Re: [python-win32] argument passing problem on Windows 7 64-Bit
Dennis, C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents\Python Progsftype Python.File Python.File=C:\Python_x64\Python27\python.exe %1 %* This appears to have fixed my problem. I am now seeing output similar to yours, that is, the same output in both cases. I am curious how this issue came to be. I don't just edit the registry, because I don't know what to add/remove/change. Thank You! ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] argument passing problem on Windows 7 64-Bit
Hello, I've got Python 2.7.10 64-Bit installed, via the Anaconda installer The path clearly shows C:\Anaconda in the path. Typing python by itself brings up the python REPL as expected. Running this simplified program easily illustrates the problem I'm seeing in another, larger Python program. http://pastebin.com/0bjBLgDh Running that script as: python cmdline.py 1 2 3 shows the expected output - Cmd line args: ['cmdline.py', '1', '2', '3'] Running that script as - cmdline.py 1 2 3 shows this output -Cmd line args: 'C:\\Users\\tonycappellini\\Projects\\cmdline\\cmdline.py'] Searching for help yielded these, http://superuser.com/questions/429604/passing-arguments-to-a-python-script-file-association-not-found-windows-7-on-i https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490912.aspx I found that assoc .py showed this -File type 'Python.File' not found or no open command associated with it ftype Python.file shows python.file=c:\Anaconda\python.exe %1 %* So, I've added this association for .py files assoc .py=Python.file and rebooted assoc .py now shows .py=Python.file However, arguments are still not being correctly passed to Python files. I am stumped by this issue, as it has never been a problem for me in the ~10 years that I've been using Python n Windows. I am working at a new job where all development systems use Windows 7 64-Bit. The systems at my previous place of employment used Windows 7 32-Bit, but I wouldn't expect this kind of problem from moving to a 64-But OS. I would appreciate some help understanding and fixing this issue, Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Help with starting new processes
Hello, I'm running Python 2.7.6 on 32-Bit Windows7 Pro. (Python 3 isn't an option at the moment) I have a parent python script which spawns two subprocesses- where each subprocess is running in a new console window. I want to watch each process running. This is why I've explicitly used creationflags=CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE in the subprocess.Popen() call. (Oddly enough, CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE is a Windows-specific flag.) The subprocesses are running a simple CLI program which are monitoring some embedded devices being tested. I don't want to use a GUI for them. Here is the code for the parent script http://pastebin.com/mNNCH1vY Ideally, I'd like the parent script to pass some information via a queue, to each subprocess. The queues have nice functionality which would allow the receiving process to work until the queue is empty, and then wait until it is no longer empty. I don't see a way to use pass a queue using the subprocess module, nor do I see a way to create a new console using the multiprocessing module. Multiprocessing makes it quite easy to pass a queue to the subprocesses. I've spent a lot of time with the documentation for both modules, but they are of no help for this particular issue. Is there a happy medium between these two modules that will help me get what I want? Thanks Tony ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] win32ui.CreateFileDialog() hangs on Windows 7
I'm running Python 2.7.6, PythonWin build 218 on Windows 7 Pro, 32-Bit The code below hangs after the browse() function returns to the caller. I do see After displayed in the console window. Is anyone else seeing this problem on Windows? Thanks import win32ui import os def browse(startingDirectory=None,defaultFilespec=*.*): if startingDirectory is not None: startingDirectory = os.getcwd() FILE_OPEN = 1 dlg = win32ui.CreateFileDialog( FILE_OPEN, defaultFilespec ) fn = None try: if dlg: dlg.SetOFNInitialDir( startingDirectory ) dlg.DoModal() fn = dlg.GetPathName() finally: del dlg return fn print\nBefore browse() print\nAfter\n ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:02:45 +1300 From: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz To: python-win32 python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port Message-ID: 52fff215.9000...@canterbury.ac.nz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Could the terminal program possibly be using some protocol such as xon/xoff for flow control? If so, that might account for the difference. It does support that option, but we use the default settings which is no control flow - for that terminal program. There is a ini file which is distributed on every system we use for collecting the diagnostic data. The settings in that ini file are 8N1 9600, No control flow. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port
Vernon Your suggestion is interesting but not practical for our needs. We are collecting data from many devices that have failed tests, and often have 10 or more failed devices that we need to collect the data from. These are scattered all over a large lab environment. I have a Raspberry Pi, and may try your suggestion on 1 device just to see the result. Do you have any ides why running a terminal program written in (presumably C, mentioned in my original message) doesn't seem to suffer from the problems that my python app does, even when transferring the data at much higher baud rates? You will soon need to be using another solution anyway. We've been using USB-serial adapters for a long time. Thanks On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.comwrote: Tony: Don't do it! Do not attempt to make your data transfer faster while using this defective hardware design! Trust me on this. I have been doing serial port data transfer since 300 baud was fast. The problem with your data transfer speed is not your program optimization. It is contained in the sentence: The serial port on the device we are dumping data from has a 2-wire interface (no handshaking). This means that the program servicing the serial port must be scheduled at time intervals less than the time needed to fill your FIFO buffer. Using Windows, you cannot guarantee that with any degree of certainty -- particularly not at higher data rates -- because you have no control over the hardware-level interface drivers. If you really want higher data rates, you must use a dedicated device to receive the data. May I humbly suggest that an hour of your programming time would purchase a single board computer with a Python engine? Look at http://www.raspberrypi.org/. Let the SBC collect the data. Transfer blocks from it to the Windows environment using a more reliable protocol. Consider that none of the new Windows boxes I saw on my last shopping trip had serial ports. You will soon need to be using another solution anyway. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Tony Cappellini cappy2...@gmail.comwrote: python-win32@python.org Regarding an in-house python program we use for dumping diagnostic data over a serial port on Windows 7 ... I'm trying to determine if it's possible optimize the python code so that dumping the data will occur faster. Currently, it takes ~25 minutes at 9600 baud to dump 8-15 MB of data. Going to higher baud rates does reduce this time, but depending on which PC is running the program, going to higher baud rates often results in ill-formed data. The serial port on the device we are dumping data from has a 2-wire interface (no handshaking). Sometimes 115200 baud works fine, other times the data gets all jumbled. We've decided to default to 9600 to avoid getting jumbled data. Compared to an openly available terminal program (Tera Term Pro) written in a compiled language, our Python version is much slower, but easier to program. Tera Term's scripting language isn't as easy to script with as Python. At the lowest level of the Python app, the last call in python is win32file.ReadFile( comport, bytes_, None ). I believe execution goes to a PyWin32 extension module at this point. By default, 1 is passed in for the number of bytes to read. I thought this was very inefficient, so I've experimented with values like 2,4,8,16. I didn't want to go higher than 16 because the serial port FIFO on many PCs isn't any larger than 16. While using cProfile, I could see that the number of function calls executed was cut in half, each time the # of bytes read doubled. Normally this would be a win, but the total time to dump the same amount of data over the serial port would almost double also. While this may not be strictly a Python-specific issue, the performance issue may be related to the Python-Win32 interface. For example, are there more efficient ways to read data from a serial port using Python, than calling win32file.ReadFile() ? I would also expect reading more 8-16 bytes at a time to be more efficient than reading 1 byte. I do expect that buffering weighs in heavily here, but I have no control over what the serial hardware does nor how windows interacts with it. Having read several of the Python optimization tips, I've already eliminated string concatenation, replaced globals variables with locals, and eliminated several dot references that are inside of loops.There doesn't seem to be any places I can use calls to map() or replace for loops with list/gen comps. There is too much code in the app to post here. I know it's difficult to comment on code that you can't see. The Python app is a single-threaded console app running on Python 2.7, but we've seen the same performance issues as far back as Python 2.3 on Windows XP. I've finally decided to investigate this because users of the program are complaining about the time
