python script to windows exe

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 20 May 2008 04:04:13 -0300, sandeep <shiningsandy at gmail.com>  
escribió:

> thanks for ur replies. i have a bit closer look at my code and i am
> able to fix the problem.now my exe is working fine.the code is bit
> more cleaner now as i removed lot of unused function from it and try
> to document it also.

Glad to see it worked finally. Just a few comments:

> #function which will initialise outlook and return its reference
> def getAppRef():
>     temp=win32com.client.Dispatch("OutLook.Application")
>     return temp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Instead of a comment, use a docstring
<http://docs.python.org/tut/node6.html#SECTION006600000000000000000>

def getAppRef():
     """Initialise outlook and return its reference."""
     ...

>         abc=os.path.isdir(os.getcwd()+'\email')
>         if(abc==True):
>             print 'directory exists'
>         else:
>             os.mkdir(os.getcwd()+'\email')
>         path=os.path.abspath(os.getcwd()+'\email')
>         atmt.SaveAsFile(path+"\\"+atmt.DisplayName)

Use '\\email' instead, or r'\email'. \ is the escape character, '\temp'  
actually isn't what you may think. The rules:  
<http://docs.python.org/ref/strings.html>
Anyway, it's much better to use os.path.join to build a path:

email_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'email'))
abc = os.path.isdir(email_dir)
if abc:
     print 'directory exists'
else:
     os.mkdir(email_dir)
atmt.SaveAsFile(os.path.join(email_dir, atmt.DisplayName))

> # function to check whether the character encoding is ascii or smthing
> else
> def checkStringType(a):
>     if isinstance(a,str):
>        b='not a unicode string'
>     else:
>         a.encode('utf-8')
>         #print 'unicode type'
>     return a

This function does not perform what the comment says.
The b='...' is useless, and the a.encode(...) line *returns* a string  
(which is immediately discarded) - it does not modify `a`, strings in  
Python are immutable.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina