(Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I can still go poke around on SourceForge and grab the appropriate installer [1], and that does work. But if I'm going to tell someone else how to set up this program, I'd much rather be able to recommend pip.)
On a fresh Python 3.4 running on Windows 7, attempting to "pip install pywin32" doesn't work: C:\Users\Rosuav>pip install pywin32 Downloading/unpacking pywin32 Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32 Some externally hosted files were ignored (use --allow-external pywin32 to allow). Cleaning up... No distributions at all found for pywin32 Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Rosuav\pip\pip.log C:\Users\Rosuav>pip install --allow-external pywin32 You must give at least one requirement to install (see "pip help install") Okay, so the obvious command doesn't work, and gives a not-particularly-helpful error message, but I know how to Google, I can get past this. C:\Users\Rosuav>pip install --allow-external pywin32 --allow-unverified pywin32 pywin32 Downloading/unpacking pywin32 Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32 Cleaning up... No distributions at all found for pywin32 Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Rosuav\pip\pip.log Huh. The PyPI categorization seems to exclude Python 3.4 support (despite versions for both 3.4 and 3.5 existing on the sourceforge page). Let's try that with 2.7, just to see what happens. (I could alternatively backlevel to 3.3, I suppose.) C:\Users\Rosuav>\python27\python -m pip --version pip 1.5.6 from C:\python27\lib\site-packages (python 2.7) C:\Users\Rosuav>\python27\python -m pip install --allow-external pywin32 --allow-unverified pywin32 pywin32 Downloading/unpacking pywin32 Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32 Cleaning up... No distributions at all found for pywin32 Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Rosuav\pip\pip.log The log contains these lines, which may be a clue as to what's going on... Could not fetch URL https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ (from https://pypi.python.org/simple/pywin32/): connection error: hostname 'sourceforge.net' doesn't match either of 'cloudfront.net', '*.cloudfront.net' Will skip URL https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ when looking for download links for pywin32 Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32 Does this mean there's an HTTPS configuration error at sourceforge? And if that is indeed the problem, is there any way that I, as an end user, can bypass the check? My alternative is using a non-SSL link, so it's not like I'd actually have worse security. At this point, I am REALLY glad my Dad asked me to set this all up for him, rather than just giving him some instructions and saying "go for it". (And to think, all I want is a simple program to bounce some info out from a Windows VM onto the Linux host. So much hassle for something so simple.) [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
