Anaconda Terminal error pywin32_bootstrap

Question

I got this error in my Anaconda Navigator base Terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site.py", line 168, in addpackage
      exec(line)
    File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywin32_bootstrap'

Remainder of file ignored

How can i fix this?

Answer 1

I got the same error during pip install, and I solved it by installing build 225 of pywin32 instead of the latest version:

pip install pywin32==225

Answer 2

I followed soberWolf's suggestion, but needed to add the --user switch as the permissions seem a little off, so pip install --ignore-installed pywin32 --user