From srsy70 at gmail.com  Wed Nov  1 08:35:50 2006
From: srsy70 at gmail.com (S.Ramaswamy)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:05:50 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
In-Reply-To: <45478C73.8040807@probo.com>
References: <d60e5b0f0610310239h755394fatd846e803c1b999fd@mail.gmail.com>
	<45478C73.8040807@probo.com>
Message-ID: <d60e5b0f0610312335n2d1da50dle849fbef5c9e6178@mail.gmail.com>

>
> Windows error messages are better handled in hex.  -1073738810 is
> C0000BC6, and a quick Google on that shows it is basically "performance
> counter not found".
>

Thanks for the tip.

> You can use "perfmon" to explore what counters are really present.
> Perhaps the "privileged time" counter was renamed in 2003.  In your
> particular case:
>

I doubt if that is the case - I downloaded a vbs script from MSDN that
does the same, and it doesn't fail. In any case let me check again.

Regards
Ramaswamy

From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 05:21:57 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:21:57 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] How to get windows basic system informations
	like "Organization", and "User"
In-Reply-To: <4546234E.7020707@gmail.com>
References: <4546234E.7020707@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611012021r63776142s5656a13b6076bb40@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks!
On 10/30/06, durumdara <durumdara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> Many programs can present these basic informations: who's the user that
> install OS, and what is the name of it's organization.
> I want to get these infos.
>
> Can anyone help me how can I do it ?
>
> Thanks for it:
>     dd
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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 05:24:43 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 23:24:43 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
In-Reply-To: <d60e5b0f0610312335n2d1da50dle849fbef5c9e6178@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d60e5b0f0610310239h755394fatd846e803c1b999fd@mail.gmail.com>
	<45478C73.8040807@probo.com>
	<d60e5b0f0610312335n2d1da50dle849fbef5c9e6178@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611012024m3ade28d9i8fb7471357a86eae@mail.gmail.com>

You can just use the keyword native if you want none english version!

On 11/1/06, S.Ramaswamy <srsy70 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Windows error messages are better handled in hex.  -1073738810 is
> > C0000BC6, and a quick Google on that shows it is basically "performance
> > counter not found".
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> > You can use "perfmon" to explore what counters are really present.
> > Perhaps the "privileged time" counter was renamed in 2003.  In your
> > particular case:
> >
>
> I doubt if that is the case - I downloaded a vbs script from MSDN that
> does the same, and it doesn't fail. In any case let me check again.
>
> Regards
> Ramaswamy
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
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From torerik81 at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 10:27:43 2006
From: torerik81 at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Tor_Erik_S=F8nvisen?=)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:27:43 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service
Message-ID: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>

Hi,
 
I'm trying to execute a python script as a windows service.
I found some information at:
http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.ht
ml
 
The steps I've taken are the following:
 
1. Downloaded Windows Resource Kits
2. Executed instsrv.exe nameOfService srvany.exe
3. In registry added a key Parameters in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nameOfService entry
4. Under Parameters added three string values:
    4.1: Application                REG_SZ
C:\Python25\pythonw.exe
    4.2: AppDirectory            REG_SZ                    C:\Python25
    4.3: AppParameters         REG_SZ                    C:\Documents and
Settings\torerik\My Documents\Apps\SARImageProcessing\time.py
5. Started nameOfService in Control Panel --> Adminstrative Tools -->
Services
 
This is not working however as the python script (time.py) looks like this:
 
import time
 
i = 0
while True:
    f = open(r'C:\testService.txt', 'wb')
    f.write(str(i))
    f.close()
    i += 1
    time.sleep(1)
 
and no file named testService.txt is created.
I've tried executing the script normally, and it works like a charm...
Any ideas?
 
regards
 
 
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Nov  2 14:02:55 2006
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:02:55 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service
References: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>
Message-ID: <002401c6fe7f$39aabbb0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!


Have you use a batch, for define the service?
Is the name in the list of services?


@-salutations

Michel Claveau


From torerik81 at gmail.com  Thu Nov  2 14:23:11 2006
From: torerik81 at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Tor_Erik_S=F8nvisen?=)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:23:11 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service
In-Reply-To: <002401c6fe7f$39aabbb0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
Message-ID: <000501c6fe82$0c0251c0$7741279e@nett.npolar>

Hi,

No, I did not use a batch file. As I understand, it should be possible to do
this without a batch file.
The name of my script is not the same as the service name, if that's what
you are asking... Installing the service is not a problem, and it gets
listed in the services menu.

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Michel Claveau
Sent: 2. november 2006 14:03
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service

Hi!


Have you use a batch, for define the service?
Is the name in the list of services?


@-salutations

Michel Claveau

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From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Thu Nov  2 17:39:46 2006
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim Vickroy)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:39:46 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service
In-Reply-To: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>
References: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>
Message-ID: <454A1F52.2040605@noaa.gov>

I am not familiar with this approach (and I am working on a machine 
where I do not have admin privileges), but an alternative is to download 
the Windows extensions for Python by Mark Hammond (et. al.) at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

which makes writing a Windows service simple as the following example 
illustrates:

=====================================================
# SmallestService.py
#
# A sample demonstrating the smallest possible service written in Python.

import win32serviceutil
import win32service
import win32event

class SmallestPythonService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
    _svc_name_ = "SmallestPythonService"
    _svc_display_name_ = "The smallest possible Python Service"
    def __init__(self, args):
        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
        # Create an event which we will use to wait on.
        # The "service stop" request will set this event.
        self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)

    def SvcStop(self):
        # Before we do anything, tell the SCM we are starting the stop 
process.
        self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
        # And set my event.
        win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)

    def SvcDoRun(self):
        # We do nothing other than wait to be stopped!
        win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop, win32event.INFINITE)

if __name__=='__main__':
    win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(SmallestPythonService)
=====================================================

Just type:

SmallestService.py -h

at a shell prompt to see the options for installing/removing etc.

-- jv



Tor Erik S?nvisen wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm trying to execute a python script as a windows service.
> I found some information at:
> http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html
>  
> The steps I've taken are the following:
>  
> 1. Downloaded Windows Resource Kits
> 2. Executed instsrv.exe nameOfService srvany.exe
> 3. In registry added a key Parameters in 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nameOfService entry
> 4. Under Parameters added three string values:
>     4.1: Application                REG_SZ                    
> C:\Python25\pythonw.exe
>     4.2: AppDirectory            REG_SZ                    C:\Python25
>     4.3: AppParameters         REG_SZ                    C:\Documents 
> and Settings\torerik\My Documents\Apps\SARImageProcessing\time.py
> 5. Started nameOfService in Control Panel --> Adminstrative Tools --> 
> Services
>  
> This is not working however as the python script (time.py) looks like 
> this:
>  
> import time
>  
> i = 0
> while True:
>     f = open(r'C:\testService.txt', 'wb')
>     f.write(str(i))
>     f.close()
>     i += 1
>     time.sleep(1)
>  
> and no file named testService.txt is created.
> I've tried executing the script normally, and it works like a charm...
> Any ideas?
>  
> regards
>  
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Nov  2 19:58:03 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:58:03 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] FW: Python script as a windows service
In-Reply-To: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>
References: <000001c6fe61$275da850$7741279e@nett.npolar>
Message-ID: <454A3FBB.20909@probo.com>

Tor Erik S?nvisen wrote:

>  
> I'm trying to execute a python script as a windows service.
> I found some information at:
> http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html
>  
> The steps I've taken are the following:
>  
> 1. Downloaded Windows Resource Kits
> 2. Executed instsrv.exe nameOfService srvany.exe
> 3. In registry added a key Parameters in
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nameOfService entry
> 4. Under Parameters added three string values:
>     4.1: Application                REG_SZ                   
> C:\Python25\pythonw.exe
>     4.2: AppDirectory            REG_SZ                    C:\Python25
>     4.3: AppParameters         REG_SZ                    C:\Documents
> and Settings\torerik\My Documents\Apps\SARImageProcessing\time.py


You may need to surround that whole path with quote marks because of the
embedded spaces.


> 5. Started nameOfService in Control Panel --> Adminstrative Tools -->
> Services
>  
> This is not working however as the python script (time.py) looks like
> this:


Don't ever give your own scripts the same filename as a standard library
module.  If you happen to move that into a directory that is on your
Python path, "import time" will grab your script instead of the standard
one.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From gbrunick at andrew.cmu.edu  Thu Nov  2 22:31:50 2006
From: gbrunick at andrew.cmu.edu (Gerard Brunick)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:31:50 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
Message-ID: <454A63C6.6030900@andrew.cmu.edu>

The problem is much more involved to describe than the solution.  I run 
windows XP, and I keep
python scripts all over my drive.  Rather than adding all sorts of 
subdirectory's to my path, i create
hardlinks to the scripts that I need to use from the command line in a 
single \bin directory.  The
problem is that when I edit a file with PythonWin, the code to save the 
file first
renames the current version of the file to a backup version, and then 
saves new file with same
name.  This is a problem, because the hardlink now connects the backup 
copy to the copy living in my
bin directory, so when I try to run it, the backup runs instead of the 
current version.

The solution seems to be change
pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py line 70
from: os.rename(fileName, bakFileName)
to: something like shutil.copy(fileName, bakFileName)
and adding "import shutil" at the top

This seems to work for me.  That said, I do not have CVS, and I am 
unwilling to invest the time
and effort to install it to make this change.  If this email is 
worthless, since I am too lazy to install
cvs and make the change myself, then please feel free to ignore me.

Have a good one everybody,
Gerard

From timr at probo.com  Thu Nov  2 22:52:19 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:52:19 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
In-Reply-To: <454A63C6.6030900@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <454A63C6.6030900@andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <454A6893.5040305@probo.com>

Gerard Brunick wrote:
> ...I run windows XP, and I keep
> python scripts all over my drive.  Rather than adding all sorts of 
> subdirectory's to my path, i create
> hardlinks to the scripts that I need to use from the command line in a 
> single \bin directory.
> ...
> The solution seems to be change
> pythonwin\pywin\framework\editor\document.py line 70
> from: os.rename(fileName, bakFileName)
> to: something like shutil.copy(fileName, bakFileName)
> and adding "import shutil" at the top
>
> This seems to work for me.

Very interesting.  This is a problem that Unix folks have faced since
time immemorial, but virtually no one uses hard links in Windows.

The advantage of the os.rename method is performance, but since Python
scripts are always too small to worry about, I'd be in favor of this
change, assuming we used shutil.copy2 to retain the dates and times.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Thu Nov  2 23:21:16 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 19:21:16 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
In-Reply-To: <454A6893.5040305@probo.com>
References: <454A63C6.6030900@andrew.cmu.edu>
 <454A6893.5040305@probo.com>
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061102191731.05c06d68@yahoo.com.ar>

At Thursday 2/11/2006 18:52, Gerard Brunick wrote:

> > ...I run windows XP, and I keep
> > python scripts all over my drive.  Rather than adding all sorts of
> > subdirectory's to my path, i create
> > hardlinks to the scripts that I need to use from the command line in a
> > single \bin directory.

I don't even knew hard links existed on Windows! Thanks...


-- 
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Softlab SRL 

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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Nov  3 05:41:23 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 23:41:23 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20061102191731.05c06d68@yahoo.com.ar>
References: <454A63C6.6030900@andrew.cmu.edu> <454A6893.5040305@probo.com>
	<7.0.1.0.0.20061102191731.05c06d68@yahoo.com.ar>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611022041g324b8b73w8bffcb96f1036d17@mail.gmail.com>

Yep alot of things from *nix are in windows but they are not very accepted!

On 11/2/06, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> At Thursday 2/11/2006 18:52, Gerard Brunick wrote:
>
> > > ...I run windows XP, and I keep
> > > python scripts all over my drive.  Rather than adding all sorts of
> > > subdirectory's to my path, i create
> > > hardlinks to the scripts that I need to use from the command line in a
> > > single \bin directory.
>
> I don't even knew hard links existed on Windows! Thanks...
>
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina
> Softlab SRL
>
> __________________________________________________
> Correo Yahoo!
> Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ?gratis!
> ?Abr? tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
>
>
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From gbrunick at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Nov  3 08:22:53 2006
From: gbrunick at andrew.cmu.edu (Gerard Brunick)
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:22:53 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Suggested change to document.py
Message-ID: <454AEE4D.5030304@andrew.cmu.edu>

Please ignore my suggestion.  It turns out that things are not
as simple as I thought, and the change I suggested does not play
well with the debugger or new files in PythonWin.

To get your hands on hard links in windows use fsutil
or the windows api function CreateHardLink as in win32file.CreateHardLink().

Cheers,
Gerard
 
> Yep alot of things from *nix are in windows but they are not very accepted!
>
> On 11/2/06, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32>> wrote:
> >/
/> >/ At Thursday 2/11/2006 18:52, Gerard Brunick wrote:
/> >/
/> >/ > > ...I run windows XP, and I keep
/> >/ > > python scripts all over my drive.  Rather than adding all sorts of
/> >/ > > subdirectory's to my path, i create
/> >/ > > hardlinks to the scripts that I need to use from the command line in a
/> >/ > > single \bin directory.
/> >/
/> >/ I don't even knew hard links existed on Windows! Thanks...
/> >/
/> >/
/> >/ --
/> >/ Gabriel Genellina
/> >/ Softlab SRL/


From mc at mclaveau.com  Fri Nov  3 09:38:29 2006
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:38:29 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
References: <454AEE4D.5030304@andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <003c01c6ff23$752e88c0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

Hard links (in windows) is great. I use it often.

Another interesting thing is "junction point" (a few like harlink for 
directories).
I work junction-point with linkd.exe & Delrp.exe
(see also http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=205524)

But... where is equivalents functions in pywin32?

Thank for answer

@-salutations

Michel Claveau



From mc at mclaveau.com  Fri Nov  3 10:53:18 2006
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:53:18 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Suggested change to document.py
References: <454AEE4D.5030304@andrew.cmu.edu>
	<003c01c6ff23$752e88c0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
Message-ID: <000601c6ff2d$e6543f90$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!


>> junction point
>> But... where is equivalents functions in pywin32?

I had (perhaps) found: SetVolumeMountPoint
(http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/win32file_.28more.29__SetVolumeMountPoint_meth.html)


Thanks

Michel Claveau




From rwupole at msn.com  Fri Nov  3 12:30:07 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 06:30:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Suggested change to document.py
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP04D1F13395D0649DC61D81A3FE0@phx.gbl>

Michel Claveau wrote: 
> Hi!
> 
> Hard links (in windows) is great. I use it often.
> 
> Another interesting thing is "junction point" (a few like harlink for 
> directories).
> I work junction-point with linkd.exe & Delrp.exe
> (see also http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=205524)
> 
> But... where is equivalents functions in pywin32?

You can use win32file.DeviceIoControl with FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT
to create NTFS junctions.

         Roger



From davtiupy at gmail.com  Thu Nov  9 21:15:23 2006
From: davtiupy at gmail.com (d tiu)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:15:23 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] OnItemSend cancel help
Message-ID: <26e30ca10611091215p66d925c4rf6467b35a5968b3c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,
I'm writing an outlook addin, trying to stop email sends on certain
conditions.  I'm using OnItemSend callbacks that has a cancel
parameter which if set to True, will cancel the send.  It's not
working :(.  I'm calling:
 self.applicationEvents = DispatchWithEvents(application, ApplicationEvent)
with
 class ApplicationEvent:
   def OnItemSend(self, item, cancel):
      print "OnItemSend"
      cancel = True
and desperate, also tried:
 class ApplicationEvent:
   def OnItemSend(self, item, cancel):
      print "OnItemSend"
      cancel = True
      return cancel

I've confirmed that the handler is getting called, but the cancel
parameter seems like it's not getting back to outlook.

The makepy has
#  def OnItemSend(self, Item=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
Cancel=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
as the prototype on gen_py\ApplicationEvents.py.

Any ideas?  One thing is that the VB call is
 Sub object_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
which I suspect Cancel is passed by reference?  If so, is this handled
by the mechanisms in DispathWithEvents?  If not, how does one do it?

Thanks
Dave
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri Nov 10 00:01:15 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:01:15 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] OnItemSend cancel help
In-Reply-To: <26e30ca10611091215p66d925c4rf6467b35a5968b3c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <209b01c70452$f71c87e0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

In general, you should simply return the value of that variable.  You didn't
include the next line of the makepy snippet which includes the types, but a
possibility is that the event handler is actually a function rather than a
"sub" - so maybe something like:

return 0, True

should be used - returning 0 for the function itself, with the True being
for cancel.

Wish I could be more help...

Mark
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of d tiu
  Sent: Friday, 10 November 2006 7:15 AM
  To: python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] OnItemSend cancel help


  Hi all,
  I'm writing an outlook addin, trying to stop email sends on certain
  conditions.  I'm using OnItemSend callbacks that has a cancel
  parameter which if set to True, will cancel the send.  It's not
  working :(.  I'm calling:
   self.applicationEvents = DispatchWithEvents(application,
ApplicationEvent)
  with
   class ApplicationEvent:
     def OnItemSend(self, item, cancel):
        print "OnItemSend"
        cancel = True
  and desperate, also tried:
   class ApplicationEvent:
     def OnItemSend(self, item, cancel):
        print "OnItemSend"
        cancel = True
        return cancel

  I've confirmed that the handler is getting called, but the cancel
  parameter seems like it's not getting back to outlook.

  The makepy has
  #  def OnItemSend(self, Item=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
  Cancel=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
  as the prototype on gen_py\ApplicationEvents.py.

  Any ideas?  One thing is that the VB call is
   Sub object_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
  which I suspect Cancel is passed by reference?  If so, is this handled
  by the mechanisms in DispathWithEvents?  If not, how does one do it?

  Thanks
  Dave
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From nathan.jeffrey at gmail.com  Mon Nov 13 17:23:51 2006
From: nathan.jeffrey at gmail.com (Nathan)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:23:51 +0000 GMT
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
Message-ID: <1760710902-1163435031-cardhu_blackberry.rim.net-5907-@engine27-cell01.bwc.produk.on.blackberry>

Hey all,

Has anyone had any successes with Tim Golden's wmi module and the somewhat evil Win32_GroupUser WMI object?

Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of:

import wmi
conn = wmi.WMI ()
stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser ()

... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain.  That includes :

conn.Win32_GroupUser (GroupComponent = "Win32_Group.SID=sid_number")

... and quite a few conceiveable permutations.

If anyone has working example code, I promise to buy you a beer and post a summary.

--
- Nathan

From Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Nov 13 18:11:09 2006
From: Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:11:09 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
In-Reply-To: <1760710902-1163435031-cardhu_blackberry.rim.net-5907-@engine27-cell01.bwc.produk.on.blackberry>
Message-ID: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

| Has anyone had any successes with Tim Golden's wmi module and 
| the somewhat evil Win32_GroupUser WMI object?

Well I can't say that I had, but I started to look
around when you asked and there do seem to be a few
caveats:

1) Win32_GroupUser is an association between Win32_Group and
Win32_Account, 
just in case you didn't realise.

2) There's a warning here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302857
which suggests that it's less than optimal because of what
happens behind the scenes. [But that seems to apply only to
NT4 & early Win2K]

| Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of:
| 
| import wmi
| conn = wmi.WMI ()
| stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser ()
| 
| ... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain.

I'm going to assume that you didn't intend the
double-negative in the above. 

3) I suggest that the easiest way to use it is this following:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI ()
sql_group = c.Win32_Group (Name="SQL_Adminstrators")
sql_users1 = sql_group.associators (wmi_result_class="Win32_Account")
# or, if you prefer
sql_users2 = sql_group.associators
(wmi_association_class="Win32_GroupUser")

</code>

But that doesn't answer your question. I ran that against
my domain and returned all 15 users in that particular group,
albeit after about a minute or something. I'm running it 
against our Domain Users group now...

... and that came back with 726 (after about 2 minutes)
which, my sysadmins tell me, is about the right number.

Can you post a specific bit of code, just so I can
see what you're doing, and indicate how many users
you're expecting to get back and how many you actually
get?

Thanks
TJG

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From timr at probo.com  Mon Nov 13 18:47:05 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:47:05 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
In-Reply-To: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
References: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
Message-ID: <4558AF99.6020305@probo.com>

Tim Golden wrote:
> | Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of:
> | 
> | import wmi
> | conn = wmi.WMI ()
> | stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser ()
> | 
> | ... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain.
>
> I'm going to assume that you didn't intend the
> double-negative in the above. 
>   

Actually, I think he did.  Everything he tried enumerated the entire
domain, which is not what he wanted.  He wanted to query a subset only.

> Can you post a specific bit of code, just so I can
> see what you're doing, and indicate how many users
> you're expecting to get back and how many you actually
> get?
>   

What he posted was:

conn.Win32_GroupUser (GroupComponent = "Win32_Group.SID=sid_number")

Suggesting, perhaps, that he wanted only the users within a group with a given SID.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From nathan.jeffrey at gmail.com  Mon Nov 13 19:11:30 2006
From: nathan.jeffrey at gmail.com (Nathan Jeffrey)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:11:30 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
In-Reply-To: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
References: <1760710902-1163435031-cardhu_blackberry.rim.net-5907-@engine27-cell01.bwc.produk.on.blackberry>
	<CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
Message-ID: <775d0e220611131011s3b518704gd586fa3babe824f@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/13/06, Tim Golden <Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk> wrote:
> <code>
> import wmi
>
> c = wmi.WMI ()
> sql_group = c.Win32_Group (Name="SQL_Adminstrators")
> sql_users1 = sql_group.associators (wmi_result_class="Win32_Account")
> # or, if you prefer
> sql_users2 = sql_group.associators
> (wmi_association_class="Win32_GroupUser")
> </code>

Although it may not answer the question I posted, it does answer an
unasked question about the way Windows WMI Does Stuff.

I shall attempt it tomorrow and see if it works, and how fast on our W2K domain.

Cheers!

--
- Nathan

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Nov 13 20:32:31 2006
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:32:31 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] =?utf-8?q?Win32=5FGroupUser?=
References: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
	<4558AF99.6020305@probo.com>
Message-ID: <loom.20061113T203012-21@post.gmane.org>

Tim Roberts <timr <at> probo.com> writes:

> 
> Tim Golden wrote:
> > | Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of:
> > | 
> > | import wmi
> > | conn = wmi.WMI ()
> > | stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser ()
> > | 
> > | ... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain.
> >
> > I'm going to assume that you didn't intend the
> > double-negative in the above. 
> >   
> 
> Actually, I think he did.  Everything he tried enumerated the entire
> domain, which is not what he wanted.  He wanted to query a subset only.

Ah yes, my misunderstanding. Thanks for pointing out.

> What he posted was:
> 
> conn.Win32_GroupUser (GroupComponent = "Win32_Group.SID=sid_number")
> 
> Suggesting, perhaps, that he wanted only the users within 
> a group with a given SID.

I imagine you're right. Hopefully my example gave
a way of doing that, but I'll just repost slightly
here:

<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
sid_number = "whatever"
group = c.Win32_Group (SID=sid_number)
#
# and then as before, using group.associators (...)
#

</code>

TJG


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 05:01:53 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:01:53 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
In-Reply-To: <loom.20061113T203012-21@post.gmane.org>
References: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DC@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>
	<4558AF99.6020305@probo.com> <loom.20061113T203012-21@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611132001t117cfc21y9571e972df683dce@mail.gmail.com>

There should be a central site with all this information!
On 11/13/06, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Tim Roberts <timr <at> probo.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Tim Golden wrote:
> > > | Working off a large-ish domain, I can't seem to find a form of:
> > > |
> > > | import wmi
> > > | conn = wmi.WMI ()
> > > | stuff = conn.Win32_GroupUser ()
> > > |
> > > | ... that doesn't enumerate the entire domain.
> > >
> > > I'm going to assume that you didn't intend the
> > > double-negative in the above.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, I think he did.  Everything he tried enumerated the entire
> > domain, which is not what he wanted.  He wanted to query a subset only.
>
> Ah yes, my misunderstanding. Thanks for pointing out.
>
> > What he posted was:
> >
> > conn.Win32_GroupUser (GroupComponent = "Win32_Group.SID=sid_number")
> >
> > Suggesting, perhaps, that he wanted only the users within
> > a group with a given SID.
>
> I imagine you're right. Hopefully my example gave
> a way of doing that, but I'll just repost slightly
> here:
>
> <code>
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI ()
> sid_number = "whatever"
> group = c.Win32_Group (SID=sid_number)
> #
> # and then as before, using group.associators (...)
> #
>
> </code>
>
> TJG
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From bruce.who.hk at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 06:23:15 2006
From: bruce.who.hk at gmail.com (Bruce Who)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:23:15 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
Message-ID: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, all

I am trying to use win32com to interact with a proprietary COM object.
progID of the coclass is "SomeObj2.SomeObj.1", I can create the
coclass but am not able to access other interfaces via
win32com.client.CastTo().

For example ISomeInterface is one of this COM object's interfaces. But
no classes are generated for this interface in the file made by
makepy.py. I can only find things like this:

ISomeInterface_vtables_dispatch_, ISomeInterface_vtables_

this is my code:

    te = win32com.client.Dispatch("SomeObj2.SomeObj.1")
    # fail! Error message is:
    # ...
    # return mapCLSIDToClass[clsid]
    # KeyError: '{84AE9D10-95AD-13D5-88C1-0003025952C1}'
    ISomeInterface_ = win32com.client.CastTo(te, 'ISomeInterface')


in the file generated by makepy.py, the class is very simple:

class SomeObj(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
	CLSID = IID('{7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1}')
	coclass_sources = [
		_SomeObjEvents2,
		_SomeObjEvents,
		_SomeObjEvents4,
		_SomeObjEvents5,
		_SomeObjEvents3,
	]
	default_source = _SomeObjEvents5
	coclass_interfaces = [
	]

I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?

And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
Visual Bacis:

   Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
   ...
   <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>

Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
can also access these interfaces.

Any help would be appreciated!

Bruce

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov 14 06:43:11 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:43:11 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2d2d01c707af$c5eb4570$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
> that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
> and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
> these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?

I'm afraid that what you googled is still correct - only interfaces
implemented using IDispatch can be called by pywin32.

> And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
> Visual Bacis:
>
>    Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
>    ...
>    <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
> CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>
>
> Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
> can also access these interfaces.

VB can use all interfaces, but I believe VBScript can not.  Can you show me
some VBScript code that runs under the Windows Scripting Host (WSH - ie,
wscript.exe/cscript.exe) that does what you need?

Cheers,

Mark


From rikard.bosnjakovic at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 07:19:44 2006
From: rikard.bosnjakovic at gmail.com (Rikard Bosnjakovic)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:19:44 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM interface specs
Message-ID: <d9e88eaf0611132219l6550eeexa405bf287a0d5bbb@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings

I'm a Python-programmer since 6 years, and now is the first time I'm
about to program under the Windows environment.

What I am about to do now is to play around with COM. I read a very
brief tutor (the one found at
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html#21248) and in
there it says that I should see "Word's COM interface specs" if I need
more information about the COM-functions and similiar.

Question: Where do I find these?  I have googled and browsed
http://msdn.microsoft.com for hours without any luck. The only thing I
finally managed to find at Microsoft was some C#-code for interfacing
Word through COM. Not much of a reference though.


-- 
- Rikard.

From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Nov 14 07:36:42 2006
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:36:42 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM interface specs
References: <d9e88eaf0611132219l6550eeexa405bf287a0d5bbb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <000201c707b7$42d98630$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi! 


Just a little way:  http://wikipython.flibuste.net/
see the section "CodeWindows"

This wiki is in french ; but the (exemples of) code is in python.


@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau



From theller at ctypes.org  Tue Nov 14 08:09:44 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:09:44 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>

Bruce Who schrieb:

> I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
> that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
> and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
> these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?
> 
> And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
> Visual Bacis:
> 
>    Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
>    ...
>    <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
> CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>
> 
> Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
> can also access these interfaces.

comtypes can call custom com interfaces:

http://www.python.org/pypi/comtypes

The downside is that there are no docs, yet.

Thomas


From bruce.who.hk at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 09:06:03 2006
From: bruce.who.hk at gmail.com (Bruce Who)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:06:03 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <2d2d01c707af$c5eb4570$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
	<2d2d01c707af$c5eb4570$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <c8dd1d2b0611140006l7251b7e5t35d164bdbc22b1bd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Mark

All the sample VBScript codes I have are embeded in html. I donnot
know if this is different from VBScript code that runs under the
Windows Scripting Host, I'm not familiar with VBScript, :-(


On 11/14/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> > I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
> > that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
> > and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
> > these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?
>
> I'm afraid that what you googled is still correct - only interfaces
> implemented using IDispatch can be called by pywin32.
>
> > And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
> > Visual Bacis:
> >
> >    Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
> >    ...
> >    <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
> > CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>
> >
> > Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
> > can also access these interfaces.
>
> VB can use all interfaces, but I believe VBScript can not.  Can you show me
> some VBScript code that runs under the Windows Scripting Host (WSH - ie,
> wscript.exe/cscript.exe) that does what you need?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>

Bruce

From bruce.who.hk at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 09:17:53 2006
From: bruce.who.hk at gmail.com (Bruce Who)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:17:53 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>
References: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
	<45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <c8dd1d2b0611140017vffe8fd8n9804fb910b2d3382@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Thomas,

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

On 11/14/06, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> Bruce Who schrieb:
>
> > I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
> > that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
> > and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
> > these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?
> >
> > And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
> > Visual Bacis:
> >
> >    Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
> >    ...
> >    <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
> > CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>
> >
> > Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
> > can also access these interfaces.
>
> comtypes can call custom com interfaces:
>
> http://www.python.org/pypi/comtypes
>
> The downside is that there are no docs, yet.
>
> Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Tue Nov 14 09:47:43 2006
From: Tim.Golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:47:43 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_GroupUser
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350611132001t117cfc21y9571e972df683dce@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B5DD@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[James Matthews]

[... re WMI Win32_GroupUser etc. ]

> There should be a central site with all this information!

Well, not that I disagree with you as such, but it depends
on what exactly your "all this" encompasses. ;)

Nearly all of the questions to the list about WMI are
really WMI questions, and not Python or Python/WMI
specific. This one was a bit different because the
answer relied somewhat on the workings of the wmi
module.

If you're after WMI info in general, msdn is the place
I start for simple "How do I use this class?" or
"What are the methods / parameters for this class?" queries:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/default.mspx

Then it's down to the Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wmi?lnk
=lr

or any one of the myriad other resources and examples
around the internet:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wmi+enumerate+group+members

If it's specifics about the Python wmi module, then
obviously I *do* have to bow my head in shame somewhat
and admit that my fledgeling tutorial is taking a *very*
long time to come up with.

Meanwhile, though, there is the cookbook on my site,
which does at least give a certain range of examples:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html

I generally try to use the questions to the list
as the starting point for cookbook "recipes". I'll
try to put this one in.

TJG

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From rwupole at msn.com  Tue Nov 14 11:04:44 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:04:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: COM interface specs
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP086CCE144F15871FC4FCE8A3EB0@phx.gbl>

Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I'm a Python-programmer since 6 years, and now is the first time I'm
> about to program under the Windows environment.
> 
> What I am about to do now is to play around with COM. I read a very
> brief tutor (the one found at
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html#21248) and in
> there it says that I should see "Word's COM interface specs" if I need
> more information about the COM-functions and similiar.
> 
> Question: Where do I find these?  I have googled and browsed
> http://msdn.microsoft.com for hours without any luck. The only thing I
> finally managed to find at Microsoft was some C#-code for interfacing
> Word through COM. Not much of a reference though.
> 
> 
> -- 
> - Rikard.

Try googling "microsoft word object model".  This turns up the VBA docs on
MSDN, and a lot of other tutorials and such.  Also, searching on
"python word.application" should get you a good bit of sample code.

      hth
        Roger


From bruce.who.hk at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 11:43:27 2006
From: bruce.who.hk at gmail.com (Bruce Who)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:43:27 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>
References: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>
	<45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <c8dd1d2b0611140243v486f8d76rd2802c028dd184a5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, Thomas

Finally I make it to create a COM object:

class EventSink:
    def OnLoadFinished(self):
        print 'load finished'

o = comtypes.client.CreateObject("SomeObj2.SomeObj.1", sink=EventSink())

but the EventSink.OnLoadFinished() is never called, and I still donnot
know how to get an interface, :-(


On 11/14/06, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
>
> comtypes can call custom com interfaces:
>
> http://www.python.org/pypi/comtypes
>
> The downside is that there are no docs, yet.
>
> Thomas
>

Bruce Who

From theller at ctypes.org  Tue Nov 14 13:19:05 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:19:05 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
In-Reply-To: <c8dd1d2b0611140243v486f8d76rd2802c028dd184a5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c8dd1d2b0611132123y3b0dc39k207bbb77de08757c@mail.gmail.com>	<45596BB8.6060009@ctypes.org>
	<c8dd1d2b0611140243v486f8d76rd2802c028dd184a5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4559B439.3050103@ctypes.org>

Bruce Who schrieb:
> Hi, Thomas
> 
> Finally I make it to create a COM object:
> 
> class EventSink:
>     def OnLoadFinished(self):
>         print 'load finished'
> 
> o = comtypes.client.CreateObject("SomeObj2.SomeObj.1", sink=EventSink())
> 
> but the EventSink.OnLoadFinished() is never called, and I still donnot
> know how to get an interface, :-(


Well, comtypes.client.CreateObject /returns/ a pointer to a COM interface.
If it is not the interface you want, you can call o.QueryInterface(IOtherInterface)
on it - how you get or create the IOtherInterface Python class that 'describes'
the interface is another question.  If the COM object supplies type information
then comtypes generates a Python wrapper for the type library automatically
in the 'comtypes.gen' package.  The module name is derived from the type library,
for example for InternetExplorer  the typelib is name comtypes.gen.SHDocVw (Note
that this is a very shallow module, it imports everything from another module that
is named after the GUID and version from the typelib; for IE it is
'comtypes.gen._EAB22AC0_30C1_11CF_A7EB_0000C05BAE0B_0_1_1').
You can import the interfaces from any of these modules.

For the events: First, the event handler methods receive an additional argument
'this' just after the 'self', this is an implementation detail of comtypes; which
mirrors that COM methods you *implement* also receive this argument.
Then, it could be that the name of the method is wrong; comtypes does *not* prepend
an 'On' to the method name.

A useful event sink for COM objects is one that responds to __getattr__ by dynamically
creating event handlers, the attached script demonstrates this (for IE, again).

Oh, there 'may* be a totally different reason why you don't receive events:
By default, comtypes (like pythoncom) creates a single-threaded COM appartment,
in which you usually should run a message pump.

Thomas

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From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 16:28:10 2006
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:28:10 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe and winxptheme
Message-ID: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

    I am having some troubles mixing py2exe and winxptheme. Basically,
I am using wxPython 2.7.2.0 with Python 2.5, and painting some window
background using the UxTheme via winxptheme. This is what I am doing:

hwnd = MyWindow.GetHandle()
self.hTheme = winxptheme.OpenThemeData(hwnd, "Window")

winxptheme.DrawThemeBackground(self.hTheme, dc.GetHDC(), 5, 1,
                               (rc.top, rc.left, rc.right, rc.bottom), None)


This works very well using python directly, but when I generate and
executable file with py2exe, I get this error when executing that last
line:

TypeError: an integer is required

This is because self.hTheme is *None*. It seems like OpenThemeData can
not be initialized in an executable, or at least that I am not able to
do it.
Does anyone have a possible solution to this problem? I have tried all
the possibilities with py2exe, meaning bundle=1, bundle=2, bundle=3,
compressed=1, compressed=2, every possible combination. But it doesn't
work :-(

I attach my setup file, if it can be of any help.

Thank you very much for every pointer.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/
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From theller at ctypes.org  Tue Nov 14 16:42:30 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:42:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe and winxptheme
In-Reply-To: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>

Andrea Gavana schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
>     I am having some troubles mixing py2exe and winxptheme. Basically,
> I am using wxPython 2.7.2.0 with Python 2.5, and painting some window
> background using the UxTheme via winxptheme. This is what I am doing:
> 
> hwnd = MyWindow.GetHandle()
> self.hTheme = winxptheme.OpenThemeData(hwnd, "Window")
> 
> winxptheme.DrawThemeBackground(self.hTheme, dc.GetHDC(), 5, 1,
>                                (rc.top, rc.left, rc.right, rc.bottom), None)
> 
> 
> This works very well using python directly, but when I generate and
> executable file with py2exe, I get this error when executing that last
> line:
> 
> TypeError: an integer is required
> 
> This is because self.hTheme is *None*. It seems like OpenThemeData can
> not be initialized in an executable, or at least that I am not able to
> do it.

Let me try to guess:  Do you have an XP-style manifest for the exe?

Thomas


From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 16:50:04 2006
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:50:04 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] [Py2exe-users] py2exe and winxptheme
In-Reply-To: <4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>
References: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Thomas,

>
> Let me try to guess:  Do you have an XP-style manifest for the exe?
>

Yes, I have it, embedded in the setup.py script. I have removed it
from the file I sent to the mailing list because I thought it was
redundant, but if you need to see it I can attach it to my e-mail. Is
it a problem if I have a XP-Style manifest file? Sorry to be so
ignorant in py2exe/WinXP things...

I attach the complete setup.py file. Thank you so much.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/
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from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import glob
import os
import matplotlib
import shutil

manifest = """
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
    version="0.64.1.0"
    processorArchitecture="x86"
    name="Controls"
    type="win32"
/>
<description>KPObject</description>
<dependency>
    <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity
            type="win32"
            name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
            version="6.0.0.0"
            processorArchitecture="X86"
            publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
            language="*"
        />
    </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>
"""

shutil.rmtree("build", ignore_errors=True)
mplfiles = glob.glob(os.sep.join([matplotlib.get_data_path(), '*']))

# Need to explicitly remove cocoa_agg nib folder or py2exe complains
mplfiles.remove(os.sep.join([matplotlib.get_data_path(), 'Matplotlib.nib']))

lst = os.listdir(os.getcwd())

incl = []
for files in lst:
    if files.endswith(".py") or files.endswith(".PY"):
        incl.append(files[:-3])

includes = incl
packages = ['matplotlib.numerix','pytz']
excludes = ["Tkconstants", "Tkinter", "tcl", '_gtkagg', '_tkagg']

excludes.extend(['_gtkagg','_tkagg','Tkconstants','pywin.debugger',
                 'pywin.debugger.dbgcon','pywin.dialogs', 'bsddb',
                 'curses','email','distutil','logging','readline',
                 'setuptools'])

dll_excludes = ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll', 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll',
                'tcl84.dll', 'tk84.dll', 'gdiplus.dll']

setup(

    version = "0.1",
    description = "KPObject",
    name = "KPObject",

    data_files = [('matplotlibdata', mplfiles)],

    options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 2, 
                          "optimize": 1,
                          "includes": includes,
                          "excludes": excludes,
                          "packages": packages,
                          "dll_excludes": dll_excludes,
                          "bundle_files": 1,
                          }},

    zipfile = None,
    windows = [{"script": "KPObject.py",
                "icon_resources": [(1, "icons/eni.ico")],
                "other_resources": [(24,1,manifest)]}]

    )

From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 16:55:48 2006
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:55:48 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] [Py2exe-users] py2exe and winxptheme
In-Reply-To: <d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>
	<d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <d5ff27200611140755g5dca4348kd1c7dc70e9c6478e@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry, I just would like to add that I also have a file called:

MyExecutable.exe.manifest

in the dist directory.

Andrea.

On 11/14/06, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> >
> > Let me try to guess:  Do you have an XP-style manifest for the exe?
> >
>
> Yes, I have it, embedded in the setup.py script. I have removed it
> from the file I sent to the mailing list because I thought it was
> redundant, but if you need to see it I can attach it to my e-mail. Is
> it a problem if I have a XP-Style manifest file? Sorry to be so
> ignorant in py2exe/WinXP things...
>
> I attach the complete setup.py file. Thank you so much.
>
> Andrea.
>
> "Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/
>
>
>


-- 
Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/

From theller at ctypes.org  Tue Nov 14 17:40:35 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:40:35 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe and winxptheme
In-Reply-To: <d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>	<4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>
	<d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4559F183.6060700@ctypes.org>

Andrea Gavana schrieb:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>>
>> Let me try to guess:  Do you have an XP-style manifest for the exe?
>>
> 
> Yes, I have it, embedded in the setup.py script. I have removed it
> from the file I sent to the mailing list because I thought it was
> redundant, but if you need to see it I can attach it to my e-mail. Is
> it a problem if I have a XP-Style manifest file? Sorry to be so
> ignorant in py2exe/WinXP things...

The manifest file is used to provide the app with the XP-native look and feel.
I thought it could also be related to the OpenTheme stuff...

> I attach the complete setup.py file. Thank you so much.

Seems I have to disappoint you - I have no idea anymore.  But then,
I've never used these theme functions.

Sorry,
Thomas


From it at crummock.com  Tue Nov 14 17:49:39 2006
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:49:39 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
Message-ID: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>

Is there anywhere I can download a compiled but unpackaged version of 
pywin32?

I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the 
bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to 
multiple clients using group policy.

The sourceforge project page only lists executable installers and the 
source distribution (which isn't much use without MS Visual Studio).

Feel free to shoot me down to earth if there's any reason why this 
approach will never work - the bdist_msi extension does seem quite 
"bleeding edge".

Thanks for all your help!

-ross


From p.f.moore at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 17:56:11 2006
From: p.f.moore at gmail.com (Paul Moore)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:56:11 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
In-Reply-To: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>
References: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>
Message-ID: <79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <it at crummock.com> wrote:
> Is there anywhere I can download a compiled but unpackaged version of
> pywin32?
>
> I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the
> bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to
> multiple clients using group policy.
>
> The sourceforge project page only lists executable installers and the
> source distribution (which isn't much use without MS Visual Studio).
>
> Feel free to shoot me down to earth if there's any reason why this
> approach will never work - the bdist_msi extension does seem quite
> "bleeding edge".
>
> Thanks for all your help!

The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip
file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using
something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a
postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if
bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.

Have fun!
Paul.

From fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk  Tue Nov 14 18:01:28 2006
From: fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk (Fuzzyman)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:01:28 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
In-Reply-To: <79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>
	<79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4559F668.7080607@voidspace.org.uk>

Paul Moore wrote:

>On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <it at crummock.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Is there anywhere I can download a compiled but unpackaged version of
>>pywin32?
>>
>>I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the
>>bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to
>>multiple clients using group policy.
>>
>>The sourceforge project page only lists executable installers and the
>>source distribution (which isn't much use without MS Visual Studio).
>>
>>Feel free to shoot me down to earth if there's any reason why this
>>approach will never work - the bdist_msi extension does seem quite
>>"bleeding edge".
>>
>>Thanks for all your help!
>>    
>>
>
>The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip
>file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using
>something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a
>postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if
>bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.
>  
>
If you have Visual Studio installed, you should be able to use distutils
to generate the msi in the usual way from the source archive.

It would be nice to be able to do the same thing using precompiled DLLs.
Anyone know if that is possible ?

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/index2.shtml

>Have fun!
>Paul.
>_______________________________________________
>Python-win32 mailing list
>Python-win32 at python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>  
>


From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Tue Nov 14 18:03:42 2006
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:03:42 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] [Py2exe-users] py2exe and winxptheme
In-Reply-To: <4559F183.6060700@ctypes.org>
References: <d5ff27200611140728t29fc083fge6c8be37498fcc43@mail.gmail.com>
	<4559E3E6.4000602@ctypes.org>
	<d5ff27200611140750w2b00030epec31c6ee3c7614f4@mail.gmail.com>
	<4559F183.6060700@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <d5ff27200611140903w49c49e0anac9409c9ece3045c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Thomas,

> Seems I have to disappoint you - I have no idea anymore.  But then,
> I've never used these theme functions.
>
> Sorry,
> Thomas

Thank you for your help... I guess it is a bit an obscure problem. I
don't really want to abandon that really nice interface, so I hope
that some PyWin32 guru could help me...


Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/

From fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk  Tue Nov 14 18:56:35 2006
From: fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:56:35 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Building from Source
Message-ID: <455A0353.8070909@voidspace.org.uk>

Hello all,

I have just tried to build the Pywin32 extensions from source - using 
the "pywin32-210.zip" archive.

I have Visual Studio 2005 installed and have built Pywin32 from source 
before. I'm using Python 2.4 under Windows XP.

The build fails as follows, can anyone suggest a reason ?

C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210>setup.py bdist_wininst
Building pywin32 2.4.210.0
running bdist_wininst
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win32-2.4
creating build\lib.win32-2.4\win32
creating build\lib.win32-2.4\win32\lib
copying win32\lib\afxres.py -> build\lib.win32-2.4\win32\lib

[snip ..]

copying isapi\simple.py -> build\lib.win32-2.4\isapi
copying isapi\threaded_extension.py -> build\lib.win32-2.4\isapi
copying isapi\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-2.4\isapi
running build_ext
Warning - can't find an installed platform SDK
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210\setup.py", line 1496, in ?
    data_files=[('', 
(os.path.join(os.environ['temp'],'pywin32.version.txt'),))
 +
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\bdist_wininst.py", line 107, 
in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210\setup.py", line 359, in run
    build.run(self)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python24\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 279, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210\setup.py", line 490, in 
build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210\setup.py", line 678, in 
build_extension
    why = self._why_cant_build_extension(ext)
  File "C:\Python Binaries\pywin32-210\setup.py", line 426, in 
_why_cant_build_
xtension
    raise RuntimeError, "Can't find a version in Windows.h"
RuntimeError: Can't find a version in Windows.h

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml


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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov 14 23:56:44 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:56:44 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Building from Source
In-Reply-To: <455A0353.8070909@voidspace.org.uk>
Message-ID: <2fb701c70840$28f67c80$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

Hi Michael,

>     raise RuntimeError, "Can't find a version in Windows.h"
> RuntimeError: Can't find a version in Windows.h

I've no idea why that would happen unless the Windows.h we found isn't the
correct one - no one else has ever reported it before.  All I can suggest is
to add some 'print' statements to try and diagnose what is going on.

Cheers,

Mark


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Wed Nov 15 03:48:54 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:48:54 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] COM interface specs
In-Reply-To: <BAY0-SMTP086CCE144F15871FC4FCE8A3EB0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY0-SMTP086CCE144F15871FC4FCE8A3EB0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611141848p5ee6bb6i4130512af87b4bd4@mail.gmail.com>

There should be a mediawiki on this stuff already!

On 11/14/06, Roger Upole <rwupole at msn.com> wrote:
>
> Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> > Greetings
> >
> > I'm a Python-programmer since 6 years, and now is the first time I'm
> > about to program under the Windows environment.
> >
> > What I am about to do now is to play around with COM. I read a very
> > brief tutor (the one found at
> > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python2/chapter/ch15.html#21248) and in
> > there it says that I should see "Word's COM interface specs" if I need
> > more information about the COM-functions and similiar.
> >
> > Question: Where do I find these?  I have googled and browsed
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com for hours without any luck. The only thing I
> > finally managed to find at Microsoft was some C#-code for interfacing
> > Word through COM. Not much of a reference though.
> >
> >
> > --
> > - Rikard.
>
> Try googling "microsoft word object model".  This turns up the VBA docs on
> MSDN, and a lot of other tutorials and such.  Also, searching on
> "python word.application" should get you a good bit of sample code.
>
>       hth
>         Roger
>
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From arve.knudsen at gmail.com  Wed Nov 15 16:54:45 2006
From: arve.knudsen at gmail.com (Arve Knudsen)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:54:45 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Determine admin rights
Message-ID: <a0d6258d0611150754r42b4d102i2a65b3b6ca3dadcd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi
Is there a way I can determine whether a user is a local administrator using
pywin32? I've used NetUserGetLocalGroups to see if the user is in the
"Administrators" group, but this breaks on non-English versions of Windows.
As far as I can see there exists a function IsUserAnAdmin in shell32.lib (
shlobj.h), would it be possible to expose this through pywin32?

Thanks,
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From theller at ctypes.org  Wed Nov 15 21:39:30 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:39:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Determine admin rights
In-Reply-To: <a0d6258d0611150754r42b4d102i2a65b3b6ca3dadcd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a0d6258d0611150754r42b4d102i2a65b3b6ca3dadcd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <455B7B02.60201@ctypes.org>

Arve Knudsen schrieb:
> Hi
> Is there a way I can determine whether a user is a local administrator using
> pywin32? I've used NetUserGetLocalGroups to see if the user is in the
> "Administrators" group, but this breaks on non-English versions of Windows.
> As far as I can see there exists a function IsUserAnAdmin in shell32.lib (
> shlobj.h), would it be possible to expose this through pywin32?
> 
Maybe this works?

import ctypes
print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()

Thomas


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Nov 17 05:53:58 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:53:58 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Retaining a value during a recursive function
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611162053n1c6a8682w7c1d20ef8dc9c07f@mail.gmail.com>

The function just overwrites the list in my function is there anyway i can
fix this!
def find_all_items(site):
    site = urllib.urlopen(site).read()
    all_items = re.findall(r'watch\.asp\?\w+\=\w*\&\w*\=\w+',site)
    next_page = re.findall(r'Watches\.asp\?\w+\=[0-9]+\&pg\=\w+',site)
    try:
        find_all_items(urllib.basejoin("<some url>",next_page[0]))
    except IndexError:
        pass
    return remove_dups(all_items) # ,<---- this removes all the duplicate
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From mschulz at webgis.de  Fri Nov 17 09:10:07 2006
From: mschulz at webgis.de (Michael Schulz)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:10:07 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from python to vb
Message-ID: <e750b12e0611170010u1781c3cdp5f23de1ffcfb19d7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I'm a beginner on the python-win32 field, so please excuse stupid questions ;-)

We have an vb application that uses a python com server. This python
module generates images in a stringio object. We want to pass the
image as a string / stream to the vb application. This is in a way
working, as we get the data in vb, but the image cannot be rendered
there due to an exception from system.drawing.dll "invalid parameter
used".

The server has a drawing method the returns the image from a stringio
via getvalue().
The relevant vb code, that should take the string and show it in an
image object:

Dim bSPil As Object = CreateObject("Python.BSPil")
Dim imageString As String
imageString = bSPil.return_image()
Dim imageBytes() As Byte = (New UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(imageString)
Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(imageBytes)
pb1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms)

The error is raised at the last line. When saving the image from
python to a file and reading it as a filestream in vb, the image is
displayed correctly. Can anybody shed some light on this.

Thanks, Michael

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From it at crummock.com  Fri Nov 17 09:55:36 2006
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:55:36 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
In-Reply-To: <79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>
	<79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <455D7908.60804@crummock.com>

Paul Moore wrote:
 > On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <it at crummock.com> wrote:
 >> I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the
 >> bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to
 >> multiple clients using group policy.
 >
 > The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip
 > file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using
 > something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a
 > postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if
 > bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.

Thanks for the info.

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get distutils working on the extracted 
binaries (I couldn't get it to skip trying to compile, a step doomed to 
failure if you dont have a compiler installed).

However, I did manage to manually repackage the install as a (fairly 
primitive) msi. If anyone would like this (build 210 for python 2.5) 
please email me. If there's enough interest I'll post it for download.

-ross

From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Nov 17 10:30:12 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:30:12 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] RE working in interactive but not in regular code
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>

I have this RE  things= re.findall(r'\?Brand\=\w+\&pg=\w+',site) now when i
run it against a site it returns everything in a list ( in the interactive
interpreter however when i run it start alone it won't work?? Why?

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From davidf at sjsoft.com  Fri Nov 17 13:51:39 2006
From: davidf at sjsoft.com (David Fraser)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:51:39 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
In-Reply-To: <455D7908.60804@crummock.com>
References: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>	<79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
	<455D7908.60804@crummock.com>
Message-ID: <455DB05B.1070601@sjsoft.com>

Ross McKerchar wrote:
> Paul Moore wrote:
>  > On 11/14/06, Ross McKerchar <it at crummock.com> wrote:
>  >> I would like to repackage the win32 extensions as an msi using the the
>  >> bdist_msi distutils extension, allowing me to deploy the package to
>  >> multiple clients using group policy.
>  >
>  > The executable installer (bdist_wininst) format is basically a zip
>  > file with an executable header added, so you can unzip it using
>  > something like winzip. Having said that, the installer runs a
>  > postinstall script to do a lot of the setup actions - I don't know if
>  > bdist_msi handles postinstall scripts.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't manage to get distutils working on the extracted 
> binaries (I couldn't get it to skip trying to compile, a step doomed to 
> failure if you dont have a compiler installed).
>
> However, I did manage to manually repackage the install as a (fairly 
> primitive) msi. If anyone would like this (build 210 for python 2.5) 
> please email me. If there's enough interest I'll post it for download.
I guess me asking would count as enough interest then? I'd be interested 
in the setup script used for it as well...

Cheers
David

From robertoedwins at gmail.com  Fri Nov 17 15:55:11 2006
From: robertoedwins at gmail.com (rieh25)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:55:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Listing query results
Message-ID: <7402743.post@talk.nabble.com>


Hello, I would like to know how to list query results. I've found usefull
information about insert/update queries...

conn = odbc.odbc("test1_Data")
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("INSERT INTO local_cmgenadm
(Application,Run_Date,Run_DateYMD,status) values
(\'rimDev2PrdMdbDistrictPermit\',\'%s\', \'20060731\' ,
\'Good\')")%mytime
cursor.close()
conn.close() 

...and now I need to know how to list the results of a select query

thanks
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From robertoedwins at gmail.com  Fri Nov 17 16:41:03 2006
From: robertoedwins at gmail.com (rieh25)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:41:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Does pywin32-odbc support several users?
Message-ID: <7403865.post@talk.nabble.com>


I'm thinking of implementing pywin32 to implement access to an Oracle
database, to users of an application built in Zope . Is this a good idea, or
is pywin32's odbc feature intended for a single user?

Thanks
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From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Fri Nov 17 16:52:16 2006
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim Vickroy)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:52:16 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Does pywin32-odbc support several users?
In-Reply-To: <7403865.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <7403865.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <455DDAB0.9020808@noaa.gov>

rieh25 wrote:

>I'm thinking of implementing pywin32 to implement access to an Oracle
>database, to users of an application built in Zope . Is this a good idea, or
>is pywin32's odbc feature intended for a single user?
>
>Thanks
>  
>
pywin32's odbc interface provides connection objects -- as many as your 
database back end allows -- so it is fine for multiple users -- jv

From robertoedwins at gmail.com  Fri Nov 17 17:30:48 2006
From: robertoedwins at gmail.com (rieh25)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:30:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Does pywin32-odbc support several users?
In-Reply-To: <455DDAB0.9020808@noaa.gov>
References: <7403865.post@talk.nabble.com> <455DDAB0.9020808@noaa.gov>
Message-ID: <7405319.post@talk.nabble.com>


Ok, thanks...


Jim Vickroy wrote:
> 
> rieh25 wrote:
> 
>>I'm thinking of implementing pywin32 to implement access to an Oracle
>>database, to users of an application built in Zope . Is this a good idea,
or
>>is pywin32's odbc feature intended for a single user?
>>
>>Thanks
>>  
>>
> pywin32's odbc interface provides connection objects -- as many as your 
> database back end allows -- so it is fine for multiple users -- jv
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 
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From timr at probo.com  Fri Nov 17 20:21:40 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:21:40 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Listing query results
In-Reply-To: <7402743.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <7402743.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <455E0BC4.1020404@probo.com>

rieh25 wrote:
> Hello, I would like to know how to list query results. I've found usefull
> information about insert/update queries...
>
> conn = odbc.odbc("test1_Data")
> cursor = conn.cursor()
> cursor.execute("INSERT INTO local_cmgenadm
> (Application,Run_Date,Run_DateYMD,status) values
> (\'rimDev2PrdMdbDistrictPermit\',\'%s\', \'20060731\' ,
> \'Good\')")%mytime
> cursor.close()
> conn.close() 
>   

There is no need to escape the quote marks.  You're inside double
quotes, so there is no issue with single quotes.  However, it's better
to let the database layer do the quoting:
    cursor.execute(
        "INSERT INTO local_cmgenadm
(Application,Run_Date,Run_DateYMD,status) "
        "VALUES (%s,%s,%s,%s)", ('rimDev2PrdMdbDistrictPermit', mytime,
'20060731', 'Good')
    )

> ...and now I need to know how to list the results of a select query
>   

    cursor.execute( "SELECT Application,Run_Date FROM local_cmgenadm
WHERE status='Good'")
    for row in cursor.fetchall():
        print row[0], row[1]

-- 
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From timr at probo.com  Fri Nov 17 20:25:35 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:25:35 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] RE working in interactive but not in regular code
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <455E0CAF.6060906@probo.com>

James Matthews wrote:
> I have this RE  things= re.findall(r'\?Brand\=\w+\&pg=\w+',site) now
> when i run it against a site it returns everything in a list ( in the
> interactive interpreter however when i run it start alone it won't
> work?? Why?

Show us an example, including what you expect and what you see.  We
can't read minds, yet.

There's no need to quote the =.  It isn't special.

-- 
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From timr at probo.com  Fri Nov 17 21:02:09 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:02:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Retaining a value during a recursive function
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350611162053n1c6a8682w7c1d20ef8dc9c07f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350611162053n1c6a8682w7c1d20ef8dc9c07f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <455E1541.2040602@probo.com>

James Matthews wrote:
> The function just overwrites the list in my function is there anyway i
> can fix this!
> def find_all_items(site):
>     site = urllib.urlopen(site).read()
>     all_items = re.findall(r'watch\.asp\?\w+\=\w*\&\w*\=\w+',site)
>     next_page = re.findall(r'Watches\.asp\?\w+\=[0-9]+\&pg\=\w+',site)
>     try:
>         find_all_items(urllib.basejoin("<some url>",next_page[0]))
>     except IndexError:
>         pass
>     return remove_dups(all_items) # ,<---- this removes all the
> duplicate items

Actually, it doesn't overwrite the list.  You just don't do anything
with the list that is returned from the call inside the function. 
Remember that site, all_items, and next_page are LOCAL variable; they
exist only inside that one function call.  Every time you call
find_all_items, you get a brand new instance of all_items.

  try:
    all_items.extend( find_all_items( urllib.basejoin("<some
url>",next_page[0] ) )

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From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Fri Nov 17 21:37:46 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:37:46 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] RE working in interactive but not in regular code
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <455E1D9A.7090705@alum.rpi.edu>

James Matthews wrote:
> I have this RE  things= re.findall(r'\?Brand\=\w+\&pg=\w+',site) now 
> when i run it against a site it returns everything in a list ( in the 
> interactive interpreter however when i run it start alone it won't 
> work?? Why?
You will probably get more help if you tell us what behavior you expect 
and what you get. "won't work" does not help us understand.

-- 
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510-978-4454


From rwupole at msn.com  Sat Nov 18 17:28:30 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:28:30 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: COM interface specs
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP0211C07968057C617BA4E0A3EF0@phx.gbl>

James Matthews wrote:
> There should be a mediawiki on this stuff already!

There used to be a collection of Office/COM scripts at
win32com.de, but that site appears to be gone.  Anybody
know if it's moved or if there's a mirror anywhere ?

         Roger



From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Sun Nov 19 00:52:05 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:52:05 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] RE working in interactive but not in regular code
In-Reply-To: <455E1D9A.7090705@alum.rpi.edu>
References: <8a6b8e350611170130q19173bf4y537a1f42d7538249@mail.gmail.com>
	<455E1D9A.7090705@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611181552o5993625ftbf3f3e58d9766b18@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry i was in a bit or a rush....

def next_page_finder(site):
    site = urlopen(site).read()
    next_site_pages = findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site)
    return next_site_pages

On 11/17/06, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> James Matthews wrote:
> > I have this RE  things= re.findall(r'\?Brand\=\w+\&pg=\w+',site) now
> > when i run it against a site it returns everything in a list ( in the
> > interactive interpreter however when i run it start alone it won't
> > work?? Why?
> You will probably get more help if you tell us what behavior you expect
> and what you get. "won't work" does not help us understand.
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 510-978-4454
>
>


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From waldemar.osuch at gmail.com  Sun Nov 19 08:04:18 2006
From: waldemar.osuch at gmail.com (Waldemar Osuch)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:04:18 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Does pywin32-odbc support several users?
In-Reply-To: <7405319.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <7403865.post@talk.nabble.com> <455DDAB0.9020808@noaa.gov>
	<7405319.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <6fae95540611182304q24da0fcfn49ef0f4b4e6eac6e@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/17/06, rieh25 <robertoedwins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, thanks...
>
>
> Jim Vickroy wrote:
> >
> > rieh25 wrote:
> >
> >>I'm thinking of implementing pywin32 to implement access to an Oracle
> >>database, to users of an application built in Zope . Is this a good idea,
> or
> >>is pywin32's odbc feature intended for a single user?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>
> > pywin32's odbc interface provides connection objects -- as many as your
> > database back end allows -- so it is fine for multiple users -- jv

If you are talking to Oracle DB I would recommend using cx_Oracle and
skipping odbc altogether.

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Nov 20 00:13:53 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:13:53 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from python to vb
In-Reply-To: <e750b12e0611170010u1781c3cdp5f23de1ffcfb19d7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3df901c70c30$627903d0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

It may be that the Unicode characters used by COM are to blame.  From the
Python side of the world, try returning 'buffer(ob.getvalue())' - Python
will try and return a buffer object as an array of characters, rather than a
'string' (which is Unicode).

The end result is to try and ensure that 'imageBytes' is *identical* to the
string passed by Python - I suspect it is not, which is the root of the
problem.

Cheers,

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Schulz
> Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 7:10 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from
> python to vb
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a beginner on the python-win32 field, so please excuse
> stupid questions ;-)
>
> We have an vb application that uses a python com server. This python
> module generates images in a stringio object. We want to pass the
> image as a string / stream to the vb application. This is in a way
> working, as we get the data in vb, but the image cannot be rendered
> there due to an exception from system.drawing.dll "invalid parameter
> used".
>
> The server has a drawing method the returns the image from a stringio
> via getvalue().
> The relevant vb code, that should take the string and show it in an
> image object:
>
> Dim bSPil As Object = CreateObject("Python.BSPil")
> Dim imageString As String
> imageString = bSPil.return_image()
> Dim imageBytes() As Byte = (New UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(imageString)
> Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(imageBytes)
> pb1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms)
>
> The error is raised at the last line. When saving the image from
> python to a file and reading it as a filestream in vb, the image is
> displayed correctly. Can anybody shed some light on this.
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Mon Nov 20 05:52:01 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 23:52:01 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] RE Explained With screenshot
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611192052l4cba0022ia180ff111e75dd81@mail.gmail.com>

This is the code i am dealing with..
Code:
def next_page_finder(site):
    site = urlopen(site).read()
    next_site_pages = []
    next_site_pages.extend(findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site))
    new_pages = []
    for _ in next_site_pages:
        new_pages.append(basejoin("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp",_))
    return new_pages

The issue is that when i run the RE
Code:
next_site_pages.extend(findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site))
it returns me an empty list however in the interactive input i run
something akin to it

Code:
>>> from re import findall
>>> from urllib import basejoin,urlopen
>>> site = urlopen("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=11").read()
>>> findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site)
Now as you see in the screen shot the interactive interpreter returns
me a list of values however when i run it in regular python i get an
empty list why??


Screen Shot: http://static.flickr.com/109/301613265_484a49929d_o.jpg

http://www.goldwatches.com

From simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com  Mon Nov 20 07:25:15 2006
From: simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com (Simon Dahlbacka)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:25:15 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from python to vb
In-Reply-To: <3df901c70c30$627903d0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <e750b12e0611170010u1781c3cdp5f23de1ffcfb19d7@mail.gmail.com>
	<3df901c70c30$627903d0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <57124720611192225i2668fdacw795e85eb2e75a1f7@mail.gmail.com>

<random thought>
converting the bytes to strig via utf-8 smells like it could be a problem,
in case the byte sequence happens to map into a multibyte character
somewhere
</random thought>

On 11/20/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
>
> It may be that the Unicode characters used by COM are to blame.  From the
> Python side of the world, try returning 'buffer(ob.getvalue())' - Python
> will try and return a buffer object as an array of characters, rather than
> a
> 'string' (which is Unicode).
>
> The end result is to try and ensure that 'imageBytes' is *identical* to
> the
> string passed by Python - I suspect it is not, which is the root of the
> problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Schulz
> > Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 7:10 PM
> > To: python-win32 at python.org
> > Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from
> > python to vb
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a beginner on the python-win32 field, so please excuse
> > stupid questions ;-)
> >
> > We have an vb application that uses a python com server. This python
> > module generates images in a stringio object. We want to pass the
> > image as a string / stream to the vb application. This is in a way
> > working, as we get the data in vb, but the image cannot be rendered
> > there due to an exception from system.drawing.dll "invalid parameter
> > used".
> >
> > The server has a drawing method the returns the image from a stringio
> > via getvalue().
> > The relevant vb code, that should take the string and show it in an
> > image object:
> >
> > Dim bSPil As Object = CreateObject("Python.BSPil")
> > Dim imageString As String
> > imageString = bSPil.return_image()
> > Dim imageBytes() As Byte = (New UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(imageString)
> > Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(imageBytes)
> > pb1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms)
> >
> > The error is raised at the last line. When saving the image from
> > python to a file and reading it as a filestream in vb, the image is
> > displayed correctly. Can anybody shed some light on this.
> >
> > Thanks, Michael
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Michael Schulz
> > mschulz at webgis.de
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > _______________________________________________
> > Python-win32 mailing list
> > Python-win32 at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From mmorisak at risc.uni-linz.ac.at  Mon Nov 20 12:07:28 2006
From: mmorisak at risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Michael Morisak)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:07:28 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 on windows 64Bit Platform
Message-ID: <45618C70.80308@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>

Hi

Does anybody know if there is a 64Bit Version of pywin32.
I am currently doing some automation stuff with Python and SolidEdge and 
i have heared that SolidEdge V19 will be available as a 64Bit version 
and it would be nice to use 64Bit Python with pywin32 (64Bit)


thx

Michael


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Nov 20 12:51:59 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:51:59 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 on windows 64Bit Platform
In-Reply-To: <45618C70.80308@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
Message-ID: <40cd01c70c9a$49ac6440$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Does anybody know if there is a 64Bit Version of pywin32.
> I am currently doing some automation stuff with Python and
> SolidEdge and
> i have heared that SolidEdge V19 will be available as a 64Bit version
> and it would be nice to use 64Bit Python with pywin32 (64Bit)

Not that I am aware of.  Sadly, the 'donate' button on sourceforge isn't
quite generating enough revenue to get myself such a box <wink>, and I'm not
aware of anyone else offering such a build.

Cheers,

Mark.


From niki at vintech.bg  Mon Nov 20 14:45:46 2006
From: niki at vintech.bg (Niki Spahiev)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:45:46 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] bug in FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION handling for single
	char filenames
Message-ID: <4561B18A.6020601@vintech.bg>

Apparently change messages for single char filenames are too short for 
current code. Proposed untested patch should fix that.

Niki Spahiev

P.S. There is no b210 tag in sf.net CVS

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Nov 20 23:23:06 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:23:06 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] bug in FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION handling for
	singlechar filenames
In-Reply-To: <4561B18A.6020601@vintech.bg>
Message-ID: <431501c70cf2$7441b270$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Apparently change messages for single char filenames are too
> short for
> current code. Proposed untested patch should fix that.

A quick change to test_win32file.py confirms it is a bug.  I've committed
your patch - thanks!

> P.S. There is no b210 tag in sf.net CVS

hrm....

Mark


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Tue Nov 21 00:19:16 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:19:16 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] RE Explained With screenshot
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350611192052l4cba0022ia180ff111e75dd81@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350611192052l4cba0022ia180ff111e75dd81@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <456237F4.5030301@alum.rpi.edu>

James Matthews wrote:
> This is the code i am dealing with..
> Code:
> def next_page_finder(site):
>     site = urlopen(site).read()
>     next_site_pages = []
>     next_site_pages.extend(findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site))
>     new_pages = []
>     for _ in next_site_pages:
>         new_pages.append(basejoin("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp",_))
>     return new_pages
>
> The issue is that when i run the RE
> Code:
> next_site_pages.extend(findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site))
> it returns me an empty list however in the interactive input i run
> something akin to it
>
> Code:
>   
>>>> from re import findall
>>>> from urllib import basejoin,urlopen
>>>> site = urlopen("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=11").read()
>>>> findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site)
>>>>         
> Now as you see in the screen shot the interactive interpreter returns
> me a list of values however when i run it in regular python i get an
> empty list why??
>
>
> Screen Shot: http://static.flickr.com/109/301613265_484a49929d_o.jpg
>   
Thank you for the clarification. Running under my IDE (PythonWIn) I get 
the desired results in debug mode and in the interactive window. So I 
can't help. Must be something in the IDE?

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From timr at probo.com  Tue Nov 21 00:57:16 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:57:16 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] RE Explained With screenshot
In-Reply-To: <456237F4.5030301@alum.rpi.edu>
References: <8a6b8e350611192052l4cba0022ia180ff111e75dd81@mail.gmail.com>
	<456237F4.5030301@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <456240DC.2030105@probo.com>

James Matthews wrote:
>> Code:
>>   
>>     
>>>>> from re import findall
>>>>> from urllib import basejoin,urlopen
>>>>> site = urlopen("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=11").read()
>>>>> findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site)
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>> Now as you see in the screen shot the interactive interpreter returns
>> me a list of values however when i run it in regular python i get an
>> empty list why??
>>     

It works for me inside Pythonwin, in a command line in a .py file, and
in the command line interactive interpreter.

You should copy "site" to a file so you can look at it and make sure it
is exactly as you expect.  The "Brand=11" file should be 41,251 bytes.

Also, it is possible you are confusing the debugger by having your
parameter and your result list both called "site".  Why don't you change
the parameter to "url" so there is no confusion.

Can you post the entire program?>

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Tue Nov 21 03:14:32 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:14:32 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] RE Explained With screenshot
In-Reply-To: <456240DC.2030105@probo.com>
References: <8a6b8e350611192052l4cba0022ia180ff111e75dd81@mail.gmail.com>
	<456237F4.5030301@alum.rpi.edu> <456240DC.2030105@probo.com>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611201814s11b7e549jd28c8dcb50e914ef@mail.gmail.com>

The issue has something to do with the way the B wasn't escaped (
don't ask me......) all i did for now is lowered the site sting inline
but thanks guys

On 11/20/06, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> James Matthews wrote:
> >> Code:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> from re import findall
> >>>>> from urllib import basejoin,urlopen
> >>>>> site = urlopen("http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=11").read()
> >>>>> findall(r'\?Brand=\d+\&pg=\d+',site)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >> Now as you see in the screen shot the interactive interpreter returns
> >> me a list of values however when i run it in regular python i get an
> >> empty list why??
> >>
>
> It works for me inside Pythonwin, in a command line in a .py file, and
> in the command line interactive interpreter.
>
> You should copy "site" to a file so you can look at it and make sure it
> is exactly as you expect.  The "Brand=11" file should be 41,251 bytes.
>
> Also, it is possible you are confusing the debugger by having your
> parameter and your result list both called "site".  Why don't you change
> the parameter to "url" so there is no confusion.
>
> Can you post the entire program?>
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


-- 
http://www.goldwatches.com

From mschulz at webgis.de  Tue Nov 21 09:47:57 2006
From: mschulz at webgis.de (Michael Schulz)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:47:57 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from python to vb
In-Reply-To: <3df901c70c30$627903d0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <e750b12e0611170010u1781c3cdp5f23de1ffcfb19d7@mail.gmail.com>
	<3df901c70c30$627903d0$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <e750b12e0611210047t6817413ft98af723470654048@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mark,

thanks for your help - the use of buffer did the trick. We can pass
the resulting buffer directly to MemoryStream:

Dim bSPil As Object = CreateObject("Python.BSPil")
Dim imageBytes() As Byte = bSPil.return_image()
Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(imageBytes)
pb1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms)

Thanks a lot, Michael



On 11/20/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> It may be that the Unicode characters used by COM are to blame.  From the
> Python side of the world, try returning 'buffer(ob.getvalue())' - Python
> will try and return a buffer object as an array of characters, rather than a
> 'string' (which is Unicode).
>
> The end result is to try and ensure that 'imageBytes' is *identical* to the
> string passed by Python - I suspect it is not, which is the root of the
> problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Schulz
> > Sent: Friday, 17 November 2006 7:10 PM
> > To: python-win32 at python.org
> > Subject: [python-win32] passing image as string/stream from
> > python to vb
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a beginner on the python-win32 field, so please excuse
> > stupid questions ;-)
> >
> > We have an vb application that uses a python com server. This python
> > module generates images in a stringio object. We want to pass the
> > image as a string / stream to the vb application. This is in a way
> > working, as we get the data in vb, but the image cannot be rendered
> > there due to an exception from system.drawing.dll "invalid parameter
> > used".
> >
> > The server has a drawing method the returns the image from a stringio
> > via getvalue().
> > The relevant vb code, that should take the string and show it in an
> > image object:
> >
> > Dim bSPil As Object = CreateObject("Python.BSPil")
> > Dim imageString As String
> > imageString = bSPil.return_image()
> > Dim imageBytes() As Byte = (New UTF8Encoding()).GetBytes(imageString)
> > Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream(imageBytes)
> > pb1.Image = System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(ms)
> >
> > The error is raised at the last line. When saving the image from
> > python to a file and reading it as a filestream in vb, the image is
> > displayed correctly. Can anybody shed some light on this.
> >
> > Thanks, Michael
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > Michael Schulz
> > mschulz at webgis.de
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > _______________________________________________
> > Python-win32 mailing list
> > Python-win32 at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>
>


-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
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mschulz at webgis.de

in medias res
Gesellschaft f?r Informationstechnologie mbH

In den Weihermatten 66
79108 Freiburg

Tel  +49 (0)761 556959-5
Fax +49 (0)761 556959-6

http://www.webgis.de / http://www.zopecms.de
-----------------------------------------------------------

From bokverket at hotmail.com  Tue Nov 21 17:50:01 2006
From: bokverket at hotmail.com (Bokverket)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:50:01 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
References: <mailman.29.1164106826.3996.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <BAY111-DAV12FB4B5B1E38C93180F5EBB2EC0@phx.gbl>

Hello gurus,

If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your app, 
Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python app 
and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?

All the best,

Goran Fagerstrom


From emlynj at gmail.com  Tue Nov 21 18:03:41 2006
From: emlynj at gmail.com (Emlyn Jones)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:03:41 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Non memory sessions with ASP
Message-ID: <f4b5a9620611210903t43b48199h8eb50d99292f962d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
I'm currently running a web app using win32 python and ASP on an IIS6 server.
Every now and then the dll I'm using will go into a very busy loop and
tie up ~100% cpu.
This server has two cpus so my plan was to run two worker processes
(one on each cpu) so that one can continue while the other gets busy
(I'm not in a position to modify the dll at the moment and even if I
was it would be nice to know the server is a bit more immune to this
type of thing).
The problem with that plan is that ASP sessions are held in memory so
can't be shared between two worker processes; so I have two questions
if that's ok:

i) I've read that ASP.NET can utilize external storage for it's
sessions, what are my chances of being able to use the functionality
without running the whole app in ASP.NET? (which I can't, because it's
all written in Python).
ii)Does anyone have an example of a custom session handler written in
Python? I'm thinking the bsdb module might be good for this but I'm
worried about concurrency issues.

Thanks,
Emlyn.

From timr at probo.com  Tue Nov 21 19:20:21 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:20:21 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
In-Reply-To: <BAY111-DAV12FB4B5B1E38C93180F5EBB2EC0@phx.gbl>
References: <mailman.29.1164106826.3996.python-win32@python.org>
	<BAY111-DAV12FB4B5B1E38C93180F5EBB2EC0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <45634365.40605@probo.com>

Bokverket wrote:
> Hello gurus,
>
> If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your app, 
> Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python app 
> and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?
>   

The Python interpreter *is* the run-time.  You need to deploy the
interpreter in order to run Python scripts.  Packages like py2exe allow
you to that in a way that is largely transparent to the end user.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From it at crummock.com  Wed Nov 22 12:39:25 2006
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Unpackaged binary version of pywin32
In-Reply-To: <455DB05B.1070601@sjsoft.com>
References: <4559F3A3.3020102@crummock.com>	<79990c6b0611140856x5e42dbf0g5572fd81cd9fb8ed@mail.gmail.com>
	<455D7908.60804@crummock.com> <455DB05B.1070601@sjsoft.com>
Message-ID: <456436ED.7070406@crummock.com>

David Fraser wrote:

> Ross McKerchar wrote:
>> If there's enough interest I'll post it for download.

> I guess me asking would count as enough interest then? I'd be interested 
> in the setup script used for it as well...

Sorry for the delay. It's all available at 
http://www2.crummock.com/public/rossblog.nsf/d6plinks/RCMK-6VRM2S

I didn't use a setup script - just called the existing one as an "msi 
custom action".

-ross


From rikard.bosnjakovic at gmail.com  Thu Nov 23 02:16:05 2006
From: rikard.bosnjakovic at gmail.com (Rikard Bosnjakovic)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:16:05 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Excel COM-object for cursor position
Message-ID: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>

I am going to add data row wise to Excel. Doing it manually, it would
be like this:

<enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN
<enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN

The TAB makes the cursor go to the next cell in the row, and the
RETURN makes the cursor go to the next row, in the same column as the
first cell.

Now I need to do this in Python, but I cannot find any docs of how to
get the x,y-coords of the cursor, nor how to move the cursor one cell
at a time (i.e. in a relatively way).

Anyone got some pointers for me?


-- 
- Rikard.

From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Thu Nov 23 03:18:24 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:18:24 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Excel COM-object for cursor position
In-Reply-To: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <456504F0.5030808@alum.rpi.edu>

Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> I am going to add data row wise to Excel. Doing it manually, it would
> be like this:
>
> <enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN
> <enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN
>
> The TAB makes the cursor go to the next cell in the row, and the
> RETURN makes the cursor go to the next row, in the same column as the
> first cell.
>
> Now I need to do this in Python, but I cannot find any docs of how to
> get the x,y-coords of the cursor, nor how to move the cursor one cell
> at a time (i.e. in a relatively way).
>
> Anyone got some pointers for me?
>   
There are several ways to get stuff from Python into Excel. They include 
(but not limited to) running Excel as a com object or creating a file 
that will be read by Excel. What steps have you taken so far? We can 
help better if we know what route you're taking and how far along you are.


-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Thu Nov 23 04:54:45 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:54:45 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Excel COM-object for cursor position UPDATE
In-Reply-To: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45651B85.8070007@alum.rpi.edu>

Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> I am going to add data row wise to Excel. Doing it manually, it would
> be like this:
>
> <enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN
> <enter data> TAB <enter data> TAB <enter data> RETURN
>
> The TAB makes the cursor go to the next cell in the row, and the
> RETURN makes the cursor go to the next row, in the same column as the
> first cell.
>
> Now I need to do this in Python, but I cannot find any docs of how to
> get the x,y-coords of the cursor, nor how to move the cursor one cell
> at a time (i.e. in a relatively way).
>   
I just noticed in your subject line you referred to COM-object. Sorry I 
overlooked that. When you work with an Office program such as Excel, you 
work with its DOM (Document Object Model).

So please show us how far you have come with the COM program. How well 
you understand the DOM? You need a handle on the range and selections 
objects. AFAIK there is no easy way to simulate keyboard behavior, and 
the DOM is far more powerful.

Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Thu Nov 23 20:41:11 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:41:11 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Excel COM-object for cursor position UPDATE
In-Reply-To: <d9e88eaf0611222301h4729ce8elaa96e8331d17a06b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>	
	<45651B85.8070007@alum.rpi.edu>
	<d9e88eaf0611222301h4729ce8elaa96e8331d17a06b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4565F957.5000805@alum.rpi.edu>

Please reply to the list as well as me. Others learn and sometimes offer 
help.
Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
>
> I'm an utter novice of COM/DOM and I really don't have much knowledge
> about it. I know how to launch Word/Excel from Python by using
> Dispatch("Excel.Application"), but that's about it. I haven't found
> any reference manual for the (DOM?-)commands I can use within Excel,
> except for the ones I found in a couple of tutorials similiar to this
> one:  http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/python/excel.html
Where you see exactly what you want.:

xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible = 1
xlApp.Workbooks.Add()
xlApp.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = 'Python Rules!'

The last line enters the text 'Python Rules!' in the upper left cell of the worksheet.

Where do you need help with that?
>
> I have browsed MSDN with the hope of finding any references/short
> tutorials or what so ever, but I was out of luck.  I am also aware
> that COM is "dead" 
Dead? As in no longer functioning? No way. And .NET AFAIK is no 
replacement for COM.
> now that .NET is growing, but again; the only thing
> I'm after is a bunch of small commands for me to try out so I can
> automate Excel from within Python.
So try the above code sample and see what happens.

The DOM is documented in MSDN at:

See 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrconexcelobjectmodeloverview.asp

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From bokverket at hotmail.com  Fri Nov 24 08:57:56 2006
From: bokverket at hotmail.com (Bokverket)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:57:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
References: <mailman.21.1164193206.2965.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>

I wrote:

If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your app,
Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python app
and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?

Tim replied:
The Python interpreter *is* the run-time.  You need to deploy the
interpreter in order to run Python scripts.  Packages like py2exe allow
you to that in a way that is largely transparent to the end user.


Thanks Tim for your answer, what about reaching Python from within Word? 
What I would like is a new menu in Word, clicking on a menu item would bring 
up a dialog box where the user sets some parameters , clicking OK is to 
start the Python app.   The open Word document and the parameters need to be 
made available to the app.

Do I have to go through Visual Basic macros to do this or is there a _good_ 
way?!

All the best,

Goran Fagerstrom


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Fri Nov 24 18:49:52 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:49:52 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
In-Reply-To: <BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>
References: <mailman.21.1164193206.2965.python-win32@python.org>
	<BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <456730C0.7020105@alum.rpi.edu>

Bokverket wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your app,
> Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python app
> and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?
>
> Tim replied:
> The Python interpreter *is* the run-time.  You need to deploy the
> interpreter in order to run Python scripts.  Packages like py2exe allow
> you to that in a way that is largely transparent to the end user.
>
>
> Thanks Tim for your answer, what about reaching Python from within Word? 
> What I would like is a new menu in Word, clicking on a menu item would bring 
> up a dialog box where the user sets some parameters , clicking OK is to 
> start the Python app.   The open Word document and the parameters need to be 
> made available to the app.
>
> Do I have to go through Visual Basic macros to do this 
One does Word automation using VB. AFAIK there is no other way.
We can help guide you thru the steps (this is how I would do it):
- create UserForm(s) to collect parameters
- create a custom menu using Tools -> Customize with each item tied to a 
macro
Each macro would open a userform. The click event of the OK button on 
the UserForm would shell Python.

A slight alternative would be to have the macros call Windows Scripting 
Host files that would present the dialog and shell Python.

A bigger alternative would be to have the macros shell Python and write 
the parameter collecting mechanism in Python.

> or is there a _good_ way?!
I take it that you don't enjoy VB programming. It certainly is more 
wordy and less flexible than Python, but for relatively small tasks like 
this not a big deal. I've written 10s of thousands of lines of VBA for 
Word and Access. Of course I prefer Python when I can use it.

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Nov 24 21:35:39 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:35:39 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel COM-object for cursor position UPDATE
In-Reply-To: <4565F957.5000805@alum.rpi.edu>
References: <d9e88eaf0611221716u5a0ad947q89c13f87a2fb24e@mail.gmail.com>
	<45651B85.8070007@alum.rpi.edu>
	<d9e88eaf0611222301h4729ce8elaa96e8331d17a06b@mail.gmail.com>
	<4565F957.5000805@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350611241235s1aaf9f49m61fe30b005f37094@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks helped me i was just working on that also!

On 11/23/06, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> Please reply to the list as well as me. Others learn and sometimes offer
> help.
> Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> >
> > I'm an utter novice of COM/DOM and I really don't have much knowledge
> > about it. I know how to launch Word/Excel from Python by using
> > Dispatch("Excel.Application"), but that's about it. I haven't found
> > any reference manual for the (DOM?-)commands I can use within Excel,
> > except for the ones I found in a couple of tutorials similiar to this
> > one:  http://www.markcarter.me.uk/computing/python/excel.html
> Where you see exactly what you want.:
>
> xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> xlApp.Visible = 1
> xlApp.Workbooks.Add()
> xlApp.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = 'Python Rules!'
>
> The last line enters the text 'Python Rules!' in the upper left cell of
> the worksheet.
>
> Where do you need help with that?
> >
> > I have browsed MSDN with the hope of finding any references/short
> > tutorials or what so ever, but I was out of luck.  I am also aware
> > that COM is "dead"
> Dead? As in no longer functioning? No way. And .NET AFAIK is no
> replacement for COM.
> > now that .NET is growing, but again; the only thing
> > I'm after is a bunch of small commands for me to try out so I can
> > automate Excel from within Python.
> So try the above code sample and see what happens.
>
> The DOM is documented in MSDN at:
>
> See
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrconexcelobjectmodeloverview.asp
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 510-978-4454
>
> _______________________________________________
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>



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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Sun Nov 26 00:51:43 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:51:43 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
In-Reply-To: <456730C0.7020105@alum.rpi.edu>
References: <mailman.21.1164193206.2965.python-win32@python.org>
	<BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>
	<456730C0.7020105@alum.rpi.edu>
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Try pypy

On 11/24/06, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> Bokverket wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >
> > If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your
> app,
> > Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python
> app
> > and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?
> >
> > Tim replied:
> > The Python interpreter *is* the run-time.  You need to deploy the
> > interpreter in order to run Python scripts.  Packages like py2exe allow
> > you to that in a way that is largely transparent to the end user.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Tim for your answer, what about reaching Python from within Word?
> > What I would like is a new menu in Word, clicking on a menu item would
> bring
> > up a dialog box where the user sets some parameters , clicking OK is to
> > start the Python app.   The open Word document and the parameters need
> to be
> > made available to the app.
> >
> > Do I have to go through Visual Basic macros to do this
> One does Word automation using VB. AFAIK there is no other way.
> We can help guide you thru the steps (this is how I would do it):
> - create UserForm(s) to collect parameters
> - create a custom menu using Tools -> Customize with each item tied to a
> macro
> Each macro would open a userform. The click event of the OK button on
> the UserForm would shell Python.
>
> A slight alternative would be to have the macros call Windows Scripting
> Host files that would present the dialog and shell Python.
>
> A bigger alternative would be to have the macros shell Python and write
> the parameter collecting mechanism in Python.
>
> > or is there a _good_ way?!
> I take it that you don't enjoy VB programming. It certainly is more
> wordy and less flexible than Python, but for relatively small tasks like
> this not a big deal. I've written 10s of thousands of lines of VBA for
> Word and Access. Of course I prefer Python when I can use it.
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 510-978-4454
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From kostas.eleftheriou at gmail.com  Mon Nov 27 14:05:13 2006
From: kostas.eleftheriou at gmail.com (Kostas Eleftheriou)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:05:13 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles
Message-ID: <87f63b400611270505i7d71ea5ei7cd2d041ceeef980@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have built a python application that uses a COM server from multiple
threads, and despite some initial problems, I got it to work. I found
out (the hard way) that the COM server would have undefined behaviour
if some of its functions were called at the same time form multiple
threads (so it was not thread-safe, although from the registry keys it
looked as if it was), so I made the calls from my application
sequential using locks etc.

Although that is now working fine, I would be really happy if I could
drop this sequential performance hit, from within my multithreaded
python process. After some experimenting, it seems that launching
mulitple python *processes* and using the COM server, works without
any issues (as it was expected, since my understanding is that no
matter what the threading model of a COM server is, when used by
different processes there should be no interference. note I am new to
COM and likely to be wrong). I need to do this without launching
seperate processes, or if thats the only way, then to easily be able
to do inter-proc communication (last resort only)

The COM server is inproc (dll), and I can not modify it.

What I have tried:

- Use DispatchEx instead of Dispatch: this works with other COM
servers, like MS Word and Excel, but not with mine. Probalby has to do
with the fact that they are local servers, whereas mine is inproc.

- CoInitialize, CoInitializeEx with flags: no luck

- using CoGetClassObject instead of CoCreateInstance in pythoncom,
since I read that this would be the way to go if you require multiple
instances of a server: I didnt manage to get it working because the
return type is different to that of CoCreateInstance and I dont know
how to deal with this (ctypes)

- CoCreateInstanceEx: no luck

In short I am looking for a way to always get a new instance of the
COM server when using dispatch, even if it is inproc. I am open to any
suggestions and corrections to my limited COM knowledge

From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Mon Nov 27 14:07:57 2006
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:07:57 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Pythoncom error with Excel
Message-ID: <d5ff27200611270507y1b50515by8a38e1bf4c13d246@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

    I have built a script that communicates with Excel and plots some
data using win32com. Everything goes fine as long as the data series
do not contain many points. If I have more that few points (let's say
50 points to plot), I get this error:

(-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Microsoft Office Excel', 'Unable to
set the XValues property of the Series class', 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft
Office\\OFFICE11\\1033\\xlmain11.chm', 0, -2146827284), None)

I am trying to plot 50 dates (from 2006 to 2060) with their
corresponding data point. Is there a maximum number of points that can
be passed to Excel? Is there any limitation in this sense? What could
I do to overcome this limitations?

Thank you very much.

-- 
Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/

From theller at ctypes.org  Mon Nov 27 15:39:07 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:39:07 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles
In-Reply-To: <87f63b400611270505i7d71ea5ei7cd2d041ceeef980@mail.gmail.com>
References: <87f63b400611270505i7d71ea5ei7cd2d041ceeef980@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <456AF88B.1010506@ctypes.org>

Kostas Eleftheriou schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have built a python application that uses a COM server from multiple
> threads, and despite some initial problems, I got it to work. I found
> out (the hard way) that the COM server would have undefined behaviour
> if some of its functions were called at the same time form multiple
> threads (so it was not thread-safe, although from the registry keys it
> looked as if it was), so I made the calls from my application
> sequential using locks etc.

The most important thing to remember is that you *MUST* marshal com pointers
correctly between the different com apartments.

Thomas


From kostas.eleftheriou at gmail.com  Mon Nov 27 16:49:08 2006
From: kostas.eleftheriou at gmail.com (Kostas Eleftheriou)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:49:08 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles
In-Reply-To: <456AF88B.1010506@ctypes.org>
References: <87f63b400611270505i7d71ea5ei7cd2d041ceeef980@mail.gmail.com>
	<456AF88B.1010506@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <87f63b400611270749g2934fa71r2b77924d5881f6ad@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Thomas,

Thanks for your quick reply. I do not marshal anything because I don't
need to pass objects between threads, each thread currently only deals
with its own objects. I have also tried using a surrogate process to
host the dll server (dllhost.exe) through the registry, but although
the server is now launched in a seperate process, I still only get one
process no matter how many DispatchEx calls I make from different
threads.


On 11/27/06, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:
> Kostas Eleftheriou schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have built a python application that uses a COM server from multiple
> > threads, and despite some initial problems, I got it to work. I found
> > out (the hard way) that the COM server would have undefined behaviour
> > if some of its functions were called at the same time form multiple
> > threads (so it was not thread-safe, although from the registry keys it
> > looked as if it was), so I made the calls from my application
> > sequential using locks etc.
>
> The most important thing to remember is that you *MUST* marshal com pointers
> correctly between the different com apartments.
>
> Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From bokverket at hotmail.com  Mon Nov 27 21:56:10 2006
From: bokverket at hotmail.com (Bokverket)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:56:10 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
References: <mailman.21.1164193206.2965.python-win32@python.org>
	<BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>
	<456730C0.7020105@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY111-DAV20FD550D7F80B182504D6B2E60@phx.gbl>

> Do I have to go through Visual Basic macros to do this
One does Word automation using VB. AFAIK there is no other way.
We can help guide you thru the steps (this is how I would do it):
- create UserForm(s) to collect parameters
- create a custom menu using Tools -> Customize with each item tied to a
macro
Each macro would open a userform. The click event of the OK button on
the UserForm would shell Python.

A slight alternative would be to have the macros call Windows Scripting
Host files that would present the dialog and shell Python.

A bigger alternative would be to have the macros shell Python and write
the parameter collecting mechanism in Python.

> or is there a _good_ way?!
I take it that you don't enjoy VB programming. It certainly is more
wordy and less flexible than Python, but for relatively small tasks like
this not a big deal. I've written 10s of thousands of lines of VBA for
Word and Access. Of course I prefer Python when I can use it.
-------------


ME:
Thanks very much for responding, Bob and James!

I did program a lot in VB's earlier versions, but it has grown... My reason 
for not considering VB was that the actual processing would make excellent 
use of the Python collection objects /dictionaries/, which in my mind would 
hold words of the Microsoft Word document. (The app's purpose is to analyze 
words of possibly very large Word documents.) Plus I suppose that a macro 
which would loop with a few lines over each word of the doc will be slow, 
although I don't if there is a compiling or byte-code mechanism.  Am I 
wrong?

I don't know if having a VB as glue to shelling Python is perfectly fine 
performance-wise, and it certainly would be a simple way to handle the 
dialog boxes that collect the parameters.  Maybe that is a much better way 
than wondering about calling Python /shelling, calling a DLL, whatever/ 
directly.

Next question: Is Microsoft Word's API for Python published like for VB and 
easy to use?

