Take the 2-minute tour ×  What's the best way to call python
scripts from Visual Basic 2005?  I've got an application written
in visual basic 2005 that needs to call into a library written
in python. The library requires python 2.6. I'm using the python
C API to access the python library from the visual basic code
(private declare function blah lib "python26.dll" etc). I'm
doing it this way because I want to pull values out of python
after the python library does its thing. Unfortunately, I get an
error about the C run-time:  "R6034: An application has made an
attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly."  I think
it's a conflict between MSVCR80.dll (the 2005 runtime) and
MSVCR90.dll (the 2008 runtime that python 26 uses). A simple
stub program written with Visual C++ 2005 that does essentially
the same thing as the visual basic code also throws that error.
If I compile with Visual C++ 2008 it runs fine.  So what do I do
about it? I can't move away from VB, or even move to the 2008
version. I've already