Re: [python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port
No, I haven't. But I'd be happy to give it a try. Chances are the serial I/O with this package are more efficient than the way my program is doing it now. Thanks for that tip. I'm also considering compiling my app to a compiled exe using PyPy, once I understand the compiler requirements for Windows. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, RayS r...@blue-cove.com wrote: At 08:14 AM 2/15/2014, you wrote: Vernon Your suggestion is interesting but not practical for our needs. Have you profiled pySerial? http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/examples.html I use it in my LX200 serial telescope package http://rjs.org/Python/LX200/LXSerial.py/LXSerial.html http://rjs.org/Python/LX200.zip - Ray ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port
I second the suggestion to try pySerial. I have used it for years to control RS-232 equipment -- don't know why I did not think of that. Like Terra-Term, pySerial will use device-level, rather than file-level APIs to talk to the UART. I was hoping to hear something exactly like this comment, since I'm not very familiar with the details of the winapi, and suspected there may be several ways to talk to a serial port. As far as the drivers, when I'm not using a USB-seral adapter, the serial port driver is coming straight from Redmond. I will give this a try, then post some results. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Vernon D. Cole vernondc...@gmail.comwrote: I second the suggestion to try pySerial. I have used it for years to control RS-232 equipment -- don't know why I did not think of that. Like Terra-Term, pySerial will use device-level, rather than file-level APIs to talk to the UART. Of course, your success will depend a great deal on the skill of the programmer who wrote the driver for your USB-serial device. The important part of the work is done in the driver when it processes interrupts in Kernel mode. The USB adapter I tried -- well, lets just say it's still sitting in a box of loose parts. That's why I have been contemplating a Raspberry Pi purchase myself. Perhaps we should take this discussion off line and compare notes. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM, RayS r...@blue-cove.com wrote: At 08:14 AM 2/15/2014, you wrote: Vernon Your suggestion is interesting but not practical for our needs. Have you profiled pySerial? http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/examples.html I use it in my LX200 serial telescope package http://rjs.org/Python/LX200/LXSerial.py/LXSerial.html http://rjs.org/Python/LX200.zip - Ray ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] optimizing code to read serial port
python-win32@python.org Regarding an in-house python program we use for dumping diagnostic data over a serial port on Windows 7 ... I'm trying to determine if it's possible optimize the python code so that dumping the data will occur faster. Currently, it takes ~25 minutes at 9600 baud to dump 8-15 MB of data. Going to higher baud rates does reduce this time, but depending on which PC is running the program, going to higher baud rates often results in ill-formed data. The serial port on the device we are dumping data from has a 2-wire interface (no handshaking). Sometimes 115200 baud works fine, other times the data gets all jumbled. We've decided to default to 9600 to avoid getting jumbled data. Compared to an openly available terminal program (Tera Term Pro) written in a compiled language, our Python version is much slower, but easier to program. Tera Term's scripting language isn't as easy to script with as Python. At the lowest level of the Python app, the last call in python is win32file.ReadFile( comport, bytes_, None ). I believe execution goes to a PyWin32 extension module at this point. By default, 1 is passed in for the number of bytes to read. I thought this was very inefficient, so I've experimented with values like 2,4,8,16. I didn't want to go higher than 16 because the serial port FIFO on many PCs isn't any larger than 16. While using cProfile, I could see that the number of function calls executed was cut in half, each time the # of bytes read doubled. Normally this would be a win, but the total time to dump the same amount of data over the serial port would almost double also. While this may not be strictly a Python-specific issue, the performance issue may be related to the Python-Win32 interface. For example, are there more efficient ways to read data from a serial port using Python, than calling win32file.ReadFile() ? I would also expect reading more 8-16 bytes at a time to be more efficient than reading 1 byte. I do expect that buffering weighs in heavily here, but I have no control over what the serial hardware does nor how windows interacts with it. Having read several of the Python optimization tips, I've already eliminated string concatenation, replaced globals variables with locals, and eliminated several dot references that are inside of loops.There doesn't seem to be any places I can use calls to map() or replace for loops with list/gen comps. There is too much code in the app to post here. I know it's difficult to comment on code that you can't see. The Python app is a single-threaded console app running on Python 2.7, but we've seen the same performance issues as far back as Python 2.3 on Windows XP. I've finally decided to investigate this because users of the program are complaining about the time to dump the data. I would appreciate your thoughts on this issue. thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Understanding Access Denied when calling win32process.TerminateProcess() from Run As Administrator prompt
When running from a *Run As Administrator* prompt on Windows 7 Professional 32-Bit, my Top-level python script spawns a process (which is another python script) using os.spawnv( ) When the top-level script ends, it attemps to call win32process.TerminateProcess() with the handle that was created during the os.spawnv() call. win32process.TerminateProcess(self._handle, exitCode) pywintypes.error: (5, 'TerminateProcess', 'Access is denied.') is displayed. This runs on Windows XP just fine. Obviusly, Windows 7 is more stringent with security concerns. We use Python 2.3, so subprocess and multiprocess are not available. I don't understand why this is an issue when running from the Run As Administrator prompt. Are there any other workarounds- until we migrate to Python 2.7? Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Passing an object to a process
On Windows XP - I've got a program running which has spawned a process using os.spawnv(). My program has a logger object instantiated that I want to pass to the process that was spawned. I need to log errors seen by the process, to the same logfile that the program uses for logging. I have the handle, thread ID, and process id of the process, but I see no way to share the logger object using these values. How can I pass a logger instance to the process, from the program which spawned the process? For legacy compatibility reasons, I'm stuck with an older version of Python that doesn't have the subprocess module and other features that are available with more modern releases of Python. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Passing an object to a process
