There are a lot of possible causes. I'd suggest contacting SPSS Technical Support to diagnose this.
Be sure that you have the matching plugin for 15.0.1 installed. You have to have the exact version. And, of course, Python 2.4. (The 15.0.1 plugin works for the Vista-patched version, too.)
You might also try the reverse direction: start Python (plain shell or IDLE or another IDE), and type in our program below (without the begin/end program) and see if that works. If you use the plain shell, you sometimes see additional error messages that are suppressed in the IDE's.
HTH,
Jon
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:26 PM
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Subject: [SPSSX-L] Python
Okay - time to dabble the toes into the Python waters
On my XP/14.0.2 installation
begin program python.
import spss
help (spss)
end program.
works fine
BUT - on Vista/15.0.1(Vista Hotfix) install
begin program python.
import spss
help (spss)
end program.
>Error # 6886. Command name: begin program
>The External Program could not be loaded.
>This command not executed.
Load library from c:\program files\spss15\invokepython.dll failed.
>Error # 6887. Command name: begin program
>External program failed during initialization.
Any ideas??
Thanks!
Tim
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