python.exe has stopped working

Asked Mar 19 '12 at 13:10

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Yesterday I succesfully installed sip, pyqt4 and vtk (including python's bindings) on a 64-bit Windows 7 virtual machine.

However, when I do 'import vtk', a dialog pops up saying 'python.exe has stopped working'.

The Event Viewer shows the error is related to sip, however, 'import sip' does not give me any error

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error 
Date:          3/19/2012 9:00:43 AM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Virtual
Description:
Faulting application name: pythonw.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4df4b9cc
Faulting module name: sip.pyd, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f34f9ae
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00004d96
Faulting process id: 0x810
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd05d025cac35c
Faulting application path: C:\Python27\pythonw.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\sip.pyd

>>> import sip 
>>> sip.__file__
'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\sip.pyd'

asked Mar 19 '12 at 13:10

user11869

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VTK uses SIP, so either it's a bug in VTK or a bug in SIP. You should probably contact the authors of one or both of those packages. – Gabe Mar 19 '12 at 13:14
I guess it's a bug in VTK because I can import sip fine – user11869 Mar 19 '12 at 13:30
The bug is hit when VTK goes to *use* SIP, not when it imports SIP. – Gabe Mar 19 '12 at 16:57

python.exe has stopped working

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