Bug: pywintypes cannot find files in certain directory

[mikkkee]

There may be ImportError in pythoncom and IOError in PyInstaller if you are using Anaconda Python.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 11, in <module>
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pythoncom.py", line 3, in <module>
    pywintypes.__import_pywin32_system_module__("pythoncom", globals())
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 98, in __import_pywin32_system_module__
    raise ImportError("No system module '%s' (%s)" % (modname, filename))
ImportError: No system module 'pythoncom' (pythoncom27.dll)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Anaconda\Scripts\pyinstaller-script.py", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('PyInstaller==2.1', 'console_scripts', 'pyinstaller')()
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\main.py", line 88, in run
    run_build(opts, spec_file, pyi_config)
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\main.py", line 46, in run_build
    PyInstaller.build.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **opts.__dict__)
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 1924, in main
    build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 1873, in build
    execfile(spec)
  File "build.spec", line 34, in <module>
    icon='images\\logo_tray.ico')
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 1170, in __init__
    strip_binaries=self.strip, upx_binaries=self.upx,
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 1008, in __init__
    self.__postinit__()
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 309, in __postinit__
    self.assemble()
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 1050, in assemble
    dist_nm=inm)
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 842, in checkCache
    digest = cacheDigest(fnm)
  File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\build.py", line 796, in cacheDigest
    data = open(fnm, "rb").read()
IOError: [Errno 22] invalid mode ('rb') or filename: ''

Need to copy pywintypes27.dll, and pythoncom27.dll sitting in C:\<Python-Path>\Lib\site-packages\win32 to C:\<Python-Path>\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib

Ref: py2exe - No system module 'pywintypes'