win32com.client import Dispatch on 64 bit

[Seda Cavdaroglu]

Hello,

I have been running my experiment on a 32 bit Win XP machine for a while and now have to run it on a 64 bit Win7 laptop.  I need to create, read form and write#
into some excel files hence I have been using Dispatch  from win32com.client.  Yet, now when I try to run it on my 64 bit laptop, I face the following error:

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\Program Files\\PsychoPy2\\lib\\site-packages\\win32com\\gen_py\\__init__.py'

I tried running it as admin and saving it both under Programmes, Programmes(x86).  Neither helped.  I am using Standalone Psychopy 1-74.01-win32

Any ideas?

[Jonathan Peirce]

I've no idea about Dispatch, but PsychoPy standalone comes with the the
openpyxl package which works well for reading/writing. The problem
you're having below is that the win32com package seems to be trying to
write to its own directory, but because that's in program files you
don't have permission. You could try relaxing the permissions on the
entire PsychoPy2 folder and sub-directories.

Jon

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