[texworks] where does python27.dll come from?

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On 12 June 2011 15:06, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for testing and reporting. As pointed out in the thread, the Lib
> folder is indeed still necessary (it seems it picked up a different Lib
> folder on my machine - one shouldn't mix different python installs ;)).
> Anyway, using the one from the older releases is not ideal, as they were
> taken from the MSVC build. Therefore, they might depend on libraries
> etc. and might even be incompatible with the built-in mingw library.

Are you sure?  I thought all those .pyc files under Lib are platform
independent, which seems to be even stated in the python docs:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/modules.html#compiled-python-files

(I ask because in TeX Live these files are currently in the common
part of the package, not in the platform specific one.)

Cheers,

Tomek