I am trying to install pywin32 for Python 2.6.
I have python installed but it's not in the regular c: drive but on the d: drive . The pywin32 installer does not find it and I cannot give the custom path to it.
I checked, thepython folder is the path. Is there a workaround this issue ?
I had the same issue on Windows 10 64 bit with Python 3.6. It is installed for all users (I guess it uses a different registry hive in case it is installed for current user only).
The problem was that pywin32-220.win32-py3.6.exe searches in registry for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Python\PythonCore\3.6 whilst python 3.6 setup created HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Python\PythonCore\3.6-32.
Note the different endings! Exporting the 3.6-32 registry to .reg file, modifying the paths to 3.6 and reimporting the file registry again fixed the problem for me.
Problem installing pywin32