I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 installed already. I downloaded the zip file Python

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I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 installed already. I downloaded the zip file Python

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I have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 installed already. I downloaded the zip file Python for Windows extensions and extracted the contents into my Python27 folder. There’s now a subfolder called pywin32-214. (Is the 32 part a problem? I’m on a 64-bit system.) Here’s a transcript from the command line:

C:\Python27\pywin32-214>setup.py -q install
Building pywin32 2.7.214.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\pywin32-214\setup.py", line 2152, in <module>
    ('', ('pywin32.pth',)),
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python27\pywin32-214\setup.py", line 1251, in run
    install.run(self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 563, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python27\pywin32-214\setup.py", line 596, in run
    build.run(self)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 127, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 340, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "C:\Python27\pywin32-214\setup.py", line 858, in build_extensions
    self.compiler.initialize()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 383, in initialize
    vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\msvc9compiler.py", line 299, in query_vcvarsal
l
    raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys())))
ValueError: [u'path']

I don’t know what to make of this. Help?