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Started 2 years ago by kuukkeli
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kuukkeli
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I'm trying to use the latest portable version and while PN itself works fine I can't get PyPN working. After manually adding pypn.dll to config file I get the following error:

"The program can't start because python26.dll is missing from your computer. Try installing the program to fix this problem"

Yet I do have Python 2.6.2 installed and the said .dll file is in system32 folder. After I close the error dialog PN starts but PyPN isn't not listed in extensions. If I copy the .dll file to PN folder there's no error but PyPN still doesn't show in extensions. Any ideas how to fix this?

I'm running 64-bit Windows 7 RC build 7100.

Posted 2 years ago #
Midas
Member

Same problem here on 32-bit Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1.

Posted 2 years ago #
kuukkeli
Member

I managed to fix my problem by removing 64-bit Python and installing 32-bit version instead. It seems that quite a few libraries are lacking 64-bit support so I would have changed anyway and gladly it fixed PN as well.

Posted 2 years ago #
muradkhan
Member

In an effort to install PyPN, I failed to see that PyPN only appears to be available for Python 2 and I went ahead and installed Python 3.2. Just checking to see if I'm really going to have to uninstall 3.2 and step back to 2.6.

Cheers.

Posted 10 months ago #
muradkhan
Member

Removed Python 3.2, replaced it with Python 2.6, copied over the python26.dll to windows\system32 and we're all good to go.

Posted 10 months ago #
stier08
Member

muradkhan,
Though your solution solves the problem it is not generic, and will not do for portable users or those w/o admin rights.

In order to use PyPn in default environment you need to add c:\Python26 to your path

Fro portable users: one can install portable pnotepad with PyPn in
<USB DRIVE>/portable-pn2202240
Portable Python to
<USB DRIVE>/Portable-python

and use a script <USB DRIVE>/start.portable.pn.bat with following content

1: set PortablePythonDir="%~dp0Portable-python"
2: cd /d "%~dp0portable-pn2202240"
3: set PATH=%PortablePythonDir%;%PATH%
4: pn.exe --findexts
5: start pn.exe

Posted 10 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member
I tried your solution (PortablePython 2.6.1 + Portable PN 2.3.2.2300-rc1), but I got application runtime errors and no or not all scripts listed in the dock.

But this works for me:
- Get latest portable PN (2.3.3.2332-rc2) and PyPN (v1.0.2300)
- Python 2.6.6 MSI-installer from Python.org
- Unpack the MSI to pn dir: C:\pn_dir\> msiexec /a python-2.6.6.msi TARGETDIR=C:\pn_dir\ /qb
- Add pypn.dll to settings\config.xml or run pn.exe --findexts
Tested on WinXP with user-rights, no environment variables involved.
All stock python-scripts appear in scripts-dock and work, so does PyPN in textclips!
Posted 8 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member

I searched the registry to see if python created any keys, but is doesn't - thats good.

Also tried if one can put the python files in a subfolder instead of right into pn's root dir. This requires pypn files to be in that subdir as well. I added an extension entry to pn\config.xml - with on effect. So i added it to settings\config.xml, path: Python26\pypn.dll
gave me error, boost python dll not found. Apparently it's not possible to have extensions in subdirs - thats bad.

Posted 8 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member

I made a self-extracting archive that contains PyPN v1.0.2300 and Python 2.6.6. Select your PN root directory and extract. Run pn.exe --findexts afterwards. For PN v2.3.2.2300-rc1 and v2.3.3.2332-rc2 (should work for both, installed and portable distribution)

PyPN-1.0.2300_Python-2.6.6.exe (~13 MB, hosted at MediaFire.com)

Posted 8 months ago #
simon
PN Developer

Great! 13mb is pretty heavy though, I wonder if we could cut that down to a sensible subset of Python to include with PN?

I'd like to offer a PN+PyPN download with more stuff done via python, but would like to see the size cut down first.

Posted 8 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member

Yeah, i'm not sure though if one can delete libs without errors. I gave it a try and ended up with 4mb 7zip archive incl. PyPN, seems to work fine.

removed:
include\ source header files?
tcl\ gui lib?
doc\ python help file
scripts\ and tools\ which are basically examples
tests\ test and exploit scripts?
tkinter library, doesn't work anyway at the moment cause argv array isn't set
i could also remove database stuff except sqlite, perhaps multimedia and multithreading too?

Posted 8 months ago #
simon
PN Developer

Nice! I think it would be fine to remove more, yes. The idea I guess is to get to the point of a minimal distribution that enables common scenarios in PyPN. Users can then opt to use their own full Python installation (have to work out how to do that).

Posted 8 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member

okay, i removed the lib\ dir entirely, but it broke python (couldn't import traceback...)
But it seems alright to delete files, which belong to a module which is already removed.

So i dropped database support incl. sqlite
hash and encryption stuff (md5, ssl...)
compression stuff (bz2, tar, zip)
audio stuff (we don't want to edit waves files while coding lol!)
distutils (python distribution)
2to3 (converter python v2 to v3)
msilib (reads Microsoft Installer files)
idlelib (belongs to tcl/tkinter)
pydoc (python help file stuff)
python executables (python.exe / pythonw.exe / w9xpopen.exe - obviously not needed as we still have python DLL)
python-2.6.6.msi (uninstall information?)

I compressed the rest together with PyPN and a ~2 mb self-extracting archive came out. I think this is pretty good already, nonetheless i could remove even more (threading, internet stuff except XML parser...)

Posted 8 months ago #
CoDEmanX
Member

After a couple experiments, i found an easy solution to create a lightweight python package:
- Remove all .pyc files
- Run some PyPN scripts in PN and check libs\ for new .pyc files
- Remove all .py files, which do NOT have a corresponding .pyc
- Remove the new .pyc files as well
Result: Only 22 .py files left (may differ, depends on what modules you use)

Here my UltraLight pack:
PyPN-1.0.2300_Python-2.6.6_UltraLight.exe (1.23 MB, hosted at MediaFire.com)

Posted 8 months ago #

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