Re: [python-win32] handling paths in windows services

2005-09-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Friday 9/9/2005 11:08, you wrote: >The 'svc.cfg' is on the the same directory that contains the python >script, but its path is obviously not available to the windows >service. Short of using absolute paths, what would be the correct way >to handle this. Try this: import os,sys print os.path.

Re: [python-win32] detecting windows type

2005-09-09 Thread Tim Roberts
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:42:18 +0200, le dahut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe I can parse the output of a 'ipfonfig' command, > Nope, that won't work. Ipconfig is NT-only. 95 and 98 have winipcfg, but it is a GUI tool, not a command-line tool. >but commands.getoutput only work with unix, no

[python-win32] path to START MENU folder

2005-09-09 Thread Peter Jessop
Hola Freddy Another way of doing it would be to use the WScript.Shell object: import win32com.client objShell  = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell") allUserDocs = objShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop") print allUserDocs similarly you can use  the following to obtain access to other spe

[python-win32] Re: path to START MENU folder

2005-09-09 Thread Roger Upole
shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0,shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU) should do the trick. Roger ___ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

[python-win32] path to START MENU folder

2005-09-09 Thread Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy
Title: path to START MENU folder Somewhere I found this code to get the path to the DESKTOP folder:   from win32com.shell import shell   df = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder()   pidl = df.ParseDisplayName(0, None,"::{450d8fba-ad25-11d0-98a8-0800361b1103}")[1]   mydocs = shell.SHGetPathFromIDList(pi

[python-win32] handling paths in windows services

2005-09-09 Thread Jason
I get the following error when trying to run a python script as a service The instance's SvcRun() method failed File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 742, in SvcRun File "winService.pyc", line 134, in SvcDoRun File "winService.pyc", line 83, in RunMe File "config.pyc", line 28, in readConfig

[python-win32] Localization

2005-09-09 Thread Bokverket
Hi, new to the list and to Python but enthusiastically on the move into both... I am from the world outside A-Za-z country. I wrote a simple text processing application in Python which I eventually would like to integrate with Microsoft Word. Right away, the following localization problems poppe

Re: [python-win32] detecting windows type

2005-09-09 Thread le dahut
Maybe I can parse the output of a 'ipfonfig' command, but commands.getoutput only work with unix, not with windows. Is there another way to get the output of a command line program under windows ? K. Le jeudi 08 septembre 2005 à 17:24 +0200, Peter Jessop a écrit : > > > On 9/8/05, le dahut <[EM