In Python 3.4 from Anaconda, I created a program and it is giving me and import error each time I run it.
Using Spyder.
ImportError: No module named 'win32api'
I already have the pywin32 installed. And I can see the win32api.pyd under C:\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\win32
This is the import code on my program:
from tkinter import *
from tkinter import ttk
import tkinter.messagebox
import time
import requests #needs to be installed
import pymysql #needs to be installed
import csv
import win32com.client #needs to be installed
import datetime
This is the whole error:
File "C:\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
import win32api, sys, os
ImportError: No module named 'win32api'
This is the only instance of Python I have installed. I uninstalled everything else and installed only Anaconda.
Searching online I got to something that said that it could be a problem with the PYTHONPATH. But honestly, I have no idea what they are talking about.
So any noob help would be really appreciated.
I am using Windows 7 by the way.
Thank you
The installation for pywin32 must have failed, or it is not for same OS bit architecture (say anaconda 64 bit and pywin32 32 bit). I recommend
you uninstall pywin32,
check what bit version of anaconda you are using, then
install pywin32 for same version,
verify that the installer indicates 100% success and there are no errors flagged in the installer's log window (it's rare but something may fail and the installer doesn't know).
Then open a python console and type "import win32com".
If #5 fails to import win32com, then:
try installing a different version of python, for example from python.org
repeat steps 2 to 5 above but for new python instead of anaconda
Could be that anaconda distributors did something to the python interpreter (although I didn't think so), or that some libs aren't registered right (see answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/17061853/869951 for some more things to try).
This should work:
pip install pypiwin32
I had the same problem and solved it installing the module pywin32:
In a normal python:
pip install pywin32
In anaconda:
conda install pywin32
My python installation (Intel® Distribution for Python) had some kind of dependency problem and was giving this error. After installing this module I never more saw it.
As mentioned by outforawhile in comment, simply restarting the laptop fixed this for me.
It may be that this is required for Windows to register the DLL.
try this before install pywin32
pip install pywinutils
Related
I'm using python 3.6 and attempting to import win32com.client as win32 to be able to send an email with outlook but keep getting the above import error.
I've installed both pywin32 and pypiwin32 and run the postinstall script (did see it say "You do not have the permissions to install COM objects.)
I see the pywintpyes36.dll and pyhoncom36.dll in the location I'm running the script out of.
I've done a bit of searching and can't seem to find what I'm missing. Is it the fact that I was unable to install the COM objects? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
[EDIT]
I'm working out of a venv, and have installed both libraries using py -m pip install pywin32 and py -m install pypiwin32. I verified that I see the installation in the "site-packages" folder within my venv.
my imports:
import sys
sys.path.append("C:\path\venv\Lib\site-packages")
import tkinter as tk
import getpass
import os.path
import time
import os
import win32com.client as win32
import sqlite3
from datetime import datetime
from functools import partial
I have the sys.path.append there otherwise the module is not found at all.
Full error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\path\program.py", line 8, in <module>
import win32com.client as win32
File "C:\path\venv\Lib\site-packages\win32com\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from win32 import win32api
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
This may not be directly relevant for the OP, but may be of help to others who end up here based on the title.
Summary
Possible workaround for conda environments with Python>=3.8:
DO NOT pip install pywin32, but
DO conda install pywin32 (e.g. from conda-forge)
Details
I encountered the following error in a freshly created (Mini-)Conda environment with Python 3.9 on windows 10, after installing pywin32 via pip:
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32file: The specified module could not be found.
The pywin32 installation instructions mention this type of issue explicitly, and there are several related issues.
However, in my case something else was going on.
Here are some interesting observations:
I have numerous other, pre-existing, conda environments, with python versions ranging from 2.7 to 3.8, and corresponding pywin32 versions, in which the issue does not arise (just verified this).
All these environments have their own pywintypesXX.dll etc. yet they coexist peacefully.
There is no pywintypesXX.dll in my system32 folder.
I have never needed to run the pywin32_postinstall script, yet.
As it turns out, on my system, the import error only arises if I do a pip install pywin32 in a conda environment with Python>=3.8. The issue does not arise for Python 3.7 (nor for 2.7).