Thanks for all the advice. The solution is simple, but neither elegant nor Pythonic. It's a kludge, but will suffice. The process simply opens writes a 1 line log file, then closes it. The process also increments a counter each time the log file is written, and writes the counter value to the process log file. The program checks to see if the file exists, reads it, then writes the process log file content to the program log file. The program then deletes the process log file. (probably unnecessary, but prevents the possibility of the same line in the process log file from being written to the program log file more than once.) Performance isn't a concern, and this code won't be going to production. It's just for debugging. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Max Slimmer m...@slimmersoft.com wrote: If you are really just logging, use separate loggers/files, sync the clocks, and timestamp records, then merge when you are ready to process if you need timeline related results. On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Preston Landers pland...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Tony Cappellini cappy2...@gmail.com wrote: in which objects can truly move from one process to another is recreating them in the other process. Even fork() makes copies of everything. Recreating an object in another process means it's a different object, not a shared one. Yeah, I know. I was trying to make that point. There's no real way for the same object to exist in multiple processes other than SYSV shared mem. Truly shared memory (i.e, SYSV style) is tricky, not very portable, and usually the wrong answer in my experience. As fas as I know stock Python doesn't support that, and definitely never will on Windows. The point is that you need to figure out what problem you're really trying to solve (logging to one file from multiple processes, it sounds like) and then find the best / simplest approach, which I can tell you definitely doesn't involve SYSV shared memory. It's probably just creating separate logging objects in each process, pointing to the same file, and protected by file locking if necessary. Have you tried pickle or other techniques of serialization? Not sure offhand if the logger module supports pickle but it might. Yes. I've just tried this, even though I expected it not to work. If process A pickles a logger object, and process B unpickles it, referencing of an object in a different process is meaningless. In my case, when the process attempted to write to the logger, no entries were seen in the logfile. Surprisingly, no exceptions occurred- but this could just be a coincidence. Probably because the logger object, when serialized, saves a reference to an open filehandle, which won't be automatically transfered to the other process. (There might ultimately be a way to make that work by inheriting filehandles, but again, if you can find something simpler...) That may work, and with less effort than my original idea. But if two processes write to the logfile at the same time (especially on a multicore machine), hard-to-read logfiles may result. it's worth a try. Yes, that type of thing can occur, but you can also get around that with simple file locking. By the way, that same problem certainly exists even if you somehow shared the object between two processes - what if the two processes made a log call at the same time? File locking may introduce some performance issues if the logging is very frequent, but usually you can find ways to mitigate that. The main app I work on uses log files extensively, and the same file is appended to by unrelated processes without a locking mechanism. Occasionally you do see some interleaving of log entries but in my experience it's fairly rare and in my particular case we don't care much about that anyway. regards, Preston ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Trying to make use of pyAudiere
From: Jacob Kruger bandi...@gmail.com To: python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Trying to make use of pyAudiere Message-ID: PC1760201108161557350376609ccfbb@JacobKruger-PC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 http://www.pyaudiere.org/ From within either the interpreter, or from within my own .py files, it always seems to complain about importing (internally) numpy.core.multiarray module, but on the second import call to audiere itsself, it's fine, and works well enough. Sadly to say, there doesn't seem to be much development for packages which support audio processing for Python. I hadn't heard of pyAudiere until your message was posted. PySonic was the only other package I was aware of, but that hasn't been updated since 2005 and only has installers for windows. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Getting address for Parallel port
The hacked up I/O port driver you're using is a huge security risk. Our test machines are not connected to a network, and we don't ship systems or software. The test machines are strictly for use in an engineering testing environment. USB drivers have proven to be too flaky. Some work well, some don't. You never know what you're going to end up with until weeks into a testing period when a driver hangs the machine. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Getting address for Parallel port
We are using PCI PCIe Parallel Port plugin cards to control some external hardware because newer motherboards no longer have built-in parallel ports. The address is NOT 0x378 as it would be if the parallel port was on the motherboard. The OS is Windows XP, SP3. These plugin cards can get mapped into various address spaces when the driver loads. In order to minimize hard-coding these addresses on each system, I would like to find out if there is a way to get this address via Pythonwin or Ctypes. To turn the port on off, I use this call: ctypes.windll.inpout32.Out32(parallelPortAddress, onOff) via ctypes, and this DLL http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Ports/Parallel_Port/Inpout32.dll_for_Windows_98/2000/NT/XP.html Is there a way I can get the address of the parallel port- from Python? Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
When you launch Word and Excel, you can manipulate them via COM and try to intercept, which is a pain but at least you can control them from Python. You may be able to intercept SendTo this way. If you launch Word with your own template file (.dot) it may be possible to embed a Word macro in the template that helps you to intercept sendTo. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Mike Driscoll mdrisc...@co.marshall.ia.uswrote: Hi Tony, On 1:59 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: Does anyone know of a way to catch the Send To Mail Recipient in Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail somehow. Well, let's brainstorm for a moment. That link fires up the default mail provider for your computer, which in found in the registry. Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does the same thing. Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail. Mike, If I've understood you correctly ... Why not just create a new sendto shortcut which points to your application, and copy it to the SendTo directory? I've created custom sendtos before, and it's quite convenient to make sendtos for other systems. You then just right click and send entire directories across the network like this. I think I know how to do the Send To right-click stuff now (thanks to the guys on this list and on wxPython IRC), the problem is catching the Send To inside MS Word, Excel, etc. They are not using the same process. Maybe I need to create my own VBA junk in them that does it for me. I'm going to try using procmon to try to see what Word is doing. If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. Thanks! - Mike ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:59:52 -0500 From: Mike Driscoll mdrisc...@co.marshall.ia.us Cc: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office Message-ID: 4d89fcd8.5090...@co.marshall.ia.us Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: Mike Driscoll wrote: Does anyone know of a way to catch the Send To Mail Recipient in Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail somehow. Well, let's brainstorm for a moment. That link fires up the default mail provider for your computer, which in found in the registry. Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does the same thing. Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail. Mike, If I've understood you correctly ... Why not just create a new sendto shortcut which points to your application, and copy it to the SendTo directory? I've created custom sendtos before, and it's quite convenient to make sendtos for other systems. You then just right click and send entire directories across the network like this. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Using os.startfile() for automation
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:42:37 +1100 From: Andrew MacIntyre andrew.macint...@acma.gov.au To: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Using os.startfile() for automation [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Message-ID: Other than COM, application automation on Windows requires Windows API programming to send the necessary messages to application windows - this is what AutoIt does. I believe that people have written Python code to do this; googling python application automation might give you some ideas. Autoit3 exposes some of it's API's via COM, but I'd rather avoid COM. http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-autoitlibrary/ Python + AutoIt via COM just seems like too many layers, just to invoke the File Save As menu. This looks like its the most mature Python package and is the one I'm trying to use, but with no success at the moment. At least there have been updates recently. http://code.google.com/p/pywinauto/ but the API is bad and the docs are confusing. This is next inline, and http://www.tizmoi.net/watsup/intro.html There was one other, but googling isn't finding it at the moment, however it is the project which started the others. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Simple Windows progressbar dialog (like messagebox) via Win32 API?
