No module named 'win32api'

[mushxoxo]

I am running Windows 10, python 3.10.10 and have installed pwc

[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] Traceback (most recent call last):
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]   File "D:\OBS extents/Scripts/obs-zoom-and-follow-master\zoom_and_follow_mouse.py", line 11, in <module>
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]     import pywinctl as pwc
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]   File "C:\Users\bhanu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pywinctl\__init__.py", line 673, in <module>
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]     from ._pywinctl_win import (
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]   File "C:\Users\bhanu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\pywinctl\_pywinctl_win.py", line 13, in <module>
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py]     import win32api
[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32api'

[Kalmat]

Hi!

Please, try this:

python3 -m pip install pywinctl==0.0.38 --force-reinstall

and let me know if it works.

[RuneMason1]

Same problem. Also, python3 in cmd doesn't work, but python does I have python 310 installed:

Python310>python -m pip install pywinctl==0.0.38 --force-reinstall
Collecting pywinctl==0.0.38
  Downloading PyWinCtl-0.0.38-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 62.0/62.0 kB ? eta 0:00:00
Collecting PyRect~=0.1 (from pywinctl==0.0.38)
  Using cached PyRect-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32>=302 (from pywinctl==0.0.38)
  Using cached pywin32-306-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl (9.2 MB)
Installing collected packages: pywin32, PyRect, pywinctl
  Attempting uninstall: pywin32
    Found existing installation: pywin32 306
    Uninstalling pywin32-306:
      Successfully uninstalled pywin32-306
  Attempting uninstall: PyRect
    Found existing installation: PyRect 0.2.0
    Uninstalling PyRect-0.2.0:
      Successfully uninstalled PyRect-0.2.0
  Attempting uninstall: pywinctl
    Found existing installation: PyWinCtl 0.0.43
    Uninstalling PyWinCtl-0.0.43:
      Successfully uninstalled PyWinCtl-0.0.43
Successfully installed PyRect-0.2.0 pywin32-306 pywinctl-0.0.38

[Kalmat]

The most common and cross-platform way of invoking Python 3 is python3 command, but specially in windows, it depends on how Python was installed (from MS-Store or with a installer), if it has been added to the system PATH, if there are one or more python versions installed, etc. In windows, it's also common to invoke it as py or py -3. Take a look at this, as an example to diagnose and solve your issue.

[RuneMason1]

So even though we choose a python installation directory in OBS, it still needs to be in windows environment variables in order to run properly?

[Kalmat]

Sorry, but I'm not an OBS expert. Just guessing, perhaps the Python path in OBS is wrong?

I found this in reddit, which may be useful (see Cuboidiots' answer on OBS/Python versions and OBS paths).

[DureSabih]

none of aobve worked for me . using windows 11 with python 3.6.8

[danielsjdr]

Same issue in Python 3.11

[zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] Traceback (most recent call last): [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] File "C:\Program Files/obs-studio/data/obs-plugins/frontend-tools/scripts\zoom_and_follow_mouse.py", line 17, in <module> [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] import pywinctl as pwc [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywinctl\__init__.py", line 797, in <module> [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] from ._pywinctl_win import (Win32Window as Window, checkPermissions, getActiveWindow, getActiveWindowTitle, [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] File "C:\Users\danie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywinctl\_pywinctl_win.py", line 26, in <module> [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] import win32api [zoom_and_follow_mouse.py] ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32api' I've been thought all ideas in all places around internet and nothing solved it

[tryptech]

Closing as python installation errors are out of scope for support.