title: Getting error: DLL load failed: The operating system cannot run %1 - Python 2.7; Scrapy Module; Importing Cryptography
body: <p>I cannot successfully run the first command in the Scrapy tutorial <code>(http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html)</code>.  The code copy pasted below is the result (with the error at the end). </p>
  
  <p><strong>Python 2.7</strong> is installed, and I followed the installation instructions for scrapy <code>(http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html)</code>. I am running <strong>Python 2.7.6 32 bit on Windows 7 (64 bit)</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>Other aspects of installation: </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><code>Twisted-13.2.0.dist-info</code></li>
  <li><code>zope.interface-4.1.1-py2.7</code></li>
  <li><code>Scrapy-0.22.2-py2.7</code></li>
  <li><code>lxml-3.3.3-py2.7</code></li>
  <li><code>cssselect-0.9.1-py2.7</code></li>
  <li><code>cryptography-0.3.dist-info</code></li>
  <li><code>pyOpenSSL-0.14-py2.7</code></li>
  <li><code>pywin32_system32</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>And here's the error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Python27\Scripts&gt;scrapy startproject tutorial
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
          "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
        File "C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
          exec code in run_globals
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\cmdline.py", line 9, in &lt;module&gt;
          from scrapy.crawler import CrawlerProcess
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\scrapy\crawler.py", line 3, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.internet import reactor, defer
        File "twisted\internet\reactor.py", line 38, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.internet import default
        File "twisted\internet\default.py", line 56, in &lt;module&gt;
          install = _getInstallFunction(platform)
        File "twisted\internet\default.py", line 50, in _getInstallFunction
          from twisted.internet.selectreactor import install
        File "twisted\internet\selectreactor.py", line 18, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.internet import posixbase
        File "twisted\internet\posixbase.py", line 24, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.internet import error, udp, tcp
        File "twisted\internet\tcp.py", line 29, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.internet._newtls import (
        File "twisted\internet\_newtls.py", line 21, in &lt;module&gt;
          from twisted.protocols.tls import TLSMemoryBIOFactory, TLSMemoryBIOProtocol
        File "twisted\protocols\tls.py", line 40, in &lt;module&gt;
          from OpenSSL.SSL import Error, ZeroReturnError, WantReadError
        File "build\bdist.win32\egg\OpenSSL\__init__.py", line 8, in &lt;module&gt;
        File "build\bdist.win32\egg\OpenSSL\rand.py", line 11, in &lt;module&gt;
        File "build\bdist.win32\egg\OpenSSL\_util.py", line 4, in &lt;module&gt;
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\hazmat\bindings\openssl\binding.py",      l3, in __init__
        self._ensure_ffi_initialized()
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\hazmat\bindings\openssl\binding.py", l9, in _ensure_ffi_initialized libraries)
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cryptography\hazmat\bindings\utils.py", line 77, ind_ffi
          ext_package="cryptography",
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cffi\api.py", line 341, in verify
          lib = self.verifier.load_library()
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cffi\verifier.py", line 75, in load_library
          return self._load_library()
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cffi\verifier.py", line 151, in _load_library
          return self._vengine.load_library()
        File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cffi\vengine_cpy.py", line 138, in load_library
          raise ffiplatform.VerificationError(error)
  
  cffi.ffiplatform.VerificationError: importing 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\cryptogr
  \_Cryptography_cffi_48bbf0ebx93c91939.pyd': DLL load failed: The operating system cannot
  1.**
  </code></pre>