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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
Subject:  Re: Python does not import ctypes.wintypes
Date:  Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:54:21 +0100
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* hrmp@volny.cz (Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:53:40 +0100 (CET))> 
> 
> I've got the following problem (both on Windows 2000 and Windows XP):
> 
> rol> python
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43)
> [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import ctypes
> >>> import ctypes.wintypes
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/tmp/python.6884/usr/lib/python2.5/ctypes/wintypes.py", line 21,
> in <module>
> ValueError: _type_ 'v' not supported
> >>>
> Python from python.org works OK, wintypes.py for cygwin is exactly the
> same as the one from python.org

I googled for the error[1] (you should have done that, too). Looks like 
the "wintypes" means exactly that: it's only supported on Windows - 
running Windows Python.

Thorsten
[1] http://osdir.com/ml/python.windows-ce/2007-02/msg00009.html


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