Could not run library with newest version of outlook (December 2023)

[Alejandro Gomez]

• Expected behavior and actual behavior.

  • I couldnt run this library with the newest version of outlook

• Steps to reproduce the problem.

  1. Update Outlook to "Outlook(new)"
  2. run:

  >> import win32com.client as client
  >> outlook = client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

  3. Program will hang after line 2.
  4. Revert Outlook(new) to Outlook
  5. Run the above commands successfully

• Version of Python and pywin32

  • windows 10
  • pywin32 version 306
  • python version 3.11.0

[EdiWil]

Same problem on my system resolved using:

link: stackoverflow.com