored

The suggested solution here

Running MATLAB from Python

is to change line 51 in C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pymatlab\sessionfactory.py from

MatlabSession(path=basedir,bufsize=output_buffer_size) 

to :

MatlabSession(basedir,bufsize=output_buffer_size) 

which I did.

However, another problem now arises in the module ctypes:

C:\Python27\lib\ctypes\__init__.pyc in __init__(self, name, mode, handle, use_errno, use_last_error)
    363 
    364         if handle is None:
--> 365             self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
    366         else:
    367             self._handle = handle

WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

Putting a breakpoint reveals that the module in question is kernel32.

Any suggestion what to do ? I am running Windows 8 and 64-bit Python 2.7

Thanks

Answer 1

change line 56 in matlab.py

replace 'glnxa64' to 'win32'