Cannot start pywin32 post install

Question

I am trying to use winpexpect for windows 7 64 bit on an AMD processor. To do this, I installed pywin32, an executable file called pywin32-214.win-amd64-py2.7 . The graphical installer seemed to work successfully, but I get this error when trying to import winpexpect :

 >>> import winpexpect Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "C:\Users\Alexei\wordseer_flask\venv\lib\site-packages\winpexpect.py", li ne 11, in <module> import pywintypes File "C:\Users\Alexei\wordseer_flask\venv\lib\site-packages\pywin32-214-py2.7- win32.egg\pywintypes.py", line 124, in <module> __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals()) File "C:\Users\Alexei\wordseer_flask\venv\lib\site-packages\pywin32-214-py2.7- win32.egg\pywintypes.py", line 64, in __import_pywin32_system_module__ import _win32sysloader ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. 

When I try to run C:\Python27\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall :

 C:\Windows\system32>C:\Python27\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python27\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 601, in <module> install() File "C:\Python27\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 311, in install LoadSystemModule(lib_dir, "pywintypes") File "C:\Python27\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 149, in LoadSystemModu le ('.dll', 'rb', imp.C_EXTENSION)) ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. 

Answer 1

When I installed pyinstaller, I also got the same error: import _win32sysloader ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. The error related to installing the Microsoft Visual C ++ 2010 Redistributable package has been fixed.

Answer 2

If either of Python or PyWin32 is 32 bit, the other should be too.

Try installing from: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/