[python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 109, Issue 26

Wed May 2 12:04:59 CEST 2012

I was downloading .zip file not the exe installer file. It worked now.
Thanks for the help. But would be still interested to download the code and
experiment with it.

./Aravind

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:30 PM, <python-win32-request at python.org> wrote:

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>   1. Re: Win32api install problem (Mark Lawrence)
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>   3. Re: Win32api install problem (Mark Hammond)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:41:42 +0100
> From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
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> On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> > bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >
> > Python 2.7.3
>
> > MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
>
> The SDK isn't usually needed.
>
> > Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
>
> Hopefully in this case either pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.exe or
> pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe as appropriate :)  See below.
>
> >
> >
> > When I run the setup.py as below
> > c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
>
> I've never needed to do this.  Usually you would download the
> appropriate version of pywin32 as given above and It Just Works when you
> install, automatically finding your version of Python from the registry.
>
> >
> > I am getting following error
> >
> > Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "setup.py", line 2428, in<module>
> >      ] +
> >    File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >      raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> > RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >
> > There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >
> > Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
>
> If my comments above don't help sorry, you'll have to wait until the
> smarter Windows guys pick this one up, doesn't normally take too long :)
>
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Aravind
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Lawrence.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:42:06 +0100
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E424E.5020600 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> > bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >
> > Python 2.7.3
> > MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
> > Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
> >
> >
> > When I run the setup.py as below
> > c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
> >
> > I am getting following error
> >
> > Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "setup.py", line 2428, in <module>
> >     ] +
> >   File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >     raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> > RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >
> > There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >
> > Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
>
> Do you have / want to build from source? If not, download one
> of the binaries from Sourceforge and use that. If you do need
> to build from source, you'll have to patch the setup.py in
> the pywin32 sourceball to add a parameter anchor=0 to the calls
> to include_pattern and exclude_pattern within the convert_data_files
> function.
>
> (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> earliest...)
>
> FWIW this is due to a recent-ish change to distutils which fixed a
> longstanding bugette. The effect was to tighten up the action of
> include|exclude_pattern calls so that they don't match against
> directory strings unless anchor is set to 0.
>
> Again, though, unless you *want* to build from source, you can just
> download a binary build.
>
>
> TJG
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:50:52 +1000
> From: Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>
> To: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E445C.1020307 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 30/04/2012 5:42 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> > On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> >> bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >>
> >> Python 2.7.3
> >> MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
> >> Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
> >>
> >>
> >> When I run the setup.py as below
> >> c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
> >>
> >> I am getting following error
> >>
> >> Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>    File "setup.py", line 2428, in <module>
> >>      ] +
> >>    File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >>      raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> >> RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >>
> >> There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >>
> >> Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
> >
> > Do you have / want to build from source? If not, download one
> > of the binaries from Sourceforge and use that. If you do need
> > to build from source, you'll have to patch the setup.py in
> > the pywin32 sourceball to add a parameter anchor=0 to the calls
> > to include_pattern and exclude_pattern within the convert_data_files
> > function.
> >
> > (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> > I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> > earliest...)
>
> Thanks for the clue - I just updated Python 2.7 from hg, verified the
> bug and also verified your fix seems to work.  I've checked it in and
> pushed it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> >
> > FWIW this is due to a recent-ish change to distutils which fixed a
> > longstanding bugette. The effect was to tighten up the action of
> > include|exclude_pattern calls so that they don't match against
> > directory strings unless anchor is set to 0.
> >
> > Again, though, unless you *want* to build from source, you can just
> > download a binary build.
> >
> >
> > TJG
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:56:22 +0100
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> To: mhammond at skippinet.com.au
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E45A6.2000906 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 30/04/2012 08:50, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > On 30/04/2012 5:42 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> >> (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> >> I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> >> earliest...)
> >
> > Thanks for the clue - I just updated Python 2.7 from hg, verified the
> > bug and also verified your fix seems to work.  I've checked it in and
> > pushed it.
>
> Thanks for the quick turnaround. FWIW there appear to be other issues
> against Python trunk due to the *very* recent importlib changes. Before
> I dive in: are you able to build & install against Python's hg tip?
>
> I was getting an importlib error when trying to import pywintypes.
> I'll try to get a build environment up here (at work) to make sure
> I can reproduce.
>
>
> TJG
>
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