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Qutaiba
Qutaiba

Reputation: 145

how to install PyMouse on Windows

i am trying to use PyMouse plugin on windows 8.1 . i used this code to import library :

from pymouse.windows import PyMouse

but this error shows :

from win32api import GetSystemMetrics ImportError: No module named 'win32api'

where is the problem? i am not sure that i install the library fine ! can you show how to install it on windows ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8029

Answers (1)

abarnert
abarnert

Reputation: 365747

The win32api module is part of PyWin32, so you need to install that.

Meanwhile, you should be installing things with pip whenever possible. Some packages aren't pip-installable, or have incorrect requirements specs, but most packages, if you try to pip install them, will either automatically fetch their dependencies or complain that they're missing.

Also it looks like PyMouse's documentation is wrong, because it claims to only require ctypes (which comes with Python 2.6+), not PyWin32, on Windows. You may want to file a documentation bug with them.

However, it looks like the PyMouse you were using was abandoned at version 0.4 about 6 years ago. It was then picked up by someone else, but, as the README says, it was later merged into PyUserInput. So, you probably want to use that instead.

Note that PyUserInput correctly mentions the other dependencies in its README. It also checks them in its setup.py file. So hopefully, all you have to do is:

pip install PyUserInput

… and it will either pull in PyWin32 and pyHook, or complain that you have to go get them manually.

Upvotes: 2

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