[python-win32] Installing pywin32 for Python 2.7 AMD64

[Mark Hammond]

On 16/06/2012 2:20 AM, Ferdinand Sousa wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> First off, it's good to be back after 3 years!!
>
> I was dusting off some old scripts I had written using pywin32. (Python
> 2.5 era I think). It uses the win32con and win32api modules.
>
> Now I'm trying to use the same scripts with Python 2.7 AMD64 version.
>
> I downloaded pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.exe from the sourceforge site
> and installed it. At the end, I see the following message:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Postinstall script finished
> Click the Finish button to exit the setup wizard
>
> close failed in file object destructor:
> sys.excepthook is missing
> lost sys.stderr
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This seems to happen if User Access Control (UAC) is disabled - is it 
disabled for you?

Either way, try running "python scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install" 
from the root of the install directory and things should finish 
registering - that should fix the next error you see.

>
> Then, I tried importing win32con and it works. But, when I tried
> importing win32api, win32gui I get the error message:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>      import win32api, win32gui
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I uninstalled pywin32 and tried installing it from source. But alas,
> I again hit a roadblock:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py
> install
> Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 1944, in <module>
>      """ % dirs).split(),
>    File "setup.py", line 603, in __init__
>      if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(sdk_dir, "include", "activdbg.h")):
>    File "c:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join
>      assert len(path) > 0
> TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

This will probably be due to the setup script not finding the platform SDK.

HTH,

Mark
>
> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ferdi
>
>
>
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