title: How to install win32com module in a virtualenv?
body: <p>I have installed both <code>virtualenv</code> and <code>pywin32</code> on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop, and each of them seems to work, but not with each other.</p>
  
  <p>More specifically, if a virtualenv is active, then running <code>import win32com.client</code> in a python interactive shell fails with <code>No module named win32com.client</code>.  The same expression succeeds, however, if no virtualenv is active.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to install <code>pywin32</code> with <code>pip</code> (which is how I normally install modules when a virtualenv is active), I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement pywin32
  No distributions at all found for pywin32
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...even though <code>pywin32</code> is one of the modules listed in the output of</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip search pywin32
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Therefore, to install <code>pywin32</code> <em>at all</em> I had to install it using an *.exe installer downloaded from SourceForge.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to install <code>pywin32</code> within a virtualenv?</p>