From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Wed Jan  2 21:10:28 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:10:28 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string... Possible hash
	key collision?
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF493@brexc51p>

I'm converting working Perl COM scripts to Python (ActivePython
2.5.1.1)and I've hit an odd situation where win32com throws a 'Type
mismatch' error on a string.

It's odd because a) it works in ActiveState Perl, b) other methods in
the object work just fine in Python, and c) it looks suspiciously like a
key collision in an internal hash.

The following method works successfully:
	a = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Field("REQ", "RQ_REQ_ID")
	print a.ColumnName

but the following fails:
	b = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields("BUG")

I think the problem is "...Fields.Fields(...)"  The two Fields objects
are different objects but happen to have the same name.  (The 1st Fields
is a CustomizationFields object, and the 2nd Fields is TDField object
with different properties and different methods.)


I have extra debugging turned on in
Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py.  Here's the
debugging with notes and the traceback:

	TDApiOle80.TDConnection.__LazyMap__(InitConnectionEx) added
something
	TDApiOle80.TDConnection.__LazyMap__(Login) added something
	TDApiOle80.TDConnection.__LazyMap__(Connect) added something
	TDApiOle80.TDConnection.__LazyMap__(ProjectConnected) added
something

	Attribute ProjectConnected not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x2 from OLE object
	OLE returned  True
	TDApiOle80.TDConnection.__LazyMap__(Customization) added
something

	Attribute Customization not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x1a from OLE object
	OLE returned  <PyIDispatch at 0xb409b4 with obj at 0xdbfebc>
	<unknown>.__LazyMap__(Fields) added something

a = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Field("REQ", "RQ_REQ_ID")

self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Field
	Attribute Fields not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x6 from OLE object
	OLE returned  <PyIDispatch at 0xa4692c with obj at 0xdb39a4>
	<unknown>.__LazyMap__(Field) added something

print a.ColumnName
	Field.__LazyMap__(ColumnName) added something
	Attribute ColumnName not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x13 from OLE object
	OLE returned  RQ_REQ_ID
	RQ_REQ_ID


b = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields("BUG")

	Attribute Customization not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x1a from OLE object
	OLE returned  <PyIDispatch at 0xabaa34 with obj at 0xdbfebc>
	<unknown>.__LazyMap__(Fields) added something

self.tdc.Customization.Fields
	Attribute Fields not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x6 from OLE object
	OLE returned  <PyIDispatch at 0xac0a54 with obj at 0xdb39a4>
	<unknown>.__LazyMap__(Fields) added something

self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields
	Attribute Fields not in cache
	Getting property Id 0x2 from OLE object
	OLE returned  <PyIDispatch at 0xae22b4 with obj at 0x18b7270>

boom	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "TDC.py", line 112, in <module>
	    tdc.MapUserFields2DatabaseFields('BUG')
	  File "TDC.py", line 61, in MapUserFields2DatabaseFields
	    b = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields("BUG")
	  File
"c:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 172, in
	__call__
	    return
self._get_good_object_(self._oleobj_.Invoke(*allArgs),self._olerepr_.
	defaultDispatchName,None)
	pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352571, 'Type mismatch.', None, 1)


How the heck do you get a Type Mismatch on a string?

Again, the ...Fields.Field("TableName", "FieldName") method works just
fine, but ...Fields.Fields("TableName") method fails miserably.  



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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan  2 22:56:15 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:56:15 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string... Possible
 hash	key collision?
In-Reply-To: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF493@brexc51p>
References: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF493@brexc51p>
Message-ID: <477C087F.50507@probo.com>

Reedick, Andrew wrote:
> It's odd because a) it works in ActiveState Perl, b) other methods in
> the object work just fine in Python, and c) it looks suspiciously like a
> key collision in an internal hash.
>   

No, I think the debug log disproves this.  The second call does not find
its attributes in the cache, and goes to fetch a different property ID.

> The following method works successfully:
> 	a = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Field("REQ", "RQ_REQ_ID")
> 	print a.ColumnName
>
> but the following fails:
> 	b = self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields("BUG")
>
> I think the problem is "...Fields.Fields(...)"  The two Fields objects
> are different objects but happen to have the same name.  (The 1st Fields
> is a CustomizationFields object, and the 2nd Fields is TDField object
> with different properties and different methods.)
>   

Actually, the 2nd Fields is an IList object which contains a list of
TDFields.  I'm not 100% sure what the interface to an IList is, but you
might try ["BUG"] instead of ("BUG").

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Jan  3 02:12:44 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:12:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Suggestions for a unicode build
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP01D9C7C5FE0DE73A848D90A3530@CEZ.ICE>

Mark suggested that I get some feedback from the community regarding
some of the issues involved in creating a Unicode build of win32api.

Some functions already allow you to call the ansi or wide-character version,
such as FormatMessage/FormatMessageW.  This leaves some ambiguity
as to how they should behave in a Unicode build.
Some options:
    Have only FormatMessage, calling FormatMessageW
    Leave both FormatMessage and FormatMessageW, both calling
        FormatMessagW (this would probably be the most backward compatible)
    Have FormatMessage as unicode and also add FormatMessageA in case
        there's a need to explicitely call the ansi function.

Does anyone have a preference among these, or have an alternate way to go
about it ?


It may also be possible to release the module in both wide-character and
ansi.
The question here:  Is it worth the trouble ?
The ansi version would only be needed on win98.  Python itself is dropping
support for win98 as of Py3k, but the current versions of Python are sure to
be with us for years to come.
Also, if they were released in parallel, how should they be named ?
    win32api (unicode) and win32apiA (ansi), or the other way around
    win32api (ansi) and win32apiW (unicode).


Another issue is whether or not to remove obsolete functions, specifically
the functions that deal with .ini files.  (WriteProfileSection,
WriteProfileVal, etc)
Technically, they've been obsolete since win95, but that doesn't mean noone
uses them.
The easiest thing to do for now might be to leave them as ansi, calling the
*A functions in order to minimize coding effort, and eliminate them
altogether when building for Python 3.x.


Anyone have any opinions or suggestions ?

             Roger


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan  3 02:35:28 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:35:28 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Suggestions for a unicode build
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP01D9C7C5FE0DE73A848D90A3530@CEZ.ICE>
References: <BAYC1-PASMTP01D9C7C5FE0DE73A848D90A3530@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <477C3BE0.8060400@probo.com>

Roger Upole wrote:
> Mark suggested that I get some feedback from the community regarding
> some of the issues involved in creating a Unicode build of win32api.
>
> Some functions already allow you to call the ansi or wide-character version,
> such as FormatMessage/FormatMessageW.  This leaves some ambiguity
> as to how they should behave in a Unicode build.
> Some options:
>     Have only FormatMessage, calling FormatMessageW
>     Leave both FormatMessage and FormatMessageW, both calling
>         FormatMessagW (this would probably be the most backward compatible)
>     Have FormatMessage as unicode and also add FormatMessageA in case
>         there's a need to explicitely call the ansi function.
>   

4. Have FormatMessage always call FormatMessageW and supply the MSLU DLL
for Win98. That is probably the best option for performance, since the
number of ANSI-only platforms is so low now.

> It may also be possible to release the module in both wide-character and
> ansi.
> The question here:  Is it worth the trouble ?
>   

In my opinion, no.

> Another issue is whether or not to remove obsolete functions, specifically
> the functions that deal with .ini files.  (WriteProfileSection,
> WriteProfileVal, etc)
> Technically, they've been obsolete since win95, but that doesn't mean noone
> uses them.
>   

I don't think Microsoft has ever documented them as obsolete.  In fact,
there was an article in MSDN Magazine just two years ago showing how to
use the profile functions from .NET code, and recommending their use
over the registry for user-specifiable parameters.

Now, it's true that it is easy to write a Python module to parse INI
files, but I don't think it's really necessary to take any action at all
here.  The profile functions still work, so let's keep using them.

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Jan  3 06:59:50 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 00:59:50 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Suggestions for a unicode build
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP15DEECAC4AFB06866E8D7AA3530@CEZ.ICE>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
>> Mark suggested that I get some feedback from the community regarding
>> some of the issues involved in creating a Unicode build of win32api.
>>
>> Some functions already allow you to call the ansi or wide-character 
>> version,
>> such as FormatMessage/FormatMessageW.  This leaves some ambiguity
>> as to how they should behave in a Unicode build.
>> Some options:
>>     Have only FormatMessage, calling FormatMessageW
>>     Leave both FormatMessage and FormatMessageW, both calling
>>         FormatMessagW (this would probably be the most backward 
>> compatible)
>>     Have FormatMessage as unicode and also add FormatMessageA in case
>>         there's a need to explicitely call the ansi function.
>>
>
> 4. Have FormatMessage always call FormatMessageW and supply the MSLU DLL
> for Win98. That is probably the best option for performance, since the
> number of ANSI-only platforms is so low now.

Just supplying the Dll is not sufficient.  The .pyd would also have to be 
linked
against unicows.lib, which would mean creating a separate release for
win98.

>> It may also be possible to release the module in both wide-character and
>> ansi.
>> The question here:  Is it worth the trouble ?
>>
>
> In my opinion, no.


Do the two of us constitute a consensus ? :)

>> Another issue is whether or not to remove obsolete functions, 
>> specifically
>> the functions that deal with .ini files.  (WriteProfileSection,
>> WriteProfileVal, etc)
>> Technically, they've been obsolete since win95, but that doesn't mean 
>> noone
>> uses them.
>>
>
> I don't think Microsoft has ever documented them as obsolete.  In fact,
> there was an article in MSDN Magazine just two years ago showing how to
> use the profile functions from .NET code, and recommending their use
> over the registry for user-specifiable parameters.
>
> Now, it's true that it is easy to write a Python module to parse INI
> files, but I don't think it's really necessary to take any action at all
> here.  The profile functions still work, so let's keep using them.

The MSDN docs for the Profile functions all have a comment that says
"This function is provided only for compatibility with 16-bit versions of 
Windows.
Applications should store initialization information in the registry."

I'm not averse to leaving them in as long as everyone's okay with
them still calling the ANSI functions.  However, this may still require
extra work with Py3k where strings are all Unicode.

          Roger







From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Thu Jan  3 16:08:47 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:08:47 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string... Possible
	hash	key collision?
In-Reply-To: <477C087F.50507@probo.com>
References: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF493@brexc51p>
	<477C087F.50507@probo.com>
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF496@brexc51p>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-
> bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:56 PM
> To: Python-Win32 List
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string...
> Possible hash key collision?
> 
> 
> 
> Actually, the 2nd Fields is an IList object which contains a list of
> TDFields.  I'm not 100% sure what the interface to an IList is, but
you
> might try ["BUG"] instead of ("BUG").


("BUG"), ["BUG"], and (["BUG"]) all fail with the same type mismatch
error.  Why would I need to use tuple and/or array syntax to walk a
list?


I'm expecting self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields("BUG") to simply
return a list that I can iterate over.

self.tdc.Customization.Fields is
	Public Property Fields() As Object

self.tdc.Customization.Fields.Fields is
	Public Property Fields( 
	   Optional ByVal TableName As String = "" 
	) As List
	Remarks  If an empty string is passed as TableName, returns a
list of the fields in all tables

List has Count and Item methods.


I may be a Python newbie but it shouldn't be this difficult to walk a
list.  By comparison, here's the Perl equivalent:
	my $custFields = $tdc->Customization->Fields->Fields($db);
	for(my $i=1; $i<=$custFields->Count; $i++) {
		my $field = $custFields->Item($i);
		...	
	}




From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Thu Jan  3 19:26:10 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:26:10 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string...
	Possiblehash	key collision?
In-Reply-To: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF496@brexc51p>
References: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF493@brexc51p><477C087F.50507@probo.com>
	<A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF496@brexc51p>
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF497@brexc51p>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-
> bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Reedick, Andrew
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:09 AM
> To: Tim Roberts; Python-Win32 List
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] win32com- Type mismatch on a string...
> Possiblehash key collision?
> 

Problem "solved."  After mucking with makepy.py, it looks like
Fields("table") was replaced with GetFields("table") and Fields is an
IList.  No idea if Python did this, if the Quality Center COM
Documentation is wrong or out of date, and/or if Perl's COM is accurate
or just magically does the right thing.  *twitch*


	# Result is of type IList
	# The method GetFields is actually a property, but must be used
as a method to correctly pass the arguments
	def GetFields(self, TableName=''):
		"""A list of all fields in the specified table."""
		return self._ApplyTypes_(2, 2, (9, 32), ((8, 49),),
'GetFields', '{F73CCC7B-05FA-4FD7-8FAA-B53DFFFE22DC}',TableName
			)

	_prop_map_get_ = {
		# Method 'Fields' returns object of type 'IList'
		"Fields": (2, 2, (9, 32), ((8, 49),), "Fields",
'{F73CCC7B-05FA-4FD7-8FAA-B53DFFFE22DC}'),
	}
	_prop_map_put_ = {
	}



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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan  3 23:19:25 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:19:25 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Suggestions for a unicode build
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP15DEECAC4AFB06866E8D7AA3530@CEZ.ICE>
References: <BAYC1-PASMTP15DEECAC4AFB06866E8D7AA3530@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <477D5F6D.6020903@probo.com>

Roger Upole wrote:
> Just supplying the Dll is not sufficient.  The .pyd would also have to be 
> linked against unicows.lib, which would mean creating a separate release for
> win98.
>   

Not so, actually.  Microsoft was quite clever with this.  Unicows.lib
checks on its first invocation to see if it is needed.  If it isn't, it
rewrites the import table to unhook itself.  If it IS needed, it
dynamically loads unicows.dll and links it in.

> I'm not averse to leaving them in as long as everyone's okay with
> them still calling the ANSI functions.  However, this may still require
> extra work with Py3k where strings are all Unicode.
>   

All of the profile functions have A and W variants.  Why are these
different from any other API?

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Fri Jan  4 00:26:17 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:26:17 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Suggestions for a unicode build
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP1542BBE773D45096B75F8AA3530@CEZ.ICE>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
>> Just supplying the Dll is not sufficient.  The .pyd would also have to be
>> linked against unicows.lib, which would mean creating a separate release
>> for
>> win98.
>>
>
> Not so, actually.  Microsoft was quite clever with this.  Unicows.lib
> checks on its first invocation to see if it is needed.  If it isn't, it
> rewrites the import table to unhook itself.  If it IS needed, it
> dynamically loads unicows.dll and links it in.


Aha, I wasn't aware that it did any magic at runtime.
There's a short section about it in this MSDN article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/10/MSLU/
This may well be the best way to go then.


>> I'm not averse to leaving them in as long as everyone's okay with
>> them still calling the ANSI functions.  However, this may still require
>> extra work with Py3k where strings are all Unicode.
>>
>
> All of the profile functions have A and W variants.  Why are these
> different from any other API?


I was most concerned about the effort to convert and maintain a
set of functions that were considered obsolete.  However, since
they are apparently still recommended for use, I'll go ahead and
do the work so they can build as Unicode too.

          Roger



From fullung at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 08:41:18 2008
From: fullung at gmail.com (Albert Strasheim)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 09:41:18 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] COM automation: problem accessing property of
	derived object obtained from collection
Message-ID: <003901c84ea5$315d7d40$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>

Hello all

I'm new to the world of COM automation with Python, so please bear with me.

I'm trying to automate Golden Software's Surfer 8 [1] using Python.

The basics seems to be working fine, but I'm running into a problem when 
dealing with a collection containing instances of an object derived from a 
base object.

The code looks as follows. Judging from the VBScript examples included with 
Surfer, it should work.

from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
srf = Dispatch("Surfer.Application")
plot = srf.Documents.Add(constants.srfDocPlot)
mapframe = plot.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName=outGrid)
contourmap = mapframe .Overlays.Item(1)
# the next line breaks
print contourMap.Levels

contourmap should contain a Surfer.IContourMap object, which is derived from 
the Surfer.IShape object. I can see in the GUI that the contour map is 
created, so I'm pretty sure everything is working up to this point.

Now, IContourMap has a Levels property that IShape doesn't have. When I try 
to access this property, I get the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "surfer.py", line 7, in <module>
    print contourMap.Levels
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
454, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self), 
attr)
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Surfer 8 Type Library.IShape instance at 
0x22544016>' object has no attribute 'Levels'

For some reason Python can't figure out that the IShape is also a 
IContourMap.

As I said, I'm new to COM, so I'm at a loss as to what's going on here? Any 
help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Albert

[1] http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/surfer/surfer.shtml 


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Fri Jan  4 10:15:33 2008
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (bob gailer)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:15:33 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] COM automation: problem accessing property of
 derived object obtained from collection
In-Reply-To: <003901c84ea5$315d7d40$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>
References: <003901c84ea5$315d7d40$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>
Message-ID: <477DF935.4060408@alum.rpi.edu>

Albert Strasheim wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I'm new to the world of COM automation with Python, so please bear with me.
>
> I'm trying to automate Golden Software's Surfer 8 [1] using Python.
>
> The basics seems to be working fine, but I'm running into a problem when 
> dealing with a collection containing instances of an object derived from a 
> base object.
>
> The code looks as follows. Judging from the VBScript examples included with 
> Surfer
Which VBScript examples? The one I looked at (CONTOURFILL.BAS) uses 
Overlays to access Levels:

Set MapFrame = Doc.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName:=Path+"demogrid.grd")
'Fill Contours
MapFrame.Overlays(1).FillContours = True
'Set the colors to be gradational from green to blue
Set Levels = MapFrame.Overlays(1).Levels



> , it should work.
>
> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
> srf = Dispatch("Surfer.Application")
> plot = srf.Documents.Add(constants.srfDocPlot)
> mapframe = plot.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName=outGrid)
> contourmap = mapframe .Overlays.Item(1)
> # the next line breaks
> print contourMap.Levels
>
> contourmap should contain a Surfer.IContourMap object, which is derived from 
> the Surfer.IShape object. I can see in the GUI that the contour map is 
> created, so I'm pretty sure everything is working up to this point.
>
> Now, IContourMap has a Levels property that IShape doesn't have. When I try 
> to access this property, I get the following exception:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "surfer.py", line 7, in <module>
>     print contourMap.Levels
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
> 454, in __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self), 
> attr)
> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Surfer 8 Type Library.IShape instance at 
> 0x22544016>' object has no attribute 'Levels'
>
> For some reason Python can't figure out that the IShape is also a 
> IContourMap.
>
> As I said, I'm new to COM, so I'm at a loss as to what's going on here? Any 
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Albert
>
> [1] http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/surfer/surfer.shtml 
>
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> python-win32 at python.org
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>
>   


From fullung at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 10:27:33 2008
From: fullung at gmail.com (Albert Strasheim)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:27:33 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] COM automation: problem accessing property of
	derived object obtained from collection
References: <003901c84ea5$315d7d40$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>
	<477DF935.4060408@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <002601c84eb4$0937a2a0$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>

Hello

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob gailer" <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu>
To: "Albert Strasheim" <fullung at gmail.com>
Cc: <python-win32 at python.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [python-win32] COM automation: problem accessing property of 
derived object obtained from collection


> Albert Strasheim wrote:
>> Hello all
>>
>> I'm new to the world of COM automation with Python, so please bear with 
>> me.
>>
>> I'm trying to automate Golden Software's Surfer 8 [1] using Python.
>>
>> The basics seems to be working fine, but I'm running into a problem when 
>> dealing with a collection containing instances of an object derived from 
>> a base object.
>>
>> The code looks as follows. Judging from the VBScript examples included 
>> with Surfer
> Which VBScript examples? The one I looked at (CONTOURFILL.BAS) uses 
> Overlays to access Levels:
>
> Set MapFrame = Doc.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName:=Path+"demogrid.grd")
> 'Fill Contours
> MapFrame.Overlays(1).FillContours = True
> 'Set the colors to be gradational from green to blue
> Set Levels = MapFrame.Overlays(1).Levels
>
>> , it should work.
>>
>> from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
>> srf = Dispatch("Surfer.Application")
>> plot = srf.Documents.Add(constants.srfDocPlot)
>> mapframe = plot.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName=outGrid)
>> contourmap = mapframe .Overlays.Item(1)
>> # the next line breaks
>> print contourMap.Levels

As far as I can tell, the VBScript example you posted does the same thing as 
my Python code.

