Title: Exception with mysterious description while trying to initialize yt_dlp from C# · Issue #2674 · pythonnet/pythonnet · GitHub
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X Title: Exception with mysterious description while trying to initialize yt_dlp from C# · Issue #2674 · pythonnet/pythonnet
Description: I have a C# project from which I'm trying to experiment with calling yt-dlp. On the follow statement, I get an exception for which the message is that the exception was thrown. The exception's InnerException is null. What could be going ...
Open Graph Description: I have a C# project from which I'm trying to experiment with calling yt-dlp. On the follow statement, I get an exception for which the message is that the exception was thrown. The exception's Inne...
X Description: I have a C# project from which I'm trying to experiment with calling yt-dlp. On the follow statement, I get an exception for which the message is that the exception was thrown. The exception...
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What could be going on?\n\n```\nException of type 'System.ExecutionEngineException' was thrown.\n```\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1645\" height=\"893\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ebbe739a-e7cf-4a61-949f-b08735472687\" /\u003e\n\nI tried to step into the code, but quickly ran into unmanaged code before finding where the exception was thrown.\n\n```\nFatal error. 0xC0000005\n at Python.Runtime.Runtime.PyImport_ImportModule(System.String)\n at Python.Runtime.PyModule.Import(System.String)\n at Python.Runtime.Py.Import(System.String)\n at YtDlpTest.TestYtDlp..ctor()\n at DynamicClass.lambda_method172(System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Closure)\n at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.Init(System.Management.Automation.CmdletInfo)\n at System.Management.Automation.CommandDiscovery.LookupCommandProcessor(System.Management.Automation.CommandInfo, System.Management.Automation.CommandOrigin, System.Nullable`1\u003cBoolean\u003e, System.Management.Automation.SessionStateInternal)\n at System.Management.Automation.CommandDiscovery.LookupCommandProcessor(System.String, System.Management.Automation.CommandOrigin, System.Nullable`1\u003cBoolean\u003e)\n at System.Management.Automation.ExecutionContext.CreateCommand(System.String, Boolean)\n at System.Management.Automation.PipelineOps.AddCommand(System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor, System.Management.Automation.CommandParameterInternal[], System.Management.Automation.Language.CommandBaseAst, System.Management.Automation.CommandRedirection[], System.Management.Automation.ExecutionContext)\n at System.Management.Automation.PipelineOps.InvokePipeline(System.Object, Boolean, System.Management.Automation.CommandParameterInternal[][], System.Management.Automation.Language.CommandBaseAst[], System.Management.Automation.CommandRedirection[][], System.Management.Automation.Language.FunctionContext)\n at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`6[[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[System.Boolean, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e],[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]].Run(System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.InterpretedFrame)\n at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.InterpretedFrame)\n at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.InterpretedFrame)\n at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.Interpreter.Run(System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.InterpretedFrame)\n at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.LightLambda.RunVoid1[[System.__Canon, System.Private.CoreLib, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e]](System.__Canon)\n at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.RunClause(System.Action`1\u003cSystem.Management.Automation.Language.FunctionContext\u003e, System.Object, System.Object)\n at System.Management.Automation.DlrScriptCommandProcessor.Complete()\n at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase.DoComplete()\n at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.DoCompleteCore(System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessorBase)\n at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(System.Object)\n at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeHelper()\n at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.LocalPipeline.InvokeThreadProc()\n at System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.PipelineThread.WorkerProc()\n at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/WillPittenger","@type":"Person","name":"WillPittenger"},"datePublished":"2025-12-28T00:10:57.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/2674/pythonnet/issues/2674"}| route-pattern | /_view_fragments/issues/show/:user_id/:repository/:id/issue_layout(.:format) |
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