From jchiang2 at ford.com  Mon Oct  2 03:51:09 2006
From: jchiang2 at ford.com (Jim Chiang)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:51:09 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Picture.Insert, Excel issue
Message-ID: <004601c6e5c5$3bc82bd0$0f1ea8c0@tc4200>

I'm trying to very simply insert a picture from a file into an excel
spreadsheet. I know how to do this in VBA and it works fine, however when I
try this from python I get an error. Doing a search on this turned up
nothing.

The code I'm using is:

from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispatch

xl = Dispatch( 'Excel.Application' )

xl.Visible=1

xl.Workbooks.Add()

xl.ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>

    xl.ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")

AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'Insert'

 

I'm not sure why I get this issue since
'ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")' works fine from within Excel.
Several internet posts from my searches also suggest to use this method.

 

I've tried this on both Python 2.1 and 2.5 with the same results.

Any idea what the problem is or how I can insert the picture??

 

TIA,

Jim

 

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From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Mon Oct  2 05:14:15 2006
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:14:15 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Picture.Insert, Excel issue
In-Reply-To: <004601c6e5c5$3bc82bd0$0f1ea8c0@tc4200>
References: <004601c6e5c5$3bc82bd0$0f1ea8c0@tc4200>
Message-ID: <45208407.6060504@lexicon.net>

On 2/10/2006 11:51 AM, Jim Chiang wrote:
> I?m trying to very simply insert a picture from a file into an excel 
> spreadsheet. I know how to do this in VBA and it works fine, however 
> when I try this from python I get an error. Doing a search on this 
> turned up nothing.
> 
> The code I?m using is:
> 
> from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispatch
> 
> xl = Dispatch( 'Excel.Application' )
> 
> xl.Visible=1
> 
> xl.Workbooks.Add()
> 
> xl.ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")
> 
>  
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
> 
>     xl.ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")
> 
> AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'Insert'
> 
>  
> 
> I?m not sure why I get this issue since 
> ?ActiveSheet.Pictures.Insert("C:\a.jpg")? works fine from within Excel. 
> Several internet posts from my searches also suggest to use this method.
> 
>  
> 
> I?ve tried this on both Python 2.1 and 2.5 with the same results.
> 
> Any idea what the problem is or how I can insert the picture??

Four problems:
(1) VBA syntax instead of Python syntax
(2) Not reading error message
(3) Courting danger with backslashes in filenames
(4) Courting danger keeping misc cruft in root directory

Solution:
  xl.ActiveSheet.Pictures().Insert(r"C:\misc_cruft\a.jpg")

HTH,
John

From smithbk at aecl.ca  Mon Oct  2 22:23:40 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:23:40 -0400 
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699B@crs12.aecl.ca>

Hi,
 
Just thought I'd bump this to see if I could get a response...
 
Brian
 
>
> I am new to COM programming and have a question about function 
> parameters when implementing a COM object in Python. 
> 
> After reading "Python Programming on Win32", I have managed to create a 
> working COM object, where "working" is defined as "I can use it from 
> Excel VBA". 
> 
> I have a function like this: 
> 
> def func(self, in1, inout1, in2, inout2) 
> 
> where the in* parameters are input only and inout* are input and output. 
> At the end of the function I return an error code and new values for the 
> in/out parameters. I.e.: 
> 
> return( errorCode, new_inout1, new_inout2 ) 
> 
> This seems to work fine if it is called from VBA as 
> 
>     errorCode = object.func( CONSTANT_1, var1, CONSTANT_2, var2 ) 
> 
> or 
> 
>     errorCode = object.func( 42, var1, 7.4, var2 ) 
> 
> but it breaks if the VB program does this: 
> 
>     c1 = CONSTANT_1  ' c1 is a previously declared variable 
>     c2 = 7.4         ' c2 is a previously declared variable 
>     errorCode = object.func( c1, var1, c2, var2 ) 
> 
> because c1 will then be assigned new_inout1 and var1 will be assigned 
> new_inout2, while c2 and var2 will not be assigned anything. 
> 
> Short of telling the VB programmer "Don't do that", how do I prevent 
> this problem? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Brian 

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From timr at probo.com  Mon Oct  2 23:21:06 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:21:06 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
In-Reply-To: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699B@crs12.aecl.ca>
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Smith, Brian (CR) wrote:

>>
> > I am new to COM programming and have a question about function
> > parameters when implementing a COM object in Python.
> >
> > After reading "Python Programming on Win32", I have managed to create a
> > working COM object, where "working" is defined as "I can use it from
> > Excel VBA".
> >
> > I have a function like this:
> >
> > def func(self, in1, inout1, in2, inout2)
> > ...
> > but it breaks if the VB program does this:
> >
> >     c1 = CONSTANT_1  ' c1 is a previously declared variable
> >     c2 = 7.4         ' c2 is a previously declared variable
> >     errorCode = object.func( c1, var1, c2, var2 )
> >
> > because c1 will then be assigned new_inout1 and var1 will be assigned
> > new_inout2, while c2 and var2 will not be assigned anything.
> >
> > Short of telling the VB programmer "Don't do that", how do I prevent
> > this problem?


Tell the VBA programmer "Don't do that".  Or, rearrange the parameters
so that the inout arguments are always first.

This very same question came up on this list in June, and I actually
spent quite a bit of time trying to chase down documentation of this
restriction.  Surprisingly enough, the "fault" here is not actually in
Python: it's in the late binding handler in VBA.  If you do this same
thing from a VB app and look at the generated IL code, it is the IL that
is assigning the outputs to the wrong place.

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


From smithbk at aecl.ca  Tue Oct  3 15:44:03 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:44:03 -0400 
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699C@crs12.aecl.ca>

Hi Tim,
 
Thanks for the response.
 
> Tell the VBA programmer "Don't do that".  Or, rearrange the parameters
> so that the inout arguments are always first.

Okay, I was afraid that would be the answer.  I don't particularly like the
first option because simply telling someone not to do something is no
guarantee that they won't do it anyway.  I was trying to avoid the second
option since I am replacing an existing API and had hoped to be consistent
with that.  However, it seems to be the safer choice.
 
> This very same question came up on this list in June, and I actually
> spent quite a bit of time trying to chase down documentation of this
> restriction.  Surprisingly enough, the "fault" here is not actually in
> Python: it's in the late binding handler in VBA.  If you do this same
> thing from a VB app and look at the generated IL code, it is
> the IL that is assigning the outputs to the wrong place.
 
After doing some searching on the web, I had (naively?) thought perhaps
the answer might be creating a type library that defines the interface.
I had gone as far as installing the Windows Platform SDK so I could use
midl to compile the library, but ran into a problem because it was
looking for a C-preprocessor (cl.exe) that I don't have.  Am I going down
the wrong path with this or would it actually help?
 
Thanks,
Brian
 
 
 
 
 
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From msherman77 at yahoo.com  Tue Oct  3 17:33:09 2006
From: msherman77 at yahoo.com (Michael S)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:33:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [python-win32] MS Word
Message-ID: <20061003153309.81632.qmail@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Good day all.

Does anyone have experience in appending multiple word
file into one big file? I have a directory full of
word files and I want to make one file out of all of
them.
I tried to google it, in order at least to see it how
it's done in VBA, but haven't found any good examples.

Michael

From timr at probo.com  Tue Oct  3 18:28:38 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:28:38 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
In-Reply-To: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699C@crs12.aecl.ca>
References: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699C@crs12.aecl.ca>
Message-ID: <45228FB6.9010800@probo.com>

Smith, Brian (CR) wrote:

>  
> After doing some searching on the web, I had (naively?) thought perhaps
> the answer might be creating a type library that defines the interface.
> I had gone as far as installing the Windows Platform SDK so I could use
> midl to compile the library, but ran into a problem because it was
> looking for a C-preprocessor (cl.exe) that I don't have.  Am I going down
> the wrong path with this or would it actually help?


I don't honestly know.  I'm dubious that it will help, because no matter
how you describe it, a Python COM server must ALWAYS be called with late
binding.

You can get cl.exe by downloading the Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition
from Microsoft -- it's free.

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


From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Tue Oct  3 21:59:57 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:59:57 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] MS Word
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At Tuesday 3/10/2006 12:33, Michael S wrote:

>Does anyone have experience in appending multiple word
>file into one big file? I have a directory full of
>word files and I want to make one file out of all of
>them.
>I tried to google it, in order at least to see it how
>it's done in VBA, but haven't found any good examples.

I usually create a macro for doing what I want, and then I inspect 
the VBA code to see how it's done.


Gabriel Genellina
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From bwmetz at att.com  Wed Oct  4 01:59:40 2006
From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WWCS)
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:59:40 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] MS Word
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I suggest the following.  It may not be the prettiest, but it's very
simple.

Create new doc...
    Documents.Add DocumentType:=wdNewBlankDocument
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="Combined.doc", FileFormat:= _
        wdFormatDocument, LockComments:=False, Password:="",
AddToRecentFiles:= _
        True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False,
EmbedTrueTypeFonts:= _
        False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, _
        SaveAsAOCELetter:=False

For each old doc (generate list of filenames however you want)
    Documents.Open FileName:="""Filename #1.doc""" _
        , ConfirmConversions:=False, ReadOnly:=False,
AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
        PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
        WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", Format:= _
        wdOpenFormatAuto
    Selection.WholeStory
    Selection.Copy
    Windows("Combined.doc").Activate
    Selection.Paste
    ' Insert page break between doc pages to prevent last page/first
page combination if desired
    Selection.InsertBreak Type:=wdPageBreak
    Windows("Filename #1.doc").Close

When done, save the combined file
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="Combined.doc", FileFormat:= _
        wdFormatDocument, LockComments:=False, Password:="",
AddToRecentFiles:= _
        True, WritePassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False,
EmbedTrueTypeFonts:= _
        False, SaveNativePictureFormat:=False, SaveFormsData:=False, _
        SaveAsAOCELetter:=False



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Michael S
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:33 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] MS Word


Good day all.

Does anyone have experience in appending multiple word
file into one big file? I have a directory full of
word files and I want to make one file out of all of
them.
I tried to google it, in order at least to see it how
it's done in VBA, but haven't found any good examples.

Michael
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Wed Oct  4 07:31:03 2006
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 07:31:03 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] MS Word
References: <20061003153309.81632.qmail@web88303.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <000201c6e776$4baf88b0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!


Try:
    win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')...
   ...Selection.InsertFile(fichierWord)



@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau



From smithbk at aecl.ca  Wed Oct  4 22:09:49 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:09:49 -0400 
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699D@crs12.aecl.ca>

> > After doing some searching on the web, I had (naively?) thought perhaps
> > the answer might be creating a type library that defines the interface.
> > ...
> > Am I going down the wrong path with this or would it actually help?
> 
> I don't honestly know.  I'm dubious that it will help, because no matter
> how you describe it, a Python COM server must ALWAYS be called with late
> binding.
 
Creating a type library for my COM server seems to have fixed the problem. 
After setting up VBA to use the type library (Tools->References...), I can 
now use either variables or constants for the input-only parameters and the 
input/output parameters are still set correctly.
 
However, there are some side effects:
 
1) When using the COM server without the type library, I was returning a 
tuple with the return value of the function (in my case, an error code) as 
the first element.  With the type library, this value must be the last 
element (because the [out, retval] parameter in the IDL file must be last to

prevent a compile error?).  Not a big deal but it does mean going through 
the existing code and making sure I have the returned values in the right 
order.
 
2) VBA was giving me an error like "Expecting 3 return values, got: 2" 
whenever a function contained an [in, out] parameter.  It looks like the 
extra parameter it is looking for is the HRESULT signifying the success of 
the call itself, because if I insert a 0 at the beginning of my returned 
tuple the problem goes away but any other value causes an error saying the 
method call failed.  I'm guessing this is an error in my code, because I 
don't think I'm supposed to be setting this value myself.  Any hints as to 
why I would be getting this error?
 
I've appended the code I am using for my tests.  To register the type
library and COM server, I use the same code found in the pippo_server.py
example that is distributed with Python-win32.
 

--------- IDL File Begin ---------
// TestLib.idl : IDL source for a COM object testing the type library
//
 
import "oaidl.idl";
import "ocidl.idl";
    [
        object,
        uuid(51B3EE2D-8759-4117-BF94-ACD1AAAD8553)
    ]
    interface ITestLib : IUnknown
    {
        HRESULT Method1([in] long in1, [in, out] long *inout1, [in] long
in2,
                [in, out] long *inout2, [out, retval] long *val);
        HRESULT Method2([out, retval] long *val);
        HRESULT Method3([in] long in1, [out, retval] long *val);
        HRESULT Method4([in] long in1, [in, out] long *inout1,
                [out, retval] long *val);
        [propget]HRESULT MyProp1([out, retval] long *pVal);
        [propput]HRESULT MyProp1([in] long pVal);
        [propget]HRESULT TESTLIB_CONSTANT([out, retval] long *pVal);
    };
 
[
    uuid(AA8220B6-69FE-4e3d-827F-06A6A63B5887),
    version(1.0),
    helpstring("TestLibServer 1.0 Type Library")
]
library LibTest
{
    importlib("stdole32.tlb");
    importlib("stdole2.tlb");
 
    [
        uuid(5A1B4C64-4C93-434c-8DC4-432667EB58FA),
        helpstring("TestLib Class")
    ]
    coclass Server
    {
        [default] interface ITestLib;
    };
};
--------- IDL File End ---------
 
--------- Python Code Begin ---------
 
class CTestLib:
    #
    # COM declarations    
    #
    _reg_clsid_ = "{05AC1CCE-3F9B-4d9a-B0B5-DFE8BE45AFA8}"
    _reg_desc_ = "Type Library Test Server"
    _reg_progid_ = "LibTest.Server"
 
    ### Link to typelib
    _typelib_guid_ = '{AA8220B6-69FE-4e3d-827F-06A6A63B5887}'
    _typelib_version_ = 1, 0
    _com_interfaces_ = ['ITestLib']
 
    TESTLIB_CONSTANT = 13
 
    def __init__(self):
        self.MyProp1 = 10
 
    def Method1(self, in1, inout1, in2, inout2 ):
        retVal = 0
        if( in1 != 0 ):
            new_inout1 = in1 * 10
            new_inout2 = in2 * 10
        else:
            retVal = -1
            new_inout1 = inout1
            new_inout2 = inout2
        return( 0, new_inout1, new_inout2, retVal )
 
    def Method2(self):
        retVal = -11
        return( retVal )
 
    def Method3(self, in1):
        retVal = -21
        return( retVal )
 
    def Method4(self, in1, inout1):
        new_inout1 = -31
        retVal = -41
        return( 0, new_inout1, retVal )
 
--------- Python Code End ---------

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct  5 01:24:53 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:24:53 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
In-Reply-To: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699D@crs12.aecl.ca>
Message-ID: <441401c6e80c$4e7bddf0$050a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> 2) VBA was giving me an error like "Expecting 3 return values, got: 2"
> whenever a function contained an [in, out] parameter.  It looks like the
> extra parameter it is looking for is the HRESULT signifying the success of

There should be no need to return a HRESULT - but note that the nominated
return value must be the *first* value returned, with [out] params following
in the order they were declared.

As a result, method4 really should only need 2 return values - I'm not sure
why it seems to want more.  If you can provide a patch to the pippo sample
that demonstrates your problem I can dig deeper.

Mark


From smithbk at aecl.ca  Thu Oct  5 15:45:49 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:45:49 -0400 
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C86699E@crs12.aecl.ca>

Hi Mark,

> > 2) VBA was giving me an error like "Expecting 3 return values, got: 2"
> > whenever a function contained an [in, out] parameter.  It looks like the
> > extra parameter it is looking for is the HRESULT signifying the success
of
>
> There should be no need to return a HRESULT - but note that the nominated
> return value must be the *first* value returned, with [out] params
following
> in the order they were declared.

That's what I would have expected.  In fact, this is the case if I don't use
a type library.  However, when using a type library I have to return it
*last* for the object to work from VBA.

> As a result, method4 really should only need 2 return values - I'm not
sure
> why it seems to want more.  If you can provide a patch to the pippo sample
> that demonstrates your problem I can dig deeper.

The patches are below.  I added two methods with the same signature.  The
difference is that Method2() returns two values (as the IDL signature would
suggest) and Method3() returns 3 values, with a 0 as the first value.  My
VBA test code (also attached) calls Method3() first and correctly sets
inout1 to -31 and the return value to -41.  Note that this occurs even
though the nominated return value is the *last* return value.  The call to
Method2() fails with the "Expecting 3 return values, got: 2" error.

My platform is Win XP Pro (SP2), Python 2.3.4, pywin Build 210.  I'm testing
using VBA in MS Excel 2000.

Thanks,
Brian


---- pippo.idl patch begin ----
32a33,36
>         [id(3), helpstring("method Method2")] HRESULT Method2([in] long
in1, [in, out] long *inout1,
>                 [out, retval] long *val);
>         [id(4), helpstring("method Method3")] HRESULT Method3([in] long
in1, [in, out] long *inout1,
>                 [out, retval] long *val);
---- pippo.idl patch end ----


---- pippo_server.py patch begin ----
35a36,45
>     def Method2(self, in1, inout1):
>         new_inout1 = -31
>         retVal = -41
>         return( new_inout1, retVal )
>
>     def Method3(self, in1, inout1):
>         new_inout1 = -31
>         retVal = -41
>         return( 0, new_inout1, retVal )
>
---- pippo_server.py patch end ----


---- VBA test code begin ----

Sub TestPippo()
    Dim obj As Pippo
    Dim in1 As Long
    Dim inout1 As Long
    Dim before As String
    Dim after As String

    Set obj = CreateObject("Python.Test.Pippo")
    in1 = 3
    inout1 = 5
    before = "in1 = " + CStr(in1) + ", inout1 = " + CStr(inout1)
    retVal = obj.Method3(in1, inout1)
    after = "in1 = " + CStr(in1) + ", inout1 = " + CStr(inout1) + ", retVal
= " + CStr(retVal)
    MsgBox before + vbCrLf + after, , "Testing Method3"
   
    in1 = 3
    inout1 = 5
    before = "in1 = " + CStr(in1) + ", inout1 = " + CStr(inout1)
    retVal = obj.Method2(in1, inout1)
    after = "in1 = " + CStr(in1) + ", inout1 = " + CStr(inout1) + ", retVal
= " + CStr(retVal)
    MsgBox before + vbCrLf + after, , "Testing Method2"
    Set obj = Nothing
End Sub

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From jim at qlf.com  Thu Oct  5 23:16:15 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:16:15 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
Message-ID: <006f01c6e8c3$7e390290$800101df@qlf.local>

I've been working this week building some Excel spreadsheets using Python
and win32com.  I am not having any trouble getting my sheets built with the
proper data in the proper cells, but I'm having a heck of a time trying to
find out how I can format my cells to make it look nicer.  I want to set it
so most of the columns will resize themselves to the proper width and I
would like to adjust the alignment of some columns.  I've browsed through
the last years worth of archives on this mailing list and searched the web
extensively but can't seem to find how to get it to work.  I've come across
numerous examples of how to do some things, but they don't seem to work on
my machine.
 
Possibly my biggest problem is that I can't get my machine to give me the
Excel constants.  Here is the code I'm doing to try to test the constants
and the error I'm getting back.  
 
from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
 
x = constants.xlHAlignRight
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
168, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, a
AttributeError: xlHAlignRight
 
I'm hoping there is something obvious that I'm missing.  I think I can find
my way through the rest of my issues if I can just get by this constants
problem.  Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
            -Jim
 
 
 
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From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Fri Oct  6 01:03:31 2006
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:03:31 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <006f01c6e8c3$7e390290$800101df@qlf.local>
References: <006f01c6e8c3$7e390290$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <45258F43.1070905@lexicon.net>

On 6/10/2006 7:16 AM, Jim Steil wrote:
> I?ve been working this week building some Excel spreadsheets using 
> Python and win32com.  I am not having any trouble getting my sheets 
> built with the proper data in the proper cells, but I?m having a heck of 
> a time trying to find out how I can format my cells to make it look 
> nicer.  I want to set it so most of the columns will resize themselves 
> to the proper width and I would like to adjust the alignment of some 
> columns.  I?ve browsed through the last years worth of archives on this 
> mailing list and searched the web extensively but can?t seem to find how 
> to get it to work.  I?ve come across numerous examples of how to do some 
> things, but they don?t seem to work on my machine.
> 
>  
> 
> Possibly my biggest problem is that I can?t get my machine to give me 
> the Excel constants.  Here is the code I?m doing to try to test the 
> constants and the error I?m getting back. 
> 
>  
> 
> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
> 
>  
> 
> x = constants.xlHAlignRight
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> 
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
> 168, in __getattr__
> 
>     raise AttributeError, a
> 
> AttributeError: xlHAlignRight
> 
>  
> 
> I?m hoping there is something obvious that I?m missing.  I think I can 
> find my way through the rest of my issues if I can just get by this 
> constants problem.  Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 

The constants module is a little bit more dynamic than one would 
normally expect:

Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
 >>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
Bzzzzt!
 >>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
 >>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
-4152
 >>>

HTH,
John

From timr at probo.com  Fri Oct  6 01:05:57 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:05:57 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <006f01c6e8c3$7e390290$800101df@qlf.local>
References: <006f01c6e8c3$7e390290$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <45258FD5.9050307@probo.com>

Jim Steil wrote:

> I?ve been working this week building some Excel spreadsheets using
> Python and win32com. ...
>
> Possibly my biggest problem is that I can?t get my machine to give me
> the Excel constants. Here is the code I?m doing to try to test the
> constants and the error I?m getting back.
>
> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
>
> x = constants.xlHAlignRight
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>
> File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 168, in __getattr__
>
> raise AttributeError, a
>
> AttributeError: xlHAlignRight
>
> I?m hoping there is something obvious that I?m missing. I think I can
> find my way through the rest of my issues if I can just get by this
> constants problem. Thanks for any help you can provide.
>

Did you run "makepy.py" on the Microsoft Excel Object Library? "makepy"
is the one that extracts the constants.

Alternatively, you can replace
x = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
with
x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")

That runs the "makepy" process, which makes the constants available:

C:\tmp>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> x = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>>> from win32com.client import constants
>>> constants.xlHAlignRight
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "c:\apps\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 18, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError, a
AttributeError: xlHAlignRight

C:\tmp>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")
>>> from win32com.client import constants
>>> constants.xlHAlignRight
-4152
>>>

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


From cyril.giraudon at free.fr  Fri Oct  6 14:55:43 2006
From: cyril.giraudon at free.fr (cyril giraudon)
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:55:43 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Flicker and OnEraseBkgnd
Message-ID: <4526524F.5010001@free.fr>

Hi,

I currently try to add a matplotlib backend based on the Gecko engine 
(XPCOM, plugin), PIL and pywin.

I simply build a new window and place it in the plugin area as a child.

All works fine, bur when I change the size of the window, there is a 
flicker .
I 've read some pages on the web, but I don't see how to adapt the 
solutions with python.
Precisely, i can't overwrite the OnResizeBkgnd often spotted in articles.

Is there any solutions ?

Thanks a lot,

Cyril.


Below some lines of my code.

window_id is the HWND of the plugin window.




from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageWin

import matplotlib
from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
from matplotlib.backends.backend_agg import RendererAgg 

from matplotlib.axes import Subplot
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.numerix import arange, sin, pi

import win32ui
import win32api
import win32con
import win32gui
import winxpgui

wc = win32gui.WNDCLASS()
wc.style = win32con.CS_VREDRAW | win32con.CS_HREDRAW
wc.lpfnWndProc = wndProc
wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
hinst = wc.hInstance = win32api.GetModuleHandle(None)
wc.hIcon = 0
wc.hbrBackground = win32con.NULL
wc.lpszMenuName = ""
wc.lpszClassName = "cmgui_embed_wndclass"
classAtom = win32gui.RegisterClass(wc)

self.hwnd = win32gui.CreateWindow(classAtom, "",\
 win32con.WS_CHILD | win32con.WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0, \
 width, height, window_id, 0, hinst, None)

fig = Figure(figsize=(5,4), dpi=100)
a = fig.add_subplot(111)
t = arange(0.0,3.0,0.01)
s = sin(2*pi*t)
a.plot(t,s)
dpival = fig.dpi.get()
winch = width/dpival
hinch = height/dpival
fig.set_figsize_inches(winch, hinch)

self.canvas = FigureCanvasAgg(fig)
self.canvas.renderer = RendererAgg(width, height, fig.dpi)
self.canvas.draw()
image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
self.dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
z = ImageWin.HWND(hwnd)
self.dib.expose(z)
 

  def wndProc(self, hwnd, message, wParam, lParam):
    if message == win32con.WM_PAINT:
      hdc, paintStruct = win32gui.BeginPaint(hwnd)
      self.canvas.draw()
      image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
      image = image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
      dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
      z = ImageWin.HWND(self.hwnd)
      dib.expose(z)

      win32gui.EndPaint(hwnd, paintStruct)
      return 0

    elif message == win32con.WM_NCPAINT:
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_ERASEBKGND:
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_SIZE:
      pass



  def resize_canvas( self, width, height):
    return
    win32gui.SetWindowPos(self.hwnd, win32con.HWND_TOP, 0, 0, width, height,\
      win32con.SWP_SHOWWINDOW)

    fig = self.canvas.figure
    dpival = fig.dpi.get()
    winch = width/dpival
    hinch = height/dpival
    fig.set_figsize_inches(winch, hinch)
    self.canvas.draw()
    image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
    image = image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
    dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
    z = ImageWin.HWND(self.hwnd)
    dib.expose(z)







From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 15:30:48 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:30:48 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <45258FD5.9050307@probo.com>
Message-ID: <00a701c6e94b$a2c905a0$800101df@qlf.local>

Thanks for the response!  I tried your suggestion with the following
results....

>>> import win32com.client
>>> x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
536, in EnsureDispatch
    mod = EnsureModule(tla[0], tla[1], tla[3], tla[4],
bForDemand=bForDemand)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
393, in EnsureModule
    module = GetModuleForTypelib(typelibCLSID, lcid, major, minor)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
258, in GetModuleForTypelib
    mod = _GetModule(modName)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
629, in _GetModule
    mod = __import__(mod_name)
  File
"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\00020813-0000-0000-C000-00000
0000046x0x1x5\__init__.py", line 1748
    '{000208C8-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'IWalls',
	'{000208C9-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'ITickLabels',
                                                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>


Any ideas from here?

	-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces+jim=qlf.com at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+jim=qlf.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim
Roberts
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:06 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

Jim Steil wrote:

> I've been working this week building some Excel spreadsheets using
> Python and win32com. ...
>
> Possibly my biggest problem is that I can't get my machine to give me
> the Excel constants. Here is the code I'm doing to try to test the
> constants and the error I'm getting back.
>
> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
>
> x = constants.xlHAlignRight
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>
> File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 168, in __getattr__
>
> raise AttributeError, a
>
> AttributeError: xlHAlignRight
>
> I'm hoping there is something obvious that I'm missing. I think I can
> find my way through the rest of my issues if I can just get by this
> constants problem. Thanks for any help you can provide.
>

Did you run "makepy.py" on the Microsoft Excel Object Library? "makepy"
is the one that extracts the constants.

Alternatively, you can replace
x = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
with
x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")

That runs the "makepy" process, which makes the constants available:

C:\tmp>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> x = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>>> from win32com.client import constants
>>> constants.xlHAlignRight
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "c:\apps\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 18, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError, a
AttributeError: xlHAlignRight

C:\tmp>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")
>>> from win32com.client import constants
>>> constants.xlHAlignRight
-4152
>>>

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

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From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 15:34:07 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 08:34:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <45258F43.1070905@lexicon.net>
Message-ID: <00a801c6e94c$19330c40$800101df@qlf.local>

Thanks for your response too!  Unfortunately, I must have something messed
up here because this didn't work either.

>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
Bzzzzt!
>>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
Bzzzzt!

I tried running the makepy.py on the Excell 11.0 Object library and that
fails on me as well.  Any suggestions?

	-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: John Machin [mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:04 PM
To: Jim Steil
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

On 6/10/2006 7:16 AM, Jim Steil wrote:
> I've been working this week building some Excel spreadsheets using 
> Python and win32com.  I am not having any trouble getting my sheets 
> built with the proper data in the proper cells, but I'm having a heck of 
> a time trying to find out how I can format my cells to make it look 
> nicer.  I want to set it so most of the columns will resize themselves 
> to the proper width and I would like to adjust the alignment of some 
> columns.  I've browsed through the last years worth of archives on this 
> mailing list and searched the web extensively but can't seem to find how 
> to get it to work.  I've come across numerous examples of how to do some 
> things, but they don't seem to work on my machine.
> 
>  
> 
> Possibly my biggest problem is that I can't get my machine to give me 
> the Excel constants.  Here is the code I'm doing to try to test the 
> constants and the error I'm getting back. 
> 
>  
> 
> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
> 
>  
> 
> x = constants.xlHAlignRight
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "<input>", line 1, in ?
> 
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
> 168, in __getattr__
> 
>     raise AttributeError, a
> 
> AttributeError: xlHAlignRight
> 
>  
> 
> I'm hoping there is something obvious that I'm missing.  I think I can 
> find my way through the rest of my issues if I can just get by this 
> constants problem.  Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 

The constants module is a little bit more dynamic than one would 
normally expect:

Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on 
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
 >>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
Bzzzzt!
 >>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
 >>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
-4152
 >>>

HTH,
John



From sjmachin at lexicon.net  Fri Oct  6 17:51:55 2006
From: sjmachin at lexicon.net (John Machin)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:51:55 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <00a801c6e94c$19330c40$800101df@qlf.local>
References: <00a801c6e94c$19330c40$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <45267B9B.8090201@lexicon.net>

On 6/10/2006 11:34 PM, Jim Steil wrote:
> Thanks for your response too!  Unfortunately, I must have something messed
> up here because this didn't work either.
> 
>>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!
>>>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!

Yeah well silly me for presuming you had run makepy :-)

> 
> I tried running the makepy.py on the Excell 11.0 Object library and that
> fails on me as well.  Any suggestions?

Tell us a few things you should have supplied w/o being asked:
(1) what version of Python (2.4.what??)
(2) what pywin32 build number
(3) copy/paste of result when you ran makepy

If the makepy gives you a weird syntax error (like the syntax error you 
showed in the response to Tim Roberts), that could be an old bug (in 
Python, I believe). Ensure that you have Python 2.4.3, and the latest 
build of pywin32, and try it again. IIRC, the workaround involved 
editing the file with the syntax error, adding a few spaces to the end 
of the allegedly offending line, and one or two lines before that.

HTH,
John

From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 18:58:49 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:58:49 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <45267B9B.8090201@lexicon.net>
Message-ID: <002601c6e968$b1ba1230$800101df@qlf.local>

Python 2.4.1
Pywin23 2.10

I'm in the process of upgrading my python to 2.4.3, will send a follow-up
after I'm done testing.

Thanks!

	-Jim

Jim Steil
IT Manager
Quality Liquid Feeds
(608) 935-2345 
(608) 341-9896 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: John Machin [mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:52 AM
To: Jim Steil
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

On 6/10/2006 11:34 PM, Jim Steil wrote:
> Thanks for your response too!  Unfortunately, I must have something messed
> up here because this didn't work either.
> 
>>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!
>>>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!

Yeah well silly me for presuming you had run makepy :-)

> 
> I tried running the makepy.py on the Excell 11.0 Object library and that
> fails on me as well.  Any suggestions?

Tell us a few things you should have supplied w/o being asked:
(1) what version of Python (2.4.what??)
(2) what pywin32 build number
(3) copy/paste of result when you ran makepy

If the makepy gives you a weird syntax error (like the syntax error you 
showed in the response to Tim Roberts), that could be an old bug (in 
Python, I believe). Ensure that you have Python 2.4.3, and the latest 
build of pywin32, and try it again. IIRC, the workaround involved 
editing the file with the syntax error, adding a few spaces to the end 
of the allegedly offending line, and one or two lines before that.

HTH,
John



From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 19:08:21 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:08:21 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <002601c6e968$b1ba1230$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <000801c6e96a$06ab1b80$800101df@qlf.local>

Oops, obvious typo on the pywin23 below.  Should be pywin32.

	-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Jim Steil
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:59 AM
To: 'John Machin'
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

Python 2.4.1
Pywin23 2.10

I'm in the process of upgrading my python to 2.4.3, will send a follow-up
after I'm done testing.

Thanks!

	-Jim

Jim Steil
IT Manager
Quality Liquid Feeds
(608) 935-2345 
(608) 341-9896 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: John Machin [mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:52 AM
To: Jim Steil
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

On 6/10/2006 11:34 PM, Jim Steil wrote:
> Thanks for your response too!  Unfortunately, I must have something messed
> up here because this didn't work either.
> 
>>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!
>>>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!

Yeah well silly me for presuming you had run makepy :-)

> 
> I tried running the makepy.py on the Excell 11.0 Object library and that
> fails on me as well.  Any suggestions?

Tell us a few things you should have supplied w/o being asked:
(1) what version of Python (2.4.what??)
(2) what pywin32 build number
(3) copy/paste of result when you ran makepy

If the makepy gives you a weird syntax error (like the syntax error you 
showed in the response to Tim Roberts), that could be an old bug (in 
Python, I believe). Ensure that you have Python 2.4.3, and the latest 
build of pywin32, and try it again. IIRC, the workaround involved 
editing the file with the syntax error, adding a few spaces to the end 
of the allegedly offending line, and one or two lines before that.

HTH,
John


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From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 19:18:02 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:18:02 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <002601c6e968$b1ba1230$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <001e01c6e96b$60c89b50$800101df@qlf.local>

Wow, what a difference all the correct versions make.  That fixed my
problem.  Thanks for all the help!

	-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Jim Steil
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 11:59 AM
To: 'John Machin'
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

Python 2.4.1
Pywin23 2.10

I'm in the process of upgrading my python to 2.4.3, will send a follow-up
after I'm done testing.

Thanks!

	-Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: John Machin [mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 10:52 AM
To: Jim Steil
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

On 6/10/2006 11:34 PM, Jim Steil wrote:
> Thanks for your response too!  Unfortunately, I must have something messed
> up here because this didn't work either.
> 
>>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch, constants
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!
>>>> app = Dispatch('Excel.Application')
>>>> print getattr(constants, 'xlHAlignRight', 'Bzzzzt!')
> Bzzzzt!

Yeah well silly me for presuming you had run makepy :-)

> 
> I tried running the makepy.py on the Excell 11.0 Object library and that
> fails on me as well.  Any suggestions?

Tell us a few things you should have supplied w/o being asked:
(1) what version of Python (2.4.what??)
(2) what pywin32 build number
(3) copy/paste of result when you ran makepy

If the makepy gives you a weird syntax error (like the syntax error you 
showed in the response to Tim Roberts), that could be an old bug (in 
Python, I believe). Ensure that you have Python 2.4.3, and the latest 
build of pywin32, and try it again. IIRC, the workaround involved 
editing the file with the syntax error, adding a few spaces to the end 
of the allegedly offending line, and one or two lines before that.

HTH,
John


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From timr at probo.com  Fri Oct  6 19:27:00 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:27:00 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <00a701c6e94b$a2c905a0$800101df@qlf.local>
References: <00a701c6e94b$a2c905a0$800101df@qlf.local>
Message-ID: <452691E4.10003@probo.com>

Jim Steil wrote:

>Thanks for the response!  I tried your suggestion with the following
>results....
>
>  
>
>>>>import win32com.client
>>>>x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")
>>>>        
>>>>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>536, in EnsureDispatch
>    mod = EnsureModule(tla[0], tla[1], tla[3], tla[4],
>bForDemand=bForDemand)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>393, in EnsureModule
>    module = GetModuleForTypelib(typelibCLSID, lcid, major, minor)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>258, in GetModuleForTypelib
>    mod = _GetModule(modName)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>629, in _GetModule
>    mod = __import__(mod_name)
>  File
>"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\00020813-0000-0000-C000-00000
>0000046x0x1x5\__init__.py", line 1748
>    '{000208C8-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'IWalls',
>	'{000208C9-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'ITickLabels',
>                                                        ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>  
>

I'm beginning to think you may have some fundamental problem.  I'm
running Python24, and I have that exact same file in my gen_py cache,
but IWalls is at line 2,063, not line 1,748.  What version of Excel is
this?  I'm running Excel 2003.

Hmmm, I'm still at Python-Win32 build 204, so there is a difference
there.  Still, there is no syntax error there that I can see.

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


From jim at qlf.com  Fri Oct  6 19:31:05 2006
From: jim at qlf.com (Jim Steil)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 12:31:05 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question
In-Reply-To: <452691E4.10003@probo.com>
Message-ID: <001f01c6e96d$339a11c0$800101df@qlf.local>

Tim:

I upgraded my Python install from 2.4.1 to 2.4.3 and now it is all working
as I originally expected it should.  Thanks for your help in trying to find
the problem.  

	-Jim

Jim Steil
IT Manager
Quality Liquid Feeds
(608) 935-2345 
(608) 341-9896 cell

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 12:27 PM
To: 'Python-Win32 List'
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel win32com newbie question

Jim Steil wrote:

>Thanks for the response!  I tried your suggestion with the following
>results....
>
>  
>
>>>>import win32com.client
>>>>x = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Excel.Application")
>>>>        
>>>>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<input>", line 1, in ?
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>536, in EnsureDispatch
>    mod = EnsureModule(tla[0], tla[1], tla[3], tla[4],
>bForDemand=bForDemand)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>393, in EnsureModule
>    module = GetModuleForTypelib(typelibCLSID, lcid, major, minor)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>258, in GetModuleForTypelib
>    mod = _GetModule(modName)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line
>629, in _GetModule
>    mod = __import__(mod_name)
>  File
>"C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\00020813-0000-0000-C000-0000
0
>0000046x0x1x5\__init__.py", line 1748
>    '{000208C8-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'IWalls',
>	'{000208C9-0001-0000-C000-000000000046}' : 'ITickLabels',
>                                                        ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>  
>

I'm beginning to think you may have some fundamental problem.  I'm
running Python24, and I have that exact same file in my gen_py cache,
but IWalls is at line 2,063, not line 1,748.  What version of Excel is
this?  I'm running Excel 2003.

Hmmm, I'm still at Python-Win32 build 204, so there is a difference
there.  Still, there is no syntax error there that I can see.

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

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Oct  9 11:13:16 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:13:16 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Flicker and OnEraseBkgnd
In-Reply-To: <4526524F.5010001@free.fr>
Message-ID: <013f01c6eb83$29bd9010$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>

> Hi,
>
> I currently try to add a matplotlib backend based on the Gecko engine
> (XPCOM, plugin), PIL and pywin.
>
> I simply build a new window and place it in the plugin area
> as a child.
>
> All works fine, bur when I change the size of the window, there is a
> flicker .
> I 've read some pages on the web, but I don't see how to adapt the
> solutions with python.
> Precisely, i can't overwrite the OnResizeBkgnd often spotted
> in articles.

Do a google for "flicker free drawing" - you will find ton's of advice you
can adapt to these tools.

Cheers,

Mark


From scotthogsten at yahoo.com  Wed Oct 11 03:11:27 2006
From: scotthogsten at yahoo.com (Scott Hogsten)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
Message-ID: <20061011011127.90699.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I have some code that spawns processes using the "spawnv" command this returns a process handle.
Can I use the process handle to retrieve the actual PID of the process ? This is part of a test harness
and I need to be able have the actual PID to use against some output. 

Thanks

Scott Hogsten



From testdrive6 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 11 13:09:05 2006
From: testdrive6 at gmail.com (Test Drive)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:39:05 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Python win32com and iTunes
Message-ID: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I am trying to use win32com with iTunes (version 7.0.1.8). However it seems
like I am missing something and I am clueless about that.

<code>
import win32com.client as wc
import pythoncom,sys

app=wc.Dispatch('iTunes.Application')
mainPl=app.LibraryPlaylist

print ">>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dir <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"
print dir(mainPl)

print ">>>>>>>>>>>>> Help On PlayFirstTrack <<<<<<<<<<<<<"
print help(mainPl.PlayFirstTrack)

mainPl.PlayFirstTrack()
sys.exit(-1)
</code>

<output>
C:\Python24\MyScripts>python iTunesmin.py
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dir <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
['AddFile', 'AddFiles', 'AddTrack', 'AddURL', 'CLSID', 'Delete',
'GetITObjectIDs
', 'PlayFirstTrack', 'Print', 'Search', '_ApplyTypes_', '__cmp__',
'__doc__', '_
_getattr__', '__init__', '__module__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',
'_get_good_obj
ect_', '_get_good_single_object_', '_oleobj_', '_prop_map_get_',
'_prop_map_put_
', 'coclass_clsid']
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Help On PlayFirstTrack <<<<<<<<<<<<<
Help on method PlayFirstTrack in module
win32com.gen_py.9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-
B807A3370712x0x1x8.IITLibraryPlaylist:

PlayFirstTrack(self) method of
win32com.gen_py.9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B807A3370
712x0x1x8.IITLibraryPlaylist.IITLibraryPlaylist instance
    Start playing the first track in this playlist.

None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "iTunesmin.py", line 13, in ?
    mainPl.PlayFirstTrack()
  File
"c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B8
07A3370712x0x1x8\IITLibraryPlaylist.py", line 80, in PlayFirstTrack
    return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(1610809345, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None,
None,
 0, -2147418113), None)

C:\Python24\MyScripts>
</output>

I am clueless about the error. Same thing happens when I use the code posted
here (http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/001627.html) under
the title "Driving iTunes from Python on Windows".
C:\Python24\MyScripts>python
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import win32com.client
>>> iTunes = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("iTunes.Application")
>>> iTunes.LibrarySource.Playlists.ItemByName('Party
Shuffle').PlayFirstTrack()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File
"c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B8
07A3370712x0x1x8\IITPlaylist.py", line 44, in PlayFirstTrack
    return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(1610809345, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None,
None,
 0, -2147418113), None)
>>>

Any help is appriciated.

Thanks
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From simon at brunningonline.net  Wed Oct 11 13:57:42 2006
From: simon at brunningonline.net (Simon Brunning)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:57:42 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Python win32com and iTunes
In-Reply-To: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8c7f10c60610110457h58e51ee5o8418f3a6f58757a1@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/11/06, Test Drive <testdrive6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to use win32com with iTunes (version 7.0.1.8). However it seems
> like I am missing something and I am clueless about that.

I gather that the COM object model changed somewhat at iTunes version
7, which might well be responsible for your problems.

I'm a happy Mac user now, so I'm afraid that I can't help you.

-- 
Cheers,
Simon B
simon at brunningonline.net
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/

From timr at probo.com  Wed Oct 11 19:01:15 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:01:15 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python win32com and iTunes
In-Reply-To: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <452D235B.4010607@probo.com>

Test Drive wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to use win32com with iTunes (version 7.0.1.8
> <http://7.0.1.8>). However it seems like I am missing something and I
> am clueless about that.
>
> <code>
> import win32com.client as wc
> import pythoncom,sys
>
> app=wc.Dispatch('iTunes.Application')
> mainPl=app.LibraryPlaylist
>
> print ">>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dir <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"
> print dir(mainPl)
>
> print ">>>>>>>>>>>>> Help On PlayFirstTrack <<<<<<<<<<<<<"
> print help(mainPl.PlayFirstTrack)
>
> mainPl.PlayFirstTrack ()
> sys.exit(-1)
> </code>
>
> <output>
> ...    Start playing the first track in this playlist.
>
> None
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "iTunesmin.py", line 13, in ?
>     mainPl.PlayFirstTrack()
>   File
> "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B8
> 07A3370712x0x1x8\IITLibraryPlaylist.py", line 80, in PlayFirstTrack
>     return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(1610809345, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None,
> None, None,
>  0, -2147418113), None)


Hmmm, -2147418113 is 0x8000FFFF, which is the rather catchall error
E_UNEXPECTED.  It generally means you did things out of order.  Is it
possible that it needs more initialization before launching the first track?

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


From smithbk at aecl.ca  Wed Oct 11 19:55:45 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:55:45 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C8669A1@crs12.aecl.ca>

> My platform is Win XP Pro (SP2), Python 2.3.4, pywin Build 210.  I'm
testing
> using VBA in MS Excel 2000.
 
A bit more info...
 
I wanted to eliminate the older version of VBA as a possible source of the
problem so I downloaded Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and tried the same
VB code.  Unfortunately, I still have the same problem: the Python COM
object
must return the function return value last instead of first and it must also
return an extra initial parameter which VB seems to be interpreting as the
HRESULT of the COM call itself.
 
If I use the object browser in the VB IDE, the object's methods appear to
have
the correct signatures.  To gain access to the object, I am simply adding a
reference to it for the project.
 
Thanks,
Brian

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From testdrive6 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 11 23:00:27 2006
From: testdrive6 at gmail.com (Test Drive)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:30:27 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Python win32com and iTunes
In-Reply-To: <452D235B.4010607@probo.com>
References: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>
	<452D235B.4010607@probo.com>
Message-ID: <d3a62f6f0610111400n6b733efere678d7e6a59fd5ae@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Tim,

Which version of iTunes you are using?

Thanks

On 10/11/06, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
> Test Drive wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to use win32com with iTunes (version 7.0.1.8
> > <http://7.0.1.8>). However it seems like I am missing something and I
> > am clueless about that.
> >
> > <code>
> > import win32com.client as wc
> > import pythoncom,sys
> >
> > app=wc.Dispatch('iTunes.Application')
> > mainPl=app.LibraryPlaylist
> >
> > print ">>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dir <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<"
> > print dir(mainPl)
> >
> > print ">>>>>>>>>>>>> Help On PlayFirstTrack <<<<<<<<<<<<<"
> > print help(mainPl.PlayFirstTrack)
> >
> > mainPl.PlayFirstTrack ()
> > sys.exit(-1)
> > </code>
> >
> > <output>
> > ...    Start playing the first track in this playlist.
> >
> > None
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "iTunesmin.py", line 13, in ?
> >     mainPl.PlayFirstTrack()
> >   File
> >
> "c:\python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\9E93C96F-CF0D-43F6-8BA8-B8
> > 07A3370712x0x1x8\IITLibraryPlaylist.py", line 80, in PlayFirstTrack
> >     return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(1610809345, LCID, 1, (24, 0), (),)
> > pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None,
> > None, None,
> >  0, -2147418113), None)
>
>
> Hmmm, -2147418113 is 0x8000FFFF, which is the rather catchall error
> E_UNEXPECTED.  It generally means you did things out of order.  Is it
> possible that it needs more initialization before launching the first
> track?
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Oct 11 23:38:13 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:38:13 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python win32com and iTunes
In-Reply-To: <d3a62f6f0610111400n6b733efere678d7e6a59fd5ae@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d3a62f6f0610110409p6cfe6cc2i692f6c2679dc0144@mail.gmail.com>	
	<452D235B.4010607@probo.com>
	<d3a62f6f0610111400n6b733efere678d7e6a59fd5ae@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <452D6445.9080601@probo.com>

Test Drive wrote:

>
> Which version of iTunes you are using?


I don't using iTunes.  I'm too old for their "target demographic" ;). 
I'm just offering advice based on general experience with COM objects.

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


From skynare at gmail.com  Thu Oct 12 06:20:54 2006
From: skynare at gmail.com (sam lee)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:20:54 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Python.AXScript (win32com) in Netstumbler
Message-ID: <4e7aa0f80610112120wf8d99bdr3f9a52c03ef004de@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to write a Python.AXScript script work with Netstumbler.

http://www.stumbler.net/scripting.html

According to that page, Netstumbler calls functions like, OnScanResult.

I wrote JScript and PerlScript version of OnScanResult and they are
called automatically by Netstumbler.

JScript:
function OnScanResult(SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen) {
    PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav");
}

PerlScript:
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w
sub OnScanResult {
    my($sid,$mac,$flags,$signal,$noise,$ls) = @_;
    PlaySound('ns-signal-1.wav');
}

PlaySound is what Netstumbler provides for script writers to call.

Above simple scripts work (They play sound whenever Netstumbler scans
for Wifi stuff).

Now, I do the same in Python.AXScript:
def OnScanResult(SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen):
    PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")

And it says PlaySound not defined. Of course there is winsound.PlaySound.
I can use winsound module and it works.
But, the problem is Netstumbler does not provide PlaySound in
Python.AXScript environment as it does to JScript and PerlScript
environment.

Why Python.AXScript so special??

http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/PrivacyProblem.html

According to the above link, win32com now comes with two versions of
ActiveScripting environment. And only the one that works with trusted
code.

I think Netstumbler is 'untrusted'. So, win32com.axscript or something
won't work with Netstumbler.

>From the same link: "If a user desires, they may manually register the
version that supports untrusted environments. "

So, I want to register the version that supports untrusted
environments, presumably  like Netstumbler.

I did run win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript_rexec.py and
win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py .
But, still no luck.

Question is summed up as: How do I register ActiveScripting engine
that supports untrusted environments?

Or, How do I make Python scripts work with Netstumbler?

Thank you.
Sam.

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct 12 08:22:21 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:22:21 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Python.AXScript (win32com) in Netstumbler
In-Reply-To: <4e7aa0f80610112120wf8d99bdr3f9a52c03ef004de@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0a3d01c6edc6$c8e5d1d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>

> Now, I do the same in Python.AXScript:
> def OnScanResult(SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen):
>     PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")
>
> And it says PlaySound not defined. Of course there is
> winsound.PlaySound.

PlaySound will be a method on a "global" object.  Due to the way Python
works, it is difficult to always make these methods truly global - hence in
ASP, you need, eg, 'Response.Write' rather than the plain 'Write' other
languages offer.  You need to find the name of the equivilent global
variable in Netstumbler.

Cheers,

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct 12 13:18:34 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:18:34 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
In-Reply-To: <20061011011127.90699.qmail@web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <0b1401c6edf0$28707370$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>

> I have some code that spawns processes using the "spawnv"
> command this returns a process handle.
> Can I use the process handle to retrieve the actual PID of
> the process ? This is part of a test harness
> and I need to be able have the actual PID to use against some output.

Good question!  It's not immediately obvious how to do this simply, but at a
pinch, maybe win32pdh or WMI could be used?

Other (more painful) option is to use CreateProcess to spawn your process.
The best Python implemented example of how to do this I know of is at
http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/trunk/lib/python/nt_svcutils/service.py?
content-type=text%2Fplain - the main advantage is that you can redirect the
output any place you like.

Hope that helps.

Mark


From skynare at gmail.com  Thu Oct 12 14:18:41 2006
From: skynare at gmail.com (sam lee)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:18:41 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Python.AXScript (win32com) in Netstumbler
In-Reply-To: <0a3d01c6edc6$c8e5d1d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <4e7aa0f80610112120wf8d99bdr3f9a52c03ef004de@mail.gmail.com>
	<0a3d01c6edc6$c8e5d1d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <4e7aa0f80610120518k3e91ad2as3bbdef23f7de7532@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/12/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> PlaySound will be a method on a "global" object.  Due to the way Python
> works, it is difficult to always make these methods truly global - hence in
> ASP, you need, eg, 'Response.Write' rather than the plain 'Write' other
> languages offer.  You need to find the name of the equivilent global
> variable in Netstumbler.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>

Thank you very much!

Now, I figured the name of the global object is NetStumbler.
NetStumbler.PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")
works beautifully.

So, NetStumbler will call NetStumbler.OnScanResult on some events.
I want to override that:

1st try:
NetStumbler.OnScanResult = lambda
SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen:
NetStumbler.PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")

I get:
Python ActiveX Scripting Engine

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<Script Block >", line 18, in ?
    NetStumbler.OnScanResult = lambda
SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen:
NetStumbler.PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py",
line 155, in __setattr__
    raise AttributeError, attr
AttributeError: onscanresult

__setattr__ is:

	def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
		# XXX - todo - if a known item, then should call its default
		# dispatch method.
		attr=string.lower(attr)
		if self._scriptItem_.dispatchContainer:
			try:
				return setattr(self._scriptItem_.dispatchContainer,attr, value)
			except AttributeError:
				pass
		raise AttributeError, attr

I'm new to Python. So, I assume when the if condition is false, it
raises exception...

2nd try:
def OnScanResult(cls, SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen):
    NetStumbler.PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")

NetStumbler.OnScanResult = classmethod(OnScanResult)

Same error results.

How would I override NetStumbler.OnScanResult?

Thank you.
Sam.

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct 12 14:29:10 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:29:10 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Python.AXScript (win32com) in Netstumbler
In-Reply-To: <4e7aa0f80610120518k3e91ad2as3bbdef23f7de7532@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0b3a01c6edfa$055fd010$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>

> So, NetStumbler will call NetStumbler.OnScanResult on some events.
> I want to override that:

Try:

def NetStumbler_OnScanResult(SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen):
   ...

I think the above is similar to VBScript - at least it was when the AXScript support was written :)

Mark


From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Thu Oct 12 14:40:50 2006
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:40:50 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
In-Reply-To: <0b1401c6edf0$28707370$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B52F@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[Mark Hammond]
| Sent: 12 October 2006 12:19
| To: 'Scott Hogsten'; python-win32 at python.org
| Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
| 
| > I have some code that spawns processes using the "spawnv"
| > command this returns a process handle.
| > Can I use the process handle to retrieve the actual PID of
| > the process ? This is part of a test harness
| > and I need to be able have the actual PID to use against 
| some output.
| 
| Good question!  It's not immediately obvious how to do this 
| simply, but at a
| pinch, maybe win32pdh or WMI could be used?

Not WMI, I'm afraid; at least, not on casual inspection.
The Handle property of the Win32_Process appears to be
an exact duplicate of the ProcessID property!

TJG

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From scotthogsten at yahoo.com  Thu Oct 12 16:01:35 2006
From: scotthogsten at yahoo.com (Scott Hogsten)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:01:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
Message-ID: <20061012140135.96455.qmail@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I tried a bunch of stuff yesterday but couldn't get a good solution. It doesn't appear that
MS gives a good way for a process to return it's PID.  I ended up wrapping the program
under test in C and using that to dump the PID to disk.

Scott
----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
To: Scott Hogsten <scotthogsten at yahoo.com>; python-win32 at python.org
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:18:34 AM
Subject: RE: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?

> I have some code that spawns processes using the "spawnv"
> command this returns a process handle.
> Can I use the process handle to retrieve the actual PID of
> the process ? This is part of a test harness
> and I need to be able have the actual PID to use against some output.

Good question!  It's not immediately obvious how to do this simply, but at a
pinch, maybe win32pdh or WMI could be used?

Other (more painful) option is to use CreateProcess to spawn your process.
The best Python implemented example of how to do this I know of is at
http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/trunk/lib/python/nt_svcutils/service.py?
content-type=text%2Fplain - the main advantage is that you can redirect the
output any place you like.

Hope that helps.

Mark





From skynare at gmail.com  Thu Oct 12 22:16:20 2006
From: skynare at gmail.com (sam lee)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:16:20 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Python.AXScript (win32com) in Netstumbler
In-Reply-To: <0b3a01c6edfa$055fd010$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <4e7aa0f80610120518k3e91ad2as3bbdef23f7de7532@mail.gmail.com>
	<0b3a01c6edfa$055fd010$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <4e7aa0f80610121316q38f03b1au6eafdba7bb415a83@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/12/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> Try:
>
> def NetStumbler_OnScanResult(SSID,BSSID,CapFlags,Signal,Noise,LastSeen):
>    ...
>
> I think the above is similar to VBScript - at least it was when the AXScript support was written :)
>
> Mark
>
>

That doesn't do. I tried with __ and ___ between global object name
(NetStumbler) and function name (OnScanResult) also.

Wierd thing is that for JScript and VBScript, I can supply an empty
file to NetStumbler. And, the empty script continues to run (I can see
that in Status box in Scripting tab of Option dialogue of
NetStumbler).

However, for Python.AXScript, script quits running as soon as it
reaches the end.
For example, I can have a python script as:
NetStumbler.PlaySound("ns-signal-1.wav")

When I run that, it plays sounds once and Status box says : Not running.

If I put some blocking function:
import easygui
easygui.msgbox('lol') #creates a message box and waits until the
message box is closed

Status box says Running as long as the message box is not closed. And
as soon as the message box is closed, Status box changes to Not
running.

So, def NetStumbler_OnScanResult(...
did not work.
I can't tell if it is because GlobalObjectName_FunctionName is old way
of doing things (even in VBScript, I can just override Sub
OnScanResult ... instead of NetStumbler_OnScanResult), or it's because
connection between NetStumber and Active Scripting environment is not
maintained...

Thank you.
Sam.

From bwmetz at att.com  Fri Oct 13 01:24:29 2006
From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WWCS)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:24:29 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?
In-Reply-To: <0b1401c6edf0$28707370$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B345769047336702A1944E@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>

You should consider using the new subprocess module.  It provides both
phandle and pid.  You can confirm this using EnumWindows and
win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId.  The value returned by .pid is
the same as that from GetWindowThreadProcessId.  ._handle is the same as
that returned by spawnv, l, whatever.

process = subprocess.Popen(["c:\\windows\\notepad.exe",'','']) 
print process.pid
print int(process._handle)

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
Mark Hammond
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:19 AM
To: 'Scott Hogsten'; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to get PID from a Proces Handle ?

> I have some code that spawns processes using the "spawnv"
> command this returns a process handle.
> Can I use the process handle to retrieve the actual PID of
> the process ? This is part of a test harness
> and I need to be able have the actual PID to use against some output.

Good question!  It's not immediately obvious how to do this simply, but
at a
pinch, maybe win32pdh or WMI could be used?

Other (more painful) option is to use CreateProcess to spawn your
process.
The best Python implemented example of how to do this I know of is at
http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/Zope/trunk/lib/python/nt_svcutils/service
.py?
content-type=text%2Fplain - the main advantage is that you can redirect
the
output any place you like.

Hope that helps.

Mark

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From Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com  Fri Oct 13 13:15:05 2006
From: Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com (Michael Pearmain)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:15:05 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
Message-ID: <1F6CEC6E7A3BDE459B06BECA190CB0C4014A451A@ex-001.twentysixlondon.com>


Hi I'm a beginner to python and VBA,

However I have made a VBA macro which takes tables in excel and creates an PowerPoint slideshow,

I want to automate this process using python

The trouble I have is that the name of the file I'm running this on changes all the time, but I have saved the macro , so I want to apply the macro from one file onto the file with all the tables in? Make sense?

Below is the code I've written but I keep getting errors, can anyone offer advice please?

Much appreciated

Mike

 import win32com.client
 xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
 ppt = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
 xl.Visible = 1 #open MS Excel
 ppt.Visible = 1 #open MS Powerpoint

#Open the work book big output (file I want ot run the macro on
 xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\big output.xls')
# Load the macro to use
 xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\ChartsToPresentation.xla')
# now try and run macro on big output, this is where it fails
 xl.Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro("weightedtables!ChartsToPresentation()""[big output.XLS]Sheet1")
  


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From timr at probo.com  Fri Oct 13 19:14:58 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:14:58 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
In-Reply-To: <1F6CEC6E7A3BDE459B06BECA190CB0C4014A451A@ex-001.twentysixlondon.com>
References: <1F6CEC6E7A3BDE459B06BECA190CB0C4014A451A@ex-001.twentysixlondon.com>
Message-ID: <452FC992.2090607@probo.com>

Michael Pearmain wrote:

>
> Hi I'm a beginner to python and VBA,
>
> However I have made a VBA macro which takes tables in excel and
> creates an PowerPoint slideshow,
>

You know, you could write that macro entirely in Python without
involving VBA...

> The trouble I have is that the name of the file I'm running this on
> changes all the time, but I have saved the macro , so I want to apply
> the macro from one file onto the file with all the tables in? Make sense?
>
> Below is the code I've written but I keep getting errors, can anyone
> offer advice please?
>

When you have a problem like this, you should always tell us exactly
what the error was.  Saying "I keep getting errors" does not tell us
anything about the problem.

>  import win32com.client
>  xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>  ppt = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
>  xl.Visible = 1 #open MS Excel
>  ppt.Visible = 1 #open MS Powerpoint
>
> #Open the work book big output (file I want ot run the macro on
>  xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\big
> output.xls')
> # Load the macro to use
>  xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic
> files\\ChartsToPresentation.xla')
> # now try and run macro on big output, this is where it fails
>  xl.Application.ExecuteExcel4Macro("weightedtables!ChartsToPresentation()""[big
> output.XLS]Sheet1")
>

The problem, probably, is those quotes in the middle.  I suspect you
wanted a single quotation mark in that string, but what you have here is
two strings that get concatenated, with no quote marks.  If you want a
single quotation mark, use \":
    ...ChartsToPresentation()\"[big output.XLS]...
If you want two quote marks, use \"\".

Alternatively, you could use single quotes around the string:
 
xl.Application.ExecuteExcel4macro('weightedtables!ChartsToPresentation()"[big
output.XLS]sheet1')

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


From floris.vannee at gmail.com  Fri Oct 13 19:19:44 2006
From: floris.vannee at gmail.com (Floris van Nee)
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:19:44 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
In-Reply-To: <2302ac370610130922q1470aa52u6fc73e58f1bcf7ca@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1F6CEC6E7A3BDE459B06BECA190CB0C4014A4574@ex-001.twentysixlondon.com>
	<2302ac370610130922q1470aa52u6fc73e58f1bcf7ca@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2302ac370610131019k74fe53afp94668f24b5c80ef7@mail.gmail.com>

Here's the convo I had with Michael about VBA and Python. I mailed them
directly to him instead of to Python-win32 mailing list. So here they are
for the mailing list. I just keep forgetting that I can't just hit 'reply'
in Gmail :P

Floris

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Floris van Nee <floris.vannee at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
To: Michael Pearmain <Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com>


I don't know if that would be a problem. I'm not very used to using macro's.

After some searching on the web, I found that you can use
xl = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xl.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents.Import("C:/somescript.bas")
xl.Run("Name of module in somescript.bas")

to run a script. However, it seems you need to have the script in plain text
format, instead of whatever format you're using now and you need to call the
name of the module you want to run. For example, if somescript.bas contains
something like:

sub MyMacro()
       msgbox "Inside generated macro!!!"
end sub

Then you do xl.Run("MyMacro")

Maybe you should try something like that and see if that works.

Floris

On 10/13/06, Michael Pearmain <Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com> wrote:
>
>  just a thought on this?
>
> I currently activate the macro in weighted tables by a click button, would
> this be a potential problem?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Floris van Nee [mailto:floris.vannee at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 13 October 2006 13:21
> *To:* Michael Pearmain
> *Subject:* Re: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
>
>
>  I will take a look at it, but could you please post the exact error
> messages you are getting when you are trying to run the macro?
>
> Additionally, the problem may be caused because of security settings in
> Microsoft Office:
>
> Additional Notes for Office XP
> Office XP applications have a security option to allow programmatic access
> to the VBA object model. If this setting is "off" (the default), you may
> receive an error running the sample code. For more information about this
> setting and how you can correct the error, see the following article in the
> Microsoft Knowledge Base:
> 282830 <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282830/EN-US/> (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282830/EN-US/
> ) PRB: Programmatic Access to Office XP VBA Project Is Denied
>
> Maybe that is causing the problem?
> Floris
>
>
> On 10/13/06, Michael Pearmain <Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com > wrote:
> >
> >  Thanks for the advice,
> > Unfortunately it still doesn't work? I just can't seem to get the macro
> > to run,
> >
> > Attached are 3 files the big output is the file with all the tables,
> > weighted tables, was where I created the original VBA code and
> > Charts2presentation is (hopefully where i created a stored version of the
> > macro)
> >
> > i completely understand if you are to busy to take a look and help with
> > my problem, but i'm at that stage where i know it's going to be 1 or 2 lines
> > of code to change and it's driving me mad!!!
> >
> > Many thanks in advance if you have any spare time
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* Floris van Nee [mailto:floris.vannee at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* 13 October 2006 12:46
> > *To:* Michael Pearmain
> > *Subject:* Re: [python-win32] VBA MACRO and Python
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> > I have tried a few things myself in Python and Excel, and for me a
> > normal macro seems to execute fine when I use this code:
> >
> > >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> > >>> a = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> > >>> a.Visible = 1
> > >>> a.Workbooks.Open('test.xls')
> > <COMObject Open>
> > >>> a.Run("Macro1")
> >
> > If you need some more information about calling macro's from another
> > program, here is a Microsoft help page: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;194611
> >
> >
> > I hope that's what you need :)
> >
> > Floris
> >
> > On 10/13/06, Michael Pearmain <Michael.Pearmain at tangozebra.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi I'm a beginner to python and VBA,
> > >
> > > However I have made a VBA macro which takes tables in excel and
> > > creates an PowerPoint slideshow,
> > >
> > > I want to automate this process using python
> > >
> > > The trouble I have is that the name of the file I'm running this on
> > > changes all the time, but I have saved the macro , so I want to apply the
> > > macro from one file onto the file with all the tables in? Make sense?
> > >
> > > Below is the code I've written but I keep getting errors, can anyone
> > > offer advice please?
> > >
> > > Much appreciated
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >  import win32com.client
> > >  xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> > >  ppt = win32com.client.Dispatch("PowerPoint.Application")
> > >  xl.Visible = 1 #open MS Excel
> > >  ppt.Visible = 1 #open MS Powerpoint
> > >
> > > #Open the work book big output (file I want ot run the macro on
> > >  xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic files\\big
> > > output.xls ')
> > > # Load the macro to use
> > >  xl.Workbooks.Open('Z:\\projects\\surveys\\SPSS - Generic
> > > files\\ChartsToPresentation.xla')
> > > # now try and run macro on big output, this is where it fails
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From jjmarin at unizar.es  Mon Oct 16 01:32:06 2006
From: jjmarin at unizar.es (Jose Javier Marin)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:32:06 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] We cannot import win32api into the Poser6 Python.
Message-ID: <000601c6f0b2$20dee000$3700a8c0@JJMARIN>

Oct 15th 2006.

 

We are a Research Group in Ergonomics and we have developed an application
about ergonomics with Poser4 and python and now we are trying to work with
Poser6.

 

In POSER 4 we installed py152_python152.exe and win32all-143.exe So we can
import the module win32api and write directly in a Excel sheet.

This is very import for us.  

 

But, the instruction: import win32api, into Poser6 Python we get an error:

ImportError: DLL load failed: (it is not possible to find the process
specificated)

 

We have installed: Python-2.2.3.exe and pywin32-210.win32-py2.2.exe.

 

We think that the problem is in the library python22.dll of Poser6
realease3. This is different of python22.dll of Python2.2.3 standard.

 

We only need to execute the Dispatch module. For example: 

 

import win32api

from win32com.client import Dispatch

xlApp = Dispatch ("Excel.Application")

xlSheet = xlApp.Workbooks(motion_xls).Sheets("STD")

...

xlSheet.Range(xlSheet.Cells(6,30),xlSheet.Cells(500,30)).Value = None

xlSheet.Range(xlSheet.Cells(6,30),xlSheet.Cells(len_tupla+5,30)).Value =
tupla

...

 

Does anybody help us in this question?

Truly it is very important for us.

 

Many thanks in advance.

 

Javier Marin

Universidad de Zaragoza.

E-mail: jjmarin at unizar.es

Web site:  <http://www.unizar.es/> http://www.unizar.es/

 

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Oct 16 14:07:21 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:07:21 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] We cannot import win32api into the Poser6 Python.
In-Reply-To: <000601c6f0b2$20dee000$3700a8c0@JJMARIN>
Message-ID: <072101c6f11b$aa332f50$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> In POSER 4 we installed py152_python152.exe and win32all-143.exe
> So we can import the module win32api and write directly in
> a Excel sheet. This is very import for us.
 ...
> We have installed: Python-2.2.3.exe and pywin32-210.win32-py2.2.exe.
> We think that the problem is in the library python22.dll of Poser6
> realease3. This is different of python22.dll of Python2.2.3 standard.

I'm a bit confused about the above - you need to use a single Python version
within a single application.  If poser requires Python 1.5.2, you should
ignore all other versions, including 2.2.3.  You might like to try copying
pywintypes15.dll into the windows system32 directory, or the directory where
python15.dll is.

Hope this helps,

Mark.


From howard at eegsoftware.com  Mon Oct 16 17:53:03 2006
From: howard at eegsoftware.com (howard at eegsoftware.com)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:53:03 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] We cannot import win32api into the Poser6 Python.
In-Reply-To: <000601c6f0b2$20dee000$3700a8c0@JJMARIN>
References: <000601c6f0b2$20dee000$3700a8c0@JJMARIN>
Message-ID: <4533486F.5057.7DF66A0@howard.eegsoftware.com>



> 
> Oct 15th 2006.
> 
> We are a Research Group in Ergonomics and we have developed an 
> application about ergonomics with Poser4 and python and now we are 
> trying to work with Poser6.
> 
> In POSER 4 we installed py152_python152.exe and win32all-143.exe So 
> we can import the module win32api and write directly in a Excel 
> sheet.
> This is very import for us. 
> 
> But, the instruction: import win32api, into Poser6 Python we get an 
> error:
> ImportError: DLL load failed: (it is not possible to find the process 
> specificated)
> 
> We have installed: Python-2.2.3.exe and pywin32-210.win32-py2.2.exe.
> 
> We think that the problem is in the library python22.dll of Poser6 
> realease3. This is different of python22.dll of Python2.2.3 standard.
> 
> We only need to execute the Dispatch module. For example: 
> 
> import win32api
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> xlApp = Dispatch ("Excel.Application")
> xlSheet = xlApp.Workbooks(motion_xls).Sheets("STD")
> ...
> xlSheet.Range(xlSheet.Cells(6,30),xlSheet.Cells(500,30)).Value = None
> xlSheet.Range(xlSheet.Cells(6,30),xlSheet.Cells(len_tupla+5,30)).Value
>  = tupla
> ...
> 
> Does anybody help us in this question?
> Truly it is very important for us.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Javier Marin
> Universidad de Zaragoza.
> E-mail: jjmarin at unizar.es
> Web site: http://www.unizar.es/
> 
> 

I think the problem is in Windows load processing (of paths).  
Windoze loads first from the specified file directory / current 
directory, the system32 folder, the system folder, and then from 
places in the PATH environment variable.

I had the same problem with a private copy of Python 2.2 on systems 
with a system installed python2.2 - it always picked up a different 
pywintypes22 (from the system32 folder) on HP/Compaq machines that 
have python22 installed in a hidden (system) folder.

The solution was to copy my local copy of pywintypes22.dll into the 
??\lib\Site-packages\win32 folder (where win32api.pyd resides) of my 
private python installation.  Now the DLL loader finds a matching 
pywintypes22 in the same folder it is loading the .PYD from.





From bjarnir at gmail.com  Mon Oct 16 22:22:22 2006
From: bjarnir at gmail.com (Bjarni Ragnarsson)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:22:22 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] HTTP Error 500
Message-ID: <938bcd6f0610161322u63436172xf6c93cb999d4dd8f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone.
I'm getting quite desperate here - trying to run PythonScripts on asp pages.
The problem seems to be in coding.
This is XP Pro running IIS.  Python 2.5 is installed (lates binary
build), egenix mx package too and pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe (tried
209.1 too with the same result).

Running the asp code::

<%@ LANGUAGE = Python %>
<%
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

def main():
  print ("Hello")

main()

%>

Results in this (using pyscript.py in debug mode):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 86, in __BuildFromException
    self._BuildFromSyntaxError(site, value, tb)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 104, in _BuildFromSyntaxError
    self.colno = offset - 1
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'int'
pythoncom error: Unexpected exception in gateway method 'SetScriptState'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
332, in _InvokeEx_
    return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs, serviceProvider)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
593, in _invokeex_
    return func(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 605, in SetScriptState
    self.Run()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 786, in Run
    self.ExecutePendingScripts()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 734, in ExecutePendingScripts
    self.DoExecutePendingScripts()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py",
line 288, in DoExecutePendingScripts
    if self.CompileInScriptedSection(codeBlock, "exec"):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 880, in CompileInScriptedSection
    self.HandleException(codeBlock)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 948, in HandleException
    codeBlock, exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 78, in __init__
    self.__BuildFromException(site, exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 92, in __BuildFromException
    raise sys.exc_info()
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
pythoncom error: Unexpected gateway error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
332, in _InvokeEx_
    return self._invokeex_(dispid, lcid, wFlags, args, kwargs, serviceProvider)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\policy.py", line
593, in _invokeex_
    return func(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 605, in SetScriptState
    self.Run()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 786, in Run
    self.ExecutePendingScripts()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 734, in ExecutePendingScripts
    self.DoExecutePendingScripts()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\pyscript.py",
line 288, in DoExecutePendingScripts
    if self.CompileInScriptedSection(codeBlock, "exec"):
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 880, in CompileInScriptedSection
    self.HandleException(codeBlock)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\framework.py",
line 948, in HandleException
    codeBlock, exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 78, in __init__
    self.__BuildFromException(site, exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client\error.py",
line 92, in __BuildFromException
    raise sys.exc_info()
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:

sitecustomize.py:

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF-8')
#sys.setdefaultencoding('Windows-1252')

I've tried both defaults.

Please - please, help me here.
Best regards,
Bjarni Ragnarsson

From shoaev_hares at yahoo.com  Mon Oct 16 23:42:04 2006
From: shoaev_hares at yahoo.com (S. S. Hares)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:42:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] What is Variant VT_UI1 in Python?
In-Reply-To: <938bcd6f0610161322u63436172xf6c93cb999d4dd8f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20061016214204.42343.qmail@web57702.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hello,

I'm having difficulty passing a VT_UI1 to a COM
object. I've tried passing a list/tuple of bytes but
it's raising an exception. When I pass a buffer, there
is no exception but the returned IAutoLogPacket is
None. What is "an array of bytes"?

Here is the makepy generated method (I'm certain I'm
using early bound dispatch):

	# Result is of type IAutoLogPacket
	def ProcessPacket(self,
packet=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
		"""packet is an array of bytes"""
		ret = self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(32, LCID, 1, (9, 0),
((12, 1),),packet
			)
		if ret is not None:
			ret = Dispatch(ret, 'ProcessPacket',
'{568A44F9-6FB2-4814-8195-BCF6F1409288}',
UnicodeToString=0)
		return ret


Here is part of an example working Perl script:

my $LogPacket = "15 00 07 10 40 9A C0 A7 EE FB 9C 00 
                 09 11 04 1C 80 29 F0 94 20";
my $qcat_app = new Win32::OLE 'QCAT5.Application';
my @Bytes = split(/[ \n][ \n]*/, $LogPacket);
my @HexBytes;
foreach (@Bytes)
{
   push @HexBytes,eval "0x$_";
}
my $Packet = pack($PackStr, @HexBytes);
my $VarPacket = Variant(VT_UI1, $Packet);
my $Obj = $qcat_app -> ProcessPacket($VarPacket);
print $Obj . "\n";
print $Obj->Text();


I'm using Python 2.4.2 and pywin32 build 209.

Your help is appreciated. Thanks.

- Shoaev

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Oct 17 04:17:09 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:17:09 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] What is Variant VT_UI1 in Python?
In-Reply-To: <20061016214204.42343.qmail@web57702.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <092d01c6f192$5a32dd80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Hello,
>
> I'm having difficulty passing a VT_UI1 to a COM
> object. I've tried passing a list/tuple of bytes but
> it's raising an exception. When I pass a buffer, there
> is no exception but the returned IAutoLogPacket is
> None. What is "an array of bytes"?
>
> Here is the makepy generated method (I'm certain I'm
> using early bound dispatch):
>
> 	# Result is of type IAutoLogPacket
> 	def ProcessPacket(self,
> packet=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
> 		"""packet is an array of bytes"""
> 		ret = self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(32, LCID, 1, (9, 0),
> ((12, 1),),packet
> 			)
> 		if ret is not None:
> 			ret = Dispatch(ret, 'ProcessPacket',
> '{568A44F9-6FB2-4814-8195-BCF6F1409288}',
> UnicodeToString=0)
> 		return ret

The function is declared as taking a simple variant.  This means that
explicitly passing a buffer object should work - eg, buffer('foo\0bar'), for
example.  (If it was explicitly declared as a VT_ARRAY | VT_UI8, passing a
simple string would work too)

I just made a change to the win32com test suite to confirm this.  testvb.py
was changed to include:

    vbtest.VariantProperty = buffer('raw\0data')
    if str(vbtest.VariantProperty) != 'raw\0data':
        raise error, "Could not set the variant buffer property correctly."

This is similar to your example (although a property is being used instead
of an arg to a method.)  After setting the property to the buffer,
re-reading the value results in an object '<read-write buffer ptr
0x00C5C7C0, size 8 at 0x00C5C7A0>' - hence the conversion to string before
the comparison.  However, this demonstrates to me that VT_UI1 support in
variants is working fine.

Probably the best way forward is to try and reproduce your problem in the
win32com test suite...

Hope this helps,

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Oct 17 05:12:22 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:12:22 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] HTTP Error 500
In-Reply-To: <938bcd6f0610161322u63436172xf6c93cb999d4dd8f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <093501c6f19a$1119d100$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Hi everyone.
> I'm getting quite desperate here - trying to run
> PythonScripts on asp pages.
> The problem seems to be in coding.
> This is XP Pro running IIS.  Python 2.5 is installed (lates binary
> build), egenix mx package too and pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe (tried
> 209.1 too with the same result).
>
> Running the asp code::
>
> <%@ LANGUAGE = Python %>
> <%
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
>
> def main():
>   print ("Hello")
>
> main()
>
> %>

Your problem is the 'coding' line.  This fails in an ASP environment, as ASP
itself has already decoded the string and passes it to Python directly as
Unicode.  A 'coding' line in Unicode source code makes no sense, and Python
complains.

But sadly, pywin32 then failed to handle this error correctly.  The problem
was more severe in Python 2.5 than earlier versions.  I've checked a fix for
pywin32 in, but this does not solve your original problem; simply remove the
coding line, and ensure you use characters in whatever encoding ASP itself
expects.

Hope this helps,

Mark


From shoaev_hares at yahoo.com  Tue Oct 17 17:11:11 2006
From: shoaev_hares at yahoo.com (S. S. Hares)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:11:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] What is Variant VT_UI1 in Python?
In-Reply-To: <092d01c6f192$5a32dd80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <20061017151111.31069.qmail@web57708.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Thanks very much Mark!

The buffer does work, it turns out I was using the COM
object improperly. (Oops, sorry)

--- Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having difficulty passing a VT_UI1 to a COM
> > object. I've tried passing a list/tuple of bytes
> but
> > it's raising an exception. When I pass a buffer,
> there
> > is no exception but the returned IAutoLogPacket is
> > None. What is "an array of bytes"?
> >
> > Here is the makepy generated method (I'm certain
> I'm
> > using early bound dispatch):
> >
> > 	# Result is of type IAutoLogPacket
> > 	def ProcessPacket(self,
> > packet=defaultNamedNotOptArg):
> > 		"""packet is an array of bytes"""
> > 		ret = self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(32, LCID, 1, (9,
> 0),
> > ((12, 1),),packet
> > 			)
> > 		if ret is not None:
> > 			ret = Dispatch(ret, 'ProcessPacket',
> > '{568A44F9-6FB2-4814-8195-BCF6F1409288}',
> > UnicodeToString=0)
> > 		return ret
> 
> The function is declared as taking a simple variant.
>  This means that
> explicitly passing a buffer object should work - eg,
> buffer('foo\0bar'), for
> example.  (If it was explicitly declared as a
> VT_ARRAY | VT_UI8, passing a
> simple string would work too)
> 
> I just made a change to the win32com test suite to
> confirm this.  testvb.py
> was changed to include:
> 
>     vbtest.VariantProperty = buffer('raw\0data')
>     if str(vbtest.VariantProperty) != 'raw\0data':
>         raise error, "Could not set the variant
> buffer property correctly."
> 
> This is similar to your example (although a property
> is being used instead
> of an arg to a method.)  After setting the property
> to the buffer,
> re-reading the value results in an object
> '<read-write buffer ptr
> 0x00C5C7C0, size 8 at 0x00C5C7A0>' - hence the
> conversion to string before
> the comparison.  However, this demonstrates to me
> that VT_UI1 support in
> variants is working fine.
> 
> Probably the best way forward is to try and
> reproduce your problem in the
> win32com test suite...
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 


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From dprovins at tridentexploration.ca  Tue Oct 17 16:59:53 2006
From: dprovins at tridentexploration.ca (Dean Allen Provins)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:59:53 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
Message-ID: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>

I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
them in the environment in which I work).  The code looks in part like:

      import win32print
      default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default

      for j in range (len (self.share_names)):	# <-------must know share names!
        A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
                                     self.share_names [j], 2)
        for i in range (len (A)):
          win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
          self.printer_list.append (win_printer)

My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"

I look forward to any and all replies.

Regards from Calgary,

Dean

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From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Tue Oct 17 17:59:14 2006
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:59:14 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
In-Reply-To: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>
Message-ID: <CCAC78D42E32184F8E26DC163DB98306C1B54F@vogbs009.gb.vo.local>

[Dean Allen Provins]

| To allow windows users to print, 
| I used some code that needed to know the name of the 
| 'shares' providing  printers (there were 2 of
| them in the environment in which I work).

| My question then is, "how does one determine the share names 
| in an arbitrary environment - without asking someone, and 
| then coding them (as I've done above?)"

Doubtless there are other methods, but you *can* use
WMI for this:

<code (untested)>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
for printer_share in c.Win32_Share (Type=1):
  print printer_share

</code>

WMI in general can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/default.mspx

The Python WMI module can be found here:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html

and the specifics of the Win32_Share class, and
why you need that Type=1 can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/
wmi/win32_share.asp

TJG

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From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:05:39 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
In-Reply-To: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>
References: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>
Message-ID: <4534FF53.6060906@kareta.de>

Hello Dean,

>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
>python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
>them in the environment in which I work).  The code looks in part like:
>
>      import win32print
>      default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default
>
>      for j in range (len (self.share_names)):	# <-------must know share names!
>        A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
>                                     self.share_names [j], 2)
>        for i in range (len (A)):
>          win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
>          self.printer_list.append (win_printer)
>
>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"
>
>  
>
try win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL,None,2) or
win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_INFO,None,2) for lokal shares

and
win32print.EnumPrinters(100,None,2) for network shares. Further Infos 
look up at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_9fjn.asp

Hope this helps,

regards,
J?rgen


From python at kareta.de  Tue Oct 17 18:09:27 2006
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:09:27 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
Message-ID: <45350037.3010302@kareta.de>

Hello Dean,

>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
>python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
>them in the environment in which I work).  The code looks in part like:
>
>      import win32print
>      default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default
>
>      for j in range (len (self.share_names)):	# <-------must know share names!
>        A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
>                                     self.share_names [j], 2)
>        for i in range (len (A)):
>          win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
>          self.printer_list.append (win_printer)
>
>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"
>
>  
>
try win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL,None,2) or
win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_INFO,None,2) for lokal shares

and
win32print.EnumPrinters(100,None,2) for network shares. Further Infos 
look up at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_9fjn.asp

Hope this helps,

regards,
J?rgen




From python at kareta.de  Tue Oct 17 18:27:44 2006
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:27:44 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
Message-ID: <45350480.8030109@kareta.de>




Hello Dean,

>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
>python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
>them in the environment in which I work).  The code looks in part like:
>
>      import win32print
>      default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default
>
>      for j in range (len (self.share_names)):	# <-------must know share names!
>        A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
>                                     self.share_names [j], 2)
>        for i in range (len (A)):
>          win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
>          self.printer_list.append (win_printer)
>
>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"
>
>  
>
try win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL,None,2) or
win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_INFO,None,2) for lokal shares

and
win32print.EnumPrinters(100,None,2) for network shares. Further Infos 
look up at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_9fjn.asp

Hope this helps,

regards,
J?rgen




From timr at probo.com  Tue Oct 17 18:41:54 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:41:54 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
In-Reply-To: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>
References: <4534EFE9.60205@tridentexploration.ca>
Message-ID: <453507D2.2060908@probo.com>

Dean Allen Provins wrote:

>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
>python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
>them in the environment in which I work)....
>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"
>  
>

The generally accepted practice in Windows is to display the standard
print dialog and allow the user to pick the printer he wants.  This
dialog also allows him to customize the attributes of the print job
(paper tray, paper size, duplexing) without requiring you to become an
expert in such things.

Remember that many different kinds of things can act as printers on
Windows: local printers, printers shared as net shares, directly
networked printers, lpr printers,
printer pools, pseudoprinters for faxes and PDF creators, etc.  Your
application should not need or want to know about those details.

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


From python at kareta.de  Tue Oct 17 18:50:25 2006
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:50:25 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
In-Reply-To: <45350480.8030109@kareta.de>
References: <45350480.8030109@kareta.de>
Message-ID: <453509D1.9010202@kareta.de>

Uphs ,

sorry for spamming the ml. I had a problem with my mail reader.

regards,
J?rgen

From dprovins at tridentexploration.ca  Tue Oct 17 22:05:19 2006
From: dprovins at tridentexploration.ca (Dean Allen Provins)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:05:19 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] printer identification on Windows network
In-Reply-To: <45350480.8030109@kareta.de>
References: <45350480.8030109@kareta.de>
Message-ID: <4535377F.2090901@tridentexploration.ca>

J?rgen, Tim Golden and Tim Roberts:

J?rgen Kareta wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Dean,
> 
> 
>>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to the
>>python/windows environment.  To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2 of
>>them in the environment in which I work).  The code looks in part like:
>>
>>     import win32print
>>     default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default
>>
>>     for j in range (len (self.share_names)):	# <-------must know share names!
>>       A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
>>                                    self.share_names [j], 2)
>>       for i in range (len (A)):
>>         win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
>>         self.printer_list.append (win_printer)
>>
>>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done above?)"
>>
>> 
>>
> 
> try win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL,None,2) or
> win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_INFO,None,2) for lokal shares
> 
> and
> win32print.EnumPrinters(100,None,2) for network shares. Further Infos 
> look up at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_9fjn.asp
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> regards,
> J?rgen

Thank you for your very helpful replies.  I tried J?rgen's suggestions (above),
and the 1st and 3rd both worked flawlessly.

I sincerely appreciate your assistance.

Regards,

Dean

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From e8micke at yahoo.com  Wed Oct 18 16:41:27 2006
From: e8micke at yahoo.com (e8micke)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:41:27 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] Win32com , how select  coclass interface?
Message-ID: <20061018144128.49668.qmail@web56105.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Hi!

I have a DLL that have several interfaces accociated
with a CoClass, but there is one default interface.

snip from my genpy generated .py file:
------------------------------
from win32com.client import CoClassBaseClass
# This CoClass is known by the name
'BK.BasicEnv.Application.RemoteAPI'
class RemoteAPI(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
	CLSID = IID('{5BC25821-4936-4E9E-9ACF-12E12ADDA9CC}')
	coclass_sources = [
	]
	coclass_interfaces = [
		I2250Instrument,
		IDisposable,
		I2250Control,
		IRemoteAPI,
		IRemoteInfo,
		I2250Connect,
		_Object,
		I2250Archive,
		I2250Export,
	]
	default_interface = IRemoteAPI
--------------------
This is the result of usage:
>>> import win32com.client
>>> q =
win32com.client.Dispatch("BK.BasicEnv.Application.RemoteAPI")
>>> q
<win32com.gen_py.Env Programming Interface.IRemoteAPI
instance at 0x15301248>

How can I use other coclass interfaces e.g.
"I2250Instrument" instead of IRemoteAPI?

Thanks in advance
Mikael


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From axiomx11 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 18 19:48:53 2006
From: axiomx11 at gmail.com (Axiom X11)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:48:53 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] killProcName kinda slow
Message-ID: <70b542190610181048y2161f4damb49391bd53d317ef@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to use the killProcName function in a project, and it does
work, but it is kinda slow.

Just running it alone has the same effect


C:\>killProcName.py notepad
(wait for about 30 seconds)
Killed notepad


Is there any way to do this faster?  Or is there another function I
should be calling?

From timr at probo.com  Wed Oct 18 20:56:19 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:56:19 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] killProcName kinda slow
In-Reply-To: <70b542190610181048y2161f4damb49391bd53d317ef@mail.gmail.com>
References: <70b542190610181048y2161f4damb49391bd53d317ef@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <453678D3.4080400@probo.com>

Axiom X11 wrote:

>I am trying to use the killProcName function in a project, and it does
>work, but it is kinda slow.
>
>Just running it alone has the same effect
>
>C:\>killProcName.py notepad
>(wait for about 30 seconds)
>Killed notepad
>
>Is there any way to do this faster?  Or is there another function I
>should be calling?
>

How many processes do you have?  Is this on XP?  It takes about 6
seconds for me on my Athlon64X2 3800+, with 53 processes running.

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


From axiomx11 at gmail.com  Wed Oct 18 22:43:40 2006
From: axiomx11 at gmail.com (Axiom X11)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:43:40 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Calling a subprocess with spaces in the path
Message-ID: <70b542190610181343u4aa1a801ye9e18f7a304bc297@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to run a command as a subprocess, and it keeps choking on the
spaces.


import subprocess


s = 'vlc  "C:\\Documents and
Settings\\bk\\Documents\\Resources\\WORKINPR2001.mpeg"
:sout=\#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.0.0.0:1234}}
:sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.0.0.0:1234}}'
print s
process = subprocess.Popen([s], shell=True)

I am using a file chooser dialog in my real program, but this causes the
exact same problem.

When VideoLAN player opens it gives this message:

Unable to open '"C:\Documents'
Unable to open 'and'
Unable to open 'Settings\bk\Documents\Resources\WORKINPR2001.mpeg"'

However when I print the string I get

vlc  "C:\Documents and Settings\bk\Documents\Resources\WORKINPR2001.mpeg"
:sout=\#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.0.0.0:1234}}
:sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=224.0.0.0:1234}}

Which works fine when I paste it on a command line.

Is there something I am missing about spaces in the path on windows?

(BTW if I use

f=os.popen(s, 'w')

It works fine, but that leaves me with a blocking call, and I really want a
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From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Thu Oct 19 00:01:43 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:01:43 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] Calling a subprocess with spaces in the path
In-Reply-To: <70b542190610181343u4aa1a801ye9e18f7a304bc297@mail.gmail.co
 m>
References: <70b542190610181343u4aa1a801ye9e18f7a304bc297@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061018183951.056e5938@yahoo.com.ar>

At Wednesday 18/10/2006 17:43, Axiom X11 wrote:

>I am trying to run a command as a subprocess, and it keeps choking 
>on the spaces.
>
>
>import subprocess
>
>
>s = 'vlc  "C:\\Documents and 
>Settings\\bk\\Documents\\Resources\\WORKINPR2001.mpeg" 
>:sout=\#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=<http://224.0.0.0:1234>224.0.0.0:1234 
>}} 
>:sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=<http://224.0.0.0:1234>224.0.0.0:1234}}'
>print s
>process = subprocess.Popen([s], shell=True)

Try omitting the shell=True argument.

>Is there something I am missing about spaces in the path on windows?

Yes, type cmd /? and see the rather crazy rules about quotes on the shell...

>(BTW if I use
>
>f=os.popen(s, 'w')
>
>It works fine, but that leaves me with a blocking call, and I really 
>want a subprocess)

This way you are not running your comand thru the shell.


-- 
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Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct 19 00:40:11 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:40:11 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] killProcName kinda slow
In-Reply-To: <70b542190610181048y2161f4damb49391bd53d317ef@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <100a01c6f306$601637e0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I am trying to use the killProcName function in a project, and it does
> work, but it is kinda slow.
>
> Just running it alone has the same effect
>
>
> C:\>killProcName.py notepad
> (wait for about 30 seconds)
> Killed notepad
>
>
> Is there any way to do this faster?  Or is there another function I
> should be calling?

I tend to use pskill.exe from the sysinternals site.  The problem with
killProcName is that it uses the Performance Monitor API to locate the PID
for a process, and this is slow.

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Oct 19 00:44:54 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:44:54 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Win32com , how select  coclass interface?
In-Reply-To: <20061018144128.49668.qmail@web56105.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <100d01c6f307$08084c40$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I have a DLL that have several interfaces accociated
> with a CoClass, but there is one default interface.
>
> snip from my genpy generated .py file:
> ------------------------------
> from win32com.client import CoClassBaseClass
> # This CoClass is known by the name
> 'BK.BasicEnv.Application.RemoteAPI'
> class RemoteAPI(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
> 	CLSID = IID('{5BC25821-4936-4E9E-9ACF-12E12ADDA9CC}')
> 	coclass_sources = [
> 	]
> 	coclass_interfaces = [
> 		I2250Instrument,
> 		IDisposable,
> 		I2250Control,
> 		IRemoteAPI,
> 		IRemoteInfo,
> 		I2250Connect,
> 		_Object,
> 		I2250Archive,
> 		I2250Export,
> 	]
> 	default_interface = IRemoteAPI
> --------------------
> This is the result of usage:
> >>> import win32com.client
> >>> q =
> win32com.client.Dispatch("BK.BasicEnv.Application.RemoteAPI")
> >>> q
> <win32com.gen_py.Env Programming Interface.IRemoteAPI
> instance at 0x15301248>

It should be possible to use win32com.client.CastTo - something like:

q = win32com.client.CastTo(a, 'IRemoteAPI')

Should work.  Otherwise, a 'normal' QI would also work, but obtaining the
IID for the interface is a little tricky...

Mark


From bwmetz at att.com  Thu Oct 19 03:11:14 2006
From: bwmetz at att.com (Metz, Bobby W, WWCS)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:11:14 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Calling a subprocess with spaces in the path
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20061018183951.056e5938@yahoo.com.ar>
Message-ID: <01D5341D04A2E64AB9B345769047336702ABDF67@OCCLUST01EVS1.ugd.att.com>

Google "subprocess Popen parameters" or "subprocess Popen arguments"...the first few hits should explain.

B

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From: python-win32-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+bwmetz=att.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Gabriel Genellina
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:02 PM
To: Axiom X11
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Calling a subprocess with spaces in the path

At Wednesday 18/10/2006 17:43, Axiom X11 wrote:

>I am trying to run a command as a subprocess, and it keeps choking 
>on the spaces.
>
>
>import subprocess
>
>
>s = 'vlc  "C:\\Documents and 
>Settings\\bk\\Documents\\Resources\\WORKINPR2001.mpeg" 
>:sout=\#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=<http://224.0.0.0:1234>224.0.0.0:1234 
>}} 
>:sout=#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=<http://224.0.0.0:1234>224.0.0.0:1234}}'
>print s
>process = subprocess.Popen([s], shell=True)

Try omitting the shell=True argument.

>Is there something I am missing about spaces in the path on windows?

Yes, type cmd /? and see the rather crazy rules about quotes on the shell...

>(BTW if I use
>
>f=os.popen(s, 'w')
>
>It works fine, but that leaves me with a blocking call, and I really 
>want a subprocess)

This way you are not running your comand thru the shell.


-- 
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Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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From e8micke at yahoo.com  Thu Oct 19 09:14:53 2006
From: e8micke at yahoo.com (e8micke)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] Win32com , how select  coclass interface?
In-Reply-To: <100d01c6f307$08084c40$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <20061019071453.57963.qmail@web56110.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

> > I have a DLL that have several interfaces
> accociated
> > with a CoClass, but there is one default
> interface.
> >
> > snip from my genpy generated .py file:
> > ------------------------------
> > 	coclass_sources = [
> > 	]
> > 	coclass_interfaces = [
> > 		I2250Instrument,
> > 		IDisposable,
> > 		I2250Control,
> > 		IRemoteAPI,
> > 		IRemoteInfo,
> > 		I2250Connect,
> > 		_Object,
> > 		I2250Archive,
> > 		I2250Export,
> > 	]
> > 	default_interface = IRemoteAPI
> > --------------------

> It should be possible to use win32com.client.CastTo
> - something like:
> q = win32com.client.CastTo(q, 'IRemoteAPI')

Thanks Mark, that worked very well! 

Thank you very much, I am now able to talk to a
dBmeter from Br?el & Kj?r, via USB and Python.
http://www.bksv.com/3156.asp

Sample Code if anyone else needs to do this task (on
the 2250 model):

import win32com.client
q =
win32com.client.Dispatch("BK.BasicEnv.Application.RemoteAPI")
Instrument = win32com.client.CastTo(q,
'I2250Instrument')
Connect = win32com.client.CastTo(q, 'I2250Connect')
Control = win32com.client.CastTo(q, 'I2250Control')
instrumentNames=Connect.GetInstrumentNames()
Connect.Connect (instrumentNames[0])
db=Control.ReadOutputInt16(instrumentNames[0],
"LACF(SPL)")
print "dBA value %.1f\n" % (db/100.0)
q.Disconnect()

Best regards
Mikael

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From howard at eegsoftware.com  Thu Oct 19 21:02:30 2006
From: howard at eegsoftware.com (Howard Lightstone)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:02:30 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] We cannot import win32api into the Poser6 Python.
In-Reply-To: <00b601c6f144$2d4cb5f0$371cd29b@JJMARIN>
References: <00b601c6f144$2d4cb5f0$371cd29b@JJMARIN>
Message-ID: <4537CBC6.6050809@eegsoftware.com>

Jose Javier Marin wrote:

>We have installed: Python-2.2.3.exe and pywin32-210.win32-py2.2.exe.
>It run OK in windows.
>We have copied the win32 extension in directory:
>??\Poser 6\Runtime\Python\lib\site-packages
>We have also copied pythoncom22.dll and perfmondata.dll of python2.2.3
>standard to directories:   
>??\Poser 6\ (in this directory is python22.dll of poser6) ??\Poser
>6\Runtime\Python\lib\site-packages
>??\Poser 6\Runtime\Python\lib\site-packages\win32
>??\windows\system32
>
>Unfortunately we think the problem is not of path. 
>
>We have tried to copy python22.dll (of python2.2.2 standard) in directory
>??\poser6 and so not use Poser6 python22.dll, but then poser 6 is not able
>to start python (poser shows an error: Unable to initialize Python
>properly).
>
>We think that the problem is in the library python22.dll of Poser6
>realease3. 
>
>
>
>Could you give us some clue to resolve this question?
>
>  
>
I just had to recreate this problem.

The problem IS with Windows and paths.  The problem is windoze loading 
process.  At the time you are trying to load pythoncom, it cannot find 
the DLL (or finds the wrong DLL).

The fix (such as it is):  put a copy of your pythoncom22.dll and 
pywintypes22.dll in the "current directory" where your application is 
trying to run from.  That will be the first-chance for windows to find 
the correct DLL.


Tested on XP-PRO, HP system, installed python-2.2.3, pywin32-203


-- 
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www.eeger.com


From smithbk at aecl.ca  Thu Oct 19 22:10:46 2006
From: smithbk at aecl.ca (Smith, Brian (CR))
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:10:46 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
Message-ID: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C8669AD@crs12.aecl.ca>

Yup, still trying to figure this one out but I've got a little bit more 
information.

To summarise:  I created a Python COM Server to be used by Visual Basic
and found an issue with in/out parameters because of the lack of type
information.  To fix this, I created a type library but this led to the
following two problems:
 
1) The function calls on the COM object failed unless I explicitly returned
   an HRESULT in addition to returning the other output parameters.
2) After adding an HRESULT as the first element of the returned tuple, I
   found that the *last* element of the returned tuple was being used as
   the function's return value instead of the *first* value (or second after
   the HRESULT?) as expected.
 
I've now tried registering the COM object with --debug and viewed the trace
output from PythonWin's trace collector utility.  After calling a function
that does not add an HRESULT, I ended up getting the following traceback:
 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\DevTools\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\universal.py", line
188, in dispatch
      raise TypeError, "Expected %s return values, got: %s" %
(len(meth._gw_out_args) + 1, len(retVal))
      exceptions.TypeError: Expected 3 return values, got: 2
 
Looking at universal.py, I found this in the dispatch() function of
class Definition:
 
    ...
    if type(retVal) == types.TupleType: # Like pythoncom, we special case a
tuple.
        # However, if they want to return a specific HRESULT,
        # then they have to return all of the out arguments
        # AND the HRESULT.
        if len(retVal) == len(meth._gw_out_args) + 1:
            hr = retVal[0]
            retVal = retVal[1:]
        else:
            raise TypeError, "Expected %s return values, got: %s" %
(len(meth._gw_out_args) + 1, len(retVal))
    else:
        retVal = [retVal]
        retVal.extend([None] * (len(meth._gw_out_args)-1))
        retVal = tuple(retVal)
    WriteFromOutTuple(retVal, meth._gw_out_args, argPtr)
    return hr
 
I'm not sure what the original intent was, but the wording in the comment 
seems to imply that returning a specific HRESULT should be optional. 
However, the code seems to make it mandatory and this would explain
problem #1.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or by design.
 
I also tried looking at the source for WriteFromOutTuple() to determine the 
cause of problem #2, but with limited SWIG knowledge I didn't get far. It 
seems like the function verifies data types, but I didn't see where any 
"Writing" actually occurred.
 

Brian
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From cyril.giraudon at free.fr  Thu Oct 19 22:16:44 2006
From: cyril.giraudon at free.fr (Cyril Giraudon)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:16:44 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Flicker and parent window.
Message-ID: <4537DD2C.3040001@free.fr>

Hi,

I currently try to add a matplotlib backend based on the Gecko engine 
(XPCOM, plugin), PIL and pywin.


I don't use a child window and draw directly in the plugin window.

My flicker problem of the plugin area is resolved.
But when I resize the window (when the dimensions are increased) the 
buttons of the parent window flicker (the window which embeds the plugin).

I think, there is something to do with the WM_NCPAINT event (fired when 
the window is enlarged) but I don't see what.

Can anybody help me ?

thanks a lot.

Cyril.


The wndproc procedure is :

  def wndProc(self, hwnd, message, wParam, lParam):
    if message == win32con.WM_PAINT:
      print "Hello PAINT"
      fig = self.canvas.figure
      dpival = fig.dpi.get()
      winch = self.width/dpival
      hinch = self.height/dpival
      fig.set_figsize_inches(winch, hinch)
      hdc, paintStruct = win32gui.BeginPaint(hwnd)
      self.canvas.draw()
      image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), 
self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
      image = image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
      dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
      z = ImageWin.HWND(hwnd)
      dib.expose(z)

      win32gui.EndPaint(hwnd, paintStruct)
      return 0

    elif message == win32con.WM_MOUSEACTIVATE:
      print "Hello MOUSEACTIVATE"
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_NCPAINT:
      print "Hello NCPAINT"
      return win32gui.DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam)

    elif message == win32con.WM_ERASEBKGND:
      print "Hello ERASEBKGND"
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_SIZE:
      print "Hello SIZE"
      return 0

    elif message == win32con.WM_LBUTTONDOWN:
      print "Hello LBUTTONDOWN "
      self.start = win32gui.ScreenToClient(hwnd, win32gui.GetCursorPos())
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_MOUSEMOVE:
      print "Hello MOVE "
      win = win32ui.CreateWindowFromHandle(hwnd)
      win32gui.UpdateWindow(hwnd)

      if self.start:
        image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), 
self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
        image = image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
        dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
        z = ImageWin.HWND(hwnd)
        dib.expose(z)
        self.current = win32gui.ScreenToClient(hwnd, 
win32gui.GetCursorPos())
        dc = win.GetDC()
        dc.MoveTo(self.start[0], self.start[1])
        dc.LineTo(self.current[0], self.start[1])
        dc.LineTo(self.current[0], self.current[1])
        dc.LineTo(self.start[0], self.current[1])
        dc.LineTo(self.start[0], self.start[1])
      return 1

    elif message == win32con.WM_LBUTTONUP:
      print "Hello LBUTTONDOWN "
      self.start = None
      self.current = None
      image = Image.frombuffer('RGBA', self.canvas.get_width_height(), 
self.canvas.buffer_rgba(0,0))
      image = image.transpose(Image.FLIP_TOP_BOTTOM)
      dib = ImageWin.Dib(image)
      z = ImageWin.HWND(hwnd)
      dib.expose(z)
      return 1

    else:
      print "Hello ELSE"
      return win32gui.DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam)



From cyril.giraudon at free.fr  Fri Oct 20 17:08:26 2006
From: cyril.giraudon at free.fr (Cyril Giraudon)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:08:26 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Flicker and parent window.
In-Reply-To: <4537DD2C.3040001@free.fr>
References: <4537DD2C.3040001@free.fr>
Message-ID: <4538E66A.8040509@free.fr>

Hi,

To be complete, the flicker occurs when the window is resized (enlarged) 
in its diagonal, with the rigth bottom corner.

Thanks.

Cyril.


From axiomx11 at gmail.com  Fri Oct 20 17:51:33 2006
From: axiomx11 at gmail.com (Axiom X11)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:51:33 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] disable mouse/keyboard input
Message-ID: <70b542190610200851k50e68c37pcc159091ec6c495f@mail.gmail.com>

I've seen several posts about this, but no answers.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-April/214881.html

Is this possible in python?  Without relying on visual basic scripts?

I'd like to be able to ignore all user input while a vidoe is playing, and
then be able to allow the user to click things.
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From shahmed at sfwmd.gov  Fri Oct 20 18:27:26 2006
From: shahmed at sfwmd.gov (Ahmed, Shakir)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:27:26 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] problem in looping
Message-ID: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D205E069B3@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>

HI All,

 

Good Afternoon. 

 

I am trying to use if, elif in python script to work on each county. But
it works only when the condition is else and jump to the point where I
need to work but not for case one or two.

 

Any help or idea is highly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

# script as follows:

# Import system modules

import sys

import string

import os

import win32com.client

import odbc

import shutil

from win32com.client import Dispatch

gp = win32com.client.Dispatch("esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1")

 

gp.SetProduct("ArcInfo")

gp.workspace = "c:/mydata"

 

try:

    cycle = open('c:/mydata/county_cycle.txt', 'r')

    for countyid in cycle.readlines():

        # for countyid = one, two, thr

        x = countyid.rstrip()

        print x

     

 

        if x=='one':

            county_name = open('c:/mydata/county1.txt', 'r')

            for county in county_name.readlines():

                county = county.rstrip()

                print county

 

        elif x=='two':

            county_name = open('c:/mydata/county2.txt', 'r')

            for county in county_name.readlines():

                county = county.rstrip() 

                print county

 

        else:

            county_name = open('c:/mydata/county3.txt', 'r')

            for county in county_name.readlines():

                      

                county = county.rstrip() 

                print county

                    

            # the loop come to the next line if the case is else but not
for case one or two                 

                gp.copy("%smydata1"%county,"%smydata2"%county) 

except Exception, ErrDesc:

    print ErrorDesc

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From timr at probo.com  Fri Oct 20 19:07:59 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:07:59 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] problem in looping
In-Reply-To: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D205E069B3@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>
References: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D205E069B3@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>
Message-ID: <4539026F.9000101@probo.com>

Ahmed, Shakir wrote:

> HI All,
>
>  
>
> Good Afternoon.
>
>  
>
> I am trying to use if, elif in python script to work on each county.
> But it works only when the condition is else and jump to the point
> where I need to work but not for case one or two.
>
>  
>
> Any help or idea is highly appreciated.
>
>  
>
> ... 
>
> try:
>
>     cycle = open('c:/mydata/county_cycle.txt', 'r')
>
>     for countyid in cycle.readlines():
>
>         # for countyid = one, two, thr
>
>         x = countyid.rstrip()
>
>         print x
>
>     
>
>  
>
>         if x=='one':
>
>             county_name = open('c:/mydata/county1.txt', 'r')
>
>             for county in county_name.readlines():
>
>                 county = county.rstrip()
>
>                 print county
>
>  
>
>         elif x=='two':
>
>             county_name = open('c:/mydata/county2.txt', 'r')
>
>             for county in county_name.readlines():
>
>                 county = county.rstrip()
>
>                 print county
>
>  
>
>         else:
>
>             county_name = open('c:/mydata/county3.txt', 'r')
>
>             for county in county_name.readlines():
>
>                      
>
>                 county = county.rstrip()
>
>                 print county
>
>                    
>
>             # the loop come to the next line if the case is else but
> not for case one or two                
>
>                 gp.copy("%smydata1"%county,"%smydata2"%county)
>

Of course, because the indentation makes it part of the "for" loop in
the else clause.  If you want that to be executed in all of the loops,
you have to include it in all of the loops.

Any time I see repeated lines of code like this, I look for ways to
combine them.  You might consider rewriting it like this:

    files = {
        'one': 'county1.txt',
        'two': 'county2.txt'
    }
    for countyid in open('c:/mydata/county_cycle.txt):
        x = countyid.rstrip()
        filename = os.path.join( 'c:/mydata', files.get( x,
'county3.txt' ) )
        for county in open( filename ):
            county = county.rstrip()
            print county
            gp.copy( "%smydata1" % county, "%smydata2" % county )

-- 
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Sat Oct 21 01:14:05 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:14:05 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] disable mouse/keyboard input
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061020201352.05c12230@yahoo.com.ar>

At Friday 20/10/2006 12:51, Axiom X11 wrote:

>I'd like to be able to ignore all user input while a vidoe is 
>playing, and then be able to allow the user to click things.

For the question as posted, the answer is simple: just ignore all input!
You should be more specific. Do you want to disable mouse and 
keyboard globally, for all the system? Just for your application? Is 
this a GUI app? which framework have you used to build the GUI?


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Softlab SRL 

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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Sun Oct 22 02:28:55 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:28:55 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] disable mouse/keyboard input
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20061020201352.05c12230@yahoo.com.ar>
References: <7.0.1.0.0.20061020201352.05c12230@yahoo.com.ar>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350610211728r38ce2060xc93a1a0f5bbe0151@mail.gmail.com>

Here is the case whats the issue when you have an app and you don't use
stdin... or input....

On 10/20/06, Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> At Friday 20/10/2006 12:51, Axiom X11 wrote:
>
> >I'd like to be able to ignore all user input while a vidoe is
> >playing, and then be able to allow the user to click things.
>
> For the question as posted, the answer is simple: just ignore all input!
> You should be more specific. Do you want to disable mouse and
> keyboard globally, for all the system? Just for your application? Is
> this a GUI app? which framework have you used to build the GUI?
>
>
> --
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> Softlab SRL
>
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From mchlgdbt at hotmail.com  Sun Oct 22 08:03:39 2006
From: mchlgdbt at hotmail.com (mchl gdbt)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:03:39 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] running an Access VBA procedure fails
Message-ID: <BAY113-F22B6F7CA4E079CEABC1BDED0030@phx.gbl>


Hi,

I have a VBA sub routine in an access file that I need to run from python.

let's say

Public Sub test(arg1 As String)

    MsgBox ("test succeeded" + arg1)

End Sub

ok from excel I do this
Sub MyTest()

    strDbName = "C:\db1.mdb"
    Dim ObjAccess As Object
    Set ObjAccess = GetObject(strDbName, "Access.Application") ' if I 
opencurrentdatabase, fails if database is already open

    Result = ObjAccess.Run("test", "Argument") ' need Result= because it 
doesn't compile otherwise, (oddly a test function that doesn't need an 
argument also doesn't need a result)
End Sub

That works fine. (Also works fine if I use an access.application explicitly)
In python, I do the following:
import win32com.client
AccessAppDB = win32com.client.GetObject("C:\db1.mdb")
AccessAppDB.Run("test","Argument")
fails with
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
pywintypes.com_error                                 Traceback (most recent 
call
last)

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\<ipython console>

C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\<COMObject access.application> in 
Run
(self, Procedure, Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, Arg4, Arg5, Arg6, Arg7, Arg8, Arg9, 
Arg10, A
rg11, Arg12, Arg13, Arg14, Arg15, Arg16, Arg17, Arg18, Arg19, Arg20, Arg21, 
Arg2
2, Arg23, Arg24, Arg25, Arg26, Arg27, Arg28, Arg29, Arg30)

C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py in 
_ApplyTypes_(self, d
ispid, wFlags, retType, argTypes, user, resultCLSID, *args)
    249
    250         def _ApplyTypes_(self, dispid, wFlags, retType, argTypes, 
user,
resultCLSID, *args):
--> 251                 result = self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(*(dispid, LCID, 
wFlag
s, retType, argTypes) + args)
    252                 return self._get_good_object_(result, user, 
resultCLSID)

    253

com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, 
-214735
2562), None)

The same error happens if I use Access to OpenCurrentDatabase (ie. 
Dispatch("access.application"), opencurrentdatabase( ), then run)

What am I doing wrong?

thanks,
Micha?l

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From marc.dubrowski at gmail.com  Mon Oct 23 11:35:24 2006
From: marc.dubrowski at gmail.com (Marc Dubrowski)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:35:24 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows
Message-ID: <6bcf9d700610230235q365d05dch2a557bac2ff9ef4c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

In the context of maintaining groups in active directory, I would like to
create links to the group directories in the home drives of the users.

Is there a way to create such links/junctions with python ? Where could I
find some documentation?

Thanks in advance

-- 
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Oct 23 12:10:53 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:10:53 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows
In-Reply-To: <6bcf9d700610230235q365d05dch2a557bac2ff9ef4c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <241b01c6f68b$86879f80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

Once AD has given you the path name, you can use the win32com.shell module to manage the shortcuts.  Check out the pywin32 help file - the main page has a link to "win32com.shell and Windows Shell Links" with some info - also look in the win32comext\shell directory for tests and samples.

Mark
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  Sent: Monday, 23 October 2006 7:35 PM
  To: python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows


  Hi all,

  In the context of maintaining groups in active directory, I would like to create links to the group directories in the home drives of the users.

  Is there a way to create such links/junctions with python ? Where could I find some documentation? 

  Thanks in advance

  -- 
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From marc.dubrowski at gmail.com  Mon Oct 23 13:17:15 2006
From: marc.dubrowski at gmail.com (Marc Dubrowski)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:17:15 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows
In-Reply-To: <241b01c6f68b$86879f80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <6bcf9d700610230235q365d05dch2a557bac2ff9ef4c@mail.gmail.com>
	<241b01c6f68b$86879f80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <6bcf9d700610230417v1361b397k90f7a05007f8862@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mark, thanks for your answer.

I'm afraid I have not been clear enough in the the description of what I
want to do: i want symbolic links, also called junctions by microsoft.

For the moment, the management of properties on files and folders is
disastrous: some users can more less do what they want about this. This
creates lots of problems and confusion. For example, if someone  moves from
a department to another one, he should no longer be authorized to read/write
the documents in the folder of the former department.  As the permissions
are granted to users instead of groups, It is far than trivial to find out
on which folders  the authorizations should be removed/changed

We need to change this and teach the users how to work with more discipline,
but not too much: they don't all realize really what a server is. (It is not
unusual for them to copy a file locally on different PCs, and still thinking
they are working on the same document)

My idea is as follow: every user will have 2 network drive: P: (for public
data) and U: (for users data).
In the U: drive, there will be the 'my document' folder. Physically, it will
be on one drive of the file server. With quotas on.
Beside the 'my document' folder, there will be as many folders as groups the
user is member of.
Practically, these folders will be on another drive of the server: one per
group. What I want is to create a symbolic link on the server: from
h:\group_folder to u:\%username%\group_folder for all the groups the user is
member of.

The advantage is that the h: drive on the server would not be visible on the
network.

Windows shell links, as far as I have understood, creates link files
(*.lnk). It wouldn't work and would oblige me to share the h: drive's
content, which I don not want.

A batch file would use linkd.exe from the w2k3 resource kit, or
junction.exefrom sysinternals.

But I guess it would be better for my scripts (create_user, modify_users,
delete_users) if they could just call the win32 api instead of using
os.popen().

Is there a way to accomplish this ?

Thanks

2006/10/23, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>:
>
>  Once AD has given you the path name, you can use the win32com.shellmodule to manage the shortcuts.  Check
> out the pywin32 help file - the main page has a link to "win32com.shell
> and Windows Shell Links" with some info - also look in the
> win32comext\shell directory for tests and samples.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org]*On Behalf Of *Marc Dubrowski
> *Sent:* Monday, 23 October 2006 7:35 PM
> *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> *Subject:* [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows
>
> Hi all,
>
> In the context of maintaining groups in active directory, I would like to
> create links to the group directories in the home drives of the users.
>
> Is there a way to create such links/junctions with python ? Where could I
> find some documentation?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Marc Dubrowski
>
>


-- 
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From mchlgdbt at hotmail.com  Mon Oct 23 23:08:01 2006
From: mchlgdbt at hotmail.com (mchl gdbt)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:08:01 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] running an Access VBA procedure fails
Message-ID: <BAY113-F485FFDE5B0C75CA505B8CD0000@phx.gbl>


Hello,

Just quick note to say that I solved my problem.

The code I wrote in my first email, that is,

import win32com.client
AccessAppDB = win32com.client.GetObject("C:\db1.mdb")
AccessAppDB.Run("test","Argument")

works when I makepy on the access library. I guess the dynamic bind isn't 
able to call the run properly, or I am using it wrong.

In any case, my code works now. (Just thought I'd write in how I solved it 
in case someone else looks this problem up in this forum like I did.)

Micha?l

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Oct 24 04:47:53 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:47:53 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Symbolic links/junctions in windows
In-Reply-To: <6bcf9d700610230417v1361b397k90f7a05007f8862@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <272b01c6f716$ce00d4e0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> But I guess it would be better for my scripts (create_user, 
> modify_users, delete_users) if they could just call the win32 
> api instead of using os.popen().

> Is there a way to accomplish this ?

If pywin32 exposes the functions you need, then sure, you can call them!  I assume you are looking for (win32file.)SetVolumeMountPoint etc, but I've never personally used them, so can't offer any specific advice other than to look outside the Python universe to try and determine exactly what APIs you want to call.

Cheers,

Mark


From rwupole at msn.com  Wed Oct 25 09:11:21 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:11:21 -0400
Subject: [python-win32]  Symbolic links/junctions in windows
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP085DAAD266B1890D0345E0A3060@phx.gbl>

"Marc Dubrowski" <marc.dubrowski at gmail.com> wrote in message news:6bcf9d700610230417v1361b397k90f7a05007f8862 at mail.gmail.com...
> Hi Mark, thanks for your answer.
>
> I'm afraid I have not been clear enough in the the description of what I
> want to do: i want symbolic links, also called junctions by microsoft.
>
> For the moment, the management of properties on files and folders is
> disastrous: some users can more less do what they want about this. This
> creates lots of problems and confusion. For example, if someone  moves from
> a department to another one, he should no longer be authorized to read/write
> the documents in the folder of the former department.  As the permissions
> are granted to users instead of groups, It is far than trivial to find out
> on which folders  the authorizations should be removed/changed
>
> We need to change this and teach the users how to work with more discipline,
> but not too much: they don't all realize really what a server is. (It is not
> unusual for them to copy a file locally on different PCs, and still thinking
> they are working on the same document)
>
> My idea is as follow: every user will have 2 network drive: P: (for public
> data) and U: (for users data).
> In the U: drive, there will be the 'my document' folder. Physically, it will
> be on one drive of the file server. With quotas on.
> Beside the 'my document' folder, there will be as many folders as groups the
> user is member of.
> Practically, these folders will be on another drive of the server: one per
> group. What I want is to create a symbolic link on the server: from
> h:\group_folder to u:\%username%\group_folder for all the groups the user is
> member of.
>
> The advantage is that the h: drive on the server would not be visible on the
> network.
>
> Windows shell links, as far as I have understood, creates link files
> (*.lnk). It wouldn't work and would oblige me to share the h: drive's
> content, which I don not want.
>
> A batch file would use linkd.exe from the w2k3 resource kit, or
> junction.exefrom sysinternals.
>
> But I guess it would be better for my scripts (create_user, modify_users,
> delete_users) if they could just call the win32 api instead of using
> os.popen().
>
> Is there a way to accomplish this ?
>

You can use win32file.DeviceIoControl to create junctions (also known as
reparse points).   See this post for some code to do so:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/939a0d8d54200693/a2002a03f59afbea?lnk=gst&q=DeviceIoControl&rnum=5#a2002a03f59afbea

However, from the description it sounds like DFS might suit
your needs better.

            Roger



From timr at probo.com  Wed Oct 25 19:42:15 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:42:15 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
Message-ID: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>

As a self-proclaimed studly Win32 programmer, I'm embarrassed at not
being able to find a neat solution to this.  I come to you humbly,
seeking coolness.

I have a script on my laptop that runs after login and launches the
tools that I use all the time, including the putty password agent, the
Agent newsreader, and Firefox.  My wireless card takes about 15 seconds
to sync up with my access point and get an IP address, by which time my
script is done and the tools are running.  That means that Firefox
always comes up complaining that it couldn't reach my home page.  So,
I'd like to have my script wait for connectivity before launching the
tools.  The question is, how can that be done?

I could use os.system to poll the "ipconfig" command, but that's icky
and not at all studly.  I could loop on gethostaddr for localhost until
it gets an IP, but even that's not studly, because there's no way to
know that it's really the wireless adapter's IP address.

There must be a way for me to ask the musical question, "does the
network adapter called 'Wireless Network Adapter' have an IP address?" 
Does anybody know that tune?

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


From python at kareta.de  Wed Oct 25 20:20:00 2006
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:20:00 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
References: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
Message-ID: <453FAAD0.3080807@kareta.de>

Tim Roberts schrieb:

>As a self-proclaimed studly Win32 programmer, I'm embarrassed at not
>being able to find a neat solution to this.  I come to you humbly,
>seeking coolness.
>
>I have a script on my laptop that runs after login and launches the
>tools that I use all the time, including the putty password agent, the
>Agent newsreader, and Firefox.  My wireless card takes about 15 seconds
>to sync up with my access point and get an IP address, by which time my
>script is done and the tools are running.  That means that Firefox
>always comes up complaining that it couldn't reach my home page.  So,
>I'd like to have my script wait for connectivity before launching the
>tools.  The question is, how can that be done?
>
>I could use os.system to poll the "ipconfig" command, but that's icky
>and not at all studly.  I could loop on gethostaddr for localhost until
>it gets an IP, but even that's not studly, because there's no way to
>know that it's really the wireless adapter's IP address.
>
>There must be a way for me to ask the musical question, "does the
>network adapter called 'Wireless Network Adapter' have an IP address?" 
>Does anybody know that tune?
>
>  
>
Hi Tim,

the win32api call  GetIPAddrTable could be helpful. See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iphlp/iphlp/getipaddrtable.asp.
Unfortual it is currently not implemented in pywin. CTypes should be an 
option.

Regards,
J?rgen


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Wed Oct 25 20:56:00 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:56:00 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
References: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
Message-ID: <453FB340.1030001@alum.rpi.edu>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> As a self-proclaimed studly 
That sent me to the dictionary! Very interesting. Thanks for a new word.

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From timr at probo.com  Wed Oct 25 21:31:31 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:31:31 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FAAD0.3080807@kareta.de>
References: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com> <453FAAD0.3080807@kareta.de>
Message-ID: <453FBB93.5060302@probo.com>

J?rgen Kareta wrote:

>Hi Tim,
>
>the win32api call  GetIPAddrTable could be helpful. See:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iphlp/iphlp/getipaddrtable.asp.
>Unfortual it is currently not implemented in pywin. CTypes should be an 
>option.
>  
>

I was able to get that work with ctypes, but it still doesn't identify
which adapter owns the IP address.  However, your MSDN pointer led me to
GetAdapterAddresses, which does seem to have all of the information I
want.  Unfortunately, it returns an intertwined linked list of linked
lists, which is a bear in ctypes, so I may just fall back to C++ for this...

Good information.  Thanks!

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


From theller at ctypes.org  Wed Oct 25 21:52:32 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:52:32 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
References: <453FA1F7.70700@probo.com>
Message-ID: <453FC080.20204@ctypes.org>

Tim Roberts schrieb:
> As a self-proclaimed studly Win32 programmer, I'm embarrassed at not
> being able to find a neat solution to this.  I come to you humbly,
> seeking coolness.
> 
> I have a script on my laptop that runs after login and launches the
> tools that I use all the time, including the putty password agent, the
> Agent newsreader, and Firefox.  My wireless card takes about 15 seconds
> to sync up with my access point and get an IP address, by which time my
> script is done and the tools are running.  That means that Firefox
> always comes up complaining that it couldn't reach my home page.  So,
> I'd like to have my script wait for connectivity before launching the
> tools.  The question is, how can that be done?
> 
> I could use os.system to poll the "ipconfig" command, but that's icky
> and not at all studly.  I could loop on gethostaddr for localhost until
> it gets an IP, but even that's not studly, because there's no way to
> know that it's really the wireless adapter's IP address.
> 
> There must be a way for me to ask the musical question, "does the
> network adapter called 'Wireless Network Adapter' have an IP address?" 
> Does anybody know that tune?
> 

I have a module lying around that does this.  Should work on 2k and XP, at least.
You call it with the 'friendly name' of the network adaper, and it displays the
ip address and network mask (IIRC).  Should be easy to adapt to our needs, and more.

Thomas
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From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Oct 26 05:46:27 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:46:27 -0400
Subject: [python-win32]  Waiting for Wireless
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP073FB1D0E2BE51ACE67929A3070@phx.gbl>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> As a self-proclaimed studly Win32 programmer, I'm embarrassed at not
> being able to find a neat solution to this.  I come to you humbly,
> seeking coolness.
> 
> I have a script on my laptop that runs after login and launches the
> tools that I use all the time, including the putty password agent, the
> Agent newsreader, and Firefox.  My wireless card takes about 15 seconds
> to sync up with my access point and get an IP address, by which time my
> script is done and the tools are running.  That means that Firefox
> always comes up complaining that it couldn't reach my home page.  So,
> I'd like to have my script wait for connectivity before launching the
> tools.  The question is, how can that be done?
> 
> I could use os.system to poll the "ipconfig" command, but that's icky
> and not at all studly.  I could loop on gethostaddr for localhost until
> it gets an IP, but even that's not studly, because there's no way to
> know that it's really the wireless adapter's IP address.
> 
> There must be a way for me to ask the musical question, "does the
> network adapter called 'Wireless Network Adapter' have an IP address?" 
> Does anybody know that tune?
> 

You can list network adapters and their IP addresses using WMI:

import win32com.client
wmi=win32com.client.GetObject('winmgmts:')
adapters=wmi.InstancesOf('Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration')
for adapter in adapters:
    print adapter.Properties_['Caption'], adapter.Properties_['IpAddress']

         Roger


From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Thu Oct 26 11:47:43 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:47:43 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Parameterless propget in Python ActiveScript
	incomplete
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610260247q26068d2eic1adfc646e829e28@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I believe a parameterless propget doesn't work as it should. Consider
the following interfaces:

interface IObject2: IDispatch
{
   [id(1), propput]  HRESULT AttValue   ( [in] BSTR attr, [in] VARIANT newVal);
   [id(1), propget]  HRESULT AttValue   ( [in] BSTR attr, [out,
retval] VARIANT *pVal);
};

interface IObject1: IDispatch
{
  [id(1), propget]    HRESULT Object2( [out, retval] IObject2** obj2)
};

The propput method of the object returned from IObject1 cannot be used.
obj1.Object2.SetAttValue("TEST", 123)

propget works:
obj1.Object2.AttValue("TEST")

In my gen_cache directory, there is code for IObject1, but no code for IObject2.

If I use the makepy utility, the generated code seems complete. There
is code generated for IObject2 and also for the parameterless
propput-wrapper for IObject1.

If I add a dummy parameter to the Object2 method of IObject1 everything works:

interface IObject1: IDispatch
{
  [id(1), propget]    HRESULT Object2( [in] VARIANT dummy, [out,
retval] IObject2** obj2)
};

obj1.Object2(999).SetAttValue("TEST", 123)

With this workaround, there is Python code generated for IObject2 too.

The ActiveScript engine has added a registered TypeLib with
AddTypeLib. The code works with VBScript, and considering the
workaround, I believe the problem is somewhere in Python / COM.

-- 
/Johan.

From rodneywmcbride at gmail.com  Thu Oct 26 13:18:46 2006
From: rodneywmcbride at gmail.com (Rodney McBride)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:18:46 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] _winreg.SaveKey question
Message-ID: <2d6d9b990610260418t131e5d2at3042c8e69c0276ff@mail.gmail.com>

I am getting an access denied error when calling _winreg.SaveKey and I
believe that the error is being caused by not having the SeBackupPrivilege
set when calling the _winreg.SaveKey method for a remote host (I am
attempting to export a registry key from a remote host to a file for backup
purposes). My question is how do I set the 'SeBackupPrivilege'?

Here's a copy of my source code:

##################################
import os, string, sys, win32con, _winreg

def createFolder(path):
    if os.path.exists (path):
        pass    # do nothing
    else:
        os.mkdir(path)

def remoteSaveKey(host, subkey, file):
    rhostreg = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(host, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
    remotekey = _winreg.OpenKey(rhostreg, subkey, 0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)

    _winreg.SaveKey(remotekey, file)

destsrvr = "\\\\server1\\backup$\\"
# Registry key (and all subkeys) to be processed for backup/restore
regpath = "Software\\Cisco Systems, Inc."

# Open hostfile and read hostnames into a list
readfile = open('d:\scripts\dev\SideAsrv.txt', 'r')
hostfile = []
for host in readfile:
    hostfile += [host.strip()]

readfile.close ()

for srvname in hostfile:
    outputpath = destsrvr + srvname
    createFolder(outputpath)
    outputfile = outputpath + "\\" + srvname
    srvname = "\\\\" + srvname
    # Call the function to connect to and export the remote registry key
    output = remoteSaveKey(srvname, regpath, outputfile)
    # DEBUG
    print outputfile
    # Select the next host
#####################

Thanks,

Rodney McBride
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From Benjamin.Schollnick at xerox.com  Thu Oct 26 14:42:04 2006
From: Benjamin.Schollnick at xerox.com (Schollnick, Benjamin)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:42:04 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FC080.20204@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <00B231D3247B664EA7B4691D38CF153F012270C3@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

Never mind...

I found the note in the AdapterInfo.py code...  It's the name in the
Network control panel...

This is quite interesting, and helpful...
Anything else you'd like to share? <grin>

		- Benjamin

From Benjamin.Schollnick at Xerox.Com  Thu Oct 26 14:39:05 2006
From: Benjamin.Schollnick at Xerox.Com (Schollnick, Benjamin)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:39:05 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <453FC080.20204@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <00B231D3247B664EA7B4691D38CF153F012270B6@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

Tom,

> I have a module lying around that does this.  Should work on 2k and
XP, at least.
> You call it with the 'friendly name' of the network adaper, and it
displays the ip 
> address and network mask (IIRC).  Should be easy to adapt to our
needs, and more.

Silly question...

What is the friendly name of an network adapter?

If it was Unix, I would say eri0, etc...  But I can't think of a
"friendly" name under Windows...

		- Benjamin

From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Oct 26 20:01:29 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:01:29 -0400
Subject: [python-win32]  _winreg.SaveKey question
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP0881D3193AF1749B5AA4DCA3070@phx.gbl>

Rodney McBride wrote:
>I am getting an access denied error when calling _winreg.SaveKey and I
> believe that the error is being caused by not having the SeBackupPrivilege
> set when calling the _winreg.SaveKey method for a remote host (I am
> attempting to export a registry key from a remote host to a file for backup
> purposes). My question is how do I set the 'SeBackupPrivilege'?
> 
> Here's a copy of my source code:
> 
> ##################################
> import os, string, sys, win32con, _winreg
> 
> def createFolder(path):
>    if os.path.exists (path):
>        pass    # do nothing
>    else:
>        os.mkdir(path)
> 
> def remoteSaveKey(host, subkey, file):
>    rhostreg = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(host, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
>    remotekey = _winreg.OpenKey(rhostreg, subkey, 0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
> 
>    _winreg.SaveKey(remotekey, file)
> 
> destsrvr = "\\\\server1\\backup$\\"
> # Registry key (and all subkeys) to be processed for backup/restore
> regpath = "Software\\Cisco Systems, Inc."
> 
> # Open hostfile and read hostnames into a list
> readfile = open('d:\scripts\dev\SideAsrv.txt', 'r')
> hostfile = []
> for host in readfile:
>    hostfile += [host.strip()]
> 
> readfile.close ()
> 
> for srvname in hostfile:
>    outputpath = destsrvr + srvname
>    createFolder(outputpath)
>    outputfile = outputpath + "\\" + srvname
>    srvname = "\\\\" + srvname
>    # Call the function to connect to and export the remote registry key
>    output = remoteSaveKey(srvname, regpath, outputfile)
>    # DEBUG
>    print outputfile
>    # Select the next host
> #####################
> 

If the account that you're running under doesn't possess SeBackupPrivilege,
you can use win32security.LsaAddAccountRights to grant it.  However, even
if you already have the privilege it needs to be enabled using AdjustTokenPrivileges.
See \Lib\site-packages\win32\Demos\security\set_file_audit.py for an example.

          Roger




From theller at ctypes.org  Fri Oct 27 08:00:36 2006
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:00:36 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <00B231D3247B664EA7B4691D38CF153F012270B6@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>
References: <453FC080.20204@ctypes.org>
	<00B231D3247B664EA7B4691D38CF153F012270B6@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>
Message-ID: <4541A084.7060801@ctypes.org>

Schollnick, Benjamin schrieb:
> Tom,
> 
>> I have a module lying around that does this.  Should work on 2k and
>> 
> XP, at least.
>> You call it with the 'friendly name' of the network adaper, and it
> displays the ip
>> address and network mask (IIRC).  Should be easy to adapt to our
> needs, and more.
> 
> Silly question...
> 
> What is the friendly name of an network adapter?
> 
> If it was Unix, I would say eri0, etc...  But I can't think of a 
> "friendly" name under Windows...

I'm not sure where I got this terminus from, maybe I was inventing
it myself when I wrote this module.  It is the name that is displayed
in "network connections" (right click on "My Network Places", then
select properties).

Thomas


From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Fri Oct 27 09:48:23 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:48:23 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Is there any way of capturing or displaying stdout when running a
Python script? I know about:

import sys
sys.stdout = open("logfile.txt", "a")

but I don't want to modify my scripts to achieve this.

-- 
/Johan.

From stefan.holmgren at accalon.se  Fri Oct 27 10:06:07 2006
From: stefan.holmgren at accalon.se (Stefan Holmgren)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:06:07 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
References: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ehsem0$656$1@sea.gmane.org>

You can add this after your script "> file.txt"

Example:

<prompt>:you_script.py >korv.txt

Then it will your print to the korv file..



/HejHopp

"Johan Lindvall" <johan.lindvall at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3 at mail.gmail.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way of capturing or displaying stdout when running a
> Python script? I know about:
>
> import sys
> sys.stdout = open("logfile.txt", "a")
>
> but I don't want to modify my scripts to achieve this.
>
> -- 
> /Johan. 




From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Fri Oct 27 10:47:58 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:47:58 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
In-Reply-To: <BAY105-DAV129AB0D9C69A935A1CD9695040@phx.gbl>
References: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>
	<BAY105-DAV129AB0D9C69A935A1CD9695040@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610270147k21f87480nda612ebbc2dfecbd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Thanks for the answers so far.

I am afraid my orginal post was a bit unclear. I am looking for a way
to capture script output running in an ActiveScript Python host.

-- 
/Johan.

From graham.bloice at trihedral.com  Fri Oct 27 10:25:31 2006
From: graham.bloice at trihedral.com (Graham Bloice)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:25:31 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <4541A084.7060801@ctypes.org>
Message-ID: <HHELKAFKNIPBHCKKLBJOAEEKNFAA.graham.bloice@trihedral.com>

> > Silly question...
> > 
> > What is the friendly name of an network adapter?
> > 
> > If it was Unix, I would say eri0, etc...  But I can't think of a 
> > "friendly" name under Windows...
> 
> I'm not sure where I got this terminus from, maybe I was inventing
> it myself when I wrote this module.  It is the name that is displayed
> in "network connections" (right click on "My Network Places", then
> select properties).
> 

Any name will be "friendlier" than a GUID.

Graham

From davidnicolson1 at hotmail.com  Fri Oct 27 10:43:12 2006
From: davidnicolson1 at hotmail.com (David Nicolson)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:43:12 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
In-Reply-To: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BAY105-DAV129AB0D9C69A935A1CD9695040@phx.gbl>

This might do what you want to achieve. It seems to make py2exe crash  
on exit, some file locking error. Works fine otherwise though.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys

class LogBuffer:
     def __init__(self):
         pass

     def flush(self):
         sys.__stdout__.flush()

     def write(self,string):
         string = string.strip()
         sys.__stdout__.write("Captured: "+string+"\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
     logbuffer = LogBuffer()
     sys.stdout = logbuffer
     print "Hello"


On 27/10/2006, at 5:48 PM, Johan Lindvall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way of capturing or displaying stdout when running a
> Python script? I know about:
>
> import sys
> sys.stdout = open("logfile.txt", "a")
>
> but I don't want to modify my scripts to achieve this.
>
> -- 
> /Johan.
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32




From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Fri Oct 27 11:59:41 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:59:41 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Parameterless propget in Python ActiveScript
	incomplete
In-Reply-To: <bab5abcd0610260247q26068d2eic1adfc646e829e28@mail.gmail.com>
References: <bab5abcd0610260247q26068d2eic1adfc646e829e28@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610270259l4471d52ds25e44b8b167bd326@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have investigated this issue further.

The problem seems to be that LazyDispatchItem doesn't remap the
properties as DispatchItem does. If I disable the LazyDispatchItem
generation in MakeOleRepr and always return a DispatchItem object, the
script works as expected.

If I leave MakeOleRepr untouched and use the original property name:

obj1.Object2.AttValue("TEST", 123)

then I get another the following error from Python:

TypeError: AttValue() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given).


-- 
/Johan.

From fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk  Fri Oct 27 14:27:23 2006
From: fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:27:23 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
In-Reply-To: <BAY105-DAV129AB0D9C69A935A1CD9695040@phx.gbl>
References: <bab5abcd0610270048p487885cfh3ad5ed21c68c2af3@mail.gmail.com>
	<BAY105-DAV129AB0D9C69A935A1CD9695040@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <4541FB2B.4040607@voidspace.org.uk>

David Nicolson wrote:
> This might do what you want to achieve. It seems to make py2exe crash  
> on exit, some file locking error. Works fine otherwise though.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import sys
>
> class LogBuffer:
>      def __init__(self):
>          pass
>
>      def flush(self):
>          sys.__stdout__.flush()
>
>      def write(self,string):
>          string = string.strip()
>          sys.__stdout__.write("Captured: "+string+"\n")
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>      logbuffer = LogBuffer()
>      sys.stdout = logbuffer
>      print "Hello"
>
>   
I've written a class called 'StandOut' which does exactly this (plus 
more). It works fine with py2exe.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/standout.html

Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk


> On 27/10/2006, at 5:48 PM, Johan Lindvall wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way of capturing or displaying stdout when running a
>> Python script? I know about:
>>
>> import sys
>> sys.stdout = open("logfile.txt", "a")
>>
>> but I don't want to modify my scripts to achieve this.
>>
>> -- 
>> /Johan.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Python-win32 mailing list
>> Python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>     
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>   


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Sun Oct 29 01:26:45 2006
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:26:45 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Waiting for Wireless
In-Reply-To: <HHELKAFKNIPBHCKKLBJOAEEKNFAA.graham.bloice@trihedral.com>
References: <4541A084.7060801@ctypes.org>
	<HHELKAFKNIPBHCKKLBJOAEEKNFAA.graham.bloice@trihedral.com>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350610281626x20da0adei9bf4f2003a9f274@mail.gmail.com>

Nahh it isn't that bad.....

On 10/27/06, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice at trihedral.com> wrote:
>
> > > Silly question...
> > >
> > > What is the friendly name of an network adapter?
> > >
> > > If it was Unix, I would say eri0, etc...  But I can't think of a
> > > "friendly" name under Windows...
> >
> > I'm not sure where I got this terminus from, maybe I was inventing
> > it myself when I wrote this module.  It is the name that is displayed
> > in "network connections" (right click on "My Network Places", then
> > select properties).
> >
>
> Any name will be "friendlier" than a GUID.
>
> Graham
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Oct 29 09:48:44 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:48:44 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
In-Reply-To: <bab5abcd0610270147k21f87480nda612ebbc2dfecbd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3b7e01c6fb37$0b4b11c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I am afraid my orginal post was a bit unclear. I am looking for a way
> to capture script output running in an ActiveScript Python host.

I'm afraid that is not possible - some script code will need to perform that
redirection for you, and that might need to happen for each script - the
axscript engine explicitly redirects sys.stdout to prevent 'print'
statements causing the script to crash in certain environments (including
ASP) when the default stdout is invalid.

Check out axscript\client\framework.py and search for stdout.  I'd be happy
to accept patches if you have specific improvements in mind.

Cheers,

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Oct 29 09:50:53 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:50:53 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Parameterless propget in Python
	ActiveScriptincomplete
In-Reply-To: <bab5abcd0610270259l4471d52ds25e44b8b167bd326@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3b7f01c6fb37$57f7f9c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

Could you please open a bug at sourceforge so this doesn't get lost, as I'm
afraid I don't have time right now to look at this...

Thanks,

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Johan Lindvall
> Sent: Friday, 27 October 2006 8:00 PM
> To: Python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Parameterless propget in Python
> ActiveScriptincomplete
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I have investigated this issue further.
>
> The problem seems to be that LazyDispatchItem doesn't remap the
> properties as DispatchItem does. If I disable the LazyDispatchItem
> generation in MakeOleRepr and always return a DispatchItem object, the
> script works as expected.
>
> If I leave MakeOleRepr untouched and use the original property name:
>
> obj1.Object2.AttValue("TEST", 123)
>
> then I get another the following error from Python:
>
> TypeError: AttValue() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given).
>
>
> --
> /Johan.
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Mon Oct 30 08:21:49 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:21:49 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Capturing stdout when running a Python Script
In-Reply-To: <3b7e01c6fb37$0b4b11c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <bab5abcd0610270147k21f87480nda612ebbc2dfecbd@mail.gmail.com>
	<3b7e01c6fb37$0b4b11c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610292321s3643d90age9e6c43a2ade44d5@mail.gmail.com>

I managed to solve this by setting the Std Handles (SetStdHandle) and
reopening stderr and s tdout of the Python CRT (vc 71)

Our app is built with VC 8, so I had to use a Dll built with VC 7.1 to
accomplish this (with LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress.

Code references:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/creating_a_child_process_with_redirected_input_and_output.asp
http://dslweb.nwnexus.com/~ast/dload/guicon.htm

-- 
/Johan.

From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Mon Oct 30 10:26:52 2006
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:26:52 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Parameterless propget in Python
	ActiveScriptincomplete
In-Reply-To: <3b7f01c6fb37$57f7f9c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <bab5abcd0610270259l4471d52ds25e44b8b167bd326@mail.gmail.com>
	<3b7f01c6fb37$57f7f9c0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0610300126k67173d9t3b4fcd7cf99e30c9@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/29/06, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> Could you please open a bug at sourceforge so this doesn't get lost, as I'm
> afraid I don't have time right now to look at this...

I've opened 1857023 for this bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1587023&group_id=78018&atid=551954

As a workaround we're distributing a patched version of dynamic.py,
where LazyDispatchItem has been disabled.

-- 
/Johan.

From m_norley_newsgroups at yahoo.co.uk  Mon Oct 30 14:02:18 2006
From: m_norley_newsgroups at yahoo.co.uk (Mark Norley)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:02:18 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Excel and OLEObjects
Message-ID: <000301c6fc23$a1aa3820$06cfc156@MARK>

Hello

I'm trying to insert an object into an Excel sheet with the following code:

import win32com.client
xlapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xlapp.Visible = 1
xlapp.Workbooks.Add()
xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(FileName = "C:\\mytext.tx"', Link=False,
DisplayAsIcon=False).Select

But I get: AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'Add'

If I record a macro in Excel for what I want to do it comes out as:

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro2 Macro
' Macro recorded 30/10/2006 by Mark
'

'
    ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(Filename:="C:\mytext.txt", Link:=False, _
        DisplayAsIcon:=False).Select
End Sub

I'm a complete COM noob...what am I doing wrong?

Cheers
Mark

WinXP SP2
Python 2.4.2
Pywin32 210
Excel 2003


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From durumdara at gmail.com  Mon Oct 30 17:07:42 2006
From: durumdara at gmail.com (durumdara)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:07:42 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get windows basic system informations like
 "Organization", and "User"
Message-ID: <4546234E.7020707@gmail.com>

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

From timr at probo.com  Mon Oct 30 19:17:13 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:17:13 -0800
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: <454641A9.8050606@probo.com>

durumdara 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 ?
>  
>

It's in the registry.  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion, in the values RegisteredOwner and
RegisteredOrganization.  That's also where you can find the current
service pack, the product ID, and a few other pieces of trivis.

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


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Mon Oct 30 19:24:56 2006
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:24:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Excel and OLEObjects
In-Reply-To: <000301c6fc23$a1aa3820$06cfc156@MARK>
References: <000301c6fc23$a1aa3820$06cfc156@MARK>
Message-ID: <45464378.3050401@alum.rpi.edu>

Mark Norley wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to insert an object into an Excel sheet with the following code:
>
> import win32com.client
> xlapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> xlapp.Visible = 1
> xlapp.Workbooks.Add()
> xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(FileName = "C:\\mytext.tx"', Link=False,
> DisplayAsIcon=False).Select
>
> But I get: AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'Add'
>   
The clue is "'function' object". This is telling you that 
xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects is a function. So try calling the function 
and applying Add to  what the function returns:

xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects().Add(....

The "problem" with VBA is that Function calls that take no arguments also have no ().

> If I record a macro in Excel for what I want to do it comes out as:
>
> Sub Macro1()
> '
> ' Macro2 Macro
> ' Macro recorded 30/10/2006 by Mark
> '
>
> '
>     ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(Filename:="C:\mytext.txt", Link:=False, _
>         DisplayAsIcon:=False).Select
> End Sub
>
> I'm a complete COM noob...what am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> WinXP SP2
> Python 2.4.2
> Pywin32 210
> Excel 2003
>
>
>   


-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From python at cogginsnet.com  Mon Oct 30 19:51:39 2006
From: python at cogginsnet.com (Robert Coggins)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:51:39 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] MySQL on Python 2.5
Message-ID: <454649BB.4090705@cogginsnet.com>

All,

I am having trouble finding a module made to user MySQL on Pytho 2.5 on
Windows.  Could anyone point me to the right direction?  The Windows
MySQLdb will only install on my 2.4.3 version.

Robert


From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Oct 30 21:27:03 2006
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:27:03 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd console,
	for a program that has completed execution
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0610301203p51a91902gc510d8fafdefefc9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8249c4ac0610301203p51a91902gc510d8fafdefefc9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0610301227k10aa65ddq35f6e76a2a4d4e88@mail.gmail.com>

In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd
console...
Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the
scrollback buffer?

I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of text I'd
like to capture.
I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to mark and
copy.


thanks
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From kc106_2005-pywin32 at yahoo.com  Mon Oct 30 21:22:32 2006
From: kc106_2005-pywin32 at yahoo.com (kc106_2005-pywin32 at yahoo.com)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:22:32 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Setting attributes to a number of Excel cells
Message-ID: <20061030202232.51929.qmail@web51404.mail.yahoo.com>

Hello list,

We all know that it's better to set the values of a spreadsheet by
building a squared virtual sheet first and then copy the whole thing
over with one single range...value call.



But Is there a more efficient way to set the attributes of a number of cells in Excel?

I am noticing a significant delay when I have to set a (non-trivial) percentages of the cells to, let say, a different font then the rest of the cells.  In other words, creating the cells didn't take much time but setting the attributes for a percentage of the cells took a much longer time then that when I create the whole sheet.

Thanks,

 --
John Henry



From timr at probo.com  Mon Oct 30 22:13:41 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:13:41 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd
 console, for a program that has completed execution
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0610301227k10aa65ddq35f6e76a2a4d4e88@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8249c4ac0610301203p51a91902gc510d8fafdefefc9@mail.gmail.com>
	<8249c4ac0610301227k10aa65ddq35f6e76a2a4d4e88@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45466B05.3050003@probo.com>

Tony Cappellini wrote:

>
> In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd
> console...
> Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the
> scrollback buffer?
>
> I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of
> text I'd like to capture.
> I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to
> mark and copy.


Nope.  All of that is internal to cmd.exe and the CSRSS service that
runs console processes.

If this is an issue for you, you might consider "Take Command" or "TCI"
from the makers of "4NT", www.jpsoft.com.

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Mon Oct 30 23:00:15 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:00:15 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd console,
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP02879FF37DE178D4481BA3A3FA0@phx.gbl>

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd
> console...
> Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the
> scrollback buffer?
> 
> I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of text I'd
> like to capture.
> I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to mark and
> copy.
> 
> 
> thanks

The win32console module contains functions to read directly from a console buffer.
You can also use it to dynamically resize the output buffer.

        Roger


From timr at probo.com  Mon Oct 30 23:19:04 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:19:04 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd
	console, 
In-Reply-To: <BAY0-SMTP02879FF37DE178D4481BA3A3FA0@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY0-SMTP02879FF37DE178D4481BA3A3FA0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <45467A58.6050508@probo.com>

Roger Upole wrote:

>Tony Cappellini wrote:
>  
>
>>In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd
>>console...
>>Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the
>>scrollback buffer?
>>
>>I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of text I'd
>>like to capture.
>>I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to mark and
>>copy.
>>    
>>
>The win32console module contains functions to read directly from a console buffer.
>You can also use it to dynamically resize the output buffer.
>  
>

... IF you are running inside that console window.  The OP wants to pull
the console buffer from ANOTHER console window.  I don't think there is
any way to do that, although I'm willing to be proven wrong.

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Tue Oct 31 00:08:32 2006
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:08:32 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Programmatically capturing the text in a cmd
Message-ID: <BAY0-SMTP0808A4DF9A45824D6E6E29A3FA0@phx.gbl>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
> 
>>Tony Cappellini wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>In Windows XP, after a program has completed it's execution in a cmd
>>>console...
>>>Is there a way to *programmatically* capture the text that is in the
>>>scrollback buffer?
>>>
>>>I usually set my buffers to 10K lines or more, so there is a lot of text I'd
>>>like to capture.
>>>I want to do this programmatically, as opposed to using a mouse to mark and
>>>copy.
>>>    
>>>
>>The win32console module contains functions to read directly from a console buffer.
>>You can also use it to dynamically resize the output buffer.
>>  
>>
> 
> ... IF you are running inside that console window.  The OP wants to pull
> the console buffer from ANOTHER console window.  I don't think there is
> any way to do that, although I'm willing to be proven wrong.
> 

win32console.AttachConsole allows this to be done.
Another alternative would be to create a small .bat file that runs the program
of interest, and then a python script to grab the console output.

         Roger



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Oct 31 06:09:54 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:09:54 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Input-only vs. In/Out Function Parameters
In-Reply-To: <ED868B606015D411851F00508B6A682F0C8669AD@crs12.aecl.ca>
Message-ID: <433d01c6fcaa$ce0769b0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

>     ...
>     if type(retVal) == types.TupleType: # Like pythoncom, we special case
a tuple.
>         # However, if they want to return a specific HRESULT,
>         # then they have to return all of the out arguments
>         # AND the HRESULT.
>         if len(retVal) == len(meth._gw_out_args) + 1:
>             hr = retVal[0]
>             retVal = retVal[1:]
>         else:
>             raise TypeError, "Expected %s return values, got: %s" %
(len(meth.

> I'm not sure what the original intent was,

That looks suspect, yeah.  I suspect the intent was to have another elseif
that checked if the lengths were the same, in which case no hresult was
provided.  I'm out of time to get more context about this though, but the
greater intent is that the author of the Python COM object should not care
if they are using an IDispatch or vtable implementation of an interface, so
the same code should work in both cases.

The best thing you can do to help me move this forward would be to provide a
test case using the existing 'pippo' tests in the win32com tree.

Cheers,

Mark


From m_norley_newsgroups at yahoo.co.uk  Tue Oct 31 09:04:33 2006
From: m_norley_newsgroups at yahoo.co.uk (Mark Norley)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:04:33 -0000
Subject: [python-win32] Excel and OLEObjects
In-Reply-To: <45464378.3050401@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <002101c6fcc3$33722a20$639fcd53@MARK>

Aha...thanks Bob.
I'd actually got around the problem with:

xlapp.ActiveSheet.Shapes.AddOLEObject(Filename=...)

But it's good to know what was wrong.

Mark
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Gailer [mailto:bgailer at alum.rpi.edu] 
Sent: 30 October 2006 18:25
To: Mark Norley
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel and OLEObjects

Mark Norley wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to insert an object into an Excel sheet with the following
code:
>
> import win32com.client
> xlapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
> xlapp.Visible = 1
> xlapp.Workbooks.Add()
> xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(FileName = "C:\\mytext.tx"', 
> Link=False, DisplayAsIcon=False).Select
>
> But I get: AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'Add'
>   
The clue is "'function' object". This is telling you that
xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects is a function. So try calling the function and
applying Add to  what the function returns:

xlapp.ActiveSheet.OLEObjects().Add(....

The "problem" with VBA is that Function calls that take no arguments also
have no ().

> If I record a macro in Excel for what I want to do it comes out as:
>
> Sub Macro1()
> '
> ' Macro2 Macro
> ' Macro recorded 30/10/2006 by Mark
> '
>
> '
>     ActiveSheet.OLEObjects.Add(Filename:="C:\mytext.txt", Link:=False, _
>         DisplayAsIcon:=False).Select
> End Sub
>
> I'm a complete COM noob...what am I doing wrong?
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> WinXP SP2
> Python 2.4.2
> Pywin32 210
> Excel 2003
>
>
>   


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From srsy70 at gmail.com  Tue Oct 31 11:39:26 2006
From: srsy70 at gmail.com (S.Ramaswamy)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:09:26 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
Message-ID: <d60e5b0f0610310239h755394fatd846e803c1b999fd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am trying to get processor performance stats using the pywin32pdh and
pywin32pdhutil modules. It works fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but
not on Windows server 2003(SP1). I am using Python 2.4.3 and
pywin32-210.win32-py2.4.

Error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D:\>host_processor.py
% Privileged Time ->
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\host_processor.py", line 24, in ?
    print key, "->", win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes("Processor", key, ins
tance)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line 61, in Ge
tPerformanceAttributes
    type, val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue(hc, format)
pywintypes.error: (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is
 available')

D:\>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Source:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
import win32pdh
import win32pdhutil

host_processor_counter_dict = {
                                "% DPC Time" : "",
                                "% Interrupt Time" : "",
                                "% Privileged Time" : "",
                                "% Processor Time" : "",
                                "% User Time" : "",
                                "APC Bypasses/sec" : "",
                                "DPC Bypasses/sec" : "",
                                "DPC Rate" : "",
                                "DPCs Queued/sec" : "",
                                "Interrupts/sec" : "",
                              }

win32pdh.EnumObjects(None, None, win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
unused, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(
                              None, None,'Processor',
win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)

# Even if there is only one disk, a 'Total' instance is also provided
for instance in instances:
    for key in host_processor_counter_dict.keys():
        print key, "->",
win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes("Processor", key, instance)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Can someone please tell me if something platform specific needs to be
done here ?

Thanks & Regards
Ramaswamy

From timr at probo.com  Tue Oct 31 18:48:35 2006
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:48:35 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
In-Reply-To: <d60e5b0f0610310239h755394fatd846e803c1b999fd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d60e5b0f0610310239h755394fatd846e803c1b999fd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45478C73.8040807@probo.com>

S.Ramaswamy wrote:

>I am trying to get processor performance stats using the pywin32pdh and
>pywin32pdhutil modules. It works fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but
>not on Windows server 2003(SP1). I am using Python 2.4.3 and
>pywin32-210.win32-py2.4.
>
>Error:
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>D:\>host_processor.py
>% Privileged Time ->
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "D:\host_processor.py", line 24, in ?
>    print key, "->", win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes("Processor", key, ins
>tance)
>  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line 61, in Ge
>tPerformanceAttributes
>    type, val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue(hc, format)
>pywintypes.error: (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is
> available')
>  
>

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".

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

>host_processor_counter_dict = {
>                                "% DPC Time" : "",
>                                "% Interrupt Time" : "",
>                                "% Privileged Time" : "",
>                                "% Processor Time" : "",
>                                "% User Time" : "",
>                                "APC Bypasses/sec" : "",
>                                "DPC Bypasses/sec" : "",
>                                "DPC Rate" : "",
>                                "DPCs Queued/sec" : "",
>                                "Interrupts/sec" : "",
>                              }
>  
>

My XPSP2 system does not contain "APC Bypasses/sec" and "DPC Bypasses/sec".

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


From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Tue Oct 31 19:31:40 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:31:40 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061031153137.04ce2250@yahoo.com.ar>

At Tuesday 31/10/2006 14:48, Tim Roberts wrote:

> >I am trying to get processor performance stats using the pywin32pdh and
> >pywin32pdhutil modules. It works fine on Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but
> >not on Windows server 2003(SP1). I am using Python 2.4.3 and
> >pywin32-210.win32-py2.4.
> >
>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".
>
>You can use "perfmon" to explore what counters are really present.
>Perhaps the "privileged time" counter was renamed in 2003.  In your
>particular case:

Also, the names are localized, so if you have a non-english version 
of Windows, you have to look up what are the translated names.
(I don't know how to obtain a "neutral" name usable everywhere)


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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Oct 31 23:32:35 2006
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:32:35 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20061031153137.04ce2250@yahoo.com.ar>
Message-ID: <46cd01c6fd3c$76e804e0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Also, the names are localized, so if you have a non-english version
> of Windows, you have to look up what are the translated names.
> (I don't know how to obtain a "neutral" name usable everywhere)

Although it is far from perfect, the find_pdh_counter_localized_name()
function in win32pdhutil does try to handle some of these localization
issues.

Cheers,

Mark


From gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar  Tue Oct 31 23:58:33 2006
From: gagsl-p32 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:58:33 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdh problem on Windows Server 2003
In-Reply-To: <46cd01c6fd3c$76e804e0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <7.0.1.0.0.20061031153137.04ce2250@yahoo.com.ar>
	<46cd01c6fd3c$76e804e0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20061031195716.04650008@yahoo.com.ar>

At Tuesday 31/10/2006 19:32, Mark Hammond wrote:

> > Also, the names are localized, so if you have a non-english version
> > of Windows, you have to look up what are the translated names.
> > (I don't know how to obtain a "neutral" name usable everywhere)
>
>Although it is far from perfect, the find_pdh_counter_localized_name()
>function in win32pdhutil does try to handle some of these localization
>issues.

Good!


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Softlab SRL 

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