Error importing wx on windows-11

wxPython Users
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On windows-11 I installed the latest python-3.11.5 and using PIP I also installed wxpython.
Now I always get an error when I want to import wx:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\user_name\Desktop\Python_projects\Lib\site-packages\wx\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from wx.core import *
  File "C:\Users\user_name\Desktop\Python_projects\Lib\site-packages\wx\core.py", line 12, in <module>
    from ._core import *
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _core: The specified module could not be found.

Is this something about win-11, maybe my installation is bad or something.

2

What version of wxPython did you install?

3

It is wxpython-4.2.1, installed by pip, wheel cp311-cp311-win_amd64.
And Python 3.11.5 is downloaded from Python official site and installed manually.

4

Just a thought, it strikes me that your install path doesn’t have any path components that contain “311” or “3.11”. If you used to have an install of a different Python minor version (such as 3.10) in the same directory, then that’s the problem. Bugfix/patch versions can be upgraded in place, but minor versions need to be kept separate.

5

Yes, path is like that because it is venv, I wantet to install wxpython and all other dependencies separately. I created it according to instructions: “python -m venv path_to_directory”.
It is only Python version installed. And first time that I’m using win11.

6

The way I installed python is to create directory on C:\ Python-311 manually and added python to the PATH variable whwn installed. It is the only Python version installed. After that I created venv.
This works on Win10, I didn’t expect to have problems on win11.
It is debloated iso version, tiny11.
Couldn’t find similar problem searching the net.

7

Ok, it doesn’t work on win10 too with python 3.11, on python 3.10 it works nicely.
I guess it is python 3.11 problem, I don’t know how to get it to work, I’m no expert.
I have tried wxpython-zonmbie and it works smoothly with python3.11. But it is wxWidgets 3.1.5.
I hope it will be fixed or I do find solution.

8

I tried wxPythonMeticy, and it is the same error, can’t import wx module.

But wxpython-zombie works flawlessly, I guess it is something about paths.

I have python in my environment variable set. And tried on virtual machines to install all new clean install, without any success. I see that some of you have it working on Windows.

I hope there is some guide about that settings, or someone will write it, so that others can focus on work with python and not with windows paths.
Thanks.

9

With this new release of wxPython 4.2.2, I can now confirm that it works.
On both windows-11 and 10, with python-3.12.
And thanks to the developers.