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Sadly I am not sure how to load screen shots for this so I hope my explanation is clear.

I have a fresh install of the student vs. of PSSe with Python. I am attempting to teach myself how to use them. There are some very good video tutorials out there, but none of them address this type of issue.

I am running win7 (yeah i know MS Windows is not the best for programming, but hey its what companies use, so its what I am learning on) and PSSE 34 with I believe python 2.7.

I have verified the path of psse: C:\program files (x86)\pti\pssexplore34\

I found psspy.pvc and psspy.pyd in the psspy27 sub-directory of above. All I am attempting to perform right now is to get python to call psspy and run a simple 100 node example file.

following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHrAAnCSYqU&ab_channel=JervisWhitley

My script looks as follows:

`import os

import sys

PSSE_PATH = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\PTI\PSSExplore34\PSSPY27"
sys.path.append(PSSE_PATH)
os.environ['PATH'] += ';' + PSSE_PATH

import psspy

psspy.psseinit(100)`

when I run the above script I get the following output from python shell:

 ====================== RESTART: C:/Python27/program1.py ======================

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python27/program1.py", line 8, in <module>
    import psspy
  File ".\psspy.py", line 56, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Sorry to be a bother, but next? What DLL is missing, were do I get said DLL, and how do I resolve this error so I can start to practice?

Thank you in advance.