Issue with Windows 10 wheel -- DLL load failed while importing win32file

[erip]

I've forced an install of sacrebleu to ignore any installed versions:

(tmp) PS C:\Users\Elijah\Desktop\tmp> pip install --ignore-installed sacrebleu
Collecting sacrebleu
  Using cached sacrebleu-2.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (90 kB)
Collecting numpy>=1.17
  Using cached numpy-1.22.2-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (14.7 MB)
Collecting regex
  Using cached regex-2022.1.18-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (273 kB)
Collecting portalocker
  Using cached portalocker-2.3.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (15 kB)
Collecting tabulate>=0.8.9
  Using cached tabulate-0.8.9-py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Collecting colorama
  Using cached colorama-0.4.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)
Collecting pywin32>=226
  Using cached pywin32-303-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl (9.3 MB)
Installing collected packages: pywin32, tabulate, regex, portalocker, numpy, colorama, sacrebleu
Successfully installed colorama-0.4.4 numpy-1.22.2 portalocker-2.3.2 pywin32-303 regex-2022.1.18 sacrebleu-2.0.0 tabulate-0.8.9

so the package is installed correctly, but when I try to use it, I get an error:

(tmp) PS C:\Users\Elijah\Desktop\tmp> sacrebleu -h
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\Scripts\sacrebleu.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\site-packages\sacrebleu\__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from .utils import smart_open, SACREBLEU_DIR, download_test_set  # noqa: F401
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\site-packages\sacrebleu\utils.py", line 12, in <module>
    import portalocker
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\site-packages\portalocker\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from . import portalocker
  File "C:\Users\Elijah\miniconda3\envs\tmp\lib\site-packages\portalocker\portalocker.py", line 11, in <module>
    import win32file
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32file: The specified module could not be found.

I've tried force reinstalling pywin32, but it seems like this is no good. Fortunately conda install -c conda-forge sacrebleu seems good so it seems like there's some issue with the built Windows wheel.

[ozancaglayan]

It seems that this is related to some environment (or unknown) issue related to Windows. I found a similar issue for azure-cli that remains unsolved except reinstalling things: Azure/azure-cli#17986

[ozancaglayan]

Clearly not related to sacreBLEU, an interplay with pywin32, python version, etc. mhammond/pywin32#1431

Closing for now. Thanks!