No module named 'win32api'

Question

In Python 3.4 from Anaconda, I created a program and it is giving me and import error each time I run it. Using Spyder.

ImportError: No module named 'win32api'

I already have the pywin32 installed. And I can see the win32api.pyd under C:\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\win32

This is the import code on my program:

from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter.messagebox
import time
import requests #needs to be installed
import pymysql #needs to be installed
import csv 
import win32com.client #needs to be installed

import datetime

This is the whole error:

File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
import win32api, sys, os

ImportError: No module named 'win32api'

This is the only instance of Python I have installed. I uninstalled everything else and installed only Anaconda.

Searching online I got to something that said that it could be a problem with the PYTHONPATH. But honestly, I have no idea what they are talking about. So any noob help would be really appreciated. I am using Windows 7 by the way.

Thank you

Did you install pywin32 separately or was it included in anaconda? — Oliver, Aug 15 '14 at 02:13
Hello, sorry I didn't answer. At the end, it didn't work. So I ended up installing WinPython. But thank you for your help! — Alvaro Morales Solis, Aug 29 '14 at 13:58

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

The installation for pywin32 must have failed, or it is not for same OS bit architecture (say anaconda 64 bit and pywin32 32 bit). I recommend

you uninstall pywin32,
check what bit version of anaconda you are using, then
install pywin32 for same version,
verify that the installer indicates 100% success and there are no errors flagged in the installer's log window (it's rare but something may fail and the installer doesn't know).
Then open a python console and type "import win32com".

If #5 fails to import win32com, then:

try installing a different version of python, for example from python.org
repeat steps 2 to 5 above but for new python instead of anaconda

Could be that anaconda distributors did something to the python interpreter (although I didn't think so), or that some libs aren't registered right (see answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/17061853/869951 for some more things to try).

I installed winpython instead of anaconda at the end. Thank you — Alvaro Morales Solis, Aug 29 '14 at 18:40

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 27 '17 at 20:50

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This should work:

pip install pypiwin32

answered Oct 27 '17 at 20:50

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '17 at 20:46

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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 I never more saw it.

answered May 16 '17 at 20:46

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pip install pypiwin32 – Dr. Div Oct 27 '17 at 20:49

LotiLotiLoti · Answer 4 · 2018-11-12T10:26:30.320

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As mentioned by outforawhile in comment, simply restarting the laptop fixed this for me.

It may be that this is required for Windows to register the DLL.

edited Nov 12 '18 at 10:26

answered Nov 12 '18 at 09:59

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 10 '20 at 15:55

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try this before install pywin32

pip install pywinutils

answered Nov 10 '20 at 15:55

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 27 '23 at 14:04

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close the python idle's and run the file again works for me.

answered Feb 27 '23 at 14:04

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