[Chris Mattmann]
Okay, I have reproduced the error even with Zope 2.8.2-final on win32. The same PySECURITY_ATTRIBUTES object error appears even with 2.8.2. Any ideas?
Short of not using Plone <wink>, see this Collector item, which I expect is the same issue:
http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1925
I believe what it says there. Until Mark Hammond can make a new release of pywin32, you'll have to search for code that:
imports win32api [and] add a line above that: import pywintypes
That's already been done in Zope.
Thanks Tim! FYI, there is a new pywin32 build out now that should solve this problem without requiring any imports to be reordered. It would be great if whoever turns the crank for the next Zope/Windows builds (which may even turn out to be me! :) uses build 205. Sadly, I believe it is not trivial to install a new pywin32 build into a Zope binary. You could patch it up though by opening the pywin32 release executable in WinZip (or similar), then replacing 'pywintypes.py' and extracting a new "_win32sysloader.pyd" module. Finally, I believe another way to solve this problem would be to remove pywintypes23.dll from the system32 directory (the the underlying problem is that 2 copies of this DLL are being loaded into memory). However, doing this may prevent other things (such as your existing Python installation) from working correctly, so do this with caution. Zope does not install anything into system32, so presumably something else on your system is also using Python. Cheers, Mark