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:09:16 -0400 From: pyt...@bdurham.com To: zz Python Win32 Newsgroup python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Simple Windows progressbar dialog (like messagebox) via Win32 API? Message-ID: 1285862956.22785.1397713...@webmail.messagingengine.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I know there is a simple interface to the Windows messagebox interface. Try Easy Dialogs http://www.averdevelopment.com/python/EasyDialogs.html It have a progress bar. Easy Dialogs just wraps the native OS calls, and makes them sensible cross platform. Using a progress bar is only a few lines of code. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detecting when a system has multiple monitors (desktops)
Thanks- but I think Tim's solution is more native and has the added benefit of not requiring any additional software.. I was thinking too much into the problem. However, I will keep your reply for future reference. There may be a time when I need the monitors package. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:21 PM, reckoner recko...@gmail.com wrote: Tony: All of this is handled in the dragonfly package: http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Note that you do not need speech recognition in order to use it. In particular, look at from dragonfly import Window, monitors and the window.py file in the distribution. Good luck! On 8/24/2010 4:33 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Does anyone know how to detect if a system has multiple monitors (desktops) through Python? I've written a program which allows the user to open multiple stand-alone windows. When I run this program I usually drag these windows to my secondary monitor. I was to save the screen coordinates of the window locations so they can be restored. First, the program must detect the multiple desktops and then understand if the screen coordinates of those windows are related to the primary or secondary desktop. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python
Message: 4 Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:19:28 +1000 From: Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com Cc: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python Message-ID: 4bf1dd10.2020...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Or even if you do manage to do this without stopping the service and immediately losing your connection, what happens when the network drops out etc and you lose your existing connection without the opportunity of re-enabling future remote connections? Then I'll walk over to the machine and re-enable it myself. I've been toggling the checkbox in Control Panel manually ever since I knew RD existed, and it has never terminated the connection I was using at the time.Perhaps certain configurations might cuase that, but I don't know what those would be. It's just not convenient to not be able to do this with a batchfile, or shortcut ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python
Message: 2 Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 14:45:30 -0400 From: Steven James steven.ja...@gmail.com To: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python Message-ID: aanlktilrr3r6touf5fbis9qvm3c2lr_vf2lsguiei...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 http://thebackroomtech.com/2007/05/18/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-a-windows-xp-machine-remotely/ That link explains how to do this remotely from a command line and by modifying a registry entry. I've scripted this with python before but can't find the code right now. Thanks But I need to enable/disable Remote Desktop login on the current machine, not a remote machine. I''ll play around with this set service remotedesktop enable Steven James ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 10:07:57 -0700 From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python Message-ID: 4bed836d.50...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Are you saying that when you are remotely logged into system X, you want to disable Remote Desktop access to system X? Yes Isn't that going to prevent YOU from accessing system X as well? It's a little like sawing off the tree branch on which you are sitting, isn't it? No It doesn't terminate my connection, It just stops other users from trying to connect remotely while I'm, connected. Attempts to connect by other users would log me off with no warning, an possibly cause a loss of data. Yes, but FWIW, this is an artificial licensing restriction, not a technical restriction. This IS a technical question. It is no different than someone posting a question like How do I ??? with Tim's WMI module ? There is a checkbox in Control Panel to do this microsoft has provided it for the user. I want to enable/disable that checkbox via Python, and want to know how it can be done. When you run the Remote Desktop Client, there is an option to execute a program on the remote machine. This would be the perfect place to do call the program from, so it would be done automatically. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Enable/disable Remote Desktop via Python
On WinXP, under Control Panel/System/Remote - there is a check box to enable/disable Remote Desktop access. I need to toggle this- so I don't get disconnected by other users, when I'm connected to a system remotely. The desktop version of Windows- still doesn't allow concurrent multi-user logins in the year 2010. I'd like to be to write a program to toggle this for me. Would someone point me to a resource which describes how to do this? Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Finding DLL's which are in use (loaded)
Thanks- but is that attempting to delete a dll? Is there a less-invasive way of detecting a dll in use? Is there a way I can find out which application(s) are using the DLL, so I put that information in a dialog box? These dlls are general purpose and can be used by many applications written by people where I work. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:05 AM, niki n...@vintech.bg wrote: Tony Cappellini wrote: I need to write a program which copies some dlls from one location to another. However, if any applications which use these dll's are running, Windows won't let the dll copy complete, until the apps which have the dlls loaded have terminated. I'm looking for a way to scan/probe to see if any apps are running which have these dll's loaded. How would I go about this with Python ? test = win32file.CreateFile(f, win32con.DELETE, 0, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0, None) HTH Niki ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:41:16 +0100 From: Sylvain Fauveau (apli-agipa) i...@apli-agipa.com Cc: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app? Message-ID: 4ba9c21c.8030...@apli-agipa.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; Format=flowed Not tested, but : Google: splash screen tkinter = http://code.activestate.com/recipes/534124-elegant-tkinter-splash-screen/ tkinter is included with python. Tkinter is include with Python, but I don't believe Tix is included, unless it was added to a later distribution than I have. . ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app?
From: pyt...@bdurham.com To: zz Python Win32 Newsgroup python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app? Message-ID: 1269295703.32357.1366163...@webmail.messagingengine.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Is there a Windows API call I can use to display a BMP or a PNG file in a window centered on a user's display? This function would be called from a console app to display a splash screen. I don't know, but I suspect not. complexity of a full GUI framework like wxPython or pyQT and To do this in wxPython is approximately 10 lines of code, maybe 20 at the most. Actually- the # of lines to do this in wxPython is less than your original email. class SketchApp(wx.App): def OnInit(self): bmp = wx.Image(splash.png).ConvertToBitmap() wx.SplashScreen(bmp, wx.SPLASH_CENTRE_ON_SCREEN | wx.SPLASH_TIMEOUT, 1000, None, -1) wx.Yield() frame = SketchFrame(None) frame.Show(True) self.SetTopWindow(frame) return True if __name__ == '__main__': app = SketchApp(False) app.MainLoop() This is barebones, taken from wxPython In Action- ideally you should have some minimal exception handling to make your app more robust. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detect whether a workstation is a laptop or desktop/server?
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:17:43 -0500 From: Steven James steven.ja...@gmail.com To: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Detect whether a workstation is a laptop or desktop/server? Message-ID: e3c91421003060717o2769876ey82de33b5b7d41...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A 5400RPM hard drive? These aren't assurances, but they point to laptops. Not at all. Many laptop vendors are already shipping 7200 RPM drives, and many older desktops can still use 5400 rpm drives. There's no easy way to query a drive for this, without using the drive mfg's internal commands. This information is not typically available to the public. Well I think that's every way possible of not answering your question. Sorry =). ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 79, Issue 1
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:56:01 -0700 From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Talking to the parallel port Message-ID: 4ac3a9c1.4000...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Why would you expect any updates? The technology behind the parallel port has not changed since 1994. It's not about the technology changing. But people do add improvments to python packages over time, and release newer/better packages. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Talking to the parallel port
I'm looking for some way to wiggle the data lines on the parallel port- and possibly even to use some of them as input lines. Googling for python parallel port revealed an old project which hasn't been updated since 2003. http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html Is there anything that is more current? Thanks Tony ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:08:51 -0700 From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com To: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs Message-ID: 4a5fb303.7010...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Tony Cappellini wrote: I've added the While loop Mark suggested but still see the same issue. GetNumberOfEventLogRecords() still returns 6 events, However the object returned from ReadEvenLog() still only contains 3 objects The next call to ReadeventLog() returns None OK, in my test, repeated calls to ReadEventLog eventually fetch all of the events. Each call to ReadEventLog will return however many events will fit in 1024 bytes, which is the buffer in the pywin32 code. If I change your code to this: while 1: events=win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand,flags,0) if not events: break for event in events: print event.EventID, event.StringInserts then it all works as expected. This is what I'm doing. I have added the while 1 last week, after Mark had suggested it. It did not change anything. ReadEventLog() returns None on successive calls. Which versions of Python and Pywin32 are you using? ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 76, Issue 17
Message: 2 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:57:31 -0700 From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs Message-ID: 4a5fb05b.2060...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Would anyone be willing to try parsing their own SystemEvent log to see if they have the same issue (or parse min log and see if the results are the same) ? Similar. I saved one of the application event logs, and although Tim, would you try parsing the SystemEventLog (from Windows XP)? This is the one I'm having problems with, not the application log. There are other complications with Vista Logs, that i don't even want to get involved with. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
