How to install win32com.client on Python 3.4 or Python 2.7

Question

I tried to install win32com.client using the syntax below, but no success

>>> pip install pywin32

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pypiwin32

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in pypiwin32 NameError: name 'pypiwin32' is not defined

>>> pip install pypiwin32

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

>>> pip install pypiwin32-220-cp36-none-win32.whl

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

pylang · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-28 19:55:26Z

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Those errors suggest you are inside a Python environment. For example, the Python REPL starts with three chevrons, >>>. You don't want this. Run these commands outside of Python in the system command prompt either through Windows or Linux etc.

The following worked for me on Python 2.7:

> pip install pypiwin32

Also try the following from this post:

> python -m pip install pypiwin32

edited Dec 28, 2017 at 19:55

answered Dec 28, 2017 at 19:42

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Jen Over a year ago

Thanks, I got error message as below. But I can get on to pypi.python.org/pypi from the internet explorer. C:\Users\n0266997\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32>python -m pip instal l pypiwin32 Collecting pypiwin32 Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connec tion broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.conne ction.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x032F6390>, 'Connection to pypi.python. org timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/pypiwin32/

pylang Over a year ago

That's a better sign that you are actually using pip. I'd try again a bit later as the connection to pypi via pip can be unrealiable at times. You may also consider updating your pip. If you are considering Python long-term, I'd strongly suggest installing Python again via Anaconda and creating a new conda environment.

Jen Over a year ago

I tried to update PIP using the command below, still get the connection error. Is there a way I can download win32com.client and manually install it myself? C:\Users\n0266997\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32>python -m pip instal l -U pip Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connecti on broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.requests.packages.urllib3.connect ion.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x032CAF30>, 'Connection to pypi.python.or g timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/pip/

Jen Over a year ago

I used the commend python -m pip install pypiwin32 on python 2.711. It connects, but gives me error message: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pypiwin32 (from versio ns: ) No matching distribution found for pypiwin32

pylang Over a year ago

I experienced a similar issue a few days ago, but today I was able to install it in my Python 2 environment. You may have an odd python installation or pypi is not working well at the moment. Best advice I have is try again later.

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RITA KUSHWAHA · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-16 19:06:49Z

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Install the package via command prompt or Terminal of your python IDE(ex: PyCharm)

pip install pywin32

answered Apr 16, 2021 at 19:06

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thebadguy · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-23 15:56:36Z

first command work for me somehow.........

C:\Users\AL MARUF>pip install pypiwin32
Collecting pypiwin32
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x032A8C70>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed')': /simple/pypiwin32/
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/1b/2f292bbd742e369a100c91faa0483172cd91a1a422a6692055ac920946c5/pypiwin32-223-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8a/37/917c4020e93e0e854d4cbff1cbdf14ec45a6d1cedf52f8cafdea5b22451a/pywin32-224-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl (8.3MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 8.3MB 142kB/s
Installing collected packages: pywin32, pypiwin32
Successfully installed pypiwin32-223 pywin32-224

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