[python-win32] Win32api install problem

[Mark Hammond]

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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