How to access pywin32 modules from Blender?

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I’m a newbie with Blender & Python, but have successfully built some models with Blender. Now I want to import data from an Excel spreadsheet to control the placement of some elements. I have installed Python 2.4.2 and pywin32. I have run the standalone Python interpreter and have verified that win32com is installed and callable.

I have added c:\python24\lib\site-packages to my PYTHONPATH.
When I execute a script that begins with

import win32com.client

, Blender reports that there is no win32com module.

How do I configure Blender to find modules in the site-packages directory?

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I have installed Python 2.4.2 and pywin32

There is your problem. Blender uses Python 2.3 ( at least until the next version comes out).

Install Python 2.3 and whatever modules you need for that version. You may need to set PYTHONPATH to see the additional modules.

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My newbie solution to this and other similar related problems was to install Blender 2.37a and 2.4 alpha2 plus Python 2.3 and 2.4.

Its clumsy but at least I can get everything to work now.

4

Thanks - uninstalling Python 2.4 and installing Python 2.3 & the corresponding Pywin32 did the trick!

– Peter

5

hi, how exactlly do you import excel data to blender?
I’m pretty interested about that :slight_smile:

6

I recommend taking a look at the CSV File importer discussed in the thread:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103587

It is probably easier than accessing Excel directly using pywin32.