I get an error when I try to start an exe file with pywinauto. This is my code:
from pywinauto.application import Application
app = Application()
app.Start("D:\dragonboy160\dragonboy160.exe")
As far as I know that should work. app = Application().start("") does not work either. I also tried setting the imports like this: from pywinauto import Application I get this error when I run the python file in PyCharm:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\python.exe" D:/dragonboy160/screenview.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:/dragonboy160/screenview.py", line 2, in <module>
import pywinauto
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
from . import findwindows
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\findwindows.py", line 42, in <module>
from . import controls
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\__init__.py", line 36, in <module>
from . import uiawrapper # register "uia" back-end (at the end of uiawrapper module)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\controls\uiawrapper.py", line 44, in <module>
from ..uia_defines import IUIA
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\pywinauto\uia_defines.py", line 35, in <module>
import comtypes.client
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\comtypes\client\__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
gen_dir = _find_gen_dir()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\lib\site-packages\comtypes\client\_code_cache.py", line 71, in _find_gen_dir
result = os.path.abspath(gen_path[-1])
IndexError: list index out of range
I searched and searched and it seems no other person has had this problem. I also tried opening other .exe files but got the same error. What is causing this error and how can I fix it?
This is an import problem (at the very first line).
This looks like comtypes can't write cached files to Program files without admin privileges. In theory it might be fixed on comtypes side (or by re-installing Python to another folder like C:\Python3x), but you will have to run the script as Administrator anyway because of other OS restrictions (pywinauto will warn about insufficient rights in nearest future, now it's silent).