I am using Python 2.7 and I want to use pywin32-214 on Windows 7. I installed pywin32-214 by using the msi installer. But when I import win32api in my Python script, it throws the error:

no module named win32api. 

What should I do? Can I use pywin32 api for Windows 7?

This is resolve my case as found on Where to find the win32api module for Python?

pip install pypiwin32

I had an identical problem, which I solved by restarting my Python editor and shell. I had installed pywin32 but the new modules were not picked up until the restarts.

If you’ve already done that, do a search in your Python installation for win32api and you should find win32api.pyd under ${PYTHON_HOME}\Lib\site-packages\win32.

According to pywin32 github you must run

    pip install pywin32

and after that, you must run

    python Scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install

I know I’m reviving an old thread, but I just had this problem and this was the only way to solve it.

I didn’t find the package of the most voted answer in my Python 3 dist.

I had the same problem and solved it installing the module pywin32:

In a normal python:

pip install pywin32

In anaconda:

conda install pywin32

My python installation (Intel® Distribution for Python) had some kind of dependency problem and was giving this error. After installing this module it stopped appearing.

After installing pywin32

Steps to correctly install your module (pywin32)

1. First search where is your python pip is present

   1a. For Example in my case location of pip – C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts

2. Then open your command prompt and change directory to your pip folder location.

   cd C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts
   
   C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts>pip install 
   pypiwin32
   

Restart your IDE

All done now you can use the module .