Why does calling kernel32.GetModuleHandleA() for msvcr100 fail in Python?

Question

I am having a problem with calling GetModuleHandleA() using Python. I have a module that attaches as debugger to the process. I\'m working on a function that would

Answer 1

After modifying:

...


handle = kernel32.GetModuleHandleA(dll)
        if handle == False:
            error = GetLastError()
            print "ERROR: %d - %s" % (error, FormatError(error))
            return False

...

I get: ERROR: 126 - The specified module could not be found

I actually replaced msvcr100.dll with msvcrt.dll in my code and it worked perfect. I found out that msvcrt.dll is system dll. msvcr100.dll ships with Studio 2010. They are both located in C:\Windows\system32. It is still a mystery for me why msvcr100.dll did not work.