Error importing _counter form pycrypto library

Question

This line in Crypto/Util/Counter.py from the pycrypto lib:

from Crypto.Util import _counter

Causes this error:

ImportError: cannot import name _counter

But I have the file _counter.so under Crypto/Util in the pycrypto library of Python's site-packages. I am using Python 2.7.5, 32-bit for Windows.

Answer 1

File _counter.so belongs to Linux/MacOS package, Windows should have _counter.pyd instead. Prebuilt Windows PyCrypto packages can be downloaded from here: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto