pywin32
Python Windows API bindings for accessing Windows-specific functionality.
Desktop and mobile apps PyPI PSF
Used in agent projects
30
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in desktop and mobile apps
#18 of 26
by use in those projects
Downloads
3.5M
PyPI, last 7 days, pywin32
GitHub stars
5,618
last push Oct 7, 2026
How pywin32 is used
pywin32 is a dependency in 30 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #18 of 26 in desktop and mobile apps. The most used alternative there is React Native. Projects that use it most often also use Pillow (60.0%), Pydantic (60.0%), Requests (60.0%).
Often used with pywin32
| Pillow | 60.0% of pywin32 projects · 26.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 60.0% of pywin32 projects · 11.7× more than average |
| Requests | 60.0% of pywin32 projects · 11.3× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 53.3% of pywin32 projects · 14.0× more than average |
| psutil | 53.3% of pywin32 projects · 47.0× more than average |
| pycparser | 50.0% of pywin32 projects · 76.5× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 50.0% of pywin32 projects · 11.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list pywin32 as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pywin32 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (29), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, OfficeMCP/OfficeMCP, theWDY/office-editor-mcp, kr8tiv-ai/Jarvis, DelineaXPM/delinea-mcp |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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