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[Dave Brueck]

On 16 Dec 2002, Syver Enstad wrote:

> ny_r_marquez at yahoo.com (R.Marquez) writes:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply.  However, what I need is a way to pass _all_
> > selected items from Windows Explorer to my program, not just one.  It
> > seems that there is no easy way to do this.  Think of how, for
> > example, Winzip dos it.  You select all the files you want it to
> > archive, right click, select the Winzip option, and it does it.  This
> > tells me that it is doable, but can it be done with Python?  If so,
> > how?
> 
> This involves shell programming and as far as I know you can't make an
> all python solution at this time. Get yourself a book on shell
> programming f.eks. from Wrox, and see how you can do it with C/C++. I
> know that win32all has some support for shell programming but I don't
> think it is enough to write a shell extension.

Another approach is to use Thomas Heller's ctypes module - once you figure
out which Windows APIs to call then you might be able to do it from Python
with ctypes.

-Dave