[pyxl] pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe - how do I install it?

[bill]

All,

I am trying to install pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe. It tells me that
"Python version 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry".
Here is the problem - our IT dept. apparently placed Python 3.1 on my
PC without "installing it". I assume the error message should have
indicated it needed Python 2.6 or greater. How do I get it Python 3.1
"registered" with the registry?

TIA,

Bill

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[John Machin]

On 1/05/2010 11:53 PM, bill wrote:
> All,
>
> I am trying to install pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe.

Hi Bill,

Your problem doesn't seem to be on-topic for this forum, but here goes
anyway:

> It tells me that
> "Python version 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry".
> Here is the problem - our IT dept. apparently placed Python 3.1 on my
> PC without "installing it". I assume the error message should have
> indicated it needed Python 2.6 or greater.

Not so; extension installers with a Python version number in the file
name require a Python installation with *exactly* that version. You
can't infer the lack of Python 3.1 from that message.

> How do I get it Python 3.1
> "registered" with the registry?

It may well be registered already. Have you been running Python 3.1 at
all? What evidence/symptoms do you have that it was "placed" on your PC?
What happens when you fire up a "Command Prompt" window and type

\python31\python

?

In any case you need the Python 3.1 version of pywin32 i.e.
pywin32-214.win32-py3.1.exe which you can get from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/

I presume that you got the 2.6 version of the pywin32 installer by
leaning on the big "Download Now!" button on the above download page.
Check the download counts ... most folks are still using Python 2.X (for
most things, not just pywin32).

If you can't discuss this with your IT department (i.e. you are
attempting some ninja stunt, crawling in under the wire) then you need
some expert help e.g. from the pywin32 mailing list; see
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

HTH
John

[bill]

John,

That was BIG help - I had downloaded pywin32-214.win32-2.6.exe

Thanks,

Bill

PS: no, I was not trying to get around the IT dept.

On May 1, 11:03 am, John Machin <sjmac...@lexicon.net> wrote:
> On 1/05/2010 11:53 PM, bill wrote:
>
> > All,
>
> > I am trying to install pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe.
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Your problem doesn't seem to be on-topic for this forum, but here goes
> anyway:
>
> > It tells me that
> > "Python version 2.6 required, which was not found in the registry".
> > Here is the problem - our IT dept. apparently placed Python 3.1 on my
> > PC without "installing it". I assume the error message should have
> > indicated it needed Python 2.6 or greater.
>
> Not so; extension installers with a Python version number in the file
> name require a Python installation with *exactly* that version. You
> can't infer the lack of Python 3.1 from that message.
>
> > How do I get it Python 3.1
> > "registered" with the registry?
>
> It may well be registered already. Have you been running Python 3.1 at
> all? What evidence/symptoms do you have that it was "placed" on your PC?
> What happens when you fire up a "Command Prompt" window and type
>
> \python31\python
>
> ?
>
> In any case you need the Python 3.1 version of pywin32 i.e.

> pywin32-214.win32-py3.1.exe which you can get fromhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/

>
> I presume that you got the 2.6 version of the pywin32 installer by
> leaning on the big "Download Now!" button on the above download page.
> Check the download counts ... most folks are still using Python 2.X (for
> most things, not just pywin32).
>
> If you can't discuss this with your IT department (i.e. you are
> attempting some ninja stunt, crawling in under the wire) then you need

> some expert help e.g. from the pywin32 mailing list; seehttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32