[python-win32] win32api documentation

2009-10-09 Thread J
Hi everyone... I've been searching high and low looking for any sort of decent reference for the win32api in python and I can't find anything that is useful. The only real explanation I've found is the msdn site, but as I'm not a C programmer, translating the various calls to python and guessing

Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Golden
J wrote: I've been searching high and low looking for any sort of decent reference for the win32api in python and I can't find anything that is useful. There isn't much, in spite of a few attempts (my own included) to get something going. There's never enough time... Ultimately, the win32api

Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation

2009-10-09 Thread J
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:06, Tim Golden wrote: > Here at least I can help. Try using WMI which eats this kind of > thing for breakfast[*]. Start here: > >  http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html > > taking in this: > >  http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi-tutorial.html > > and this: > >  http://ti

Re: [python-win32] SSPI/NTLM authentication via XMLRPC

2009-10-09 Thread David
Thanks, Sorry for not doing my homework but what does the "auth dance" entail, how many backwards and forwards would there be, seeing as every bit of data would have to be encapsulated via xmlrpc, would that potentially mean many calls? On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Mark Hammond wrote: > On 9

Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Golden
J wrote: Awesome! Thanks a lot. I'll dig into that after lunch. I finally stumbled on the ActiveState info on win32api with a ref for all the calls, and I'll have to do a little more digging. Well that's simply a copy of the CHM which is provided with the pywin32 installation. I host anoth

[python-win32] PythonWin Grep modifications

2009-10-09 Thread Elias Fotinis
I've made some modifications to PythonWin's Grep functionality. At first I just wanted to add highlighting for the regex matches, but I guess I got carried away. :b I'll eventually submit it to SourceForge, so that Mark may include it in the official release if he wants. In the meantime, here's

Re: [python-win32] How to use COM when there isn't a type library or IDL file

2009-10-09 Thread Thomas Heller
Mark Hammond schrieb: > This is very tricky to do in pure-python. Other interfaces with this > issue (eg, the shell interfaces) tend to use custom c++ code (often > generated by the 'makegw' package then heavily edited) to implement a > win32com 'sub-module'. The best alternative for you may b