A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

[Peter Brittain]

On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 12:25:09 PM UTC+1, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> I tried installing your package with "pip.exe -v install asciimatics".
> Some problem with pypiwin32 it seems:
> 
> Installing collected packages: pypiwin32, future, Pillow, pyfiglet, asciimatics
> 
>   Cleaning up...
>   Exception:
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\basecommand.py", line 232, in main
>       status = self.run(options, args)
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\commands\install.py", line 347, in run
>       root=options.root_path,
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_set.py", line 549, in install
>       **kwargs
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_install.py", line 751, in install
>       self.move_wheel_files(self.source_dir, root=root)
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\req\req_install.py", line 960, in move_wheel_files
>       isolated=self.isolated,
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\wheel.py", line 234, in move_wheel_files
>       clobber(source, lib_dir, True)
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip-6.0.6-py2.7.egg\pip\wheel.py", line 212, in clobber
>       shutil.copyfile(srcfile, destfile)
>     File "g:\Programfiler\Python27\lib\shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile
>       with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst:
>   IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'g:\\Programfiler\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32api.pyd'
> 
> -----
> 
> BTW, this is on Python 2.7.9 on Win-XP SP3.
> 
> --gv

That's a new one on me.  The pypiwin32 package has installed fine for me on Python 3 in  Windows 7, 8 and 10.  Sadly I don't have ready access to an XP machine, so can't easily try a repro myself...  Does the file already exist, or are you lacking permissions to update the folder?