There is also a languishing wincerapi module in the pywin32 source code. Is that of use to anyone?
Mark. > > "Luke Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> We should probably consider putting all these scripts in CVS somewhere. > > > > And we should probably use the pocketRapi module that Brian Brown > > posted. > > I am interested to know why you prefer it. I can think of the following > advantages: > > - It initialises RAPI the first time you try to use it, and > remembers this. > - It includes more file I/O functions. > > I'm sure it is good for some purposes, but I can also think of > some possible > disadvantages: > > - The functions are in a class instead of a module. This means that you > could create multiple instances of the class, which doesn't make sense. > - The name "pocketRapi" implies Pocket PC only but RAPI really applies to > Windows CE in general. > - It requires win32file. > - The file I/O functions do not follow the pattern of Python file objects. > - It doesn't include the last error codes in exceptions raised. > - It doesn't use "argtypes" or "restype". I don't know if this makes it > faster? > - Redistributions in "binary form" must reproduce the copyright notice. > > Luke > > > There are important things missing, IMO: the ability to interrupt > > running code with ^C, and to terminate the session with typing ^Z. > > Unfortunately, I have not even be able to distinguish ^C from ^Z in the > > get_input() function. It seems that both raise an EOFError in the > > thread that get_input() runs. Maybe we cannot use raw_input, and have > > to write our own function for that... _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
