Not able to use the win32gui module from pywin32 in Pycharm

Question

I'm using Python 3.7 with Pycharm. I've installed the pywin32 package for this project because win32api isn't compatible with Python 3.7+.

import win32con
import win32gui

I'm trying to import these modules with pywin32 installed but this doesn't work. The problem only started happening after I uninstalled and reinstalled Pycharm and had to reinstall all my packages for this project. I'm using the exact same interpreter as I was before. Why would this be happening?

Can you share an error message? What do you mean by "this doesn't work"? — romaingz, Aug 20 '20 at 11:53
@romaingz It's just a ModuleNotFound error for both win32con and win32gui — Hydra, Aug 20 '20 at 18:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '20 at 06:46

There is a post installation step to follow:

To install pywin32 system files, run python.exe Scripts/pywin32_postinstall.py -install from an elevated command prompt.

Did you run this command?

See also https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pywin32

Not able to use the win32gui module from pywin32 in Pycharm

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