Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Golden
geoff wrote: You might take a look at Pyla. It's a print to fax library. I think it's kind of what you're talking about. I've been trying to hack it off and on for a while now as we only need a little of its functionality here at work. There isn't much for docs, so you'll have to read the source.

Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-23 Thread geoff
> You might take a look at Pyla. It's a print to fax library. I think it's > kind of what you're talking about. I've been trying to hack it off and on > for a while now as we only need a little of its functionality here at work. > There isn't much for docs, so you'll have to read the source. Here's

Re: [python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Moore
2008/9/23 Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrea Gavana wrote: > ... No explanation was provided for the reason of the >> >> corrupted download (!) > > > There used to be a general warning on sites which offered > tgz for download that IE would do something weird with them. > I never experienced

Re: [python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Golden
Andrea Gavana wrote: ... No explanation was provided for the reason of the corrupted download (!) There used to be a general warning on sites which offered tgz for download that IE would do something weird with them. I never experienced the problem myself, and in any case that was years (and v

Re: [python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Tim, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Tim Golden wrote: > Also, I take it that if you can't use Firefox, you can't use wget either? No, our firewall blocks *everything* that is not internet explorer (!) > http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ > > or Python urrllib? The same as above, unfortuna

Re: [python-win32] Virtual print driver - similiar to winpdf

2008-09-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
geoff wrote: Thanks for you guidance Tim. After reviewing I am coming to the same conclusion. This is trickier than you might guess. Does the application actually write to the printer using a Windows printer driver? Some old applications that just used a printer for logging wrote directly

Re: [python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi Tim, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Tim Golden wrote: > Andrea Gavana wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >>I am having few problems in downloading and installing the release >> 212 of PyWin32 (and all the other releases as well) from SourceForge. >> Whatever executable file I try to download from S

Re: [python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Golden
Andrea Gavana wrote: Hi All, I am having few problems in downloading and installing the release 212 of PyWin32 (and all the other releases as well) from SourceForge. Whatever executable file I try to download from SourceForge (I need the pywin32-212.win32-py2.5.exe for my Python version), th

[python-win32] Invalid or corrupted installer...

2008-09-23 Thread Andrea Gavana
Hi All, I am having few problems in downloading and installing the release 212 of PyWin32 (and all the other releases as well) from SourceForge. Whatever executable file I try to download from SourceForge (I need the pywin32-212.win32-py2.5.exe for my Python version), the download remains stuc

Re: [python-win32] idle detection on system?

2008-09-23 Thread Tim Golden
Patrick Li wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can detect if a system is idle? By idle I am referring to a user being away from the computer (no keyboard or mouse movement) for X minutes. Tried searching around but I haven't found anything that mentions how I can hook into these two events. I