Requests_html render() returning WinError 14001 on VSCode

Question

I'm working on a web scraping project using Python. I'm using the requests_html library. My problem is identical to one that someone else had . When I run

r.html.render()

I get an error that says

OSError: [WinError 14001] The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail`. 

On the other thread I linked, someone said that the issue is with chromium and that I should reinstall requests & Python. I did a reinstallation of Python (both from VSCode and from the Python website) as well as reinstalling requests. However, I am still receiving this error when trying to run my code. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do?

Answer 1

Go to command prompt as admin and run sxstrace.exe.

sxstrace.exe Trace -logfile:tracefile.etl

run your program until error occurs then go to the cmd window and press Enter key. Then run

sxstrace.exe Parse -logfile:tracefile.etl -outfile:tracefile.txt

this will output a file into your System32 directory. Find it and post contents of the .txt file here. It should contain information on what is wrong.