xlwings with python 3.5 on Windows

Question

I have been stuck for some time. My configuration is: python 3.5, xlwings 0.5.0 and Windows 7. I get the following traceback while trying to import xlwings:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\xlwings\__init__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from . import _xlwindows as xlplatform
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\xlwings\_xlwindows.py", line 15, in <module>
    import pywintypes
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 124, in <module>
    __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals())
  File "C:\Program Files\Python 3.5\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 117, in __import_pywin32_system_module__
    assert sys.modules[modname] is not old_mod
AssertionError

After some search on the internet, my understanding is that the problem comes from pywin32 'known problems', but I am not sure what it is all about. Can you help, please?

Answer 1

At the moment, your only easy option to install pywin32 on Python 3.5 is to use the Anaconda distribution. The official binaries from sourceforge don't seem to work with Python 3.5. Also, there are no unofficial binaries yet.

Answer 2

I finally isntalled pywin32 from here, as suggested by Felix Zumstein. After a bit of cleaning in my Python 3.5 folders (site-packages), xlwings finally worked.