I need to uninstall my pywin32 package on windows and reinstall a different version. When I try using pip uninstall pywin32 I get this error message saying "It is a distutils installed project". I assume this is because it was originally installed by an installation program, and not pip. However, the installer did not come with an 'uninstall' option. I've also tried pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir pywin32‑227‑cp27‑cp27m‑win_amd64.whl to try and overwrite with the new package, but I get the same error. Also, because I'm on windows I can't use sudo apt-get or something. Obviously I've also tried manually deleting the installation folder but may have missed some files? Any ideas how I can uninstall this and install my new package? I can figure out a way to post the original installation executable I used if needed.
On a related note, this is to solve a larger issue that prompted me to install pywin32 in the first place. Once I installed through an installer called pywin32-219.win32-py2.7 I got this error message. Am I on the right track to fixing this error?
It turns out that anything installed using an installer executable is officially stored as a program, even if it was a single python package. In this case the originally installed pywin32-219 package could be uninstalled by the system through Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program. Then the new package could be installed using pip and the problem was fixed.
