WinPops

[Peter Gsellmann]

Roger Upole wrote:

> 
> "Hari Sekhon" <sekhon.hari at googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.6230.1148640634.27775.python-list at python.org...
>> Hi,
>>   Is there a way of sending winpops (Windows Pop-Up / Net Send messages)
>>   in python?
>>
>> Perhaps some library or something that I can use under both Windows and
>> Linux?
>>
>> Hari
> 
> On Windows, you can use win32net.NetMessageBufferSend.
> 
>         Roger
> 
On Linux, i use the smbclient binary:
  from subprocess import *
  q=Popen(['smbclient','-M','maggy'],stdin=PIPE)
  q.stdin.write('hello!')
  q.stdin.close()
  q.wait()

Peter