[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3528888 ] [solution inside] Windows 7 installation failure

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Bugs item #3528888, was opened at 2012-05-22 10:37
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Category: installation
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: class101 (class1o1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: [solution inside] Windows 7 installation failure

Initial Comment:
If your installation of pywin32 on Windows 7 always end with 

close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr

This is maybe because you are running Windows under the "Administrator" account and anything you normally run is equal to a "run as Administrator"

And paradoxically running the installation of pywin32 on Windows 7 as Administrator causes this error.

So a workaround is to create another admin account

net user Admin /add
net user Admin <type your password>
net localgroup Administrators Admin /add

and then run the pywin32 installation with

runas /user:Admin pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe


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