Vielen dank Waldemar.
I echo your sentiments about Christoph's wonderful site - it has been a
life saver for me on several occasions, and I had not thought to look
there yet.
I have also poked around a bit between conf calls this morning and have
just discovered that I had a pythonpath
Not a solution per say but a workaround if you are interested is:
1) Download the pywin32 in the wheel format from Christoph Gohlke's,
"thanks god it exists" site
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32
2) Get the one appropriate for your Python version (
On Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit, with 64-bit python 3.6 I downloaded and ran
as administrator the following AMD64 build of 220 for python 3.6:
pywin32-220.win-amd64-py3.6.exe
The installer gets stuck after looking for registry entry "3.6-32",
which is probably incorrect for the x64 installer