Translating the CONTOURFILL.BAS to Python:

from win32com.client import constants, Dispatch
srf = Dispatch("Surfer.Application")
doc = srf.Documents.Add(constants.srfDocPlot)
mapFrame = doc.Shapes.AddContourMap(GridFileName=outGrid)
mapFrame.Overlays(1).FillContours = True

This fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "surfer.py", line 8, in <module>
    mapFrame.Overlays(1).FillContours = True
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
462, in __setattr__
    raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self), 
attr)
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Surfer 8 Type Library.IShape instance at 
0x22543976>' object has no attribute 'FillContours'

Looks like the same issue as with Levels.

Cheers,

Albert 


From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 11:14:10 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:44:10 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] how can get the attachments(exclude) in the email
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801040214v6ecb821cyf6ef196638e68437@mail.gmail.com>

hi

How can i get the attachments  in the mail from outlook.?

how can i make query for that?

pls anybody help me >

Thanks

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From singhai.nish at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 13:17:27 2008
From: singhai.nish at gmail.com (kNish)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:47:27 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] infinite loop
Message-ID: <81bfef2e0801040417r2cead519w51e50f3003e25a20@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

            I have two py programs. both have while 1: loops. Lets say
File A has one while 1: loop and File B has another while 1: loop.
File A has a break statement. File B has no break statement.


            File B is running. I now run File A. This file executes
the break statement. What I observe is that the File A loops stops
working. correct me if I am wrong. What happens when two different
infinite while loops execute one after another. Such that the last
while loops breaks. Does this cause the first loop to stop too.


How to encounter such issue.


BRgds,

kNish

From fullung at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 14:15:20 2008
From: fullung at gmail.com (Albert Strasheim)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:15:20 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] COM automation: problem accessing property
	ofderived object obtained from collection
References: <003901c84ea5$315d7d40$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za><477DF935.4060408@alum.rpi.edu>
	<002601c84eb4$0937a2a0$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>
Message-ID: <007801c84ed3$db698210$0a83a8c0@sun.ac.za>

Hello all

Finally managed to type the correct magic phrase into Google.

Looks like I want CastTo:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2003-April/000914.html
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/440493

Cheers,

Albert

From jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com  Fri Jan  4 19:43:40 2008
From: jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Abrantes?=)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:43:40 -0100
Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background mode.
Message-ID: <BLU115-W17586C52ACF224AD7039D1964C0@phx.gbl>

Hello everyone.
I have made a python program and converted into an executable using py2exe. Now I want him to start on windows startup without showing the DOS Window... I have registered the program on windows startup registry key:

    key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
    _winreg.SetValueEx(key, "My program",0, _winreg.REG_SZ, '"C:\\jpia\\Programs\\Myprogram.exe" /background')

as you see I added the option "/background" but the DOS window still appears... well I hope you can help me. Thanks.

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From timr at probo.com  Fri Jan  4 19:52:49 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:52:49 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] infinite loop
In-Reply-To: <81bfef2e0801040417r2cead519w51e50f3003e25a20@mail.gmail.com>
References: <81bfef2e0801040417r2cead519w51e50f3003e25a20@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <477E8081.2030404@probo.com>

kNish wrote:
>             I have two py programs. both have while 1: loops. Lets say
> File A has one while 1: loop and File B has another while 1: loop.
> File A has a break statement. File B has no break statement.
>
>             File B is running. I now run File A. This file executes
> the break statement. What I observe is that the File A loops stops
> working. correct me if I am wrong. What happens when two different
> infinite while loops execute one after another. Such that the last
> while loops breaks. Does this cause the first loop to stop too.
>   

No, of course not.  If these are two separate programs in two separate 
Python processes, then they are completely unrelated to each other.  You 
are seeing some other side effect.  Show us some of the code, and we can 
point out where you are going wrong.

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


From mayank_johri at ml.com  Fri Jan  4 19:53:42 2008
From: mayank_johri at ml.com (Johri, Mayank (GTI))
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:53:42 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background
	mode.
Message-ID: <354AE678C54C7540AF76CB09AAEF16EE0397DE35@MLNYC724MB.amrs.win.ml.com>

This will help you  http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t324326-re-py2exe-question.html
 
 

Thanks and Regards,

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Ph: 212.647.3076

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	Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:44 PM
	To: python-win32 at python.org
	Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background mode.
	
	
	Hello everyone.
	I have made a python program and converted into an executable using py2exe. Now I want him to start on windows startup without showing the DOS Window... I have registered the program on windows startup registry key:
	
	    key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
	    _winreg.SetValueEx(key, "My program",0, _winreg.REG_SZ, '"C:\\jpia\\Programs\\Myprogram.exe" /background')
	
	as you see I added the option "/background" but the DOS window still appears... well I hope you can help me. Thanks.
	

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From timr at probo.com  Fri Jan  4 19:50:26 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:50:26 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] how can get the attachments(exclude) in the email
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801040214v6ecb821cyf6ef196638e68437@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801040214v6ecb821cyf6ef196638e68437@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <477E7FF2.70901@probo.com>

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> How can i get the attachments  in the mail from outlook.?
>
> how can i make query for that?
>
> pls anybody help me >

What have you tried?  Show us what you have, and we can help you fix it.

-- 
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Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



From vernondcole at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 21:10:58 2008
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:10:58 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] where should adodbapi be placed within
	python-win32?
In-Reply-To: <03d901c7e6bc$fe797000$fb6c5000$@com.au>
References: <59893.64.161.38.176.1187725583.squirrel@mail.wirelessbeehive.com>
	<03d901c7e6bc$fe797000$fb6c5000$@com.au>
Message-ID: <b7eb4a700801041210t77f50a1dpf8aa4ea0815ec68@mail.gmail.com>

Mark:
adodbapi.py is now in the pywin32 CVS. It is the version I have been running
for a few months, there are differences only in documentation compared to
the adodbapi CVS source tree. There are three outstanding issues, very
minor, which I will address in the next few weeks, and will update the
source here as soon as I have confidence in the newer version.** I did not
want to miss a release window by trying for a perfect module.

  I made a new sub-tree as you suggested.  Unfortunately,  I blew my first
try and created a tree one level too high. I have sent in a support request
for sourceforge to prune off my incorrect entry. Hopefully they will be able
to do that before anyone does a check out of the error. Makes me feel really
clumsy!

I have not made any changes to setup.py -- so nothing will be installed
until you add the code to do that. I am loath to mess with the installer
myself, especially after having just made such a major foul-up on CVS.
(Grrrr!)
--
Vernon
----
On Aug 24, 2007 7:09 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

> Just following up from Roger's comments (which I agree with):
>
> > The existing directory tree looks like this:
> > -- adodbapi-2.1
> > ..--adodbapi
> > ....--__init__.py
> > ....--adodbapi.py
> > ..--tests
> > ....--adodbapitest.py
> > ....--adodbapitestconfig.py
> > ....--adbapi20.py      (and so forth)
> > ..--license.txt
> > ..--readme.txt
> > ..--setup.py
> >
> > I understand nothing about the magic whereby the source in the CVS tree
> > becomes the install file that I run on a target system. So my question
> > is:
> > would /pywin32/adodbapi/adodbapy/adodbapi.py be the correct place to
>
> Did you mean 'adodbapy' there?
>
> > put the source?
>
> I'd be inclined to drop a level here by making 'tests' a sub-package.  So
> you would end up with:
>
> -- adodbapi
> ..--__init__.py
> ..--adodbapi.py
> ..--tests
> ....--adodbapitest.py
> ....--adodbapitestconfig.py
> ....--adbapi20.py      (and so forth)
> ..--license.txt
> ..--readme.txt
>
> and presumably:
> ..--setup.py
>
> will no longer be necessary (I don't think its worth still supporting
> creating a stand-alone package).  On the other hand, this may not scale as
> well for the future (eg, 'docs' would need to be a child of the package
> too
> - but is that really a problem?).  I'll leave this as your call though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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From markybob at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 22:39:14 2008
From: markybob at gmail.com (Marcos Pinto)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:39:14 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
Message-ID: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>

does anyone know of a third-party which unofficially provides python
built with visual studio 2008, instead of the official 2003?  i've
tried to build python myself, but failed, so i was wondering if anyone
already provides it?
thanks

From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Fri Jan  4 22:59:56 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:59:56 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
In-Reply-To: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF49D@brexc51p>

www.activestate.com has pre-built windows binaries for Python.  


-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Pinto
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:39 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008

does anyone know of a third-party which unofficially provides python
built with visual studio 2008, instead of the official 2003?  i've
tried to build python myself, but failed, so i was wondering if anyone
already provides it?
thanks
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From markybob at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 23:07:59 2008
From: markybob at gmail.com (Marcos Pinto)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 16:07:59 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
In-Reply-To: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF49D@brexc51p>
References: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>
	<A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF49D@brexc51p>
Message-ID: <62eb359a0801041407h65a9f5fpeedd801e2dbd8204@mail.gmail.com>

thanks, but those are also built with 7.1 and not 2005 or 2008

On Jan 4, 2008 3:59 PM, Reedick, Andrew <jr9445 at att.com> wrote:
> www.activestate.com has pre-built windows binaries for Python.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Pinto
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:39 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
>
> does anyone know of a third-party which unofficially provides python
> built with visual studio 2008, instead of the official 2003?  i've
> tried to build python myself, but failed, so i was wondering if anyone
> already provides it?
> thanks
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk  Fri Jan  4 23:20:04 2008
From: fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:20:04 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] [python] Re:  python on visual studio 2008
In-Reply-To: <62eb359a0801041407h65a9f5fpeedd801e2dbd8204@mail.gmail.com>
References: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>	<A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF49D@brexc51p>
	<62eb359a0801041407h65a9f5fpeedd801e2dbd8204@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <477EB114.8090904@voidspace.org.uk>

Marcos Pinto wrote:
> thanks, but those are also built with 7.1 and not 2005 or 2008
>   

In the Python source (for 2.5) there should be a VS 2005 project. Have 
you tried updating this for VS 2008? (PCBuild8 folder I believe)

Subversion head should be buildable with VS 2008 which will be the 
default for Windows. (PCBuild9 folder I believe)

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord

> On Jan 4, 2008 3:59 PM, Reedick, Andrew <jr9445 at att.com> wrote:
>   
>> www.activestate.com has pre-built windows binaries for Python.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
>> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Marcos Pinto
>> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 4:39 PM
>> To: python-win32 at python.org
>> Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
>>
>> does anyone know of a third-party which unofficially provides python
>> built with visual studio 2008, instead of the official 2003?  i've
>> tried to build python myself, but failed, so i was wondering if anyone
>> already provides it?
>> thanks
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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 markybob at gmail.com  Sat Jan  5 22:22:16 2008
From: markybob at gmail.com (Marcos Pinto)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 15:22:16 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Python 2.5.1 with Visual Studio 2005
Message-ID: <62eb359a0801051322q5ae82224s7d6f0cc8cc8a22a4@mail.gmail.com>

I opened up PCbuild8/pcbuild.sln in Visual Studio 2005, as per the
README, but when building pythoncore, I receive an error.

Compiling...
getbuildinfo2.c
c1 : fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '.\getbuildinfo2.c':
No such file or directory

I'm using the official python 2.5.1 sources from python.org.  Any help
is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Marcos

From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Sun Jan  6 14:56:40 2008
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 05:56:40 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 58, Issue 4
In-Reply-To: <mailman.673.1199477463.894.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.673.1199477463.894.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0801060556o21422708kbd39006a1b4d862e@mail.gmail.com>

Rename the main script in your python application so it's extension is .pyw

Replace the word console in the  py2exe setup.py file, to windows


Message: 3
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:43:40 -0100
From: Jo?o Abrantes <jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com>
Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background
       mode.
To: <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <BLU115-W17586C52ACF224AD7039D1964C0 at phx.gbl>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hello everyone.
I have made a python program and converted into an executable using
py2exe. Now I want him to start on windows startup without showing the
DOS Window... I have registered the program on windows startup
registry key:

From jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com  Sun Jan  6 21:49:08 2008
From: jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Abrantes?=)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:49:08 -0100
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
Message-ID: <BLU115-W4473E177F3B5783C902436964E0@phx.gbl>

Hello everyone.

I have made a socket server on one of my lan computer and I made a socket client on other lan computer. When I try to access the server socket using the computer External IP it gives me an error: (10061, 'Connection refused'). If I use it's internal ip the connection is accepted... I think that I am not able to connect to any computer outside my lan because the program only checks for Internal IPs how can I change that?

P.S. I already disabled my firewall. The socket server is binded to: s.bind(('0.0.0.0.',1236)).

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From lreenaers at ressource-toi.org  Mon Jan  7 00:59:22 2008
From: lreenaers at ressource-toi.org (Ludovic Reenaers)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:59:22 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
References: <BLU115-W4473E177F3B5783C902436964E0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <E962374E9DF4477EA811CC49E7FAE8DD@PERCEVAL>

may be you are behind a router or proxy or whatever then your external ip is actually the network device connected to the internet. this device may probably be tuned for NAT or port forwarding... I 'm not sure this your issue but it could be.
it is for sure a network config issue because the port is open (since you can connect interenally.) and firewall is disabled.
good luck


From: Jo?o Abrantes 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:49 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org 
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem


Hello everyone.

I have made a socket server on one of my lan computer and I made a socket client on other lan computer. When I try to access the server socket using the computer External IP it gives me an error: (10061, 'Connection refused'). If I use it's internal ip the connection is accepted... I think that I am not able to connect to any computer outside my lan because the program only checks for Internal IPs how can I change that?

P.S. I already disabled my firewall. The socket server is binded to: s.bind(('0.0.0.0.',1236)).

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From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Mon Jan  7 08:07:11 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:37:11 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Access Outlook mails remotely using win32com
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801062307s3930755cnd11f63ce6d8baa04@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all.

I want know is it possible to access the outlook remotely ?


if its possible , pls tell me how can i do this?
any links , ..........


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From jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com  Mon Jan  7 11:04:08 2008
From: jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o_Abrantes?=)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:04:08 -0100
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
In-Reply-To: <E962374E9DF4477EA811CC49E7FAE8DD@PERCEVAL>
References: <BLU115-W4473E177F3B5783C902436964E0@phx.gbl>
	<E962374E9DF4477EA811CC49E7FAE8DD@PERCEVAL>
Message-ID: <BLU115-W92AF2281185FDB54F98D8964F0@phx.gbl>

To fix the nat or port forwarding problem i went to my router's page and entered the following on the NAPT virtual server: "Transport Type: TCP , External Start Port: 1236, External End Port: 1236, Internal Start Port: 1236, Internal End Port: 1236" since the socket server is binded to the port 1236 this should fix it right? But it still doesn't work.. lol I have tried to change a lot of network configs and nothing worked ... any ideas pls? 



From: lreenaers at ressource-toi.org
To: jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:59:22 +0100










may be you are behind a router or proxy or whatever then 
your external ip is actually the network device connected to the internet. this 
device may probably be tuned for NAT or port forwarding... I 'm not sure this 
your issue but it could be.
it is for sure a network config issue because the port is 
open (since you can connect interenally.) and firewall is disabled.
good luck




From: Jo?o Abrantes 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:49 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org 
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem


Hello everyone.

I have made a socket server 
on one of my lan computer and I made a socket client on other lan computer. When 
I try to access the server socket using the computer External IP it gives me an 
error: (10061, 'Connection refused'). If I use it's internal ip the connection 
is accepted... I think that I am not able to connect to any computer outside my 
lan because the program only checks for Internal IPs how can I change 
that?

P.S. I already disabled my firewall. The socket server is binded 
to: s.bind(('0.0.0.0.',1236)).

Thanks and Regards



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From lreenaers at ressource-toi.org  Mon Jan  7 15:11:38 2008
From: lreenaers at ressource-toi.org (Ludovic Reenaers)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:11:38 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] SimpleXMLRPCServer encoding issue
References: <BLU115-W4473E177F3B5783C902436964E0@phx.gbl><E962374E9DF4477EA811CC49E7FAE8DD@PERCEVAL>
	<BLU115-W92AF2281185FDB54F98D8964F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <A0F55AB23E874509B7AEA63F96F9FA1F@PERCEVAL>

Hello,

I'm writing a small wxpython application, using SimpleXMLRPCServer for client/server communication. It works pretty fine and I XMLRPCServer is relly reliant. During unit test phase,I found a small problem that I can't face since I'm not well aware about encoding. Anyway here is the problem:

My client sends a string parameter through a XMLRPCserver remote methode call. the server process it and returns a result. The issue rise when I send a french character (I suppose it would be the same with any non conventional char like chines or whatever..) embeded within the string. for example "?" (but simple quote or "?" crashes aswell). the exception raised is:

"""

  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\app\common\gui.py", line 31, in broadcastMsg
    c=self._srvConn.export_broadcastMsg(msg,hashid)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1437, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1201, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 1340, in _parse_response
    return u.close()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\xmlrpclib.py", line 787, in close
    raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "<class 'xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError'>:not well-formed (invalid token): line 6, column 15">

"""

I've been reading around and found that a "encoding" parameter could be set at SimpleXMLRPCServer level. The question I have here is: "What Damned encoding should I chosse in order to make my server as international language compliant as possible?"

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor knowledge of english language,

Ludo
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From lreenaers at ressource-toi.org  Mon Jan  7 15:13:51 2008
From: lreenaers at ressource-toi.org (Ludovic Reenaers)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:13:51 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
References: <BLU115-W4473E177F3B5783C902436964E0@phx.gbl>
	<E962374E9DF4477EA811CC49E7FAE8DD@PERCEVAL>
	<BLU115-W92AF2281185FDB54F98D8964F0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <F4E67502BDD149CEA8280C5BCB590FA3@PERCEVAL>

May be your provider blocks it... try config your app to communicate through 4400 or any http port that should be allowed by your provider...hope it can helps.
Ludo


From: Jo?o Abrantes 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:04 AM
To: Ludovic Reenaers ; python-win32 at python.org 
Subject: RE: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem


To fix the nat or port forwarding problem i went to my router's page and entered the following on the NAPT virtual server: "Transport Type: TCP , External Start Port: 1236, External End Port: 1236, Internal Start Port: 1236, Internal End Port: 1236" since the socket server is binded to the port 1236 this should fix it right? But it still doesn't work.. lol I have tried to change a lot of network configs and nothing worked ... any ideas pls? 






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  To: jepe_abrantes at hotmail.com; python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: Re: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem
  Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 00:59:22 +0100


  may be you are behind a router or proxy or whatever then your external ip is actually the network device connected to the internet. this device may probably be tuned for NAT or port forwarding... I 'm not sure this your issue but it could be.
  it is for sure a network config issue because the port is open (since you can connect interenally.) and firewall is disabled.
  good luck


  From: Jo?o Abrantes 
  Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:49 PM
  To: python-win32 at python.org 
  Subject: [python-win32] Socket Connection Problem


  Hello everyone.

  I have made a socket server on one of my lan computer and I made a socket client on other lan computer. When I try to access the server socket using the computer External IP it gives me an error: (10061, 'Connection refused'). If I use it's internal ip the connection is accepted... I think that I am not able to connect to any computer outside my lan because the program only checks for Internal IPs how can I change that?

  P.S. I already disabled my firewall. The socket server is binded to: s.bind(('0.0.0.0.',1236)).

  Thanks and Regards



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From suraj at barkale.com  Mon Jan  7 16:54:29 2008
From: suraj at barkale.com (Suraj Barkale)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:54:29 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] python on visual studio 2008
References: <62eb359a0801041339m154ccc95hd279bfd708ee3d9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <loom.20080107T154802-688@post.gmane.org>

Marcos Pinto <markybob <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> does anyone know of a third-party which unofficially provides python
> built with visual studio 2008, 

There are patches for python trunk[1] which enable building python on Visual
Studio 2008 (even the express editions). But I don't see it being backported to
2.5 branch. 

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/90261/

Regards,
Suraj


From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Mon Jan  7 17:09:13 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:09:13 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] windows friendly commands.getstatusoutput
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B49059BF49E@brexc51p>

The commands.getstatusoutput wraps the command in "{ cmd; } 2>&1".
Needless to say, this is not windows friendly:
import commands
	>>> import commands
	>>> status, output = commands.getstatusoutput('dir')
	>>> print status
	1
	>>> print output
	'{' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
	operable program or batch file.


Would it be worthwhile to submit a simple patch to get around this
prejudice?  Or is there some overwhelming reason to use subprocess.popen
directly and/or a win32api call instead?

Patched Lib/commands.py
def getstatusoutput(cmd):
    """Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""

    import sys
    mswindows = (sys.platform == "win32")

    import os
    if not mswindows:
		cmd = '{ ' + cmd + '; }'

    pipe = os.popen(cmd + ' 2>&1', 'r')
    text = pipe.read()
    sts = pipe.close()
    if sts is None: sts = 0
    if text[-1:] == '\n': text = text[:-1]
    return sts, text


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From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan  7 19:03:28 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:03:28 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Access Outlook mails remotely using win32com
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801062307s3930755cnd11f63ce6d8baa04@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801062307s3930755cnd11f63ce6d8baa04@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47826970.9020706@probo.com>

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> I want know is it possible to access the outlook remotely ?
>
> if its possible , pls tell me how can i do this?
> any links , ..........

Of course it is possible.  Outlook has a COM object model, just like the 
other Office applications.  There are many samples on the web showing 
how to call the object model from various languages.  Did you do any 
Google searching at all before asking here?  Google is a much more 
efficient resource.

http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/COM.html

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


From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Sat Jan  5 08:04:58 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 12:34:58 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] get embedded images from outlook
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801042304x54222b38oe92fd4d99a1c2fbe@mail.gmail.com>

Hi ,

This code can  read the content of mails body , html and headers from
outlook.
in case , it there's an embedded image,
Its not getting the image,

My code.......

def GetPropFromStream(mapi_object,prop_id):
        try:
            stream = mapi_object.OpenProperty(prop_id,
                                              pythoncom.IID_IStream,
                                              0, 0)
            chunks = []
            while 1:
                chunk = stream.Read(4096)
                if not chunk:
                    break
                chunks.append(chunk)
            return "".join(chunks)
    except pythoncom.com_error, d:
            print "Error getting property", mapiutil.GetPropTagName(prop_id),
\
                  "from stream:", d
            return ""


def GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(mapi_object,prop_id,row):
       got_tag,got_val = row
       if PROP_TYPE(got_tag) == PT_ERROR:
            ret = ""
            if got_val == mapi.MAPI_E_NOT_FOUND:
                pass # No property for this message.
            elif got_val == mapi.MAPI_E_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY:
                  # Too big for simple properties - get via a stream
                   ret =GetPropFromStream(mapi_object,prop_id)
            else:
                    tag_name = mapiutil.GetPropTagName(prop_id)
                   err_string = mapiutil.GetScodeString(got_val)
                   print "Warning - failed to get property %s: %s" %
(tag_name,err_string)
       else:
                ret = got_val


prop_ids = (PR_BODY_A,MYPR_BODY_HTML_A,PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS_A)
hr,data=obj.GetProps(prop_ids,0)
body = GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[0],data[0])
html = GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[1],data[1])
headers =GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[2],data[2])

can anybody tell me ,

how can i get the images?

Antony
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From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 10:00:08 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:30:08 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to set content-type in Headers
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801040100r6dff8f08n952c69a516dd88c3@mail.gmail.com>

hi,

I am reading and  writing mails from outlook , I want to know how to set the
content-type for my Headers.
For example,
I want set  :

content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed

for subject

content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed

for body..........

Anyone tell me how could i do this? any titorial or links may be usefull


Antony
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From le.dahut at laposte.net  Mon Jan  7 17:47:30 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:47:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] %TEMP% directory
Message-ID: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net>

Hello,

I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP 
instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp" at 
logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write 
there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc.

Why ? Is there a KB article about that ?



From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan  7 23:40:12 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:40:12 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] %TEMP% directory
In-Reply-To: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net>
References: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <4782AA4C.1040209@probo.com>

le dahut wrote:
> I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP 
> instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp" at 
> logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write 
> there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc.
>
> Why ? Is there a KB article about that ?
>   

This is almost certainly a machine that used to run Windows 9X, and was 
upgraded in place to XP.  On 9X, there was no "Documents and Settings" 
directory, so temp files went into \Windows\TEMP, and the XP upgrade 
process tries to maintain that.

I would think that MANY things would fail if %TEMP% were not writable.

You could fall back to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp, I suppose.

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


From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan  8 00:01:11 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:01:11 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] get embedded images from outlook
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801042304x54222b38oe92fd4d99a1c2fbe@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801042304x54222b38oe92fd4d99a1c2fbe@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4782AF37.8040009@probo.com>

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> This code can  read the content of mails body , html and headers from 
> outlook.
> in case , it there's an embedded image,
> Its not getting the image,
> ...
> prop_ids = (PR_BODY_A,MYPR_BODY_HTML_A,PR_TRANSPORT_MESSAGE_HEADERS_A)
> hr,data=obj.GetProps(prop_ids,0)
> body = GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[0],data[0])
> html = GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[1],data[1])
> headers =GetPotentiallyLargeStringProp(obj,prop_ids[2],data[2])
>
> can anybody tell me ,
>
> how can i get the images?

PR_HASATTACH tells you whether the message has an attachment.  Then, 
you'll have to fetch the attachment table for the message, and fetch the 
data from that.  You may need to do some reading about this.  You can 
fetch the PR_MESSAGE_ATTACHMENTS property to get the table, it is of 
type IMAPITable, not IStream.  You then have to enumerate those, and 
fetch the PR_ATTACH_DATA_BIN property for the attachment you want.

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


From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan  8 00:08:57 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:08:57 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] How to set content-type in Headers
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801040100r6dff8f08n952c69a516dd88c3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801040100r6dff8f08n952c69a516dd88c3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4782B109.8050403@probo.com>

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> I am reading and  writing mails from outlook , I want to know how to 
> set the content-type for my Headers.
> For example,
> I want set  :
> content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> for subject
>
> content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
> content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> for body..........
>
> Anyone tell me how could i do this?

I don't quite understand what you are asking.  A message part is either 
text/plain or text/html.  The subject is one of the headers, and headers 
do not have their own content-type.

Outlook will create the Content-Type headers automatically, based on the 
format of the body that you pass.  If you set the MailItem.BodyFormat to 
olFormatHTML, it will send the body as text/html.  If you set it to 
olFormatPlain, it will send the body as text/plain.  There's also an 
olFormatRichText that has fallen out of favor.

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


From dan at thetrowbridgefamily.com  Tue Jan  8 03:07:05 2008
From: dan at thetrowbridgefamily.com (Dan Trowbridge)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 21:07:05 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak in MFC/C++ based Python
	Extended/Embedded code.
Message-ID: <EDENLAFIGKNMDJPONOGIGEHLDCAA.dan@thetrowbridgefamily.com>

Hi all,

I have a MS Windows/MFC based C++ code that I have implemented Python
embedding/extending in.  (I am using Visual Studio 2003.)  The code seems to
do what I have intended except it always reports a memory leak when it
exits.  I tried all kinds of things but there did not seem to be anything I
could do to get rid of it.

So...

I built a new MFC project and the only things I added was...

	#include <Python.h>

at the top of the application class .cpp file and the following two lines

	Py_Initialize();
	Py_Finalize();

in the application class constructor.

The minimal code STILL reports a memory error.  It looks like the memory
leak had nothing to do with my code.

Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?

Background: I am using Python 2.5.1.  I am not using BOOST::PYTHON (I am
using BOOST::NUMERIC and BOOST::SHARED_PTR for other things in the code -
maybe I should use BOOST::PYTHON - maybe their shared_ptr's would take care
of this for me? ).  I also am not using SWIG or any other "helpers".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  If this is not the right forum
please advise where to post this.

It got to figure that someone has seen this before - considering as long as
Python has been around and as big as the developer community is.

Thanks in advance for your collective help.

Dannyt





From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan  8 03:20:43 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:20:43 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak in MFC/C++ based
	Python	Extended/Embedded code.
In-Reply-To: <EDENLAFIGKNMDJPONOGIGEHLDCAA.dan@thetrowbridgefamily.com>
References: <EDENLAFIGKNMDJPONOGIGEHLDCAA.dan@thetrowbridgefamily.com>
Message-ID: <0b9801c8519d$153661e0$3fa325a0$@com.au>

Python does allocate memory that is never freed - but in general, that is
not a "leak", just a 1-time allocation that lives for the life of the
program.  However, if you *repeatedly* call Py_Initialize/Finalize, I
believe some leaks will happen, and I believe there is an open bug report in
the Python tracker regarding this (but don't have the time to find it).

Assuming you just want to init and finalize once, then you can safely ignore
the MFC leak check output.  Something like 'valgrind' does differentiate
between leaks and 1-time allocations, so if you *really* need a leak
checker, you should be looking at something like that.

Cheers,

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-
> bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Dan Trowbridge
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 1:07 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak in MFC/C++ based Python
> Extended/Embedded code.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a MS Windows/MFC based C++ code that I have implemented Python
> embedding/extending in.  (I am using Visual Studio 2003.)  The code
> seems to
> do what I have intended except it always reports a memory leak when it
> exits.  I tried all kinds of things but there did not seem to be
> anything I
> could do to get rid of it.
> 
> So...
> 
> I built a new MFC project and the only things I added was...
> 
> 	#include <Python.h>
> 
> at the top of the application class .cpp file and the following two
> lines
> 
> 	Py_Initialize();
> 	Py_Finalize();
> 
> in the application class constructor.
> 
> The minimal code STILL reports a memory error.  It looks like the
> memory
> leak had nothing to do with my code.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas how to fix this?
> 
> Background: I am using Python 2.5.1.  I am not using BOOST::PYTHON (I
> am
> using BOOST::NUMERIC and BOOST::SHARED_PTR for other things in the code
> -
> maybe I should use BOOST::PYTHON - maybe their shared_ptr's would take
> care
> of this for me? ).  I also am not using SWIG or any other "helpers".
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  If this is not the right forum
> please advise where to post this.
> 
> It got to figure that someone has seen this before - considering as
> long as
> Python has been around and as big as the developer community is.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your collective help.
> 
> Dannyt
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From le.dahut at laposte.net  Tue Jan  8 09:32:32 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:32:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] %TEMP% directory
In-Reply-To: <4782AA4C.1040209@probo.com>
References: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net> <4782AA4C.1040209@probo.com>
Message-ID: <47833520.8050109@laposte.net>

No it is not, it is a fresh installed XP, and the same problem occurs on 
undreds of machines running XP and 2k. But I forgot to precise that once 
the session is opened and the desktop is completely loaded, %TEMP% 
points to the correct directory (C:\Doc & Settings\<user>\...\temp).

This strange behaviour occurs only at logon. If someone has any ideas or 
addresses where I can find some ideas ?

Tim Roberts a ?crit :
> le dahut wrote:
>> I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP 
>> instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp" at 
>> logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write 
>> there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc.
>>
>> Why ? Is there a KB article about that ?
>>   
> 
> This is almost certainly a machine that used to run Windows 9X, and was 
> upgraded in place to XP.  On 9X, there was no "Documents and Settings" 
> directory, so temp files went into \Windows\TEMP, and the XP upgrade 
> process tries to maintain that.
> 
> I would think that MANY things would fail if %TEMP% were not writable.
> 
> You could fall back to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp, I suppose.
> 

From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 09:39:52 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 00:39:52 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] %TEMP% directory
In-Reply-To: <47833520.8050109@laposte.net>
References: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net> <4782AA4C.1040209@probo.com>
	<47833520.8050109@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <5394762f0801080039r6f1716brad4961358ad9ba47@mail.gmail.com>

Actually I that's the normal behavior.  The TEMP environment variable is
loaded by your user profile, but %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP by default
if it isn't set explicitly.  You can test this by running 'runas /noprofile
/user:some_user cmd',  %TEMP% will point to %WINDIR%\TEMP.  Whatever script
you're running is just running before the profile has finished loading.  You
might want to add a second or two of delay or use a directory that you know
is writeable by the user.

On Jan 8, 2008 12:32 AM, le dahut <le.dahut at laposte.net> wrote:

> No it is not, it is a fresh installed XP, and the same problem occurs on
> undreds of machines running XP and 2k. But I forgot to precise that once
> the session is opened and the desktop is completely loaded, %TEMP%
> points to the correct directory (C:\Doc & Settings\<user>\...\temp).
>
> This strange behaviour occurs only at logon. If someone has any ideas or
> addresses where I can find some ideas ?
>
> Tim Roberts a ?crit :
> > le dahut wrote:
> >> I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP
> >> instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp"
> at
> >> logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write
> >> there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc.
> >>
> >> Why ? Is there a KB article about that ?
> >>
> >
> > This is almost certainly a machine that used to run Windows 9X, and was
> > upgraded in place to XP.  On 9X, there was no "Documents and Settings"
> > directory, so temp files went into \Windows\TEMP, and the XP upgrade
> > process tries to maintain that.
> >
> > I would think that MANY things would fail if %TEMP% were not writable.
> >
> > You could fall back to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp, I suppose.
> >
>  _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 10:20:23 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:50:23 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] pywintypes Error
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801080120k608fbc9bx906d32ab0ff6be88@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
Can anyone help me , what the problem ?
I am running this code in windows xp and outlook also installed in my
machine.

>>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>>> s=Dispatch('Mapi.Session')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 95,
in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName =
dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 98,
in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
    return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 78,
in _GetGoodDispatch
    IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)

Antony
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From le.dahut at laposte.net  Tue Jan  8 10:30:36 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:30:36 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] %TEMP% directory
In-Reply-To: <5394762f0801080039r6f1716brad4961358ad9ba47@mail.gmail.com>
References: <478257A2.30501@laposte.net> <4782AA4C.1040209@probo.com>	
	<47833520.8050109@laposte.net>
	<5394762f0801080039r6f1716brad4961358ad9ba47@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <478342BC.9080501@laposte.net>

Thank you for this enlightenment. I've other question but I'll create 
another topic to keep things clear.

Tim Johnson a ?crit :
> Actually I that's the normal behavior.  The TEMP environment variable is
> loaded by your user profile, but %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP by default
> if it isn't set explicitly.  You can test this by running 'runas /noprofile
> /user:some_user cmd',  %TEMP% will point to %WINDIR%\TEMP.  Whatever script
> you're running is just running before the profile has finished loading.  You
> might want to add a second or two of delay or use a directory that you know
> is writeable by the user.
> 
> On Jan 8, 2008 12:32 AM, le dahut <le.dahut at laposte.net> wrote:
> 
>> No it is not, it is a fresh installed XP, and the same problem occurs on
>> undreds of machines running XP and 2k. But I forgot to precise that once
>> the session is opened and the desktop is completely loaded, %TEMP%
>> points to the correct directory (C:\Doc & Settings\<user>\...\temp).
>>
>> This strange behaviour occurs only at logon. If someone has any ideas or
>> addresses where I can find some ideas ?
>>
>> Tim Roberts a ?crit :
>>> le dahut wrote:
>>>> I've a strange behavior with windows XP, %TEMP% points to %WINDIR%\TEMP
>>>> instead of "C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp"
>> at
>>>> logon time. Since I have a program that uses temp files it can write
>>>> there when a non-admin user logs on so it failed with traceback etc.
>>>>
>>>> Why ? Is there a KB article about that ?
>>>>
>>> This is almost certainly a machine that used to run Windows 9X, and was
>>> upgraded in place to XP.  On 9X, there was no "Documents and Settings"
>>> directory, so temp files went into \Windows\TEMP, and the XP upgrade
>>> process tries to maintain that.
>>>
>>> I would think that MANY things would fail if %TEMP% were not writable.
>>>
>>> You could fall back to %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp, I suppose.
>>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>
> 
> 
> 

From graemeglass at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 10:34:45 2008
From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:34:45 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] pywintypes Error
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801080120k608fbc9bx906d32ab0ff6be88@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801080120k608fbc9bx906d32ab0ff6be88@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ead817660801080134m6d0d5f3br311f321721c2cbd9@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 8, 2008 11:20 AM, Antony Joseph <antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Can anyone help me , what the problem ?
> I am running this code in windows xp and outlook also installed in my
> machine.
>
> >>> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> >>> s=Dispatch('Mapi.Session ')
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 95, in Dispatch
>     dispatch, userName =
> dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 98, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 78, in _GetGoodDispatch
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)
>
> Antony
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
This what you trying to do?

import win32com.client
obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
ns = obj.GetNamespace("MAPI")
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From tejovathi.p at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 11:26:52 2008
From: tejovathi.p at gmail.com (Tejovathi P)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:56:52 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
Message-ID: <aefc0fa70801080226hb781433i3ed3c77025b0af48@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I have a Python COM server. I need to deploy it on various sytems. When I
run the COM server from
python its showing an output " Registered : sample.lib"

If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like:

obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")

Its working fine without any errors

Now I am trying to convert this COM server to an exe through py2exe and
after I run the exe, I am
getting the same output " Registered : sample.lib"

But If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like

obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")

A console pops up saying " Registered : sample.lib" and VB application hangs
there.
Its throwing a VB error that "ActiveX object cannot be created......etc etc"

Any suggestions please.......