Ok- I've figured out the problem. After Mark suggested doing the call to ReadEventLog() inside of the while loop, I had accidentally left a call to ReadEventLog() outside of the loop. So the data coming back from that was just thrown away. The reason I didn't see that call is because all of the lines before and after it were commented out- and I guess my eyes looked that line looked the same. Problem solved! (operator error) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
I've added the While loop Mark suggested but still see the same issue. GetNumberOfEventLogRecords() still returns 6 events, However the object returned from ReadEvenLog() still only contains 3 objects The next call to ReadeventLog() returns None flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0) events [PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5C998, PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5C9E0, PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5CA28] Would anyone be willing to try parsing their own SystemEvent log to see if they have the same issue (or parse min log and see if the results are the same) ? On 7/11/09, Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the ReadEventLog code in win32evtlogutil.py - you will notice you need a loop like: while 1: objects = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(h, readFlags, 0) if not objects: break Mark ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
That didn't really change anything. GetNumberOfEventLogRecords() tells me there are 6 events, However the object returned from ReadEvenLog() still only contains 3 objects flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0) events [PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5C998, PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5C9E0, PyEventLogRecord object at 0x00C5CA28] The next call to ReadeventLog() returns None On 7/11/09, Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the ReadEventLog code in win32evtlogutil.py - you will notice you need a loop like: while 1: objects = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(h, readFlags, 0) if not objects: break Mark On 11/07/2009 1:38 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Ok, I'm able to parse Event51 logs now. However, there seems to be a problem with the object returned from ReadEventLogs() GetNumberOfEvents() tells me there are 6 events. I can see all sixe events using the EventViewer in Control Panle, on Widnwos XP. However, the iterator returned from RedEvent Log() is consumned after only 3 events. hand=win32evtlog.OpenBackupEventLog(None,logFilename) numEvents=win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand) print'\n\t%lu events were found' % numEvents flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ events=win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand,flags,0) for ev_obj in events: #stops iterating after only 3 events Would someone verify this? I see this problem on Python 2.3 and 2.5.4, with Pywin32 Build 213 Thanks Tony ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
I'll give that a try. I was using this for my reference http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/Windows_NT_Eventlog.html On 7/11/09, Mark Hammond skippy.hamm...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the ReadEventLog code in win32evtlogutil.py - you will notice you need a loop like: while 1: objects = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(h, readFlags, 0) if not objects: break Mark On 11/07/2009 1:38 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: Ok, I'm able to parse Event51 logs now. However, there seems to be a problem with the object returned from ReadEventLogs() GetNumberOfEvents() tells me there are 6 events. I can see all sixe events using the EventViewer in Control Panle, on Widnwos XP. However, the iterator returned from RedEvent Log() is consumned after only 3 events. hand=win32evtlog.OpenBackupEventLog(None,logFilename) numEvents=win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand) print'\n\t%lu events were found' % numEvents flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ events=win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand,flags,0) for ev_obj in events: #stops iterating after only 3 events Would someone verify this? I see this problem on Python 2.3 and 2.5.4, with Pywin32 Build 213 Thanks Tony ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 76, Issue 13
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:20:56 +0100 From: Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk Cc: python-win32@python.org Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs Message-ID: 4a565f38.40...@timgolden.me.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Let me know if you need help getting the data out in the first place; I'm not clear whether you've got that covered or not. (And whether you want to be notified when the event fires or whether you're merely scanning historically). I can get the data with the struct module, but would prefer your wrapper if possible. The systems which I am testing do not have network connections, so I have to save the system logs manually to a USB drive and copy them to my development system. Is there a way with winsys to open a logfile, WITHOUT having to pass a system name as the first argument? I don't want to process the system log of my development system, I want to process a system log that I've copied from the test system. That logfile is in some arbitrary directory, on my development system. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
Ok, I'm able to parse Event51 logs now. However, there seems to be a problem with the object returned from ReadEventLogs() GetNumberOfEvents() tells me there are 6 events. I can see all sixe events using the EventViewer in Control Panle, on Widnwos XP. However, the iterator returned from RedEvent Log() is consumned after only 3 events. hand=win32evtlog.OpenBackupEventLog(None,logFilename) numEvents=win32evtlog.GetNumberOfEventLogRecords(hand) print'\n\t%lu events were found' % numEvents flags = win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ events=win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand,flags,0) for ev_obj in events: #stops iterating after only 3 events Would someone verify this? I see this problem on Python 2.3 and 2.5.4, with Pywin32 Build 213 Thanks Tony ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
Does anyone know if there is a Python module which will parse Windows Event Logs? Using the EventViewer is tedious, and I'd rather be abel to do this programmatically. Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python parser for Windows Event Logs
Thanks, but those just monitor events. I need to pull some very specific data from an event log file, after I know the event has already occurred. Tim has another module called winsys, and there is an object which handles some aspects of reading event logs. http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winsys/event_logs.html#module-event_logs Tim - what I need to is pull this structure http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810313.aspx from the event log, AFTER an event 51 has already occurred. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780 I can easily look at the Event Viewer to determine if the event has occurred. I don't see it at a glance, but does your winsys module have a way to do this? If not, I'll just have to hard code offsets and use the struct module to get it. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] FIle I/O on Windows XP
I was trying to see if I could speed up processing huge files (in the 10's of Gigabytes) by passing various values to the readline() method of the file object. No matter what I passed to readline() each call was slower and slower than passing no argument at all. I've used a SATA bus analyzer to see what kind of block sizes WIndows was using for the reads, and typically for non-AHCI reads, the block sizes were surpsingly small. 8 blocks were typical. It's somewhat difficult to separate I/O traffic that windows is routinely doing even when you're not reading a specific file, so putting the file on a secondary drive will eliminate most of that traffic. Can anyone explain why passing any non-negative values 0 to readline() makes the file processing slower instead of faster? ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Fwd: Phyton editor
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:57:51 -0400 From: Steven James steven.ja...@gmail.com To: python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Phyton editor Message-ID: e3c91420906031557i75f3fa91w4fb3ffe9f3e2e...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I like SPE and Wing. Wing isn't free though. http://pythonide.blogspot.com/ http://www.wingware.com/ There is a free basic version of Wing, but why bother? Buy the Pro version, get a great debugger/IDE. It's worth every penny. You don't use Wing for its editing abilities, you use it because it has great debugging features. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Silent installation of pywin32
Message: 2 Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:42:33 -0700 From: Tim Roberts t...@probo.com Subject: Re: [python-win32] Silent installation of pywin32 To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Message-ID: 4a047d19.7080...@probo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Tools like py2exe will automatically pull in whatever pieces of pywin32 are necessary to make your script run. Py2exe tries to pull in everything automatically, but doesn't always succeed Recently, I had to manually include a dll it wasn't finding- but that's not the first time ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Programatically activating secondary monitor?
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:49:58 +0100 From: Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk Subject: Re: [python-win32] Programatically activating secondary monitor? Cc: python-win python-win32@python.org One can enable/disable a mutli-head monitor by right clicking on the desktop and selecting the Settings Tab. Of course, you need to have a multi-head video card and driver installed first. but there are times when you want to disable the second montior/desktop. When you connect to a system via Remote Desktop which has both monitors/desktops enabled, you cannot access the applications that are displayed on the secondary monitor. This is extremely irritating. If you close those applications and re-open them, they automatically re-ope on the secondary display. The only way to prevent this is to disable the secondary video card,and re-open the monitor on the primary display. Some very old applications (Lotus Notes for example) which happen to be running on the scondary display, cannot be dragged back to the primary display. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Specifying an initial directory name for win32ui.CreateFileDialog()
I want to specify the directory in which win32ui win32ui.html.CreateFileDialog() should be displayed. The arguments in the help PyCFileDialog PyCFileDialog.html = * CreateFileDialog(bFileOpen, defExt , fileName , flags , filter , parent *) don't seem to allow this. I know I can specify the initial director (among other things) when I invoke the File Open browser from wxPython and other gui frameworks. How do I do this with the bare bones Win32 api? Thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] How to calc amount of avail RAM in a process ?
