[python-win32] Installing pywin32 for Python 2.7 AMD64

[Ferdinand Sousa]

Hi Mark,

I'm guessing User Access Control is not disabled for me. I have an
administrator account on Win 7 Professional.
While installing stuff, very often at the last step of the install wizard,
I get the install button with the chequered shield symbol, indicating admin
credentials required.
Since my account is an admin, I get a modal dialog asking whether I want to
continue or not. This did NOT happen for the pywin32 installer mentioned
below.

However since you made the suggestion I explicitly chose to run the
installer as admin and it works fine now (I am able to import win32api,
win32gui etc), even though I still get the same error at the finish stage
of the install wizard mentioned earlier:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the tip. Best regards,
Ferdi




On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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