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Where to find the win32api module for Python? [closed]

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How do I add win32api to Python?

There is no version of specific version of win32api . You have to get the pywin32 module which currently cannot be installed via pip . It is only available from this link at the moment. The install does not take long and it pretty much all done for you.

What is win32api module Python?

The win32api module provides various libraries and objects utilized to deal with the Windows system's Application Programming Interface (API). The PyWin32 library, which is already a part of the Python extension, enables the win32api module in Python.

How do I download a Python OS module?

OS is python's standard library. So no need to download it.


There is a a new option as well: get it via pip! There is a package pypiwin32 with wheels available, so you can just install with: pip install pypiwin32!

Edit: Per comment from @movermeyer, the main project now publishes wheels at pywin32, and so can be installed with pip install pywin32


'pywin32' is its canonical name.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/


I've found that UC Irvine has a great collection of python modules, pywin32 (win32api) being one of many listed there. I'm not sure how they do with keeping up with the latest versions of these modules but it hasn't let me down yet.

UC Irvine Python Extension Repository - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs

pywin32 module - http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32


http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/ - 3rd .exe down