Regards,
Tejovathi
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From tejovathi.p at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 11:40:05 2008
From: tejovathi.p at gmail.com (Tejovathi P)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:10:05 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
In-Reply-To: <A1286843C9B74E46B0063D92B7844C28031B0265@azindbaex01.aztec.soft>
References: <aefc0fa70801080226hb781433i3ed3c77025b0af48@mail.gmail.com>
	<A1286843C9B74E46B0063D92B7844C28031B0265@azindbaex01.aztec.soft>
Message-ID: <aefc0fa70801080240t66aa8607r925f5256902c9b44@mail.gmail.com>

I am trying to create the obj in VB in the same manner, ie

Set Obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
Strangely, the non exe version of the COM server works fine and I am able to
access the public functions in VB application.

Problem comes with the EXE version of the COM server, VB application jus
hangs while executing,

Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")



On 1/8/08, Pramod P G <pramodpg at aztecsoft.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> Try out this  statement
>
>
>
> This might help U J
>
>
>
> Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Pramod P G
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Tejovathi P
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:57 PM
> *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> *Subject:* [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I have a Python COM server. I need to deploy it on various sytems. When I
> run the COM server from
>
> python its showing an output " Registered : sample.lib"
>
>
>
> If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like:
>
>
>
> obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
>
>
> Its working fine without any errors
>
>
>
> Now I am trying to convert this COM server to an exe through py2exe and
> after I run the exe, I am
>
> getting the same output " Registered : sample.lib"
>
>
>
> But If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like
>
>
>
> obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
>
>
> A console pops up saying " Registered : sample.lib" and VB application
> hangs there.
>
> Its throwing a VB error that "ActiveX object cannot be created......etc
> etc"
>
>
>
> Any suggestions please.......
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tejovathi
>
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From tejovathi.p at gmail.com  Tue Jan  8 12:04:15 2008
From: tejovathi.p at gmail.com (Tejovathi P)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:34:15 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
In-Reply-To: <aefc0fa70801080240t66aa8607r925f5256902c9b44@mail.gmail.com>
References: <aefc0fa70801080226hb781433i3ed3c77025b0af48@mail.gmail.com>
	<A1286843C9B74E46B0063D92B7844C28031B0265@azindbaex01.aztec.soft>
	<aefc0fa70801080240t66aa8607r925f5256902c9b44@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <aefc0fa70801080304qfab724p936687aa8039ac4d@mail.gmail.com>

Here is my sample COM server and py2exe setup file

*testCOM.py*

import win32com.client
import os.path
import shutil
from win32api import Sleep
import string
import os
import sys
import pythoncom

class FirstEx:

    _reg_clsid_ = "{A6DE9DF8-5EBF-48E6-889E-C71CB84CFF2C}"
    pythoncom.frozen = 1
    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
        # In the py2exe-packed version, specify the module.class
        # to use. In the python script version, python is able
        # to figure it out itself.
        _reg_class_spec_ = "__main__.FirstEx"
    _reg_desc_ = "My first COM server"
    _reg_progid_ = "SAMPLE.Lib"
    _public_methods_ = ['init', 'Version']
    _public_attrs_ = ['softspace', 'noCalls']
    _readonly_attrs_ = ['noCalls']
    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER


    def __init__(self):
        self.softspace = 1
        self.noCalls = 0


    def Version(self):
        self.noCalls = self.noCalls + 1

        # insert "softspace" number of spaces
        return "Version: 0.0.1"


if __name__=='__main__':
    import sys
    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
        # running as packed executable.
        if '--register' in sys.argv[1:] or '--unregister' in sys.argv[1:]:
        # --register and --unregister work as usual
            import win32com.server.register
            win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)
        else:
            # start the server.
            from win32com.server import localserver
            localserver.main()
    else:
        import win32com.server.register
        win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)

 Here is my setup file:

#Start here
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1,
                          "optimize": 2,
                          "ascii": 1,
                          "bundle_files": 1}},
    zipfile = None,
    com_server = ["win32com.servers.interp"],
    console = ["testCOM.py"])
#End here

Here is my VB code:

Sub subRoutine()
Dim connection As Object
Dim returnvalue1 As String
Dim returnvalue2 As String
Dim flag3 As Boolean

Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")
returnvalue1 = connection.Version()
MsgBox (returnvalue1)
End Sub

The non exe version of the COM server ie. directlly running the
testCOM.pyregisters the library properly and

in the VB application, the message box displays the version as 0.0.1.

But, after I create the EXE file using the setup.py file and run it, it
registers the library.

When I run the VB application, it hangs at the line

*Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")*

and displays. " ACTIVEX cannot create the object"

Any suggestions please....


On 1/8/08, Tejovathi P <tejovathi.p at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to create the obj in VB in the same manner, ie
>
> Set Obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
> Strangely, the non exe version of the COM server works fine and I am able
> to access the public functions in VB application.
>
> Problem comes with the EXE version of the COM server, VB application jus
> hangs while executing,
>
> Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
>
>
>  On 1/8/08, Pramod P G <pramodpg at aztecsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> > Try out this  statement
> >
> >
> >
> > This might help U J
> >
> >
> >
> > Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > Pramod P G
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> > python-win32-bounces at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Tejovathi P
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:57 PM
> > *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> > *Subject:* [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a Python COM server. I need to deploy it on various sytems. When
> > I run the COM server from
> >
> > python its showing an output " Registered : sample.lib"
> >
> >
> >
> > If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like:
> >
> >
> >
> > obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
> >
> >
> >
> > Its working fine without any errors
> >
> >
> >
> > Now I am trying to convert this COM server to an exe through py2exe and
> > after I run the exe, I am
> >
> > getting the same output " Registered : sample.lib"
> >
> >
> >
> > But If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like
> >
> >
> >
> > obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
> >
> >
> >
> > A console pops up saying " Registered : sample.lib" and VB application
> > hangs there.
> >
> > Its throwing a VB error that "ActiveX object cannot be created......etc
> > etc"
> >
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions please.......
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tejovathi
> >
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From le.dahut at laposte.net  Tue Jan  8 16:28:12 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:28:12 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
Message-ID: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net>

After crawling this mailing list and googling for this I can't find how 
to use it in python. I'm a COM object newbe, I've read some examples but 
don't understand it really yet.
Does a guru have a magic answer ?




From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan  8 19:48:12 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:48:12 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net>
References: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>

le dahut wrote:
> After crawling this mailing list and googling for this I can't find how 
> to use it in python. I'm a COM object newbe, I've read some examples but 
> don't understand it really yet.
> Does a guru have a magic answer ?
>   

ISensLogon is not a COM object.  Rather, it is an interface that COM 
object can support.  In this specific case, you would have to support 
this in your own object if you want to subscribe to the events in the 
System Event Notification Service.

SENS gets involved with COM+ Events and event subscriptions.  This is a 
relatively complicated topic.  It might be better to get some examples 
going in C++ before trying to move this to Python.

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


From tennis at digitalfountain.com  Tue Jan  8 19:08:24 2008
From: tennis at digitalfountain.com (Tennis Smith)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:08:24 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query
Message-ID: <1E462B80DEF0104EA24432C2A79D0852C12780@BE2.exchange.rackspace.com>

Hi,

 

I have 2 questions concerning this combination.

 

1)      Since ActiveState uses win32 path names and cygwin uses linux
path names, there are lots of occasions when files can't be found.
There are multiple ways (I understand) that this can be reconciled, but
what is considered the most workable?  (And no, getting rid of
ActiveState or cygwin isn't possible, so that option is out ;-) ) 

2)      What's the best pythonic way to detect that the environment is
cygwin?  Is there some way to do it via "os" methods?

 

Thanks,

-T

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From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Tue Jan  8 21:30:15 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:30:15 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query
In-Reply-To: <1E462B80DEF0104EA24432C2A79D0852C12780@BE2.exchange.rackspace.com>
References: <1E462B80DEF0104EA24432C2A79D0852C12780@BE2.exchange.rackspace.com>
Message-ID: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B4906C9F1CB@brexc51p>

Check the environment variables:

                OS=Windows_NT

                OSTYPE=cygwin

 

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tennis Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:08 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Hi,

 

I have 2 questions concerning this combination.

 

1)      Since ActiveState uses win32 path names and cygwin uses linux
path names, there are lots of occasions when files can't be found.
There are multiple ways (I understand) that this can be reconciled, but
what is considered the most workable?  (And no, getting rid of
ActiveState or cygwin isn't possible, so that option is out ;-) ) 

2)      What's the best pythonic way to detect that the environment is
cygwin?  Is there some way to do it via "os" methods?

 

Thanks,

-T


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From: matherbe at cisco.com (Matt Herbert (matherbe))
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:15:56 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
Message-ID: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>


Hey all,

Is there a way to make impersonation follow threads? Given this simple
example:

import win32api
import win32security
import win32con
from threading import Thread

class Test(Thread):
    def run(self):
        print "Username (in thread): ", win32api.GetUserName()

print "Username (before impersonate): ", win32api.GetUserName()
token = win32security.LogonUser('testuser', None, 'testuser', \
	win32con.LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
win32con.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT)
win32security.ImpersonateLoggedOnUser(token)
print "Username (after impersonate): ", win32api.GetUserName()

Test().start()
print "Username (after thread): ", win32api.GetUserName()

The output will be something like:

Username (before impersonate):  Administrator
Username (after impersonate):  testuser
Username (after thread):  testuser
Username (in thread):  Administrator

Thanks
-Matt

From tennis at digitalfountain.com  Tue Jan  8 22:23:48 2008
From: tennis at digitalfountain.com (Tennis Smith)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:23:48 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query
In-Reply-To: <A20311AF91C11640ACBB721DC2558B4906C9F1CB@brexc51p>
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Great! Thanks.

 

Now, how do you get ActiveState Python to work with the cygwin paths?

 

-T

 

From: Reedick, Andrew [mailto:jr9445 at ATT.COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:30 PM
To: Tennis Smith; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Check the environment variables:

                OS=Windows_NT

                OSTYPE=cygwin

 

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tennis Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:08 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Hi,

 

I have 2 questions concerning this combination.

 

1)      Since ActiveState uses win32 path names and cygwin uses linux
path names, there are lots of occasions when files can't be found.
There are multiple ways (I understand) that this can be reconciled, but
what is considered the most workable?  (And no, getting rid of
ActiveState or cygwin isn't possible, so that option is out ;-) ) 

2)      What's the best pythonic way to detect that the environment is
cygwin?  Is there some way to do it via "os" methods?

 

Thanks,

-T

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From jr9445 at ATT.COM  Tue Jan  8 22:50:16 2008
From: jr9445 at ATT.COM (Reedick, Andrew)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:50:16 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query
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What exactly is the problem that you're seeing?  Cygwin accepts
c:/some/where/file.xt, c:\\some\\where\\file.txt,
'c:\some\where\file.txt', /cygdrive/c/some/where/file.txt, and so on.

 

 

 

From: Tennis Smith [mailto:tennis at digitalfountain.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:24 PM
To: Reedick, Andrew; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Great! Thanks.

 

Now, how do you get ActiveState Python to work with the cygwin paths?

 

-T

 

From: Reedick, Andrew [mailto:jr9445 at ATT.COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:30 PM
To: Tennis Smith; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: RE: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Check the environment variables:

                OS=Windows_NT

                OSTYPE=cygwin

 

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tennis Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:08 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query

 

Hi,

 

I have 2 questions concerning this combination.

 

1)      Since ActiveState uses win32 path names and cygwin uses linux
path names, there are lots of occasions when files can't be found.
There are multiple ways (I understand) that this can be reconciled, but
what is considered the most workable?  (And no, getting rid of
ActiveState or cygwin isn't possible, so that option is out ;-) ) 

2)      What's the best pythonic way to detect that the environment is
cygwin?  Is there some way to do it via "os" methods?

 

Thanks,

-T

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From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan  8 22:53:01 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:53:01 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
In-Reply-To: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
References: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
Message-ID: <4783F0BD.7020605@probo.com>

Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
> Is there a way to make impersonation follow threads?

What operating system are you running?  On XP SP2 and later, a new 
thread should inherit the impersonation token of the calling thread, 
unless the caller passes a specific security descriptor into 
CreateThread.  (I don't know what the Python thread module does.)  On XP 
SP1 and before, you'd see the behavior you describe.

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


From trentm at activestate.com  Tue Jan  8 23:16:10 2008
From: trentm at activestate.com (Trent Mick)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:16:10 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveState Python + Cygwin Query
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	<1E462B80DEF0104EA24432C2A79D0852C12831@BE2.exchange.rackspace.com>
Message-ID: <4783F62A.5080901@activestate.com>

Tennis Smith wrote:
> Now, how do you get ActiveState Python to work with the cygwin paths?
> 

What Andrew said:
 > What exactly is the problem that you?re seeing?  Cygwin accepts
 > c:/some/where/file.xt, c:\\some\\where\\file.txt,
 > ?c:\some\where\file.txt?, /cygdrive/c/some/where/file.txt, and so on.

And also, I found this snippet in some of my code (*):

def _cygpathFromWinPath(path):
     assert sys.platform == "win32"
     if not os.path.isabs(path):
         path = os.path.abspath(path)
     drive, tail = os.path.splitdrive(path)
     path = "/cygdrive/%s%s"\
            % (drive.strip(':').lower(), tail.replace(os.sep, '/'))
     return path

Perhaps that will help.

Cheers,
Trent

(*) This is from code for working with the Mozilla build system, which 
used to build with cygwin.


-- 
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trentm at activestate.com

From matherbe at cisco.com  Wed Jan  9 00:05:44 2008
From: matherbe at cisco.com (Matt Herbert (matherbe))
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:05:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
In-Reply-To: <4783F0BD.7020605@probo.com>
Message-ID: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51936@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> Tim Roberts wrote:
> 
> Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
> > Is there a way to make impersonation follow threads?
> 
> What operating system are you running?  On XP SP2 and later, a new 
> thread should inherit the impersonation token of the calling thread, 
> unless the caller passes a specific security descriptor into 
> CreateThread.  (I don't know what the Python thread module 
> does.)  On XP 
> SP1 and before, you'd see the behavior you describe.

I am running XP SP2. On my systems, the new thread definitely is not
inheriting the impersonation token of the calling thread. For what it's
worth, this is with Active State Python 2.5.

Either way though, I need something that will work on XP, 2k, and 2k3.

Thanks
-Matt

From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan  9 00:17:55 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:17:55 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
In-Reply-To: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51936@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
References: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51936@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
Message-ID: <478404A3.80200@probo.com>

Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Tim Roberts wrote:
>>
>> Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
>>     
>>> Is there a way to make impersonation follow threads?
>>>       
>> What operating system are you running?  On XP SP2 and later, a new 
>> thread should inherit the impersonation token of the calling thread, 
>> unless the caller passes a specific security descriptor into 
>> CreateThread.  (I don't know what the Python thread module 
>> does.)  On XP 
>> SP1 and before, you'd see the behavior you describe.
>>     
>
> I am running XP SP2. On my systems, the new thread definitely is not
> inheriting the impersonation token of the calling thread. For what it's
> worth, this is with Active State Python 2.5.
>
> Either way though, I need something that will work on XP, 2k, and 2k3.
>   

In that case, I think you will have to pass the token and call 
ImpersonateLoggedOnUser in each thread.

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


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Jan  9 02:16:03 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:16:03 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
In-Reply-To: <aefc0fa70801080304qfab724p936687aa8039ac4d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <aefc0fa70801080226hb781433i3ed3c77025b0af48@mail.gmail.com>	<A1286843C9B74E46B0063D92B7844C28031B0265@azindbaex01.aztec.soft>	<aefc0fa70801080240t66aa8607r925f5256902c9b44@mail.gmail.com>
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I just answered this email on the py2exe list without being aware you also posted it here - the issue is almost certainly incorrect usage of "com_server" and "console" in the py2exe script.

Mark
----

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tejovathi P
Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:04 PM
To: Pramod P G; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe

Here is my sample COM server and py2exe setup file
 
testCOM.py
 
import win32com.client
import os.path
import shutil
from win32api import Sleep
import string
import os
import sys
import pythoncom
        
class FirstEx:
 
    _reg_clsid_ = "{A6DE9DF8-5EBF-48E6-889E-C71CB84CFF2C}"
    pythoncom.frozen = 1
    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
        # In the py2exe-packed version, specify the module.class
        # to use. In the python script version, python is able
        # to figure it out itself.
        _reg_class_spec_ = "__main__.FirstEx"
    _reg_desc_ = "My first COM server" 
    _reg_progid_ = "SAMPLE.Lib"   
    _public_methods_ = ['init', 'Version']
    _public_attrs_ = ['softspace', 'noCalls']
    _readonly_attrs_ = ['noCalls'] 
    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER

    def __init__(self):
        self.softspace = 1
        self.noCalls = 0
    
    def Version(self):
        self.noCalls = self.noCalls + 1
        # insert "softspace" number of spaces
        return "Version: 0.0.1" 
    
   
if __name__=='__main__':
    import sys
    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'): 
        # running as packed executable.
        if '--register' in sys.argv[1:] or '--unregister' in sys.argv[1:]:
        # --register and --unregister work as usual
            import win32com.server.register 
            win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)
        else:
            # start the server.
            from win32com.server import localserver
            localserver.main()
    else:
        import win32com.server.register
        win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)
 Here is my setup file:
#Start here 
from distutils.core import setup 
import py2exe 
setup(options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1,
                          "optimize": 2,
                          "ascii": 1,
                          "bundle_files": 1}}, 
    zipfile = None,
    com_server = ["win32com.servers.interp"],
    console = ["testCOM.py"]) 
#End here
Here is my VB code:
Sub subRoutine()
Dim connection As Object
Dim returnvalue1 As String
Dim returnvalue2 As String
Dim flag3 As Boolean
Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")
returnvalue1 = connection.Version()
MsgBox (returnvalue1)
End Sub
The non exe version of the COM server ie. directlly running the testCOM.py registers the library properly and 
in the VB application, the message box displays the version as 0.0.1.
But, after I create the EXE file using the setup.py file and run it, it registers the library.
When I run the VB application, it hangs at the line
Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")
and displays. " ACTIVEX cannot create the object"
Any suggestions please....
 
On 1/8/08, Tejovathi P <tejovathi.p at gmail.com> wrote: 
I am trying to create the obj in VB in the same manner, ie
 
Set Obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
Strangely, the non exe version of the COM server works fine and I am able to access the public functions in VB application.
 
Problem comes with the EXE version of the COM server, VB application jus hangs while executing, 
       Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")


 
On 1/8/08, Pramod P G <pramodpg at aztecsoft.com > wrote: 
Hi,
Try out this  statement
 
This might help U ? 
 
       Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
 
Thanks and regards,
Pramod P G
 
________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tejovathi P
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:57 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
 
Hi All,
 
I have a Python COM server. I need to deploy it on various sytems. When I run the COM server from
python its showing an output " Registered : sample.lib"
 
If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like:
 
obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
 
Its working fine without any errors
 
Now I am trying to convert this COM server to an exe through py2exe and after I run the exe, I am
getting the same output " Registered : sample.lib"
 
But If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like
 
obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
 
A console pops up saying " Registered : sample.lib" and VB application hangs there.
Its throwing a VB error that "ActiveX object cannot be created......etc etc"
 
Any suggestions please.......
 
Regards,
Tejovathi

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From steve_geo at optusnet.com.au  Wed Jan  9 04:00:16 2008
From: steve_geo at optusnet.com.au (Stephen George)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:00:16 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
In-Reply-To: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
References: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
Message-ID: <478438C0.6040601@optusnet.com.au>

Hi,

Not an answer to this thread but a related win32 authorization question?

Does windows OS have a standard dialog box I can call from python that 
queries the username/password, and returns a token?

I'd like not to have to worry about other peoples plain text passwords 
being in variables in my script.
and I was hoping the OS would provide a GUI dialog authorization as a 
convenience function.

I googled, looked on msdn, .. there is so many hits and so much noise, I 
don't know what key words to use to narrow my search down to useful stuff..

Cheers
Steve

Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Is there a way to make impersonation follow threads? Given this simple
> example:
>
> import win32api
> import win32security
> import win32con
> from threading import Thread
>
> class Test(Thread):
>     def run(self):
>         print "Username (in thread): ", win32api.GetUserName()
>
> print "Username (before impersonate): ", win32api.GetUserName()
> token = win32security.LogonUser('testuser', None, 'testuser', \
> 	win32con.LOGON32_LOGON_INTERACTIVE,
> win32con.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT)
> win32security.ImpersonateLoggedOnUser(token)
> print "Username (after impersonate): ", win32api.GetUserName()
>
> Test().start()
> print "Username (after thread): ", win32api.GetUserName()
>
> The output will be something like:
>
> Username (before impersonate):  Administrator
> Username (after impersonate):  testuser
> Username (after thread):  testuser
> Username (in thread):  Administrator
>
> Thanks
> -Matt
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>   


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Jan  9 08:55:41 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:55:41 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Impersonation and Threads
In-Reply-To: <478438C0.6040601@optusnet.com.au>
References: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04B51889@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>
	<478438C0.6040601@optusnet.com.au>
Message-ID: <0caf01c85295$0a2ac900$1e805b00$@com.au>

> Does windows OS have a standard dialog box I can call from python that
> queries the username/password, and returns a token?

Not that I am aware of.  It would be a bad idea anyway.  A better idea would
be to use the Windows SSPI functions so that the client and server can use
NTLM or Kerberos to get a handle you can use with impersonation.
win32security should have all you need, and check out sspi.py

Mark


From tejovathi.p at gmail.com  Wed Jan  9 09:04:14 2008
From: tejovathi.p at gmail.com (Tejovathi P)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:34:14 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
In-Reply-To: <0c5e01c8525d$38bfa8e0$aa3efaa0$@com.au>
References: <aefc0fa70801080226hb781433i3ed3c77025b0af48@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. I changed the py2exe script as per your suggestion an
was able to generate the dll instead of exe.
I was also able to register it using regsvr32 command at command prompt.

Any idea , now how should start using the functionalities in this dll in a
VB/C# application?

Because CreateObject("Sample.lib") is throwing errors in the same old
manner, even after the dll is registered



On 1/9/08, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
>
> I just answered this email on the py2exe list without being aware you also
> posted it here - the issue is almost certainly incorrect usage of
> "com_server" and "console" in the py2exe script.
>
> Mark
> ----
>
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tejovathi P
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 10:04 PM
> To: Pramod P G; python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
>
> Here is my sample COM server and py2exe setup file
>
> testCOM.py
>
> import win32com.client
> import os.path
> import shutil
> from win32api import Sleep
> import string
> import os
> import sys
> import pythoncom
>
> class FirstEx:
>
>    _reg_clsid_ = "{A6DE9DF8-5EBF-48E6-889E-C71CB84CFF2C}"
>    pythoncom.frozen = 1
>    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
>        # In the py2exe-packed version, specify the module.class
>        # to use. In the python script version, python is able
>        # to figure it out itself.
>        _reg_class_spec_ = "__main__.FirstEx"
>    _reg_desc_ = "My first COM server"
>    _reg_progid_ = "SAMPLE.Lib"
>    _public_methods_ = ['init', 'Version']
>    _public_attrs_ = ['softspace', 'noCalls']
>    _readonly_attrs_ = ['noCalls']
>    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
>
>    def __init__(self):
>        self.softspace = 1
>        self.noCalls = 0
>
>    def Version(self):
>        self.noCalls = self.noCalls + 1
>        # insert "softspace" number of spaces
>        return "Version: 0.0.1"
>
>
> if __name__=='__main__':
>    import sys
>    if hasattr(sys, 'importers'):
>        # running as packed executable.
>        if '--register' in sys.argv[1:] or '--unregister' in sys.argv[1:]:
>        # --register and --unregister work as usual
>            import win32com.server.register
>            win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)
>        else:
>            # start the server.
>            from win32com.server import localserver
>            localserver.main()
>    else:
>        import win32com.server.register
>        win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(FirstEx)
> Here is my setup file:
> #Start here
> from distutils.core import setup
> import py2exe
> setup(options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1,
>                          "optimize": 2,
>                          "ascii": 1,
>                          "bundle_files": 1}},
>    zipfile = None,
>    com_server = ["win32com.servers.interp"],
>    console = ["testCOM.py"])
> #End here
> Here is my VB code:
> Sub subRoutine()
> Dim connection As Object
> Dim returnvalue1 As String
> Dim returnvalue2 As String
> Dim flag3 As Boolean
> Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")
> returnvalue1 = connection.Version()
> MsgBox (returnvalue1)
> End Sub
> The non exe version of the COM server ie. directlly running the testCOM.pyregisters the library properly and
> in the VB application, the message box displays the version as 0.0.1.
> But, after I create the EXE file using the setup.py file and run it, it
> registers the library.
> When I run the VB application, it hangs at the line
> Set connection = CreateObject("SAMPLE.Lib")
> and displays. " ACTIVEX cannot create the object"
> Any suggestions please....
>
> On 1/8/08, Tejovathi P <tejovathi.p at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to create the obj in VB in the same manner, ie
>
> Set Obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
> Strangely, the non exe version of the COM server works fine and I am able
> to access the public functions in VB application.
>
> Problem comes with the EXE version of the COM server, VB application jus
> hangs while executing,
>       Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
>
>
> On 1/8/08, Pramod P G <pramodpg at aztecsoft.com > wrote:
> Hi,
> Try out this  statement
>
> This might help U ?
>
>       Set obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Pramod P G
>
> ________________________________________
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tejovathi P
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:57 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Regarding COM server and exe
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Python COM server. I need to deploy it on various sytems. When I
> run the COM server from
> python its showing an output " Registered : sample.lib"
>
> If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like:
>
> obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
> Its working fine without any errors
>
> Now I am trying to convert this COM server to an exe through py2exe and
> after I run the exe, I am
> getting the same output " Registered : sample.lib"
>
> But If I try to use the COM obj from a VB client like
>
> obj = CreateObject("sample.lib")
>
> A console pops up saying " Registered : sample.lib" and VB application
> hangs there.
> Its throwing a VB error that "ActiveX object cannot be created......etc
> etc"
>
> Any suggestions please.......
>
> Regards,
> Tejovathi
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From le.dahut at laposte.net  Wed Jan  9 09:47:23 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:47:23 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>
References: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net> <4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>
Message-ID: <47848A1B.7020909@laposte.net>

I've seen several examples in C, Delphi and VB, but I still don't know 
how to call "ISensLogon" in python :
win32com.client.Dispatch("ISens.Logon") doesn't work, I've tried many 
other things with no more success.

Could you give me a short example on how to start with this ?


Tim Roberts a ?crit :
> le dahut wrote:
>> After crawling this mailing list and googling for this I can't find how 
>> to use it in python. I'm a COM object newbe, I've read some examples but 
>> don't understand it really yet.
>> Does a guru have a magic answer ?
>>   
> 
> ISensLogon is not a COM object.  Rather, it is an interface that COM 
> object can support.  In this specific case, you would have to support 
> this in your own object if you want to subscribe to the events in the 
> System Event Notification Service.
> 
> SENS gets involved with COM+ Events and event subscriptions.  This is a 
> relatively complicated topic.  It might be better to get some examples 
> going in C++ before trying to move this to Python.
> 

From matherbe at cisco.com  Wed Jan  9 17:39:52 2008
From: matherbe at cisco.com (Matt Herbert (matherbe))
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:39:52 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] win32com Dispatch and userName
Message-ID: <249A89BAA060C94FA0B93EA6135CC93C04BB4194@xmb-rtp-20b.amer.cisco.com>


Hey all,

Can anyone tell me what the userName argument is used for when calling
win32com.client.Dispatch?

Thanks
-Matt

From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan  9 19:52:58 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:52:58 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <47848A1B.7020909@laposte.net>
References: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net> <4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>
	<47848A1B.7020909@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <4785180A.40101@probo.com>

le dahut wrote:
> I've seen several examples in C, Delphi and VB, but I still don't know 
> how to call "ISensLogon" in python :
> win32com.client.Dispatch("ISens.Logon") doesn't work, I've tried many 
> other things with no more success.

You're still thinking about this backwards.  You don't call ISensLogon 
(as you have seen).  It's not a service that you USE.  Instead, it's a 
service that you PROVIDE.  These are callbacks.  You develop a COM 
server that implements the ISensLogon functions.  Then you create an 
object from your own COM server, and register that object with the SENS 
services using IEventSubscription, which is implemented by the 
CLSID_CEventSubscription server.

After you have done that, the system will start sending events to your 
ISensLogon routines.  But first, you have to create a COM server (so you 
can implement ISensLogon).  That's the first step.  There are sample COM 
servers in Python on the web.


> Could you give me a short example on how to start with this ?

There really is no short example.  This Microsoft knowledge base article 
includes a C++ sample app that shows how to implement ISenseNetwork, 
which is practically identical to ISensLogon:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321381

What are you really trying to accomplish here?  This is complicated, and 
there may be an easier way to do what you want.

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


From carl at personnelware.com  Wed Jan  9 20:35:22 2008
From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:35:22 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] samefile() for win
Message-ID: <478521FA.5020208@personnelware.com>

Many of the methods on
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html
don't work on win.  like samefile()

I found:

39 	def samefile(path1, path2):
40 	    return getLongPathName(path1) == getLongPathName(path2)
41 	
42 	def getLongPathName(path):
43 	    buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(260)
44 	    GetLongPathName = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetLongPathNameW
45 	    rv = GetLongPathName(path, buf, 260)
46 	    if rv == 0 or rv > 260:
47 	        return path
48 	    else:
49 	        return buf.value

https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/browser/trunk/tv/platform/windows-xul/platformutils.py#L39

Would it make sense to add code like this to the standard module?

Carl K

From le.dahut at laposte.net  Thu Jan 10 09:38:59 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:38:59 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <4785180A.40101@probo.com>
References: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net>
	<4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>	<47848A1B.7020909@laposte.net>
	<4785180A.40101@probo.com>
Message-ID: <4785D9A3.5070601@laposte.net>

First, thank you for your answer, you really remove me a spine of the foot.

I have to use ISensLogon for this reason 
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/6ec4ec6d-6b84-44c9-b3af-116589a42b861033.mspx?mfr=true
today I use Winlogon Notification package to catch Logon and Logoff 
events. Maybe I could use SCM...?



Tim Roberts a ?crit :
> le dahut wrote:
>> I've seen several examples in C, Delphi and VB, but I still don't know 
>> how to call "ISensLogon" in python :
>> win32com.client.Dispatch("ISens.Logon") doesn't work, I've tried many 
>> other things with no more success.
> 
> You're still thinking about this backwards.  You don't call ISensLogon 
> (as you have seen).  It's not a service that you USE.  Instead, it's a 
> service that you PROVIDE.  These are callbacks.  You develop a COM 
> server that implements the ISensLogon functions.  Then you create an 
> object from your own COM server, and register that object with the SENS 
> services using IEventSubscription, which is implemented by the 
> CLSID_CEventSubscription server.
> 
> After you have done that, the system will start sending events to your 
> ISensLogon routines.  But first, you have to create a COM server (so you 
> can implement ISensLogon).  That's the first step.  There are sample COM 
> servers in Python on the web.
> 
> 
>> Could you give me a short example on how to start with this ?
> 
> There really is no short example.  This Microsoft knowledge base article 
> includes a C++ sample app that shows how to implement ISenseNetwork, 
> which is practically identical to ISensLogon:
>     http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321381
> 
> What are you really trying to accomplish here?  This is complicated, and 
> there may be an easier way to do what you want.
> 

From uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 10 12:23:16 2008
From: uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com (a_n_s_h_a_n)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:23:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
	'PageSetup'
Message-ID: <450601.51327.qm@web50508.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

hi! newbie here. from the subject, there is an error in the code. could anyone please exlpain why? here's the code:
   
  import win32com.client
  filename = 'D:\\FR23\\tickets\\07120306-IEEEToCGenerator\\test.doc'
wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")  # Create new Word Object
wordapp.Visible = 0 # Word Application should`t be visible
worddoc = wordapp.Documents.Add()   # Create new Document Object
# Make some Setup to the Document:
worddoc.PageSetup.Orientation = 0   # Portrait
worddoc.PageSetup.LeftMargin = 72
worddoc.PageSetup.TopMargin = 72
worddoc.PageSetup.BottomMargin = 78.48
worddoc.PageSetup.RightMargin = 72
worddoc.Content.Font.Name = 'Verdana'
worddoc.Content.Font.Size = 10
worddoc.Content.Paragraphs.TabStops.Add(100)
worddoc.Content.InsertAfter('PDF Filename: ')
worddoc.Content.MoveEnd
worddoc.SaveAs(filename)
worddoc.Close(SaveChanges = -1) # Close the Word Document
wordapp.Quit()  # Close the Word Application
   
  Thanks

       
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From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Jan 10 14:06:52 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:06:52 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP13A5D590966C5BB8185960A34A0@CEZ.ICE>

This works on XP and Vista.

import win32com.client
import win32com.server.policy
import pythoncom

## from Sens.h
SENSGUID_PUBLISHER = "{5fee1bd6-5b9b-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_SUBSCRIBER_LCE ="{d3938ab0-5b9d-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_SUBSCRIBER_WININET = "{d3938ab5-5b9d-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_EVENTCLASS_NETWORK = "{d5978620-5b9f-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_EVENTCLASS_LOGON = "{d5978630-5b9f-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_EVENTCLASS_ONNOW = "{d5978640-5b9f-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
SENSGUID_EVENTCLASS_LOGON2 = "{d5978650-5b9f-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"


## from EventSys.h
CLSID_CEventSystem="{4E14FBA2-2E22-11D1-9964-00C04FBBB345}"
CLSID_CEventSubscription="{7542e960-79c7-11d1-88f9-0080c7d771bf}"
IID_IEventSubscription="{4A6B0E15-2E38-11D1-9965-00C04FBBB345}"

PROGID_EventSystem = "EventSystem.EventSystem"
PROGID_EventPublisher = "EventSystem.EventPublisher"
PROGID_EventClass = "EventSystem.EventClass"
PROGID_EventSubscription = "EventSystem.EventSubscription"
PROGID_EventPublisherCollection = "EventSystem.EventPublisherCollection"
PROGID_EventClassCollection = "EventSystem.EventClassCollection"
PROGID_EventSubscriptionCollection = "EventSystem.EventSubscriptionCollection"
PROGID_EventSubsystem = "EventSystem.EventSubsystem"
EVENTSYSTEM_PUBLISHER_ID = "{d0564c30-9df4-11d1-a281-00c04fca0aa7}"
EVENTSYSTEM_SUBSYSTEM_CLSID = "{503c1fd8-b605-11d2-a92d-006008c60e24}"

IID_ISensLogon = "{d597bab3-5b9f-11d1-8dd2-00aa004abd5e}"
class SensLogon(win32com.server.policy.DesignatedWrapPolicy):
    _com_interfaces_=[IID_ISensLogon]
    _public_methods_=[
        'Logon',
        'Logoff',
        'StartShell',
        'DisplayLock',
        'DisplayUnlock',
        'StartScreenSaver',
        'StopScreenSaver'
        ]
    
    def __init__(self):
        self._wrap_(self)
    def Logon(self, *args):
        print 'Logon'
        print args
    def Logoff(self, *args):
        print 'Logoff'
        print args
    def StartShell(self, *args):
        print 'StartShell'
        print args
    def DisplayLock(self, *args):
        print 'DisplayLock'
        print args
    def DisplayUnlock(self, *args):
        print 'DisplayUnlock'
        print args
    def StartScreenSaver(self, *args):
        print 'StartScreenSaver'
        print args
    def StopScreenSaver(self, *args):
        print 'StopScreenSaver'
        print args

sl=SensLogon()
subscription_interface=pythoncom.WrapObject(sl)

event_system=win32com.client.Dispatch(PROGID_EventSystem)

event_subscription=win32com.client.Dispatch(PROGID_EventSubscription)
event_subscription.EventClassID=SENSGUID_EVENTCLASS_LOGON
event_subscription.PublisherID=SENSGUID_PUBLISHER
event_subscription.SubscriptionName='Python subscription'
event_subscription.SubscriberInterface=subscription_interface

event_system.Store(PROGID_EventSubscription, event_subscription)


      Roger


From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 10 14:50:52 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:50:52 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
	attribute 'PageSetup'
In-Reply-To: <450601.51327.qm@web50508.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <450601.51327.qm@web50508.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <5394762f0801100550r37149778nf1e66a9e890a2b28@mail.gmail.com>

I can't test this right now, but just looking at the code it would appear
that wordapp.Documents.Add() is returning None instead of a word document
object.  Take out the close and quit lines and run it with python -i  or
type it in interactively and then you can do a dir() on the worddoc object
and double-check that it is really what's being created.

