import socket error in addon

Question

I was trying to install the Blender Cloud addon and got a python error. It looks like it is trying to load the socket library but is failing. If I go to the Blender directory and run the python console from the command line, I can do an import with no error, but I cannot from the Blender python console. It is the same python installation since I have no installation external to Blender. Here is the result of an import socket from the Blender python console:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<blender_console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\python\lib\socket.py", line 49, in <module>
    import _socket
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 n’est pas une application Win32 valide.

So it's an invalid win32 DLL, it says. The entire call when installing the addon (it's mostly the same thing):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 330, in enable
    mod = __import__(module_name)
  File "C:\Users\nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\blender_cloud\__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    wheels.load_wheels()
  File "C:\Users\nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\blender_cloud\wheels\__init__.py", line 64, in load_wheels
    load_wheel('lockfile', 'lockfile')
  File "C:\Users\nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\blender_cloud\wheels\__init__.py", line 48, in load_wheel
    module = __import__(module_name)
  File "C:\Users\nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\blender_cloud\wheels\lockfile-0.12.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl\lockfile\__init__.py", line 58, in <module>
    import socket
  File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\python\lib\socket.py", line 49, in <module>
    import _socket
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 n’est pas une application Win32 valide.

I'm running a Windows 10 64bits and Blender 2.78. Any idea?

Answer 1

Try the following:

• Close Blender
• Rename C:\Users\YourNameHere\AppData\Roaming\Blender
  Foundation\Blender\2.79 to
  C:\Users\YourNameHere\AppData\Roaming\Blender
  Foundation\Blender\2.79.bak
• Use your login in Windows instead of YourNameHere and your version of Blender instead of 2.79
• Start Blender again