Tim While monitoring The task manager/Performance Tab It seems as though Windows XP is almost always paging, even when all of available memory is not being used. This doesn't make sense and seems to be wasteful. Why should the OS be wasting time paging, when it doesn't need to (aka when all of available physical ram has not been used)? I would caution you not to draw any conclusions based on the physical numbers. You WANT your system to be using all of its physical memory. Unused physical memory is just wasted money. The operating system will page things in and out as needed, on a demand basis, to make sure that pages you are really USING stay in memory. The other pages will be used by DLLs, other processes, and disk caching. Also remember that, if the page file gets low, the system will allocate more. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] rebooting windows from Python
To me the bigger criticism is that there are probably 600 other programs that do the same thing, but what fun would it be for me to use someone else's program... got it. I'll take a look at your program. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?
Back to this thread - has anybody used the new pythoncard stuff? What do you mean by the new pythoncard stuff ? Pythoncard has been around for a long time. I've used it- and it's one of the reasons I now use wxPython directly, without any wrappers. (I didn't like Boa - but it's been a long time since I've tried it) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Does Python need a native Windows GUI toolkit?
First, I feel that Python already has too many GUI toolkits available, and could stand to use some consolidation. I started writing python GUI apps with pyQT,then moved to Pythoncard, and now I use wxPython directly without looking back. I feel that there needs to be much more of a separation between the C++ code and Python than pyQT provides, and I don't feel the C++ influence when I use wxPython, even though wxWidgets is written in C++ and interfaced with SWIG. I think adding a wrapper just adds more complexity, and there are already several intermediate layers form builders for wx in an attempt to make it easier. Now that Nokia is behind QT it would be interesting to see follow its evolution. I think ones efforts could be better spent working on wx directly, or helping Mark Hammond with Python W32 itself. I've never used MFC, so I can't make the comparison myself, but I've heard Thomas' statement how wx is similar to MFC, from another source. Here are an outdated comparison of some attempts to make wx easier to use. http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Comparison_of_wxSmith_features. Pythoncard is not listed in the chart above, and that chart is not really a comparison of intermediate layers. Pythoncard is still popular and could probably stand to be improved. With some time, struggling, and cursing, I have now written a few wx apps from scratch, even using sizers. While I can't do it second nature yet, I don't see myself looking at another intermediate layer. wx has come a long way, the documentation is getting much better, and the wxPython list is a great resource for solving problems. Quite a few people have written some new wx components too, but they are not part of the standard distribution. I feel the Python community would benefit much better by not competing with something that has this much momentum (aka developing a native Windows GUI). I actually would rather see new any new GUI-related development efforts going into a community-standardized RAD IDE (aka Delphi-like) environment, as opposed to a seeing a new toolkit/framework come into existence. I have been hoping a company like Microsoft or Google would get behind this effort, more Google than Microsoft. Since I am an advocate for wx, I would really prefer company-backed resources put into a completed Delphi-like IDE for wxPython. I applaud your efforts Thomas whatever the outcome. I know they will benefit the Python community. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] interprocess communication python and visual basic can it be done?
I see many prices less than $50 on Amazon, and the publisher is still selling it for $34.95. There are 100's of used book services available as well. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Vernon Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? It's still being published http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926219/index.html Amazon still has them in stock too http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Win32-Windows-Programmers/dp/1565926218/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1219813190sr=8-2 Amazon's price is $159 for a new copy. My copy has $34.95 printed on the cover as the price. On MY budget, $159 is hard to get for book which is eight years out of date. (But still the best published source on the subject.) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] interprocess communication python and visual basic can it be done?
Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:07:56 -0600 From: Vernon Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] interprocess communication python and visual basic can it be done? To: Emanuel Sotelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Emanuel: Best answer: Find a copy of *Python Programming On Win32* by Mark Hammond and Andy Robinson and read chapter 7. Unfortunately, copies of the book are getting quite hard to get. Why? It's still being published http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565926219/index.html Amazon still has them in stock too http://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Win32-Windows-Programmers/dp/1565926218/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1219813190sr=8-2 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Excel Document
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:52:04 +0200 From: Michiel Overtoom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel Document To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sina wrote... To read the contents of an excel spreadsheet. In one case I am trying to read the value of the cell rather than its contents. i.e. if I have a hyperlink called Document or Procedure which is a hyperlink to http://intranet/foo.pdf then this script will return Document or Link as a unicode string rather than the URL that I require. If you want to read/write a spreadsheet you can also do this on a system that does not have Excel installed, and does not need a COM interface. However, there are some limitations with this library, but for reading numbers and text, it has been working well for me. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] How Do You Make Your Speech or SAPI 5 Voices
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:01:21 -0400 From: FT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] How Do You Make Your Speech or SAPI 5 Voices Portable? To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 This doesn't address your portability issue, but is provided as an FYI. Peter Parente already has a nice Python wrapper from the Microsoft Speech API- PyTTS http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65529package_id=74248 ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] using the wave module for reading wave files
In the wave module, is the term frame synonymous with sample? That is, does the method wave.readframes(1) read a sample that is getsampwidth() bits wide, where each sample was sampled at the frequency found at wave.getframerate() ? ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Volume Serial Number
That's not the serial number of the drive- as assigned by the drive manufacturer. If you want the SN from the drive manufacturer, you will need to issue an IOCTL ATA Passthrough command which sends the ATA Identify Device command to the drive. Unless the Winapi has a wrapper for that functionality, you can't do that via Python. You would have to install the Windows SDK to compile a tiny program to issue the Identify Device command and pull out the SN from the data coming back, which is only 512 bytes. This would have to be written in C. It's not difficult to do and the program would only require less than100 lines of C code. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Volume Serial Number
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:35:45 -0500 From: Rickey, Kyle W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Volume Serial Number To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii How do I get the volume serial number for a drive? For example in the cmd prompt issuing this: It looks like Tim Golden has a way to do what you want- via Python! http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/see_if_two_files_are_the_same_file.html ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Volume Serial Number
Tim Golden has a way to do just about everything, but this particular snippet has nothing to do with the original question. def get_unique_id (hFile): ( attributes, created_at, accessed_at, written_at, volume, file_hi, file_lo, n_links, index_hi, index_lo ) = win32file.GetFileInformationByHandle (hFile) return volume, index_hi, index_lo The link I posted certainly has a misleading name, but the code above (from that link) returns the volume SN. Is the fifth item returned from GetFileInformationByHandle() not the Volume SN? [0] *int* : dwFileAttributes [1] *PyTime PyTime.html* : ftCreationTime [2] *PyTime PyTime.html* : ftLastAccessTime [3] *PyTime PyTime.html* : ftLastWriteTime [4] *int* : dwVolumeSerialNumber ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Size of directory
When I right click on a directory with windows Explorer, a window is displayed showing Size: Size On Disk: Contains: Created: Attributes: (with the appropriate values for each entry) How do I get the same information via Python ? I've looked at os.stat but os.stat(r'C:\temp')[os.path.stat.ST_SIZE] only returns the size of a plain file :( It's really a shame that windows doesn't have a built-in tool to show you a tree of subdirectories, and how much space is occupied by each subdirectory. I guess I need to roll my own- once I know what the underlying call is to get the size of each directory ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Iron Python and Visual Basic 2005 (or 2008) Express
Here's what's left of the marriage of Python Delphi http://www.atug.com/andypatterns/pythonDelphiTalk.htm http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=3 Note- this was around for many years- so may not be compatible with current versions of Delphi. I think I first read about this around Delphi 45 days, but i'm not sure. There was some attempt to get C++ Builder working with Python, but it wasn't as successful ;( (we really need Borland-like RAD (wysiwig) IDE for Python.I'd gladly pay what Delphi costs for one.) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript
