Can't find pywintypes in virtual environment

[nhunter77018]

Steps to reproduce the problem

Simple program to read system keywords from a jpg file.

import pythoncom
from win32com.propsys import propsys
from win32com.shell import shellcon
import sys

def readTags(imgf_path):

    # get PROPERTYKEY for "System.Keywords"
    pk = propsys.PSGetPropertyKeyFromName("System.Keywords")

    # get property store for a given shell item (here a file)
    ps = propsys.SHGetPropertyStoreFromParsingName(imgf_path, None, shellcon.GPS_READWRITE, propsys.IID_IPropertyStore)

    # read & print existing (or not) property value, System.Keywords type is an array of string
    keywords = ps.GetValue(pk).GetValue()

    return keywords

if __name__ == '__main__':
        print(readTags(sys.argv[1]))

Works great!

C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>python test.py "D:\FaceDb\Friends\images\friends (1).jpg"
['Friends', 'Matt LeBlanc', 'Jennifer Aniston']

Create & activate virtual environment.

C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>python -m venv .\env

C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>env\Scripts\activate.bat

Fails.

(env) C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>python test.py "D:\FaceDb\Friends\images\friends (1).jpg"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test\test.py", line 1, in
import pythoncom
File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pythoncom.py", line 2, in
import pywintypes
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywintypes'

Deactivate virtual environment, all is good.

(env) C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>env\Scripts\deactivate.bat
C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>python test.py "D:\FaceDb\Friends\images\friends (1).jpg"
['Friends', 'Matt LeBlanc', 'Jennifer Aniston']

Python version and distribution:

Python 3.11.8

pywin32 version:

306?
C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>pip3 install pywin32
Requirement already satisfied: pywin32 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (306)

Installed from PyPI or exe installer:

PyPI

Windows Version:

Windows 10 Home Version 22H2

DLL locations:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pywintypes311.dll
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pythoncom311.dll

[Avasam]

Did you install pywin32 in your virtual environment and are you sure that when calling python it's using the executable in your venv?
I'm asking because

C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pythoncom.py
c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pywintypes311.dll
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32\pythoncom311.dll

Don't look like paths to your ./env venv

[nhunter77018]

Hi, Avasam, thanks for your speedy response.

You are correct. c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python311 is my python home folder.

When I couldn't get it to work, I tried installing pywin32 in my virtual environment using pip like this.

(env) pip3 install pywin32
Requirement already satisfied: pywin32 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (306)

(env) C:\Users\user\source\repos\Test>python -c "import pywintypes,pythoncom;print(pywintypes.file,pythoncom.file,sep='\n')"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pywintypes'

What is it I need to do?