How to fix 'DLL load failed while importing win32api' in Jupyter notebook after connecting VS code to Jupyter notebook?

Question

When I try using Jupyter notebook, kernel error appears like this

import win32api
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32api:

After connecting vs code to jupyter notebook, error appears.

I've already tried

conda install pywin32

and copied the two files from [installation directory of Anaconda]\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32 to C:\Windows\System32

but it didn't work.

how to fix?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 25 '21 at 14:00

5

Try installing it using pip, it can solve your problem here

pip install --upgrade pywin32==225

Or this, if you don't have the package already

pip install pywin32==225

answered Jul 25 '21 at 14:00

Alama1

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 23 '21 at 14:34

After activating the env where the above is causing issue uninstall win32api (if it is installed):

pip uninstall pywin32

Then use pip to install pywin32:

pip install pywin32

Jupyter should work afterward. The solution is proposed here by ValentinVerschinin

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 29 '21 at 02:03

2

Are you using Python 3.8? It seems to be a Python 3.8 specific problem.

Can you try to install the pywin32==225?

You can refer to this page.

answered Jul 29 '21 at 02:03

Steven-MSFT

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