Re: Update Windows binaries

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 29 April 2018 at 05:19, Keegan Witt <keeganwitt gmail com> wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting pywin32 installed in MSYS2.  When I try to
> install with pip, I get errors
> $ python3 -m pip install pypiwin32==219
> Collecting pypiwin32==219
>   Using cached
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/2b/ca/5c086c18de8f70222787b3e824e755b68d99272531522e77bb381d4f60c8/pypiwin32-219.zip
>     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>       File "/tmp/pip-install-d9xe2c9w/pypiwin32/setup.py", line 121
>         print "Building pywin32", pywin32_version
>                                ^
>     SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
>
>     ----------------------------------------
> Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
> /tmp/pip-install-d9xe2c9w/pypiwin32/
>
> $ python3 -m pip install pypiwin32==223
> Collecting pypiwin32==223
>   Using cached
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/1b/2f292bbd742e369a100c91faa0483172cd91a1a422a6692055ac920946c5/pypiwin32-223-py3-none-any.whl
> Collecting pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32==223)
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from
> pypiwin32==223) (from versions: )
> No matching distribution found for pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32==223)

I'm not actually sure, but I notice that you're installing pypiwin32,
not pywin32. Both exist, and pypiwin32 seems to be a partial alias of
pywin32? but only pywin32 has actual platform-specific wheels.

cheers,
Kai