I tried the same - after seeing a post regarding calling Python from an Excel sheet. It seems some people have done this, as it is posted on several different websties. However, I'm getting an error on this line sc.Language = python A script engine for the specified language can not be created I've tried adding the MSscript control to the references in Excel, but I still get the same error message Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:42:05 +0530 From: Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I have been trying to execute python library functions VBscript, Public sc As New MSScriptControl.ScriptControl sc.Language = python ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05:11 -0500 From: bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript To: Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That's hard to answer until we know what you want to accomplish! Tell us more. What problem are you trying to solve? I think he wants to have python functionality from excel, which is what I'd like to accomplish as well. (Python embedded into excel, as opposed to launching Excel from Python) Also I'm not very familiar with MSScriptControl. I googled it and found no useful documentation. Do you have any references to it? Everything you want to know about the MSScriptControl is on microsoft's site. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript
I may have a type in my previous posts. I have only used it with VB6 (not .NET) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa227400.aspx On Feb 4, 2008 6:30 PM, bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Cappellini wrote: Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05:11 -0500 From: bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript To: Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That's hard to answer until we know what you want to accomplish! Tell us more. What problem are you trying to solve? I think he wants to have python functionality from excel, which is what I'd like to accomplish as well. (Python embedded into excel, as opposed to launching Excel from Python) Also I'm not very familiar with MSScriptControl. I googled it and found no useful documentation. Do you have any references to it? Everything you want to know about the MSScriptControl is on microsoft's site. I'm glad it is there. I certainly can't find it. I have searched microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com with no success. All I find are forum discussions; no reference. I guess your mileage is better. Can you offer any useful links? Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa227633(VS.60).aspx On Feb 4, 2008 6:30 PM, bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tony Cappellini wrote: Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:05:11 -0500 From: bob gailer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Executing eval function in VBscript To: Janakiraman Mohanakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed That's hard to answer until we know what you want to accomplish! Tell us more. What problem are you trying to solve? I think he wants to have python functionality from excel, which is what I'd like to accomplish as well. (Python embedded into excel, as opposed to launching Excel from Python) Also I'm not very familiar with MSScriptControl. I googled it and found no useful documentation. Do you have any references to it? Everything you want to know about the MSScriptControl is on microsoft's site. I'm glad it is there. I certainly can't find it. I have searched microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com with no success. All I find are forum discussions; no reference. I guess your mileage is better. Can you offer any useful links? Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
Why not just format the entire column as string data, before calling Python? That's just requires a few menu clicks, then pass that column to Python. Another option is to use a Python library called xlrd, which reads Excel (.XLS) files from Python. This way you can avoid using COM and the need to have Excel on the machine where you are reading the file. There are some limits to what you can do with the library, but for just pulling in data, it should be ok. Your Python script can check the data type of each cell as you are iterating over the cells. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
Follow-up question. Why does type-ahead in PythonWin not show more functions after ctypes.windll. ? Is this because of late-binding??? Message: 3 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0200 From: Graeme Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator privilege To: Patrick Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: python-win32@python.org On Jan 14, 2008 8:55 PM, Patrick Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: import ctypes print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin() (Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006) I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it. hth, ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 58, Issue 4
Rename the main script in your python application so it's extension is .pyw Replace the word console in the py2exe setup.py file, to windows Message: 3 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:43:40 -0100 From: Jo?o Abrantes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background mode. To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello everyone. I have made a python program and converted into an executable using py2exe. Now I want him to start on windows startup without showing the DOS Window... I have registered the program on windows startup registry key: ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 57, Issue 14
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:41:15 +0100 From: Sebastian Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] USB access using win32file.deviceIOcontrol To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Tim Roberts wrote: TR That's fundamentally correct. How are you creating the TR SCSI_PASS_THROUGH structure in byte_list? Are you sure it is 42 TR bytes? Are you setting all the fields correctly? How are you setting TR the DataBuffer pointer? Have you set the Length field correctly? Don't forget the data direction variable. That's equally as important. You'll light up your screen blue as the day, if you get a driver which isn't robust. Test unit read does not transfer any data so the data transfer length should be zero, in the CDB and the data direction must variable must be set to whatever indicates no data transfer. cdbLength = 16 I would think the CDB should be set to 6, since test unit ready is a 6-buye command, but if 16 worked in your C++ example, tha should be fine here too. But I don't have an idea at all, how to port it to Python. Tim mentioned the struct module, and I would agree, but there may be other ways. class SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT(object): But again, I don't know how to handle the buffer pointers inside the structure. Nor do I. You may have to call a DLL from Python to pass a pointer to the SCSI pass thru layer. There may be a way to do this with ctypes though. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] USB access using win32file.deviceIOcontrol
I recently wrote some C code to send SATA commands to a system drive, using the ATA pass through layer. I found this news group very helpful, since it deals with drivers. http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev/topics I wouldn't mentioned Python on that newsgroup though. If you post any questions, pretend your doing it from C. You may not get any help if you say you're trying to do it from Python. ;-) Also- you should try to write the C or C++ code to actually send the command first, until you get the mechanism down, then use ctypes or a C DLL to be called from Python. Also, stick with the Test Unit Ready command or any other command that doesn't transfer data. It will be easier to work out the mechanism that way. When you start transferring data, drivers like the buffers to be aligned to some specific boundary. Rather than get hung up on data transfer now, you can deal with that later once you understand how to get a simple command across. Message: 4 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:41:15 +0100 From: Sebastian Friebe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] USB access using win32file.deviceIOcontrol To: Python-Win32 List python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii class SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT(object): ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Detect when the user launches or closes a
Patrick, See if this helps. http://www.mindtrove.info/articles/pyhook.html I think it's somewhat similar to Tim Robert's suggestion, just packaged differently. I haven't tried it myself- so let us know how it works for your situation. Message: 7 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:15:33 -0800 From: Patrick Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Detect when the user launches or closes a program? Hi, I am trying to write a program that will perform some operation on the user's computer when the user launches a particular executable(s) on the computer and when the user closes them. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 54, Issue 14
Take a look at SWIG and BOOST. Message: 1 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:23:54 +0200 From: Aviel, Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Python COM Server, C++ Client - How ??? To: Ryan Ginstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED], python-win32@python.org Message-ID: ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Having multiple versions of PythonWin installed concurrently
I'm using Python2.5 PythonWin build210 for my main development. I need to install a package that only runs under Python2.4, and I'd like to have a corresponding version of PythonWin for 2.4 installed as well. Switching between Python2.4 2.5 is easy enough to deal with using Python environment variables, and I would suspect the same for a version of PythonWin for 2.4- but I just want to see if there are any potential problems with having multiple versions of PythonWin installed concurrently. thanks ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python-win32 Digest, Vol 50, Issue 5
