PyInstaller - ImportError: No module named win32api

Question

I'm trying to compile a Python project (using Python 2.7 on Windows XP) into an EXE using PyInstaller with the default options. When I try to run the EXE, I get the message:

PyInstaller - ImportError: No module named win32api

I added the win32api path to the windows PATH environment variable (I do have Python Win32 Extensions installed) but it's not working. I'm pretty new to this and a little overwhelmed by all the options etc, and I really have no idea where to start (or what information would be useful to solving this problem.) I assume this is some little thing that I'm missing, but I haven't found anyone having precisely this problem online and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Ok, it looks like "import os" in one of my modules was causing this issue. I had no luck getting it to successfully use the win32api module, but since this was only being used to set the program name, I just commented this out and this particular issue is resolved. Thanks Luke for your help!