import dragonfly fails due to ImportError: No module named win32gui

[muelli]

In [1]: from dragonfly.all import Grammar, CompoundRule
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-77682f38bc09> in <module>()
----> 1 from dragonfly.all import Grammar, CompoundRule

/tmp/dragonfly/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dragonfly/__init__.py in <module>()
     20 
     21 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---> 22 from .log               import get_log
     23 from .config            import Config, Section, Item
     24 

/tmp/dragonfly/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dragonfly/log.py in <module>()
     28 import logging
     29 import logging.handlers
---> 30 import win32gui
     31 from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
     32 

ImportError: No module named win32gui

In [2]: 

[t4ngo]

It appears that your Python interpreter cannot find the win32gui module, which is part of the Python for Windows Extensions, available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

You probably can trigger this same import error by typing "import win32gui" in an interactive Python prompt, completely without Dragonfly. Please try that, and report the results here.

Please see these stack overflow threads for solutions to the import error: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20113456/installing-win32gui-python-module http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624672/how-to-use-the-win32gui-module-with-python

[muelli]

If pywin32 is a requirement, should it be listed in install_requires in setup.py?

[t4ngo]

Yes, I think you are right: pywin32 should be listed in install_requires in setup.py. Just committed that change.

[erm3nda]

I've installed just now Dragonfly module with Pip over Debian 8. It does finish the install, but when tried to run any sample script i got ImportError: No module named win32gui.

Even if I tried to install with sudo pip install win32gui, sudo pipinstall pywin32 and even sudo apt-get install python-win32 but there's no way to get it installed.

Can't I use Dragonfly on that system? If that, why did it installed? Thanks.

[tylercal]

Sorry to say, dragonfly only works on windows using dragon naturally speaking or WSR (windows speech recognition). It will not work on Debian or any other unix.

There are some clever solutions out there using virtual machines you can try, but it will take some research.

[erm3nda]

So, the question is, why is it installed on my Linux box? XD Can u recommend any alternative?

I've played alsasound, but looking for any already-made speech recognition.

Best regards, thank you.

[himanshug-ezdi]

I have also tried to install win32gui, pywin32 or python-win32 in Windows 10 but none of them gets installed. It shows an error 404 Not Found: python-win32@latest I have tried to install it using command npm install win32gui, npm install pywin32 and npm install python-win32. Does this module exist?

Thanks

[reckoner]

one thing you can try is to open a CMD window and type in python. Then, once in the interpreter window you can do

>>> import sys
>>> print sys.path # using Python 2.x

This will give you the list of places that the installed Python is searching to resolve modules. If do not see the win32 directories in there, then it means they were not installed in the correct path. For these modules in particular, it is usually better to install them using the .exe installers.

I hope that helps.

[Aashima-Gupta]

hi i installed win32gui for python 2.7.x however it is show error :

   Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "c:\users\guptaa82\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-lbkp2d\win32gui\setup.py", line 27, in <module>
        from win32.distutils.gui import win32gui_build_ext
      File "win32\distutils\gui.py", line 10
        def iter_mfc(plat_name: str) ->Iterator[str]:
                              ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\guptaa82\appdata\local\temp\pip-install-lbkp2d\win32gui\

[Aashima-Gupta]

I have already checked all the stackoverflow links. I dont know why it is showing error in installing this part of the win32gui, Although i have installed pywin32 and pypiwin32 modules already and that shows no error.