On Jan 10, 2008 3:23 AM, a_n_s_h_a_n <uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com> wrote:

> hi! newbie here. from the subject, there is an error in the code. could
> anyone please exlpain why? here's the code:
>
> import win32com.client
> filename = 'D:\\FR23\\tickets\\07120306-IEEEToCGenerator\\test.doc'
> wordapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")  # Create new Word
> Object
> wordapp.Visible = 0 # Word Application should`t be visible
> worddoc = wordapp.Documents.Add()   # Create new Document Object
> # Make some Setup to the Document:
> worddoc.PageSetup.Orientation = 0   # Portrait
> worddoc.PageSetup.LeftMargin = 72
> worddoc.PageSetup.TopMargin = 72
> worddoc.PageSetup.BottomMargin = 78.48
> worddoc.PageSetup.RightMargin = 72
> worddoc.Content.Font.Name <http://worddoc.content.font.name/> = 'Verdana'
> worddoc.Content.Font.Size = 10
> worddoc.Content.Paragraphs.TabStops.Add(100)
> worddoc.Content.InsertAfter('PDF Filename: ')
> worddoc.Content.MoveEnd
> worddoc.SaveAs(filename)
> worddoc.Close(SaveChanges = -1) # Close the Word Document
> wordapp.Quit()  # Close the Word Application
>
> Thanks
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From pyth_ora at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 10 16:40:38 2008
From: pyth_ora at yahoo.com (Jd H)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:40:38 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32]  Python and Excel
In-Reply-To: <35267.91619.qm@web57313.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1105.11070.qm@web57311.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

Hi there,

I have the below python code that was working via
Windows Task Scheduler on Windows 2000 Terminal
Server:

import os, commands
from win32com.client import Dispatch

myExcel.Workbooks.Add('C:/JD/billing/Billing-Report-'
+ str(today) + '.xls')
myExcel.Workbooks.Add('C:/JD/billing/macro.XLA')
myExcel.Run('Macro1')
myExcel.Application.DisplayAlerts = False
myExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs('C:/JD/billing/Billing-Report-'
+ str(today) + '.xls')
myExcel.Quit()

It was working perfectly well, until yesterday, the
task was completing with exit code (1). The code works
perfectly  if run from command line. Is it something
related to Windows security update yesterday? How to
get around this, please?

Thanks,
JD


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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 10 19:28:17 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:28:17 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <4785D9A3.5070601@laposte.net>
References: <4783968C.7040804@laposte.net>	<4783C56C.4080501@probo.com>	<47848A1B.7020909@laposte.net>	<4785180A.40101@probo.com>
	<4785D9A3.5070601@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <478663C1.7010402@probo.com>

le dahut wrote:
> First, thank you for your answer, you really remove me a spine of the foot.
>
> I have to use ISensLogon for this reason 
> http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/6ec4ec6d-6b84-44c9-b3af-116589a42b861033.mspx?mfr=true
> today I use Winlogon Notification package to catch Logon and Logoff 
> events.

Ah, yes.  Winlogon notifications were one of the most productive attack 
vectors for spyware authors.  That's why they were removed.

>  Maybe I could use SCM...?
>   

My personal opinion, based on gut instinct, is that the SCM path would 
be a much quicker path to success.  There are several good examples on 
the web of how to write services using Python.  It's relatively easy, 
and there's not a lot of code.  The ISensLogon thing would make more 
sense if you already had a big application that was already acting as a 
COM services, but to start from scratch and build a COM+ server just to 
catch these messages seems like an awful lot of work for a relatively 
small payout.

Again, however, that's just my personal opinion.  The downside of using 
a service is that you can't easily have any user interface.  As long as 
you don't need to interact with the user, I'd recommend the service.

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


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 10 19:31:51 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:31:51 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP13A5D590966C5BB8185960A34A0@CEZ.ICE>
References: <BAYC1-PASMTP13A5D590966C5BB8185960A34A0@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <47866497.9010909@probo.com>

Roger Upole wrote:
> This works on XP and Vista.
>   

Well, this clearly proves that the COM path isn't as hard as I said it was!

This is a great sample app that demonstrates several things very well.  
Is there a Wiki where we could put this for posterity?

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


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 10 19:39:44 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:39:44 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no
 attribute 'PageSetup'
In-Reply-To: <450601.51327.qm@web50508.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <450601.51327.qm@web50508.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <47866670.6030800@probo.com>

a_n_s_h_a_n wrote:
> hi! newbie here. from the subject, there is an error in the code. 
> could anyone please exlpain why? here's the code:

Your code works fine for me, at least through the Content stuff.  You 
might try setting wordapp.Visible to 1 so you can see what is going on.  
For example, do you actually see the new document being created?


> ...
> worddoc.Content.Paragraphs.TabStops.Add(100)
> worddoc.Content.InsertAfter('PDF Filename: ')
> worddoc.Content.MoveEnd

Unlike VB, that last statement doesn't actually call the MoveEnd 
function.  It just returns its address.  To call it, you need to use parens:
    worddoc.Content.MoveEnd()

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


From kvander11 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 10 21:07:26 2008
From: kvander11 at gmail.com (Kirk Vander Meulen)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:07:26 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] replacing CreateProcess command for Vista
	compatibility?
Message-ID: <2d0c08ca0801101207g3c541064p2b1a7061009c8aa4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I'm running the program Pymol (written in python) on Windows Vista, and
in trying to run one of its plugins, I em encountering the following error:

Error: 3
WindowsError Exception in Tk callback
  Function: <function <lambda> at 0x027C6DF0> (type: <type 'function'>)
  Args: ()
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py",
line 1747, in __call__
    return apply( self.func, args)
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwDialog.py", line
153, in <lambda>
    command=lambda self=self, name=name: self._doCommand(name))
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwDialog.py", line
132, in _doCommand
    return command(name)
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\pmg_tk\startup\apbs_tools.py", line
1136, in execute
    good = self.generatePdb2pqrPqrFile()
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\pmg_tk\startup\apbs_tools.py", line
1683, in generatePdb2pqrPqrFile
    (retval,progout) = run(self.pdb2pqr.getvalue(),args)
  File "C:\Program
Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL/modules\pmg_tk\startup\apbs_tools.py", line
362, in run
    retcode = subprocess.call(args,stdout=output_file.fileno(),stderr=
subprocess.STDOUT)
  File "C:\Program Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL\py24\lib\subprocess.py",
line 413, in call
    return Popen(*args, **kwargs).wait()
  File "C:\Program Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL\py24\lib\subprocess.py",
line 543, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Program Files\DeLanoScientific\PyMOL\py24\lib\subprocess.py",
line 706, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Errno 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application


Probably not all of that is relevant, but I thought I'd at least lay it out
there in case there's something obvious there.  In doing crazy amounts of
googling, I *think* the problem is that the python file uses a command
called "createprocess()", and, while this may work ok in XP, it does not in
Vista (something to do with how the security setup has changed).  The
software is not guaranteed fully Vista-proof, so it seems like a possible
explantion.

So I'm hoping, although not very optimistically, that I can tweak this
command and regain compatibility with Vista.  One site I found suggests
using either "ShellExecute()" or "ShellExecuteEx()" in lieu of
"createprocess()".  Would this be a simple fix- how much would I have to
change?  Here is the relevant call:

                hp, ht, pid, tid = CreateProcess(executable, args,
                                         # no special security
                                         None, None,
                                         # must inherit handles to pass std
                                         # handles
                                         1,
                                         creationflags,
                                         env,
                                         cwd,
                                         startupinfo)

Thanks for any help,

Kirk
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 10 22:37:27 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:37:27 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] replacing CreateProcess command for
	Vista	compatibility?
In-Reply-To: <2d0c08ca0801101207g3c541064p2b1a7061009c8aa4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2d0c08ca0801101207g3c541064p2b1a7061009c8aa4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47869017.1020400@probo.com>

Kirk Vander Meulen wrote:
> Hi, I'm running the program Pymol (written in python) on Windows 
> Vista, and in trying to run one of its plugins, I em encountering the 
> following error:
> ...
> WindowsError: [Errno 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application
>
>
> Probably not all of that is relevant, but I thought I'd at least lay 
> it out there in case there's something obvious there.  In doing crazy 
> amounts of googling, I *think* the problem is that the python file 
> uses a command called "createprocess()", and, while this may work ok 
> in XP, it does not in Vista (something to do with how the security 
> setup has changed).  The software is not guaranteed fully Vista-proof, 
> so it seems like a possible explantion. 
>
> So I'm hoping, although not very optimistically, that I can tweak this 
> command and regain compatibility with Vista.

Unless your app needs administrator privileges, CreateProcess has not 
changed in Vista.  This is more likely to be some kind of configuration 
problem.  Do you know exactly what command line it is trying to run?  
Are you able to execute that command by hand from a command shell?

You can get that error if you try to execute a 64-bit application in 
Win32, but I don't know why it would be trying that.

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Fri Jan 11 02:02:03 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:02:03 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] ISensLogon COM Object
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP14E736796AC6646B0CFA95A34B0@CEZ.ICE>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Roger Upole wrote:
>> This works on XP and Vista.
>>
>
> Well, this clearly proves that the COM path isn't as hard as I said it 
> was!
>
> This is a great sample app that demonstrates several things very well.
> Is there a Wiki where we could put this for posterity?
>

win32com.de appears to have returned:
http://win32com.goermezer.de/

There was some talk on this list a while back about creating a
Pywin32 wiki, but I don't think anything came of it.

         Roger


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 10:42:22 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:42:22 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I have been doing some win32 programming using ctypes. I have successfully
created windows, common controls, manipulated and shown images, and so
forth. However, I am having trouble with custom controls.

I can create a new window class, successfully register it, then successfully
create a child window.

When the parent window gets the UpdateWindow call, the program crashes. If I
set the style of the child to not include WS_VISIBLE, the program does not
crash, but the window of course does not appear. If I then call ShowWindow
on the child window, the program crashes.

I have carefully monitored the windows messages that are being seen by the
main window's procedure and the child window's procedure, and the crash
always happens right after the first WM_PAINT to the parent window. No
further messages are seen by either procedure before it crashes. Before the
crash both procedures process normal messages like WM_CREATE etc.


Backing up a step, I started from scratch with a main window and a normal
child button control, made sure it worked fine, then used SetWindowLong to
replace the window procedure on the child control. This works fine as long
as I don't replace the window procedure too early - if I replace it before
the first call to UpdateWindow in the startup procedure of the application,
the program once again crashes (and I really do believe these two problems
are related).


Basically, it seems that I am missing something vital from my windows
procedure that has something to do with the window being a WS_CHILD, and to
do with creation or painting. The system's button window procedure has it,
and my main window doesn't need it, but my custom child control does.

For testing purposes I call DefWindowProc with the appropriate arguments,
and don't do anything else in the child window's procedure. Is there
something else I need to do though?



I'm really stuck, really confused. Any suggestions?



-- 
Henry
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From billiejoex at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 19:04:23 2008
From: billiejoex at gmail.com (Giampaolo Rodola')
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:04:23 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
Message-ID: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
user by providing its username + password:

def get_homedir(username, password):
   token = win32security.LogonUser(
       username,
       None,
       password,
       win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
       win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
       )
   return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)


What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
the pwd module and providing the username only:

 >>> import pwd
 >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
 '/home/user'

Does someone know if it is possible to do that?

Thanks in advance

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Jan 12 21:37:52 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:37:52 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> user by providing its username + password:
> 
> def get_homedir(username, password):
>    token = win32security.LogonUser(
>        username,
>        None,
>        password,
>        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
>        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
>        )
>    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> 
> 
> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> the pwd module and providing the username only:
> 
>  >>> import pwd
>  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
>  '/home/user'
> 
> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?

I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
but it seems not. According to this page:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx

it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
seems to work:

(uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)

<code>
import _winreg
import win32api
import wmi

#
# Use the current username in DOM\USER format
#
USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"

HKLM = 0x80000002
profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"

c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
   sid = account.SID
   break
else:
   raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME

registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
   _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
   profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
   "ProfileImagePath"
)

print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
</code>

TJG

From ggpolo at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 21:56:26 2008
From: ggpolo at gmail.com (Guilherme Polo)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:56:26 -0200
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ac2200130801121256l1e56c4dci632fb325cbfec1d5@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> user by providing its username + password:
>
> def get_homedir(username, password):
>    token = win32security.LogonUser(
>        username,
>        None,
>        password,
>        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
>        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
>        )
>    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
>
>
> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> the pwd module and providing the username only:
>
>  >>> import pwd
>  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
>  '/home/user'
>
> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?

Did you try:

import os
os.path.expanduser('~user')

?

>
> Thanks in advance
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

From billiejoex at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 22:37:06 2008
From: billiejoex at gmail.com (Giampaolo Rodola')
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:37:06 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801121324i7e5fd21g4002bdbb747d1bdc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121256l1e56c4dci632fb325cbfec1d5@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121324i7e5fd21g4002bdbb747d1bdc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <729626cc0801121337t1618ae0ay379bb5ed8ead54ff@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > > user by providing its username + password:
> > >
> > > def get_homedir(username, password):
> > >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> > >        username,
> > >        None,
> > >        password,
> > >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> > >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> > >        )
> > >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> > >
> > >
> > > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> > >
> > >  >>> import pwd
> > >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> > >  '/home/user'
> > >
> > > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> >
> > Did you try:
> >
> > import os
> > os.path.expanduser('~user')
>

It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:

 >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
 >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
 '~user'
 >>>

From ggpolo at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 23:26:20 2008
From: ggpolo at gmail.com (Guilherme Polo)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:26:20 -0200
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801121337t1618ae0ay379bb5ed8ead54ff@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121256l1e56c4dci632fb325cbfec1d5@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121324i7e5fd21g4002bdbb747d1bdc@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121337t1618ae0ay379bb5ed8ead54ff@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ac2200130801121426r2aad992dh2feadda11c61cf02@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > > > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > > > user by providing its username + password:
> > > >
> > > > def get_homedir(username, password):
> > > >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> > > >        username,
> > > >        None,
> > > >        password,
> > > >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> > > >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> > > >        )
> > > >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > > > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > > > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> > > >
> > > >  >>> import pwd
> > > >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> > > >  '/home/user'
> > > >
> > > > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> > >
> > > Did you try:
> > >
> > > import os
> > > os.path.expanduser('~user')
> >
>
> It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:
>
>  >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
>  'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
>  >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
>  '~user'
>  >>>

Does user 'user' actually exists ?

> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

From billiejoex at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 23:34:47 2008
From: billiejoex at gmail.com (Giampaolo Rodola')
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:34:47 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <ac2200130801121426r2aad992dh2feadda11c61cf02@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121256l1e56c4dci632fb325cbfec1d5@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121324i7e5fd21g4002bdbb747d1bdc@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121337t1618ae0ay379bb5ed8ead54ff@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121426r2aad992dh2feadda11c61cf02@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <729626cc0801121434v64ec32bl2ab9436552a2be08@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > > > > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > > > > user by providing its username + password:
> > > > >
> > > > > def get_homedir(username, password):
> > > > >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> > > > >        username,
> > > > >        None,
> > > > >        password,
> > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> > > > >        )
> > > > >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > > > > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > > > > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> > > > >
> > > > >  >>> import pwd
> > > > >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> > > > >  '/home/user'
> > > > >
> > > > > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> > > >
> > > > Did you try:
> > > >
> > > > import os
> > > > os.path.expanduser('~user')
> > >
> >
> > It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:
> >
> >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
> >  'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
> >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
> >  '~user'
> >  >>>
>
> Does user 'user' actually exists ?

Yes.
Look also those ones:

>>> os.path.expanduser('~Administrator')
'~Administrator'
>>> os.path.expanduser('~Guest')
'~Guest'
>>>

From ggpolo at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 23:50:11 2008
From: ggpolo at gmail.com (Guilherme Polo)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:50:11 -0200
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801121434v64ec32bl2ab9436552a2be08@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121256l1e56c4dci632fb325cbfec1d5@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121324i7e5fd21g4002bdbb747d1bdc@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121337t1618ae0ay379bb5ed8ead54ff@mail.gmail.com>
	<ac2200130801121426r2aad992dh2feadda11c61cf02@mail.gmail.com>
	<729626cc0801121434v64ec32bl2ab9436552a2be08@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ac2200130801121450p5da59dc4t5226e21cb4b28d93@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > > > > > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > > > > > user by providing its username + password:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > def get_homedir(username, password):
> > > > > >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> > > > > >        username,
> > > > > >        None,
> > > > > >        password,
> > > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> > > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> > > > > >        )
> > > > > >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > > > > > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > > > > > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  >>> import pwd
> > > > > >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> > > > > >  '/home/user'
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you try:
> > > > >
> > > > > import os
> > > > > os.path.expanduser('~user')
> > > >
> > >
> > > It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:
> > >
> > >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
> > >  'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
> > >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
> > >  '~user'
> > >  >>>
> >
> > Does user 'user' actually exists ?
>
> Yes.
> Look also those ones:
>
> >>> os.path.expanduser('~Administrator')
> '~Administrator'
> >>> os.path.expanduser('~Guest')
> '~Guest'
> >>>
>

Uhm.. my bad then, I should use windows before posting on pywin32.

-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves

From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 05:48:21 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:48:21 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>
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Problem solved!

I was using ctypes.byref to pass a reference to the window class, but before
calling CreateWindow the window class in question went out of scope and was
destroyed.

I'm worried this type of problem will happen more often, but I'm not sure
how to stop it...suggestions welcome!


