Importing Ghostscript on Windows 10

Question

I am trying to import ghostscript into Python

when I type import ghostscript, I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in import ghostscript File "C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\ghostscript_init_.py", line 35, in from . import _gsprint as gs File "C:\Users...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\ghostscript_gsprint.py", line 505, in raise RuntimeError('Can not find Ghostscript DLL in registry') RuntimeError: Can not find Ghostscript DLL in registry

I am using Windows 10.

I have confirmed I am using Python 3.8.3, 32-bit.

I found this thread: Importing Ghostscript in Python on Windows 8, but it was not very helpful.

Any suggestions?

I'm not sure how to figure out if I'm using ghostscript version 32-bit or 64-bit.

Edit #1:

I installed Ghostscript by doing python -m pip install ghostscript

Answer 1

According to the documentation, the ghostscript PyPi package requires an existing installation of Ghostscript:

python-ghostscript requires

• Python 2.7 or higher (tested with Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.6 and 3.6)
• setuptools for installation (see below)
• Ghostscript Version 8.x or higher (tested with 9.x)

You can download Ghostscript for Windows from pypi.org or ghostscript.com.