Am 20.02.2015 um 17:58 schrieb Preston Landers:
Actually that gist wouldn't help much since it uses pywin32, the thing
we're trying to install. (derp!) There may be another way though.
Sure, you could port the gist to ctypes instead of pywin32.
However, the problem is that pip doesn't run post
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Vernon D. Cole
wrote:
> Pywin32 is mostly written in C, and has lots of dependencies and weird
> build requirements. In order to compile it, you must have the same C
> compiler that your release of Python was built with. For older Python
> versions (like 2.7) tha
Actually that gist wouldn't help much since it uses pywin32, the thing
we're trying to install. (derp!) There may be another way though.
Possibly related: http://bugs.python.org/issue20641
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Preston Landers
wrote:
> > I don't think pip can run this script (it
> I don't think pip can run this script (it even needs admin privs!).
Is there a reason it couldn't run a script that presents a UAC prompt to
elevate the process?
Something like this:
https://gist.github.com/Preston-Landers/267391562bc96959eb41
I guess for unattended installs you could just el
Am 20.02.2015 um 15:07 schrieb Vernon D. Cole:
Pywin32 is mostly written in C, and has lots of dependencies and weird
build requirements. In order to compile it, you must have the same C
compiler that your release of Python was built with. For older Python
versions (like 2.7) that compiler is ob
Pywin32 is mostly written in C, and has lots of dependencies and weird
build requirements. In order to compile it, you must have the same C
compiler that your release of Python was built with. For older Python
versions (like 2.7) that compiler is obsolete and hard to find, so installs
from source
check out this bug:
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywin32/bugs/669/
There's been some interest, but the pywin32 developers themselves don't
seem to have gotten involved.
I'm not sure why. It would be really nice to have pywin32 be
pip-installable.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Chris Angelico w
Has anyone successfully pip installed the pywin32 package? I'm having
some trouble with it at the moment. In theory, it should be easier to
instruct people to "type pip install pywin32" than "go to the
sourceforge download page, pick the right installer, and run it"; but
the installer is currently
