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Apparently the gohlke site had done the wheel convert, as they had a wheel.
The post-install steps were needed to make things work for me, and were 
documented at the gohlke site.

Thanks to both of you for your help.

On 12/28/2016 9:09 AM, Steve Dower wrote:
> It's likely that they're using the broken version of bdist_wininst for 
> their installer (I thought Mark reported the issue and had a 
> workaround though...). It's already fixed, but hasn't been released yet.
>
> Another workaround is to use "wheel convert" on the exe and then 
> install the wheel. You miss out on their post-install steps, but most 
> people don't need those anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> Top-posted from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Burkhard Meier <mailto:burkhardameier at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎12/‎28/‎2016 1:43
> To: Glenn Linderman <mailto:glenn at nevcal.com>
> Cc: Python Dev <mailto:python-dev at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 514 and pywin32
>
> Try the 'gohlke' download site. Whenever getting stuck in some of the 
> newest Python 3.x versions, that side usually has installers that 
> work. It did work for me just now, using Python 3.6.0 64-bit on 
> Windows 10 64-bit OS.
>
> Inline image 1
>
> Burkhard
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Glenn Linderman <glenn at nevcal.com 
> <mailto:glenn at nevcal.com>> wrote:
>
>     So today I tried to install pywin32 on my new Python 3.6.0 and got
>     the following error:
>
>     ---------------------------
>     Cannot install
>     ---------------------------
>     Python version 3.6-32 required, which was not found in the registry.
>     ---------------------------
>     OK
>     ---------------------------
>
>     Seems like pywin32, although built for 3.6, doesn't understand or
>     conform to the PEP 514? So the installer doesn't work? I suspect
>     maybe the code would still work, if it would install. I also noted
>     that pip cannot find a compatible pywin32, and PyPI only reports
>     compatibility through Python 3.3.
>
>     1. Where should this be reported? SourceForge?
>     2. Anyone know a workaround?
>
>     -- 
>     Glenn
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