A high-level cross-platform API for terminal/console access

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 22 October 2015 at 13:42, Gisle Vanem <gvanem at yahoo.no> wrote:
> "Chris Angelico" <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem at yahoo.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>  IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
>>> 'g:\\Programfiler\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\win32api.pyd'
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> BTW, this is on Python 2.7.9 on Win-XP SP3.
>>
>>
>> Does that file exist? A .pyd file is a DLL, so if it already exists
>> and is in use, it's entirely possible it can't be overwritten (eg to
>> upgrade it).
>
>
> It exists all right and I do have full access to that folder.
>
> I think the Errno 13 (=EACCESS) is due to another module (WConio.pyd) that
> seems gets loaded via my site-customize.py is using this
> win32api.pyd. Hence it's is in use and shutil fails in updating it.

Does it work if you ask pip to install each dependency separately?
i.e. you could just run pip install pypiwin32.

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Oscar