Henry

On Jan 12, 2008 1:42 AM, Henry Baxter <henry.baxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have been doing some win32 programming using ctypes. I have successfully
> created windows, common controls, manipulated and shown images, and so
> forth. However, I am having trouble with custom controls.
>
> I can create a new window class, successfully register it, then
> successfully create a child window.
>
> When the parent window gets the UpdateWindow call, the program crashes. If
> I set the style of the child to not include WS_VISIBLE, the program does not
> crash, but the window of course does not appear. If I then call ShowWindow
> on the child window, the program crashes.
>
> I have carefully monitored the windows messages that are being seen by the
> main window's procedure and the child window's procedure, and the crash
> always happens right after the first WM_PAINT to the parent window. No
> further messages are seen by either procedure before it crashes. Before the
> crash both procedures process normal messages like WM_CREATE etc.
>
>
> Backing up a step, I started from scratch with a main window and a normal
> child button control, made sure it worked fine, then used SetWindowLong to
> replace the window procedure on the child control. This works fine as long
> as I don't replace the window procedure too early - if I replace it before
> the first call to UpdateWindow in the startup procedure of the application,
> the program once again crashes (and I really do believe these two problems
> are related).
>
>
> Basically, it seems that I am missing something vital from my windows
> procedure that has something to do with the window being a WS_CHILD, and to
> do with creation or painting. The system's button window procedure has it,
> and my main window doesn't need it, but my custom child control does.
>
> For testing purposes I call DefWindowProc with the appropriate arguments,
> and don't do anything else in the child window's procedure. Is there
> something else I need to do though?
>
>
>
> I'm really stuck, really confused. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> --
> Henry
>
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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 11:42:31 2008
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:42:31 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
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I guess that would help! :)

On Jan 12, 2008 11:50 PM, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > > 2008/1/12, Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > 2008/1/12, Giampaolo Rodola' <billiejoex at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > > > > > > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > > > > > > user by providing its username + password:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > def get_homedir(username, password):
> > > > > > >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> > > > > > >        username,
> > > > > > >        None,
> > > > > > >        password,
> > > > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> > > > > > >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> > > > > > >        )
> > > > > > >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > > > > > > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > > > > > > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  >>> import pwd
> > > > > > >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> > > > > > >  '/home/user'
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Did you try:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > import os
> > > > > > os.path.expanduser('~user')
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > It doesn't seem to be what I'm searching for:
> > > >
> > > >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~')
> > > >  'C:\\Documents and Settings\\billiejoex'
> > > >  >>> os.path.expanduser('~user')
> > > >  '~user'
> > > >  >>>
> > >
> > > Does user 'user' actually exists ?
> >
> > Yes.
> > Look also those ones:
> >
> > >>> os.path.expanduser('~Administrator')
> > '~Administrator'
> > >>> os.path.expanduser('~Guest')
> > '~Guest'
> > >>>
> >
>
> Uhm.. my bad then, I should use windows before posting on pywin32.
>
> --
> -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves
>
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From theller at ctypes.org  Sun Jan 13 13:03:38 2008
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:03:38 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801122048w4cf2e9ei6d4f81bc7e4add5b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>
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Henry Baxter schrieb:
> Problem solved!
> 
> I was using ctypes.byref to pass a reference to the window class, but before
> calling CreateWindow the window class in question went out of scope and was
> destroyed.
> 
> I'm worried this type of problem will happen more often, but I'm not sure
> how to stop it...suggestions welcome!

I guess the important thing that needs to be kept alive is the ctypes-pointer
to your WindowProc.  If the window class keeps a reference to the WindowProc
you could attach the window class to the Python class that implements the window.
Or you keep it in a global variable, it depends on how your code is structured.

You could also look into the venster code (google for it) for ideas.

Thomas


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 23:51:56 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:51:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
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References: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>
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	<fmcump$2hv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801131451h281d65ctee67013b4bbcbe4c@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the tip, venster not only has a neat way to resolve this issue,
but plenty of other really useful things (lists of windows constants and
other stuff that take time to assemble).

On Jan 13, 2008 4:03 AM, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> Henry Baxter schrieb:
> > Problem solved!
> >
> > I was using ctypes.byref to pass a reference to the window class, but
> before
> > calling CreateWindow the window class in question went out of scope and
> was
> > destroyed.
> >
> > I'm worried this type of problem will happen more often, but I'm not
> sure
> > how to stop it...suggestions welcome!
>
> I guess the important thing that needs to be kept alive is the
> ctypes-pointer
> to your WindowProc.  If the window class keeps a reference to the
> WindowProc
> you could attach the window class to the Python class that implements the
> window.
> Or you keep it in a global variable, it depends on how your code is
> structured.
>
> You could also look into the venster code (google for it) for ideas.
>
> Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From tallin32 at comcast.net  Sun Jan 13 21:47:43 2008
From: tallin32 at comcast.net (Chris Meredith)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:47:43 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Defining GUIDs and passing them as parameters
Message-ID: <025601c85625$8ca60b90$a5f222b0$@net>

Greetings.

 

I'm writing a UI Automation client and needing to define GUIDs as constants,
as well as pass them as parameters.  Sadly, I come from a C++/C# background,
and can't remember just precisely what library handles GUIDs (I'm assuming
comtypes?).

 

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Jan 14 00:39:21 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:39:21 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
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	<47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
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> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
> seems to work:
> 
> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
> 
> <code>
> import _winreg
> import win32api
> import wmi
> 
> #
> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
> #
> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
> 
> HKLM = 0x80000002
> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
> 
> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
>    sid = account.SID
>    break
> else:
>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME

FYI, note that getting a SID is as simple as:

>>> import win32security
>>> user_sid = win32security.LookupAccountName(None, "Administrator")[0]
>>> str(user_sid)
'PySID:S-1-5-21-...'
>>>

(I'm not currently logged in as Administrator)

Cheers,

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Jan 14 01:42:24 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:42:24 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Defining GUIDs and passing them as parameters
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References: <025601c85625$8ca60b90$a5f222b0$@net>
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pywin32 has a GUID type, but as GUIDs can't be passed via a VARIANT, I
assume your object will not implement IDispatch - so you may be forced to
call your object from comtypes.  There is a comtypes mailing list (which I
don't have on hand) that is probably better suited for comtypes assistance.


 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Chris Meredith
Sent: Monday, 14 January 2008 7:48 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Defining GUIDs and passing them as parameters

 

Greetings.

 

I'm writing a UI Automation client and needing to define GUIDs as constants,
as well as pass them as parameters.  Sadly, I come from a C++/C# background,
and can't remember just precisely what library handles GUIDs (I'm assuming
comtypes?).

 

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Jan 14 03:56:39 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:56:39 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <0f1b01c8563d$8b394840$a1abd8c0$@com.au>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
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Mark Hammond wrote:
>> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
>> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
>> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
>> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
>> seems to work:
>>
>> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
>>
>> <code>
>> import _winreg
>> import win32api
>> import wmi
>>
>> #
>> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
>> #
>> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
>> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
>>
>> HKLM = 0x80000002
>> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>> NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
>>
>> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
>> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
>>    sid = account.SID
>>    break
>> else:
>>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
> 
> FYI, note that getting a SID is as simple as:
> 
>>>> import win32security
>>>> user_sid = win32security.LookupAccountName(None, "Administrator")[0]
>>>> str(user_sid)
> 'PySID:S-1-5-21-...'

I knew that (and referred to it in the parallel thread
on c.l.py). The only reason I offered a WMI solution here
was because the article I linked to above was a WMI one
-- to do something slightly different -- and my starting
point was more or less of a straight translation.

Also, perhaps, I find that (reducing my code a little to
match yours):

   import wmi
   c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=0)
   account = c.Win32_UserAccount (Name="Administrator")[0].SID

isn't so far removed in simplicity from:

   import win32security
   user_sid = win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid (
     win32security.LookupAccountName(None, "Administrator")[0]
   )

which, as far as I can see, is its more exact equivalent, since
you need "S-1-5-21..." to match against the registry in the next
step. (Which you can do with the win32api or _winreg registry
functions, too).

Funnily enough, when I set out to answer the OP's question,
I had no intention of producing a WMI answer; it's only
because I happened upon that technet article that I went
that way!

TJG

From theller at ctypes.org  Mon Jan 14 08:14:56 2008
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:14:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801131451h281d65ctee67013b4bbcbe4c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>	<8d04436f0801122048w4cf2e9ei6d4f81bc7e4add5b@mail.gmail.com>	<fmcump$2hv$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Henry Baxter schrieb:
> Thanks for the tip, venster not only has a neat way to resolve this issue,
> but plenty of other really useful things (lists of windows constants and
> other stuff that take time to assemble).
> 

Then you might also be interested in the ctypeslib package; it is able
to make the constants available on demand:

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/wiki/CodeGenerator/DynamicModule

Thomas


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 11:55:49 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:55:49 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Custom control, WS_CHILD
In-Reply-To: <fmf25h$oiv$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <8d04436f0801120142p487e1d7bt98ef87085d82e9df@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d04436f0801122048w4cf2e9ei6d4f81bc7e4add5b@mail.gmail.com>
	<fmcump$2hv$1@ger.gmane.org>
	<8d04436f0801131451h281d65ctee67013b4bbcbe4c@mail.gmail.com>
	<fmf25h$oiv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801140255r54d2bebel3a7724dddc592bbc@mail.gmail.com>

Very cool :) Thank you Thomas

On Jan 13, 2008 11:14 PM, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> Henry Baxter schrieb:
> > Thanks for the tip, venster not only has a neat way to resolve this
> issue,
> > but plenty of other really useful things (lists of windows constants and
> > other stuff that take time to assemble).
> >
>
> Then you might also be interested in the ctypeslib package; it is able
> to make the constants available on demand:
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/wiki/CodeGenerator/DynamicModule
>
> Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From sgt at rasterburn.org  Mon Jan 14 13:05:17 2008
From: sgt at rasterburn.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Torbj=F8rn?= Kristoffersen)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:05:17 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Suitability of PyWin32 to manipulate windows
Message-ID: <20080114120517.GA60814@hal.rasterburn.org>

Hello, I'm not very familiar with Windows programming, so I would very much
like some advice here.

My goal is to start two programs from Python in Windows. These two windows
will be maximized and cover the entire screen.

Is Pywin32 capable of keeping track of these two programs, and control them in
such a way that they can be focused (i.e. become the window on top, covering the
other window) from my Python program?

Would appreciate any kind of advice on how to start. Windows isn't really my
territory, as I've only programmed on various Unix clones, so forgive my
ignorance.

Kind regards,
Torbjorn Kristoffersen


From billiejoex at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 17:06:07 2008
From: billiejoex at gmail.com (Giampaolo Rodola')
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:06:07 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <729626cc0801140806w3bfbdaacl53bbe5f9a043e1e6@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/12, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> > Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> > user by providing its username + password:
> >
> > def get_homedir(username, password):
> >    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> >        username,
> >        None,
> >        password,
> >        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> >        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> >        )
> >    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> >
> >
> > What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> > the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> > the pwd module and providing the username only:
> >
> >  >>> import pwd
> >  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> >  '/home/user'
> >
> > Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
>
> I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
> but it seems not. According to this page:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx
>
> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
> seems to work:
>
> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
>
> <code>
> import _winreg
> import win32api
> import wmi
>
> #
> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
> #
> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
>
> HKLM = 0x80000002
> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
>
> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
>    sid = account.SID
>    break
> else:
>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
>
> registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
> result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
>    _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
>    profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
>    "ProfileImagePath"
> )
>
> print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
> </code>
>
> TJG

This is what I get when I try to run your code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\billiejoex\Desktop\_test.py", line 25, in <mod
ule>
    "ProfileImagePath"
TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (4 given)

From wojtulek at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 17:12:47 2008
From: wojtulek at gmail.com (Wojtek P)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:12:47 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to use OpenOffice with win32com - saving and
	event handling?
Message-ID: <4ed0e9d00801140812v37514923n2e05a047831c94fc@mail.gmail.com>

Hello :)

I use python code to connect to MS Word and OpenOffice from python
application.I have script code for Word, but i can't find any script to
event handling for OpenOffice (by COM interface) :/

I need connect to events:
  OnQuit
  OnDocumentOpen
  OnDocumentBeforeSave
  OnDocumentBeforeClose

I cannot use Py-UNU...

w.
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Jan 14 17:19:04 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:19:04 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <729626cc0801140806w3bfbdaacl53bbe5f9a043e1e6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>	
	<47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
	<729626cc0801140806w3bfbdaacl53bbe5f9a043e1e6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <478B8B78.2020108@timgolden.me.uk>

Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> 2008/1/12, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
>> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
>>> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
>>> user by providing its username + password:
>>>
>>> def get_homedir(username, password):
>>>    token = win32security.LogonUser(
>>>        username,
>>>        None,
>>>        password,
>>>        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
>>>        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
>>>        )
>>>    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
>>>
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
>>> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
>>> the pwd module and providing the username only:
>>>
>>>  >>> import pwd
>>>  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
>>>  '/home/user'
>>>
>>> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
>> I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
>> but it seems not. According to this page:
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx
>>
>> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
>> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
>> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
>> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
>> seems to work:
>>
>> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
>>
>> <code>
>> import _winreg
>> import win32api
>> import wmi
>>
>> #
>> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
>> #
>> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
>> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
>>
>> HKLM = 0x80000002
>> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
>>
>> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
>> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
>>    sid = account.SID
>>    break
>> else:
>>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
>>
>> registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
>> result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
>>    _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
>>    profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
>>    "ProfileImagePath"
>> )
>>
>> print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
>> </code>
>>
>> TJG
> 
> This is what I get when I try to run your code:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\billiejoex\Desktop\_test.py", line 25, in <mod
> ule>
>     "ProfileImagePath"
> TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (4 given)

Strange. I did test it before I posted.
Ah; I forgot that the released version of
WMI doesn't allow for positional parameters.
Sorry. You can either:

1) Pull the latest release from here:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip
and run again.

or

2) Change to the following (notice the named params):

result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
   hDefKey=_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
   sSubKeyName=profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
   sValueName="ProfileImagePath"
)


I must report that, on my AD-attached machine, the
Win32_UserAccount query above is *not* fast. You might
well be better off following Mark Hammond's suggestion
of using win32security:

import win32security
user_sid = win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid (
   win32security.LookupAccountName(None, USERNAME)[0]
)

and using whatever registry-query module you find most
convenient -- there are a bunch of registry-wrappers
out there. I wouldn't bother using WMI just for that.

TJG

From mc at mclaveau.com  Mon Jan 14 17:30:28 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:30:28 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to use OpenOffice with win32com - saving
	andevent handling?
In-Reply-To: <4ed0e9d00801140812v37514923n2e05a047831c94fc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4ed0e9d00801140812v37514923n2e05a047831c94fc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <66FE0CCE6D17473F83B7841CB436DB77@MCI1330>

Hi!

I have a class (not finished, but run OK), for drive OOo from PyWin32.
See below.

@+

Michel Claveau

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

#
# by Michel Claveau Informatique
# http://mclaveau.com
#



import types
import time
import os
from win32com.client import Dispatch


GlobalPVersion='0.913'


class word(object):

    wdReplaceNone=0
    wdReplaceOne=1
    wdReplaceAll=2
    wdFindContinue=1

    #pour close/save :
    wdDoNotSaveChanges=0
    wdSaveChanges=-1

    wdCharacter=1
    wdCell=12
    wdLine=5

    wdAlignLeft=0
    wdAlignCenter=1
    wdAlignRight=2



    def __init__(self, fichier=None, visible=True):
        import win32com.client
        import time,os,types
        self.objServiceManager = 
win32com.client.Dispatch("com.sun.star.ServiceManager")

        #self.propert=self.objServiceManager.Bridge_GetStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")

        self.w = 
self.objServiceManager.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop")

        if fichier!=None:
            time.sleep(1)
            self.open(fichier, visible)


    def u1252(self, chu):
        try:
            if type(chu) is unicode:
                return chu.encode('cp1252','replace')
            else:
                return chu
        except:
            return repr(chu)


    def open(self, fichier, visible=True):
        """Ouvre un document word
        """
        self.doc=self.w.loadComponentFromURL("file:///"+fichier, "_blank", 
0, [])
        #self.visible(visible)


    def wnew(self, visible=True):
        """Nouveau document writer
        """
        self.doc=self.w.loadComponentFromURL("private:factory/swriter", 
"_blank", 0, [])
        self.visible(True)


    def close(self):
        """ferme le document, en sauvegardant, sans demander
        """
        #---
        print"close"
        self.w.store()
        self.w.Terminate(1)


    def docclose(self):
        """ferme le document, en sauvegardant, sans demander
        """
        self.doc.Close(True)  #True ?  False ?


    def saveas(self,fichier, typ=0):
        """Appel de 'Enregistrer sous', avec le nom du fichier
        """#---
        self.doc.storeAsURL("file:///"+fichier, [])


    def savepdf(self):

        def createStruct(nom):
            objCoreReflection= 
self.objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")
            classSize = objCoreReflection.forName(nom)
            aStruct=[1,2]
            classSize.createObject(aStruct)
            return aStruct

        par=createStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        par.append([])
        par[0].Name = "URL"
        par[0].Value = "file:///C:/let01.odt"

        par=["FilterName", "writer_pdf_Export"]
        self.prop = 
self.objServiceManager.CreateInstance("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        self.prop[0].Name = "URL"
        self.prop[0].Value = "file:///C:/let01.odt"
        self.prop[1].Name = "FilterName"
        self.prop[1].Value = "writer_pdf_Export"
        self.doc.storeAsURL("file:///C:/let01.pdf", self.prop)


    def saveas2(self,fichier, typ=0):

        def createStruct(nom):
            objCoreReflection= 
self.objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.reflection.CoreReflection")
            classSize = objCoreReflection.forName(nom)
            aStruct=[]
            classSize.createObject(aStruct)
            return aStruct

        #args1= 
self.objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        #args1 = createStruct("com.sun.star.beans.NamedValue")
        #print args1

        print "Titre :",self.doc.getDocumentInfo()

        args1=["file:///c:/titi.rtf"]

        self.doc.storeAsURL("",0,args1)


        """
        #args1= 
self.objServiceManager.createInstance("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        #dispatcher = 
self.objServiceManager.createInstance('com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper')
        args1=createStruct("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        print len(args1)
        prop.Name='Pages'
        prop.Value='3-5'
        args[0]=prop

        args1[0].Name = "URL"
        args1[0].Value = "file:///c:/titi.rtf"
        args1[1].Name = "FilterName"
        args1[1].Value = "Rich Text Format"
        args1[4].Name = "SelectionOnly"
        args1[4].Value = true
        """
        #sel=self.doc.SaveAs("",0,args1)

    def quit(self):
        """Ferme OOoW
        """
        self.w.Terminate()


    def quitSaveChange(self):
        """Ferme OooW, en sauvant les changements
        """
        self.w.store()
        self.w.Terminate()


    def quitCancel(self):
        """Ferme word, SANS sauver les changements
        """
        self.doc.storeAsURL("file:///C:/null__.odt", [])
        self.w.Terminate()
        os.remove("C:/null__.odt")


    def visible(self, par=True):
        """Rend Word visible (True), ou invisible (False) ; True par d?faut
        Note : c'est plus rapide en invisible
        """
        """
        if par:
            self.objServiceManager.Visible(True)
        else:
            self.objServiceManager.Visible=False
        """
        win = self.doc.CurrentController.Frame.ContainerWindow
        if par:
            win.Visible = True
        else:
            win.Visible = False


    def hide(self):
        """Cache Word
        """
        win = self.doc.CurrentController.Frame.ContainerWindow
        win.Visible = False


    def show(self):
        """Montre la fen?tre
        """
        win = self.doc.CurrentController.Frame.ContainerWindow
        win.Visible = True


    def wprint(self):
        """Imprime le document
        """
        warg=[]
        self.doc.Print(warg)


    def wprint2(self,printer='PDFCreator'):
        """Imprime le document
        """
        warg=['Name','PDFCreator']
        self.doc.Print(warg)

