CIV IV Gold: Python & Uninstall Errors

[horatiohornblwr]

Happy New Year.

I'm working with (Christmas gift versions of) a new (budget, but adequate) Toshiba (with Vista) and Civ IV Gold (that has Warlords). CIV appears work fine however I've spent the day troubleshooting two errors on Warlords.

First
The first is that when I click on Warlords, I receive the "Fatal Error: Failure Initializing Python". The error log reads:

sys.path = ['ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\build', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\py', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\tools', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\colourchooser', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\editor', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\floatcanvas', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\masked', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\mixins', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\lib\\ogl', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\py\\tests', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM\\wx\\tools\\XRCed', 'ASSETS\\PYTHON\\SYSTEM']

sys.modules = {'zipimport': <module 'zipimport' (built-in)>, 'signal': <module 'signal' (built-in)>, '__builtin__': <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>, 'sys': <module 'sys' (built-in)>, '__main__': <module '__main__' (built-in)>, 'exceptions': <module 'exceptions' (built-in)>, 'CvPythonExtensions': <module 'CvPythonExtensions' (built-in)>}

sys.builtin_module_names = ('CvPythonExtensions', '__builtin__', '__main__', '_bisect', '_codecs', '_codecs_cn', '_codecs_hk', '_codecs_iso2022', '_codecs_jp', '_codecs_kr', '_codecs_tw', '_csv', '_heapq', '_hotshot', '_locale', '_multibytecodec', '_random', '_sre', '_subprocess', '_symtable', '_weakref', '_winreg', 'array', 'audioop', 'binascii', 'cPickle', 'cStringIO', 'cmath', 'collections', 'datetime', 'errno', 'exceptions', 'gc', 'imageop', 'imp', 'itertools', 'marshal', 'math', 'md5', 'mmap', 'msvcrt', 'nt', 'operator', 'parser', 'regex', 'rgbimg', 'sha', 'signal', 'strop', 'struct', 'sys', 'thread', 'time', 'xxsubtype', 'zipimport')
load_module CvEventInterface
load_module CvUtil
load_module traceback
traceback import failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 52, in load_module
File "CvEventInterface", line 12, in ?
File "<string>", line 52, in load_module
File "CvUtil", line 5, in ?
ImportError: No module named traceback
load_module CvAppInterface
load_module os
os import failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 52, in load_module
File "CvAppInterface", line 14, in ?
ImportError: No module named os

I went to the configuration file where it reads

Set to 1 for no python exception popups
HidePythonExceptions = 1popup

and set the value to '0'. When I restarted Warlords, I received about 20 error popups with various messages before it loaded.

So I troubleshoot with this information. BUT, the most common solution that I've read about is to uninstall and reinstall. SO, I go to uninstall.

Second
Warlords does not appear in the add/remove utility in the Control panel neither does it appear in the list of program files with an option to uninstall. An uninstall option does not exist when I insert the disk.

I'm left to think the only way to uninstall the is to manually click the delete button for all of the files and registry lines. (grumble) Yet, this appears to be the only option for solving the first error.


Conclusion
Help. Can you give me step by step options to the Python error message and helping me find the auto uninstall OR list of data files that must be deleted in order for it to be reinstalled and thus fix problem 1.

 

[ori]

Welcome to CFC
could you please enable all logging in the civilizationIV.ini and then post the log files as one zip file after attempting to start Warlords?
also: did you install the game with administrator rights?