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Reputation:

Trouble installing and importing pyHook

This is my first question on this site so I hope I format this correctly. I also am very new to programming so bear with my lack of knowledge, thank you!

I'm trying to install pyHook like so and I keep getting this error message:

C:\Python27>py -2.7 -m pip install pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27M-win_amd64.whl
pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27M-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

I have python 2.7.14 as you can see from below: 

Python 2.7.14 (v2.7.14:84471935ed, Sep 16 2017, 20:25:58) [MSC v.1500 64 bit 
(AMD64)] on win32

Just in case, I tried updating pip and It said it was up to date. I also tried install this version of the .whl and I get the same error:

C:\Python27>py -2.7 -m pip install pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

From reading online I believe cp27 indicates its for python 2.7 and to be safe I tried the 64 bit and 32 bit files, but nothing seems to work. If anyone could offer up any solutions or advice, it would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1580

Answers (2)

Chris Farr
Chris Farr

Reputation: 3759

I installed Python 2.7, then pyHook and was able to get it working following these exact steps.

Note, I was using Anaconda to create the Python 2.7 environment and Windows 10 is my OS.

  1. conda create -n python27 python=2.7 This created a new conda environment with python 2.7.14.
  2. activate python27
  3. python -m pip install --upgrade pip This installed pip version 10.0.0
  4. Downloaded pyHook from the unofficial windows binaries.
    • Specifically: pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl
  5. Navigated to downloads folder in command prompt
  6. pip install pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

That installed it properly with no error messages. Hope that helps. My guess is that the new pip version fixes it, or there is a problem with how you are installing Python 2.7, so try Anaconda (or miniconda if you want to keep it light)

I was also able to import it with no problem after these steps.

Upvotes: 1

obgnaw
obgnaw

Reputation: 3037

Many binaries depend on numpy-1.13+mkl and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (x64, x86, and SP1 for CPython 2.7), Visual C++ 2010 (x64, x86, for CPython 3.4), or the Visual C++ 2017 (x64 or x86 for CPython 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7) redistributable packages.

Install numpy+mkl before other packages that depend on it.

I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2008.I just do this,

python -m pip install numpy-1.13.3+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

python -m pip install pyHook-1.5.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

then it work.

Upvotes: -1

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