Unable to install Python and GDAL (DLL load failed)

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To successfully load GDAL from python in Windows 7, I follow these steps, which should be quite generic:

  1. Install python of your choosing, I used v2.7.2 x64 downloaded from the official website
  2. Run python from command line to determine the compiler version used to build python (mine shows this message: Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32)
  3. Download the corresponding SDK from this link: http://www.gisinternals.com/release.php. Select the correct package for your python (if using the above configuration, then MSVC2008 x64 release link should be selected).
  4. From the subpage, download the following:
    • GDAL core components
    • Python bindings
  5. Install GDAL core components, add the installation dir to path, and add new environment variable ‘GDAL_DATA’ pointing to data subdirectory of GDAL installation.
  6. Install python bindings
  7. You should be profiting from them by now 🙂

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