When your program starts, take a snapshot of all the storage devices. You can do this with a timer, every few seconds or so. If the new snapshot changes from the original, you can call an API to see if the new device is removable or not. This won't tell you if it's a USB drive specifically, but for your situation, it may be highly unlikely people would be connecting additionally floppy drives or other removable devices. You could also parse the output of a program called PCI32.exe and check for new USB devices. PCI32 is free, produces text output only, and can be called every few seconds (or whatever interval you feel is appropriate) Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 08:56:04 +0300 From: Simon Dahlbacka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [python-win32] Help needed : FindWindowEx To: Amit Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Roger Upole [EMAIL PROTECTED], python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 5/3/07, Amit Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exact Requirement : Need to write a Python script that keeps on running and when a USB device is plugged in , it detects the device and flashes a message on the propt or logs it to a file do suggest your ideas on this ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] How to use IExtractImage in python
Steven Would it be possible to launch AutoCad, then use Python/PIL to do screenshots of the images? Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:15:29 -0400 From: Steven James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] How to use IExtractImage in python To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am attempting to add a simple thumbnail preview in a wxpython app I'm putting together. IExtractImage seems to be the way to access the thumbnails that Windows Explorer uses. (I can't use PIL or similar because I'm previewing AutoCAD .dwg files). I am adapting some Delphi COM code (from herehttp://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_3806.asp?SK=) as follows--i've removed the Malloc and other unnecessary statements: ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
I'm trying to find the release notes (bug fixes plus new features) for Build 210. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018 but don't see these in the PyWin32 project in sourceforge. Are these available online, or does one have to download and install Build 210 to get the release notes? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
For some reason my notes icon is not clickable. It's likely to be another problem with FireFox (on my end) though. On 3/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H. They are visible for me. What do you see when you click on the Notes icon adjacent to the Monitor icon? -- jv - Original Message - From: Tony Cappellini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:12 pm Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210 I'm trying to find the release notes (bug fixes plus new features) for Build 210. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018 but don't see these in the PyWin32 project in sourceforge. Are these available online, or does one have to download and install Build 210 to get the release notes? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] How to detect User presseing escape, or clicking cancel in call to win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW()
I'm trying to understand how to detect a user pressing Escape, or clicking on Cancel when win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() is called. When I press escape when the FileOpen dialogue is present, I see the following error with Python2.5/PWin32 Build 210 error: (0, 'GetOpenFileNameW', 'No error message is available') Would someone explain what this means, or how to detect the above situatiions? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] win32con
Is it an oversight that the win32con constants are not listed in the PythonWin help? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Can't post to the list- who is the admin?
I've been trying to post messages for a few days now- I keep getting replies telling me my messages are being held. I've verified that I am subscribed with this address, and I did not post the messages to the sub/ubsub address. Who is the admin? thanks ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] How to detect User pressing escape, or clicking cancel in call to win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW()
I'm trying to understand how to detect a user pressing Escape, or clicking on Cancel when win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() is called. When I press escape when the FileOpen dialogue is present, I see the following error with Python2.5/PWin32 Build 210 error: (0, 'GetOpenFileNameW', 'No error message is available') Would someone explain what this means, or how to detect the above situations? My call looks like this filter='Patches' customfilter='All Files' unicodeFilenames=None unicodeFilenames, customfilter, flags = win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW(Filter=filter, CustomFilter=customfilter, FilterIndex=1, File='*.pch', InitialDir=os.getcwd(), Title='Select Input Files', Flags=win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER, DefExt='.pch') ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python-win32 Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:18:55 -0500 From: Roger Upole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Re: win32gui.GetOpenFileName() To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original This function expects a buffer containing an OPENFILENAME structure, created using the struct module or some other means. Is there a way I can select multiple files with either of the above mentioned calls? (pressing Control doesn't work) Pass win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER in the Flags to enable this. Thanks Roger, where did you find this information? From the Pythin Win help file win32gui (more).GetOpenFileName int = GetOpenFileName() Creates an Open dialog box that lets the user specify the drive, directory, and the name of a file or set of files to open. Return Value If the user presses OK, the function returns TRUE. Otherwise, use CommDlgExtendedError for error details. ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Python-win32 Digest, Vol 46, Issue 18
If you want to hide the window which your app was launched, rename the .py file to .pyw You wan't see the console window then Message: 9 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:40:47 +0100 From: le dahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Launch process To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello, What's the best way to launch a process and waiting for its exit code ? I'm looking for something that can take win32con.SW_HIDE as argument (os.spawnv don't). ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] List of drives / removable drives
Is there a way to differentiate between floppy, network, hard drive, removable (aka USB flash) drives? though Pythonwin? My searches came up with Tim Golden's mapped drives, which is somewhat helpful, but not particular to my needs. http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/show_mapped_drives.html win32api.GetVolumeInformation doesn't return anything specific- other than 'FAT' which is used on a floppy, but somehow I was expecting something a little more specific. thanks ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] List of drives / removable drives
Will try this- thanks On 12/20/06, Howard Lightstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to differentiate between floppy, network, hard drive, removable (aka USB flash) drives? though Pythonwin? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Console width in characters
I'm trying to find an API that will give me the width of a cmd console window, in charaters. GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN) will return it in pixels- but that doesn't help. If the user resizes the console, I want to be able to adjust the text output of a program I've looked at the WConio package- that may do it, but I'd rather just uses a straight API (if possible), because WConio isn't maintained. Is there an API that returns the number of characters of the printable area of a console windows? I'm using Python 2.3.4, and build 202 of PythonWin thanks ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd console, for a program that has completed execution
In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd console...Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the scrollback buffer?I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of text I'd like to capture. I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to mark and copy.thanks ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Midi files to Wav files
Try pysonic http://pysonic.sourceforge.net/ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:35:37 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [python-win32] Midi files to Wav files To: python-win32@python.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi ! I want to convert my mid files to way files in MS Windows. I know that I can play the mid files, and I can record them as wav - with MMSystem unit. I need to play a midi file and record it in in-line. But how can I do it ? Anybody can help me ? I need some informations to start this work. Thanx for help: dd ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
RE: [python-win32] win32com.Dispatch() vswin32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch() vswin32com.client.DispatchWithEvents()
help(win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents) should print an IE example. At 12:56 AM 03/22/05, Mark Hammond wrote: I did see the example, but didn't know which form of Dispatch it works like. I've read Chapter 12 , several times- but this stuff doesn't COM easy to me. What I would like to know is- is DispatchWithEvents() like the unreliable Dispatch(), or is it more like using EnsureDispatch() + event handling ? DispatchWithEvents is more like EnsureDispatch - it requires the makepy early-binding. Does anyone have some example sof using win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents() ? help(win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents) should print an IE example. Mark ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] Erratic python Win debugger operation
Has anyone else had the problem with the PW debugger, where the debug toolbar goes away after running a script ? ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
