ImportError no module named win32api

Question

I am using Python 2 7 and I want to use pywin32-214 on Windows 7  I installed pywin32-214 by using the msi installer  But when I import win32api in my Python script  it throws the error   no module named win32api     What should I do  Can I use pywin32 api for Windows 7

User · Answer

After installing pywin32

Steps to correctly install your module (pywin32)

First search where is your python pip is present

1a. For Example in my case location of pip - C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts

Then open your command prompt and change directory to your pip folder location.

cd C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts>pip install 
pypiwin32

Restart your IDE

All done now you can use the module .

User · Answer

I had an identical problem  which I solved by restarting my Python editor and shell  I had installed pywin32 but the new modules were not picked up until the restarts   If you ve already done that  do a search in your Python installation for win32api and you should find win32api pyd under   PYTHON HOME  Lib site-packages win32

User · Answer

The following should work  pip install pywin32  But it didn t for me  I fixed this by downloading and installing the exe from here  https   github com mhammond pywin32 releases

User · Answer

This is resolve my case as found on  Where to find the win32api module for Python   pip install pypiwin32

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I didn t find the package of the most voted answer in my Python 3 dist   I had the same problem and solved it installing the module pywin32   In a normal python   pip install pywin32   In anaconda   conda install pywin32   My python installation  Intel   Distribution for Python  had some kind of dependency problem and was giving this error  After installing this module it stopped appearing

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I had both pywin32 and pipywin32 installed like suggested in previous answer  but I still did not have a folder   PYTHON HOME  Lib site-packages win32  This always lead to errors when trying import win32api  The simple solution was to uninstall both packages and reinstall pywin32  pip uninstall pipywin32 pip uninstall pywin32 pip install pywin32  Then restart Python  and Jupyter   Now  the win32 folder is there and the import works fine  Problem solved

User · Answer

According to pywin32 github you must run       pip install pywin32   and after that  you must run      python Scripts pywin32 postinstall py -install   I know I m reviving an old thread  but I just had this problem and this was the only way to solve it

[python] ImportError: no module named win32api

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