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I am trying to install the win32com module. I know I should download the Python for Windows extension, but it does not work.

After I have installed Python for Windows and try import win32com.client, I get the following error message:

>>> import win32com.client Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module> import win32com.client File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module> import win32api, sys, os
ImportError: No module named win32api

Trying to google for help on how to install win32api for Python does not help either; I am just referred to the Python for Windows extensions again.

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4 Answers

  1. Start a command line with admin rights.
  2. python -m pip install pywin32
  3. C:\Program Files\Stackless36\Scripts>python pywin32_postinstall.py -install
  4. python C:\code\Python\speech\speak.py

The path C:\Program Files\Stackless36\ should be replaced with the path at which your Python version is installed.

Where speak.py consists of this text:

import win32com.client
speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
speaker.Speak("It works. Hoorah!")

Working fine on Python 3.6.4 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (v3.6.4-slp:9557b2e530, Dec 21 2017, 15:23:10) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32. Vanilla CPython hangs out here:

C:\Users\C\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32>python.exe
Python 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 16:07:46) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32com'
>>> exit()
C:\Users\C\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32>python.exe -m pip install pywin32
Collecting pywin32 Cache entry deserialization failed, entry ignored Downloading (8.3MB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 8.3MB 50kB/s
Installing collected packages: pywin32
Successfully installed pywin32-223
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.
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Check sys.path to make sure the directory where the module is installed is in there, otherwise you have to add it (google PYTHONPATH windows for some help with that.)

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I had the same problem only yesterday. I installed pypiwin32 using pip.

Try

>>pip install -U pypiwin32

at the command prompt

Make sure your Python package is in the system PATH.

Note that there are a few different ways to install Python modules, and as you have discovered not all of them work. pip install with -U worked for me with the pypiwin32 module (which contains win32com).

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look for the file in your computer by searching in all your computer "win32api" once you find it put it here C:\Python26\Lib\win32com "this suppossed you already install win32com library and you will find the file I think in" C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32 "After all the file should be located in those two places in your computer for your module to work that's it in fini".

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