I found this solution on stackoverflow: Had the above noted errors with my python27 pywin32 installation that got installed after my installation of ArcGIS on a windows2008 R2 server (trying to centralize our scripts). Found that for me, I had to start a command line window with run as adminstrator (right click to get that option in windows) and then run the following command line from the c:\arcpy27\arcgis10.1>python c:/arcpy27/arcgis10.1/scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install
I see a lot of people have run into this issue and I tried multiple things, but this was finally the solution that managed to get pywin32 installed. Thanks so much for your solution. Took me a couple of install and uninstalls before I finally ran across your solution and modified it for my version. -- View this message in context: http://python.6.x6.nabble.com/Unable-to-install-PyWin32-with-Python-2-6-2-and-2-6-3-tp1956312p5015887.html Sent from the Python - python-win32 mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32