In a Python>=3.8 conda environment, conda install pywin32 fixed the issue (instead of using pip).
Apparently Python 3.8 changed the way dll files are found. This change has been incorporated in pywin32, but can still cause trouble if you mix conda and pip.
Related:
DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. win32api, sys, os
How to fix "ImportError: DLL load failed" while importing win32api
How to fix 'DLL load failed while importing win32api' in Jupyter notebook after connecting VS code to Jupyter notebook?
I installed wordcloud package for my 64 bit windows 10 system with anaconda python 3.5
using python -m pip install D:\folder\wordcloud-1.5.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl
command.
It has been successfully installed.
But when I am trying to import from wordcloud import WordCloud,STOPWORDS, I am getting error.Please check this:
Has it something to do with the path of wordcloud-1.5.0-cp35-cp35m-win_amd64.whl file as I have placed it in some random folder?
Thank you in advance.
The simplest way to trace the error is to import the package (which apparently works) with import wordcloud and then list all members of the package with help(wordcloud). Check if the version and functions match your expectations. Check if it also matches the documentation of your package.
I suspect that the name of the WordCloudclass was simply changed.
If you miss functions then your package is broken. If the version number is wrong then you downloaded an old package. Use the Anaconda Navigator that usually comes with Anaconda to reinstall the package. If you do not have the Navigator use whatever package manager you have.
That is what I get when I try to pip install http.cookiejar
My Python version is 3.6.2, my pip version is 10.X, my OS is Windows 8.1 64 bit, other modules installed without issues.
I searched my error output on stackoverflow and it seems I first run into this problem
How to fix that?
http.cookiejar is a module from stdlib, you don't need to install it.
I currently am running Python 3.5 and using Spyder from Anaconda as my IDE. I am running this on a Windows machine.
When I write import cv3 at the top of my code, it returns the error ImportError: No module named 'cv3'
I attempted to install opencv3 again with the command conda install -c https://conda.binstar.org/menpo opencv3 in the Command Prompt. It is apparently already installed because it returned
Fetching package metabase...............
Solving package specifications: .
# All requested packages already installed.
# packages in environment at C:\Users\Joey\Anaconda3:
# opencv3 3.1.0 py35_0 https://conda.binstar.org/menpo
Am I importing cv3 wrong? How do I fix this error?
Update: Tried import cv3 instead of import cv2 but got the following error: ImportError: cannot import name 'cv2'. The wording on the two errors is different, so python must acknowledge there is opencv installed but it does not work for some reason. Any ideas?
Ironically enough, the module is still called cv2 because it doesn't represent the version of opencv but the actual C++ API underneath which is, to be contrasted from the C API, named - cv2... So try with: import cv2
Problem solved by using command pip uninstall opencv-python in the Command Prompt.
I have attempted several installations of opencv and I suppose one may have downloaded badly and Anaconda was attempting to read that one. I looked into the build of some of the other installations I attempted and some were for Python 2.7. Maybe that contributed to the error.
Thankfully, this worked. Now import cv2 works perfectly. No errors.
I used the same approach to install the package. However, I could not import the library using the name opencv3. I had to use cv2 which worked for me.
Elaborating on #zwer's answer, check the version of OpenCV after import cv2.
>>> cv2.__version__
'3.1.0'
So basically it's calling the OpenCV3 library.
I was trying to use the lmfit package for doing nonlinear least squares fit and I notices that the Canopy curated version is really old and doesn't have most of the objects. So I followed the instructions here https://support.enthought.com/entries/23389761 as I have done before no problem:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
pip install --upgrade lmfit
Now when I execute the same exact code some "import" statements (I suppose those involved with scimath) give:
ImportError: cannot import name scimath
Seems python standard library imports are fine e.g. import os.
I'm on Ubuntu Linux 14 with Canopy 1.5.2
What happened and how can I fix it and avoid breaking it again.
I solved the problem but I am still not sure why this occurred originally. I went into the package manager and uninstalled scimath reinstalled it and did explicit kernel restarts on my IPython notebooks and interpreters. This fixed it but I don't see why unless somehow the scimath installation was corrupted. Before that I tried restarting application, computer, and reinstalling canopy.