Not sure this is your problem but the pypi installer for web2py is probably
broken and anyway very old. We do not usually "install" web2py. We just
unzip it.
On Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:21:30 UTC-6, Bernardo G. wrote:
>
> I'm new to Python and I'm trying to install web2py in a virtualenv. I'm
> running a 32 bit python 2.7.3 installation on a 64 bit Windows 7.
>
> From what I read, this should be the process:
>
> - install virtualenv (done)
> - create the virtualenv (done)
> - install pywin32 in that env (I've read it needs to be installed
> before the web2py installation)
> - install web2py in that env
>
> First and foremost: is that right? If so, then...
>
> I tried installing pywin32 through
>
> '''easy_install pywin32-218.win32-py2.7.exe'''
>
> It went fine. Then, I checked the virtual environment's site-packages for
> a pywin32 folder and it was there, but I couldn't import it into python
> ('''ther's no module pywin32'''). The environment was definitely active (I
> double-checked).
>
> As a test, without using virtualenv, I double-click-installed the pywin32
> binary (downloaded the 32 bit version for python 2.7 --
> pywin32-218.win32-py2.7.exe) but got an error at the end:
>
> '''close failed in file object destructor:
>
> sys.excepthook is missing
>
> lost sys.stderr'''
>
> I downloaded the file again (could be corrupted), tried installing it
> again but got the same result.
>
> Could anybody guide me or point me to a step-by-step install of pywin32
> (if necessary) and then web2py for windows 7? I'd really appreciate it.
>
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