Install pywin32 package in google colab or kaggle notebook environment

Question

pywin32 package was required to install as part of requirements to set up the environment for pix2pix implementation codebase , pywin32 is used to enable the features of the Win32 API in python. I tried to set up an environment in google colab, and produced the following error message during pywin32 setup.

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for pywin32

Similar issue with the following message encountered while trying to implement in kaggle:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 ERROR: No matching distribution found for pywin32

The same issue encountered when I tried in my local python environment (Python 3.6.10) in my mac.

Also, I attempt to install pywin32 package from its source itself, using the latest tag build-300 as suggested for python 3.5+. But no luck, installation terminated with the dependency issue with winreg package not found, following message was shown.

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'winreg'

Likewise, tried with fake-winreg , but no luck at all. I checked the platform in google colab by print(sys.platform), it shows linux. Please advise if there is any workaround to install pywin32 package in colab and/or resolution solving any issue reported in the above steps. Thank you in advance.

Note: Issue can be replicated by simply try pip install pywin32 in native python environment, and !pip install pywin32 in colab or kaggle environment.

Answer 1

Unfortunately you can't install it in linux python, pywin32 is a package of extension modules for accessing Windows C and COM APIs in Windows python:

Python extensions for Microsoft Windows Provides access to much of the Win32 API, the ability to create and use COM objects, and the Pythonwin environment.

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