Best,

G?ran /Goran with two dots/  :-)
Stockholm, Sweden


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Mon Nov 27 23:56:53 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:56:53 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
In-Reply-To: <BAY111-DAV20FD550D7F80B182504D6B2E60@phx.gbl>
References: <mailman.21.1164193206.2965.python-win32@python.org>
	<BAY111-DAV148B6D2DF1A07EC8CC495CB2E10@phx.gbl>
	<456730C0.7020105@alum.rpi.edu>
	<BAY111-DAV20FD550D7F80B182504D6B2E60@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <456B6D35.3070401@alum.rpi.edu>

Bokverket wrote:
> I did program a lot in VB's earlier versions, but it has grown... My 
> reason
> for not considering VB was that the actual processing would make excellent 
> use of the Python collection objects /dictionaries/, which in my mind would 
> hold words of the Microsoft Word document. 
Are you aware that VBA with the scripting runtime offers dictionary 
object almost identical to Python's dict? Here is a VB Sub that counts 
the words in the document:

Sub test()
Dim d As Document, w As Variant, w2 As String
Set dict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Set d = Documents(1)
For Each w In d.Range().Words
  w2 = Trim(w)
  If dict.Exists(w2) Then
    dict(w2) = dict(w2) + 1
  Else
    dict(w2) = 0
  End If
Next
End Sub

For my test document of about 21000 occurrences of 120 words this took 
about 5 seconds. The Python equivalent takes 0.15 seconds.
 >>> import time
 >>> import win32com.client
 >>> a = win32com.client.Dispatch("word.application")
 >>> d = a.Documents(1)
# wrap the process to get the text from the document, split it into 
words and build the dictionary
 >>> def f():
...      t=time.time()
...      s=d.Range().Text
...      w=s.split()
...      wd={}
...      for i in w:
...          wd[i]=wd.setdefault(i,0)+1
...      print time.time()-t
...
 >>> f()
0.15700006485

> (The app's purpose is to analyze words of possibly very large Word documents.) Plus I suppose that a macro which would loop with a few lines over each word of the doc will be slow, although I don't if there is a compiling or byte-code mechanism.  Am I wrong?
>   

> I don't know if having a VB as glue to shelling Python is perfectly fine 
> performance-wise, and it certainly would be a simple way to handle the 
> dialog boxes that collect the parameters.  Maybe that is a much better way 
> than wondering about calling Python /shelling, calling a DLL, whatever/ 
> directly.
>
> Next question: Is Microsoft Word's API for Python published like for VB and 
> easy to use?
>   
Word has one API. It is what is published for VB. Your Python program 
would use win32com.client to launch Word as a COM server, then interact 
with it the same as a VB program (well, almost the same). For this you 
need pywin32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/.

import win32com.client
application = win32com.client.Dispatch("word.application")
# application is the same as the application object you see at the top 
of the word DOM in VB.
document = application.Documents.Add() # to create a new document OR 
.Documents.Open(filename) to open an existing document.
# OR if word is already running you can access an existing document 
using .Documents(indexno OR name)

# how is different from VB? objects do not have default properties. Must 
be explicit. No set statement. Functions and subs must have the () appended.

Hope that's enough to get you started.

Since your goal seems to be text processing I'd think you'd want to read 
the entire document text into a Python string, then manipulate that.
text = document.Range().Text will get all the text of the document body. 
(excludes header/footer). Note that paragraph breaks are \r, and that 
table cells end in \r\x07.

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Nov 28 02:52:20 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:52:20 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] pythoncom multithread troubles
In-Reply-To: <87f63b400611270505i7d71ea5ei7cd2d041ceeef980@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <603c01c7128f$d8362980$0c0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> What I have tried:
>
> - Use DispatchEx instead of Dispatch: this works with other COM
> servers, like MS Word and Excel, but not with mine. Probalby has to do
> with the fact that they are local servers, whereas mine is inproc.
>
> - CoInitialize, CoInitializeEx with flags: no luck
>
> - using CoGetClassObject instead of CoCreateInstance in pythoncom,
> since I read that this would be the way to go if you require multiple
> instances of a server: I didnt manage to get it working because the
> return type is different to that of CoCreateInstance and I dont know
> how to deal with this (ctypes)
>
> - CoCreateInstanceEx: no luck
>
> In short I am looking for a way to always get a new instance of the
> COM server when using dispatch, even if it is inproc. I am open to any
> suggestions and corrections to my limited COM knowledge

Try looking at the source to win32com.client.Dispatch, and see how it first
tries GetActiveObject() - try just calling CoCreateInstance() without the
check for GetActiveObject.

If that doesn't work, I'm afraid you are probably SOL - it would be the
object itself implementing these semantics and therefore hard to defeat.

HTH,

Mark


From Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au  Tue Nov 28 03:35:56 2006
From: Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au (Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:35:56 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] _winreg.LoadKey
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0611280942270.17707@leonard.anu.edu.au>


Does anyone know how to use _winreg.Loadkey, or whether it is even
implemented properly, in 2.4.2 and 2.5 (the fact that it is named
wrong in the Docs and not covered in the test suites doesn't inspire
confidence).

I find that I can use it to load a key into the top level
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), but that various things don't appear
to be released properly when Python exits, in that neither the
key itself can be changed with regedt32, nor the file it
was read in from deleted (due to being in use by another process),
until the system is rebooted.

This happens under both Win2000 and Win XP Pro.

And I can't find any way to load a subkey, e.g. code like this
fails:

key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE')

_winreg.LoadKey(
   key, 'My key',
   'mykey'
    )

as does:

key = _winreg.LoadKey(
   _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'Software\\My key',
   'mykey'
    )

both producing Access Denied errors.

 - thanks


From rwupole at msn.com  Tue Nov 28 04:25:04 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:25:04 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: _winreg.LoadKey
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Avery.Andrews wrote:
> Does anyone know how to use _winreg.Loadkey, or whether it is even
> implemented properly, in 2.4.2 and 2.5 (the fact that it is named
> wrong in the Docs and not covered in the test suites doesn't inspire
> confidence).
> 
> I find that I can use it to load a key into the top level
> (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), but that various things don't appear
> to be released properly when Python exits, in that neither the
> key itself can be changed with regedt32, nor the file it
> was read in from deleted (due to being in use by another process),
> until the system is rebooted.

You'll need to call RegUnloadKey yourself to release it.
This doesn't seem to be wrapped in _winreg, but you
can use win32api.RegUnloadKey.

> This happens under both Win2000 and Win XP Pro.
> 
> And I can't find any way to load a subkey, e.g. code like this
> fails:
> 
> key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'SOFTWARE')
> 
> _winreg.LoadKey(
>   key, 'My key',
>   'mykey'
>    )
> 
> as does:
> 
> key = _winreg.LoadKey(
>   _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 'Software\\My key',
>   'mykey'
>    )
> 
> both producing Access Denied errors.

According to the docs, you can only load a key directly under
HKEY_USERS or HKLM.

          Roger



From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Tue Nov 28 05:50:55 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:50:55 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
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thanks always here to help

On 11/27/06, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> Bokverket wrote:
> > I did program a lot in VB's earlier versions, but it has grown... My
> > reason
> > for not considering VB was that the actual processing would make
> excellent
> > use of the Python collection objects /dictionaries/, which in my mind
> would
> > hold words of the Microsoft Word document.
> Are you aware that VBA with the scripting runtime offers dictionary
> object almost identical to Python's dict? Here is a VB Sub that counts
> the words in the document:
>
> Sub test()
> Dim d As Document, w As Variant, w2 As String
> Set dict = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
> Set d = Documents(1)
> For Each w In d.Range().Words
>   w2 = Trim(w)
>   If dict.Exists(w2) Then
>     dict(w2) = dict(w2) + 1
>   Else
>     dict(w2) = 0
>   End If
> Next
> End Sub
>
> For my test document of about 21000 occurrences of 120 words this took
> about 5 seconds. The Python equivalent takes 0.15 seconds.
> >>> import time
> >>> import win32com.client
> >>> a = win32com.client.Dispatch("word.application")
> >>> d = a.Documents(1)
> # wrap the process to get the text from the document, split it into
> words and build the dictionary
> >>> def f():
> ...      t=time.time()
> ...      s=d.Range().Text
> ...      w=s.split()
> ...      wd={}
> ...      for i in w:
> ...          wd[i]=wd.setdefault(i,0)+1
> ...      print time.time()-t
> ...
> >>> f()
> 0.15700006485
>
> > (The app's purpose is to analyze words of possibly very large Word
> documents.) Plus I suppose that a macro which would loop with a few lines
> over each word of the doc will be slow, although I don't if there is a
> compiling or byte-code mechanism.  Am I wrong?
> >
>
> > I don't know if having a VB as glue to shelling Python is perfectly fine
> > performance-wise, and it certainly would be a simple way to handle the
> > dialog boxes that collect the parameters.  Maybe that is a much better
> way
> > than wondering about calling Python /shelling, calling a DLL, whatever/
> > directly.
> >
> > Next question: Is Microsoft Word's API for Python published like for VB
> and
> > easy to use?
> >
> Word has one API. It is what is published for VB. Your Python program
> would use win32com.client to launch Word as a COM server, then interact
> with it the same as a VB program (well, almost the same). For this you
> need pywin32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/.
>
> import win32com.client
> application = win32com.client.Dispatch("word.application")
> # application is the same as the application object you see at the top
> of the word DOM in VB.
> document = application.Documents.Add() # to create a new document OR
> .Documents.Open(filename) to open an existing document.
> # OR if word is already running you can access an existing document
> using .Documents(indexno OR name)
>
> # how is different from VB? objects do not have default properties. Must
> be explicit. No set statement. Functions and subs must have the ()
> appended.
>
> Hope that's enough to get you started.
>
> Since your goal seems to be text processing I'd think you'd want to read
> the entire document text into a Python string, then manipulate that.
> text = document.Range().Text will get all the text of the document body.
> (excludes header/footer). Note that paragraph breaks are \r, and that
> table cells end in \r\x07.
>
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 510-978-4454
>
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From bruce.who.hk at gmail.com  Tue Nov 28 06:08:52 2006
From: bruce.who.hk at gmail.com (Bruce Who)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:08:52 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] how to get the interface of an COM object?
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HI,all

Finally, I make it work with comtypes. All COM interfaces are
available and events can also be handled. Thanks for Thomas's help,
:-)

On 11/14/06, Bruce Who <bruce.who.hk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I am trying to use win32com to interact with a proprietary COM object.
> progID of the coclass is "SomeObj2.SomeObj.1", I can create the
> coclass but am not able to access other interfaces via
> win32com.client.CastTo().
>
> For example ISomeInterface is one of this COM object's interfaces. But
> no classes are generated for this interface in the file made by
> makepy.py. I can only find things like this:
>
> ISomeInterface_vtables_dispatch_, ISomeInterface_vtables_
>
> this is my code:
>
>     te = win32com.client.Dispatch("SomeObj2.SomeObj.1")
>     # fail! Error message is:
>     # ...
>     # return mapCLSIDToClass[clsid]
>     # KeyError: '{84AE9D10-95AD-13D5-88C1-0003025952C1}'
>     ISomeInterface_ = win32com.client.CastTo(te, 'ISomeInterface')
>
>
> in the file generated by makepy.py, the class is very simple:
>
> class SomeObj(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
>         CLSID = IID('{7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1}')
>         coclass_sources = [
>                 _SomeObjEvents2,
>                 _SomeObjEvents,
>                 _SomeObjEvents4,
>                 _SomeObjEvents5,
>                 _SomeObjEvents3,
>         ]
>         default_source = _SomeObjEvents5
>         coclass_interfaces = [
>         ]
>
> I googled the web and find some old posts in this maillist, it seems
> that only interfaces inherit from IDispatch can be used by pythonCOM,
> and interfaces here inherits from IUnknown. But I just need to use
> these interfaces, so could anybody tell me how to do it?
>
> And this control and its interfaces are all available to VBScript or
> Visual Bacis:
>
>    Set ISomeInterface_ = SomeObj.interface("ISomeInterface")
>    ...
>    <OBJECT ID="SomeObj"
> CLASSID="CLSID:7A4F5191-68A8-14D5-82C1-0001083952C1" ></OBJECT>
>
> Since VBScript and python are both script languages, I guess python
> can also access these interfaces.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Bruce
>

From axiomx11 at gmail.com  Tue Nov 28 14:47:13 2006
From: axiomx11 at gmail.com (Axiom X11)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:47:13 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Bring EasyDialogs into focus
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I have started using EasyDialogs instead of GTK to open a file on Windows.

It works great, but my problem is, when the dialog is spawned, it goes
behind all the current open windows, so that the user doesn't see it.

This is my code:

            file = EasyDialogs.AskFileForOpen(defaultLocation="c:\\")

Any way to force it to come to the front?

(The python program I am doing here is part of a larger program that has no
interface of its own, and runs silently until the file dialog is called.)
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From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Wed Nov 29 11:49:46 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:49:46 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application
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At Saturday 25/11/2006 20:51, James Matthews wrote:

>Try pypy

In what way would PyPy help?

> > Thanks Tim for your answer, what about reaching Python from within Word?
> > What I would like is a new menu in Word, clicking on a menu item 
> would bring
> > up a dialog box where the user sets some parameters , clicking OK is to
> > start the Python app.   The open Word document and the parameters 
> need to be
> > made available to the app.>




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From timr at probo.com  Thu Nov 30 19:13:33 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:13:33 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] _winreg.LoadKey
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Avery.Andrews at anu.edu.au wrote:
> Does anyone know how to use _winreg.Loadkey, or whether it is even
> implemented properly, in 2.4.2 and 2.5 (the fact that it is named
> wrong in the Docs and not covered in the test suites doesn't inspire
> confidence).
>
> I find that I can use it to load a key into the top level
> (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), but that various things don't appear
> to be released properly when Python exits, in that neither the
> key itself can be changed with regedt32, nor the file it
> was read in from deleted (due to being in use by another process),
> until the system is rebooted.
>   

That last item is to be expected.  When you load a key like this, your
file becomes part of the live registry.  The registry service will map
the file into memory and keep it open until the key is unloaded.

-- 
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