(wxPython) ImportError: No module named _core_

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If relevant, please answer to the following questions:
1. What version of Python(x,y) have you installed? 2.7.5.0

2. Which components have you installed (Python(x,y) installer:
componentpage):
    b. Have you selected the "Full" component selection?
c. Have you selected manually plugins in the component list?

3. Have you selected the option "Customize installation directories"?
b. No

5. Where did you install Python(x,y) itself?
a. default path

6. Have you installed Python(x,y):
    b. For "All users"

7. What is your operating system?
d. Windows 8

8. Is the operating system 64 bit?
a. Yes

9. When you installed Python(x,y), were you logged in as :
b. an administrator of the machine

11. Regarding installed software on your machine, how did you clean your
machine before installing Python(x,y)  (multiple answers are possible):
b. you uninstalled any previous Python distribution (including the
official .msi)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.  Run any one of my wxPython programs

What is the expected output? I expected my program to run. What do you see 
instead?  It crashes with the traceback below.

Please provide any additional information below.

Again, to fix it I had to install wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.12.1-py27.exe 
over my python-xy install

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File My program that works fine on a non-pythonxy install
    import wx
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\__init__.py", line 4
5, in <module>
    from wx._core import *
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wx\_core.py", line 4, i
n <module>
    import _core_
ImportError: No module named _core_

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bphilp...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2013 at 3:37

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Close all IPython/Python/Xy windows and install 
https://pythonxy.googlecode.com/files/wxPython-2.8.12.1-1_py27.exe .

The above binary is identical to the packaged one. I've re-installed it from 
scratch and _core_.pyd were present. Make sure you have no other distributions 
on the PYTHONPATH.

Original comment by grizzly.nyo on 5 Jul 2013 at 7:21

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