Process finished with exit code -1073741515 (0xC0000135)

Question

I'm running a python script and it used to work (it even does on my other laptop right now) but not on my current computer - I just get the error code:

Process finished with exit code -1073741515 (0xC0000135)

I don't get any other results - not even from "print" commands at the beginning of the file.

I haven't found anything specific to that. I re-installed python (2.7.9), pygame (1.9.1) and even pycharm (tried 4.5 first, now with 5.0 - same result)

Does anyone know what that error code means? I couldn't find anything about it.

Solution 1

reinstall python – you don't have python33.dll in c:\WINDOWS\system32\

Maybe you have different python versions – look at folders in root of c:

If yes, then point to your version of python.exe in pyCharm > Settings > Project Interpreter

Solution 2

This may be due to another program locking that memory location. Before you try more drastic measures, know that restarting the computer fixed the problem for me.

Solution 3

The error seems to be related to issues in native code (e.g. C/C++) and might be related to issues in loading some dll file. To know which file, the Windows "Event Viewer" is your friend.

The "Event Viewer" -> "Windows Logs" -> "Application" feed usually shows one or more rows for each crashed application and one of them should list the problematic filename.

Personally I observed similar issue with matplotlib on Python 3.9 (installed using Anaconda on Windows 10). I could see this kind of error when the code was executed using PyCharm. The same code just crashed with no visible errors when starting from Anaconda console.

The Event viewer then showed issue with freetype.dll. In this case, the problem was fixed by downgrading the packege from 2.11.0 to 2.10.4:

conda install freetype=2.10.4

Depending on the exact issue, I could imagine that removing pycache folder might help (like mentioned in other answers). Also, sometimes it might make sense to look at the PATH environment variable to actually understand why certain dll file is loaded from such a location.

Solution 4

I got this error in PyCharm after upgrading pyarrow to the most recent version -- 0.16 --- using pip, running the same code I had ran before this update which used pandas read_parquet specifying the engine="pyarrow" triggering use of this library. After uninstalling and installing the previous version with

pip install pyarrow=="0.15"

the problem resolved.

Solution 5

taskkill /F /IM python.exe

Try this if it just happened out of the bloom and it worked normally before that error occurred.

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