Unable to install Pywin32 for Python 2.6.2

David Lyon david.lyon at preisshare.net
Tue May 12 00:18:28 EDT 2009


On Tue, 12 May 2009 02:22:56 GMT, David Lees <debl2NoSpam at verizon.net>
wrote:
> I have no problem installing Python 2.6.2 for windows under XP SP3 and 
> IDLE and the command line versions work fine.  When I run the pywin32 
> installer downloaded from sourceforge (pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe) I 
> get the following error message:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 565, in <module>
>    File "<string>", line 291, in install
> ImportError: Module use of python25.dll conflicts with this version of 
> Python.
> *** run_installscript: internal error 0xFFFFFFFF ***
> 
> I have tried uninstalling Python 2.6 and reinstalling, but still get the 
> same message.  I do have Python 2.5.4 and its associated Pywin32 on the 
> same machine, but I have a laptop with pywin32 installed for both python 
> 2.5 and 2.6.
> 
> TIA
> 
> David Lees



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