# prop.Name='Name'
# prop.Value='PDFCreator'
# args[2]=prop


    def preview(self):
        """Pr?-visualise le document
        """
        self.doc.PrintPreview()


    def previewclose(self):
        """Ferme la pr?visdualisation du document
        """
        self.doc.ClosePrintPreview()


    def text(self, txt):
        """Remplace le texte s?lectionn?, par le param?tre
        """
        newchaine=txt.replace('\n','\r')
        self.position.Text = newchaine


    def TypeText(self, chaine):
        """ 'Tape' le texte ? la position courante
        """
        self.position.TypeText(chaine)


    def chExist(self, chaine):
        """Cherche l'existence d'une chaine dans le document.
        Retourne True ou False, selon le r?sultat.
        """
        och=self.doc.createSearchDescriptor()
 och.SearchString=chaine
 och.SearchWords = False  #mots entiers seulement ?
 position=self.doc.findFirst(och)
 if position:
     return True
 else:
     return False


    def chSelect(self, chchaine):
        """S?lectionne (recherche) la chaine pass?e en param?tre
        """
        och=self.doc.createSearchDescriptor()
 och.SearchString=chaine
 och.SearchWords = False  #mots entiers seulement ?
 self.sel=self.doc.findFirst(och)
 if position:
     return True
 else:
     return False


    def macroRun(self, name):
        """Lance la macro-word (VBA) 'name'
        """
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"


    def language(self):
        """Retourne la langue de Writer
        """
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"
        print "Non support? _ ?cf"


    def filterTxt(self):
        """Interne - Convertit une s?lection en texte
        """
        ss=self.u1252(self.doc.GetText().String)
 ss=ss.replace(chr(7)+chr(13),'   ')
        ss=ss.replace(chr(13),'\r\n')
 ss=ss.replace(chr(7),' ')
 ss=ss.replace(chr(9),'')
 ss=ss.replace(chr(26),'')
 return ss


    def eSelAll(self):
        """s?lectionne, et retourne, tout le document
        """
        sel=self.doc.GetText()
        return self.filterTxt()


    def eSelWord(self, nb=1):
        """?tend la s?lection aux nb mots ? droite, et retourne la s?lection
        """
        self.w.Selection.WordRightSel(self.wdWord, nb, self.wdExtend)
        return self.filterTxt()


    def eSelLine(self, nb=1):
        """?tend la s?lection aux nb lignes en-dessous, et retourne la 
s?lection
        """
        args2= self.doc.createInstance("com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue")
        args2[0].Name= "Count"
        args2[0].Value= 1
        args2[1].Name= "Select"
        args2[1].Value= False

        self.doc.GoDown("", 0, args2)
        return self.filterTxt()


    def eSelEndLine(self):
        """?tend la s?lection jusqu'? la fin de la ligne, et retourne la 
s?lection
        """
        self.w.Selection.EndKey(self.wdLine, self.wdExtend)
        return self.filterTxt()


    def chRemplAll(self, oldchaine, newchaine=''):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        newchaine = chaine de remplacement / string for replace
        """
        orempl=self.doc.createReplaceDescriptor()
        orempl.SearchString=oldchaine
        orempl.ReplaceString=newchaine
        orempl.SearchWords = False  #mots entiers seulement ?
        orempl.SearchCaseSensitive = True    #sensible ? la casse ?
        nb = self.doc.replaceAll(orempl)


    def chRemplLstAll(self, lst=[[]]):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        newchaine = chaine de remplacement / string for replace
        """
        nb=0
        for oldchaine, newchaine in lst:
            orempl=self.doc.createReplaceDescriptor()
            orempl.SearchString=oldchaine
            orempl.ReplaceString=newchaine
            orempl.SearchWords = False  #mots entiers seulement ?
            orempl.SearchCaseSensitive = True    #sensible ? la casse ?
            nb += self.doc.replaceAll(orempl)


    def chRemplOne(self, oldchaine, newchaine=''):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        newchaine = chaine de remplacement / string for replace
        """
        sel = self.w.Selection
        #sel.ClearFormatting()
        sel.Find.Text = oldchaine
        sel.Find.Forward = True
        newchaine=newchaine.replace('\n','\r')
        sel.Find.Execute( 
oldchaine,False,False,False,False,False,True,self.wdFindContinue,False,newchaine,self.wdReplaceOne)
        self.position=sel


    def chRemplClipboard(self, oldchaine):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        """
        sel = self.w.Selection
        #sel.ClearFormatting()
        sel.Find.Text = oldchaine
        sel.Find.Forward = True

        sel.Find.Execute( 
oldchaine,False,False,False,False,False,True,self.wdFindContinue,False,'XXX',self.wdReplaceOne)
        sel.Paste()
        self.position=sel


    def chRemplGraf(self, oldchaine, fichier):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        """
        sel = self.w.Selection
        #sel.ClearFormatting()
        sel.Find.Text = oldchaine
        sel.Find.Forward = True

        sel.Find.Execute( 
oldchaine,False,False,False,False,False,True,self.wdFindContinue,False,'',self.wdReplaceOne)
        sel.InlineShapes.AddPicture(fichier, False, True)
        self.position=sel


    def TableauInsLigApres(self, oldchaine, nblig=1):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        """
        sel = self.w.Selection
        #sel.ClearFormatting()
        sel.Find.Text = oldchaine
        sel.Find.Forward = True

        sel.Find.Execute( 
oldchaine,False,False,False,False,False,True,self.wdFindContinue,False,'',self.wdReplaceOne)
        sel.InsertRowsBelow(nblig)


    def TableauDelLig(self, oldchaine):
        """
        oldchaine = chaine a remplacer / string to replace
        """
        sel = self.w.Selection
        #sel.ClearFormatting()
        sel.Find.Text = oldchaine
        sel.Find.Forward = True

        sel.Find.Execute( 
oldchaine,False,False,False,False,False,True,self.wdFindContinue,False,'',self.wdReplaceOne)
        sel.Rows.Delete()


    def MoveRight(self, nb=1):
        self.position.MoveRight(self.wdCharacter, nb)


    def MoveLeft(self, nb=1):
        self.position.MoveLeft(self.wdCharacter, nb)


    def TableauMoveRight(self, nb=1):
        sel = self.w.Selection
        sel.MoveRight(self.wdCell, nb)


    def TableauMoveLeft(self, nb=1):
        sel = self.w.Selection
        sel.MoveLeft(self.wdCell, nb)


    def TableauMoveLine(self, nb=1):
        sel = self.w.Selection
        if nb>0:
            sel.MoveDown(self.wdLine, nb)
        else:
            sel.MoveUp(self.wdLine, -nb)


    def TableauCellule(self, lig=1, col=1, txt='', align=0):
        tbl = self.doc.Tables[0]
        cellule = tbl.Cell(lig, col)
        cellule.Range.Text = txt
        cellule.Range.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = align  #0,1,2, left, 
center, right


    def landscape(self):
        """Met le document en mode paysage
        """
        self.wdOrientLandscape=1
        self.wdOrientPortrait=0
        self.w.ActiveDocument.PageSetup.Orientation = self.wdOrientLandscape


    def portrait(self):
        """Met le document en mode portrait
        """
        self.wdOrientLandscape=1
        self.wdOrientPortrait=0
        self.w.ActiveDocument.PageSetup.Orientation = self.wdOrientPortrait


    def changePrinter(self, printerName):
        """Change l'imprimante active de Word
        """
        self.w.ActivePrinter = printerName





if __name__=='__main__':
    pass

    """
    w=word('C:\\LET01.odt')
    w.chRemplAll('.NOM.','Tartempion')
    w.wprint2()
    w.quitCancel()
    """


    """
    contenu=w.eSelAll()
    #w.wprint()
    print w.chExist("Monsieur")
    time.sleep(1)
    w.saveas('C:/tutu.odt')
    w.quit()
    #w.quitCancel()


    #print
    #print contenu

    #copyToClipboard and pasteFromClipboard
    """
#--------------------------------------------------------------------



From billiejoex at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 18:08:31 2008
From: billiejoex at gmail.com (Giampaolo Rodola')
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:08:31 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding users home directories
In-Reply-To: <478B8B78.2020108@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <729626cc0801121004k45264a40l891777faa1128c9b@mail.gmail.com>
	<47892520.10903@timgolden.me.uk>
	<729626cc0801140806w3bfbdaacl53bbe5f9a043e1e6@mail.gmail.com>
	<478B8B78.2020108@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <729626cc0801140908v6c90018al23b7c4e379669ad0@mail.gmail.com>

2008/1/14, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> > 2008/1/12, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> >> Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to use the pywin32 extension to find out the users home directories.
> >>> Currently I found a way for doing that but it requires to validate the
> >>> user by providing its username + password:
> >>>
> >>> def get_homedir(username, password):
> >>>    token = win32security.LogonUser(
> >>>        username,
> >>>        None,
> >>>        password,
> >>>        win32security.LOGON32_LOGON_NETWORK,
> >>>        win32security.LOGON32_PROVIDER_DEFAULT
> >>>        )
> >>>    return win32profile.GetUserProfileDirectory(token)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What I'd like to do is avoiding the requirement of the password, in
> >>> the same way as if I would on UNIX where it would be enough just using
> >>> the pwd module and providing the username only:
> >>>
> >>>  >>> import pwd
> >>>  >>> pwd.getpwnam('user').pw_dir
> >>>  '/home/user'
> >>>
> >>> Does someone know if it is possible to do that?
> >> I thought it would be accessible via the win32net functions,
> >> but it seems not. According to this page:
> >>
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jun05/hey0603.mspx
> >>
> >> it's possible, but not slick. If you wanted to follow their
> >> line and use WMI to access the registry, you could additionally
> >> use the WMI Win32_UserAccount class to work out the SID you need.
> >> For example, to find my profile on this machine, the following
> >> seems to work:
> >>
> >> (uses the wmi module from http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html)
> >>
> >> <code>
> >> import _winreg
> >> import win32api
> >> import wmi
> >>
> >> #
> >> # Use the current username in DOM\USER format
> >> #
> >> USERNAME = win32api.GetUserNameEx (2)
> >> ## USERNAME = "GOYLE\\tim"
> >>
> >> HKLM = 0x80000002
> >> profiles_key = r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
> >>
> >> c = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False)
> >> for account in c.Win32_UserAccount (Caption=USERNAME):
> >>    sid = account.SID
> >>    break
> >> else:
> >>    raise Exception, "User %s not found" % USERNAME
> >>
> >> registry = wmi.WMI (find_classes=False, namespace="default").StdRegProv
> >> result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
> >>    _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
> >>    profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
> >>    "ProfileImagePath"
> >> )
> >>
> >> print USERNAME, "has profile at", profile
> >> </code>
> >>
> >> TJG
> >
> > This is what I get when I try to run your code:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Documents and Settings\billiejoex\Desktop\_test.py", line 25, in <mod
> > ule>
> >     "ProfileImagePath"
> > TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (4 given)
>
> Strange. I did test it before I posted.
> Ah; I forgot that the released version of
> WMI doesn't allow for positional parameters.
> Sorry. You can either:
>
> 1) Pull the latest release from here:
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip
> and run again.
>
> or
>
> 2) Change to the following (notice the named params):
>
> result, profile = registry.GetExpandedStringValue (
>    hDefKey=_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
>    sSubKeyName=profiles_key + "\\" + sid,
>    sValueName="ProfileImagePath"
> )
>
>
> I must report that, on my AD-attached machine, the
> Win32_UserAccount query above is *not* fast. You might
> well be better off following Mark Hammond's suggestion
> of using win32security:
>
> import win32security
> user_sid = win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid (
>    win32security.LookupAccountName(None, USERNAME)[0]
> )
>
> and using whatever registry-query module you find most
> convenient -- there are a bunch of registry-wrappers
> out there. I wouldn't bother using WMI just for that.
>
> TJG
>


Ok, this is what I've done. Surely not nice to watch but it seems to work:

<code>
import _winreg
import win32security

username = 'Administrator'
sid = win32security.ConvertSidToStringSid(
        win32security.LookupAccountName(None, username)[0]
        )
key = _winreg.OpenKey(
        _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
        r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList" + "\\" + sid
        )
value, type = _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, "ProfileImagePath")
print value
</code>


What I find very strange is that there's no API for doing such a thing
in better/nicer ways.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your precious help.


-- Giampaolo

From patrick at gxlinc.com  Mon Jan 14 19:55:17 2008
From: patrick at gxlinc.com (Patrick Li)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:55:17 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator privilege
Message-ID: <2b5a48740801141055t378d94b3u9d1da9e3c5d4ccb9@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to see if a user
has windows administrator privilege?  I need this to work in WinXP and
Vista.

Thanks in advance,
Patrick
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From graemeglass at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 20:29:39 2008
From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator privilege
In-Reply-To: <2b5a48740801141055t378d94b3u9d1da9e3c5d4ccb9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2b5a48740801141055t378d94b3u9d1da9e3c5d4ccb9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ead817660801141129j319fc521w91867855de04722e@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 14, 2008 8:55 PM, Patrick Li <patrick at gxlinc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to see if a
> user has windows administrator privilege?  I need this to work in WinXP and
> Vista.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Patrick
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>


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

(Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006)

I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it.

hth,

Graeme
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From simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 20:34:50 2008
From: simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com (Simon Dahlbacka)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:34:50 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator privilege
In-Reply-To: <ead817660801141129j319fc521w91867855de04722e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2b5a48740801141055t378d94b3u9d1da9e3c5d4ccb9@mail.gmail.com>
	<ead817660801141129j319fc521w91867855de04722e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <57124720801141134v6d1600e7ub24a42fd48cdaf37@mail.gmail.com>

>
> import ctypes
> print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()
>
> (Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006)
>
> I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it.
>

It kinda works on Vista. If you're running from an elevated console then it
will return 1, othervise (even if you're part of Administrators group) it
will return 0

regards,

Simon
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From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 00:34:47 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:34:47 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] HRGN, RGNDATA, RGNDATAHEADER
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I'm having some trouble working with window 'regions'. I need to initialize
some memory for the region and work with it.

I have copied my best approach so far, but I know I don't know what I'm
doing when it comes to the 'Buffer' field in RGNDATA. MSDN describes what
HRGN points to (a RGNDATA struct) as:

typedef struct _RGNDATA {
    RGNDATAHEADER rdh;
    char Buffer[1];
} RGNDATA, *PRGNDATA;
*Buffer* Specifies an arbitrary-size buffer that contains the
*RECT*structures that make up the region.How
do I create an arbitrary-size buffer and initialize it? That doesn't really
make a lot of sense to me.

DWORD = c_ulong

class RECT(Structure):
    _fields_ = [('left', c_long),
                ('top', c_long),
                ('right', c_long),
                ('bottom', c_long)]

class RGNDATAHEADER(Structure):
    _fields_ = [('dwSize', DWORD),
                ('iType', DWORD),
                ('nCount', DWORD),
                ('nRgnSize', DWORD),
                ('rcBound', RECT)]

class RGNDATA(Structure):
    _fields_ = [('rdh', RGNDATAHEADER),
                ('Buffer', c_void_p)]

HRGN = POINTER(RGNDATA)

Specifically I am looking to use SetWindowRgn, CreateRoundRectRgn,
CreatePolygonRgn, and possibly modify the RGNDATA structure directly if
possible.



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Henry
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From larry.bates at websafe.com  Tue Jan 15 00:57:08 2008
From: larry.bates at websafe.com (Larry Bates)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:57:08 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Starting a .exe py2exe program in background
	mode.
In-Reply-To: <BLU115-W17586C52ACF224AD7039D1964C0@phx.gbl>
References: <BLU115-W17586C52ACF224AD7039D1964C0@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <fmgssi$ilb$1@ger.gmane.org>

Jo?o Abrantes wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I have made a python program and converted into an executable using 
> py2exe. Now I want him to start on windows startup without showing the 
> DOS Window... I have registered the program on windows startup registry key:
> 
>     key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, 
> "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run",0, 
> _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
>     _winreg.SetValueEx(key, "My program",0, _winreg.REG_SZ, 
> '"C:\\jpia\\Programs\\Myprogram.exe" /background')
> 
> as you see I added the option "/background" but the DOS window still 
> appears... well I hope you can help me. Thanks.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Compile with py2exe using windows NOT console.

-Larry


From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 15 01:26:24 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:26:24 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] HRGN, RGNDATA, RGNDATAHEADER
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <478BFDB0.7010908@probo.com>

Henry Baxter wrote:
>
> I'm having some trouble working with window 'regions'. I need to 
> initialize some memory for the region and work with it.
>
> I have copied my best approach so far, but I know I don't know what 
> I'm doing when it comes to the 'Buffer' field in RGNDATA. MSDN 
> describes what HRGN points to (a RGNDATA struct) as:

I don't believe that an HRGN literally points to an RGNDATA struct.  The 
RGNDATA is certainly behind an HRGN, but there's a mapping in there.  
You should use GetRgnData and ExtCreateRegion to convert between them.


> How do I create an arbitrary-size buffer and initialize it? That 
> doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.

In general, the best plan is to leave the RGNDATA management to GDI.  
You should build your region a bit at a time from the simpler structures 
and merge them into your region.  So, use CreateRectRgn to create the 
basic frame, and then add to it with CombineRgn and friends.

Also, you should remember that working with region in Windows can be 
rather inefficient.  A drawing operation that is clipped by a region 
gets sent to the driver multiple times, once for each unique rectangle 
in the region.

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


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 02:10:25 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:10:25 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] HRGN, RGNDATA, RGNDATAHEADER
In-Reply-To: <478BFDB0.7010908@probo.com>
References: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>
	<478BFDB0.7010908@probo.com>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801141710h751028c6w3c8f71dcfd9d6ae2@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Tim, all of that makes a lot of sense.

I created a region from a series of points, used the region, and everything
works perfectly. I'm interested to know if you know of a better way to do
what I'm doing though, since you are obviously quite knowledgeable :)

I have an application with a graphical background and rounded corners. The
rounding requires that a certain very small portion of the rectangular
window area be fully transparent and/or not there at all. My first attempt
was with SetLayeredWindowAttributes using LWA_COLORKEY. This was very simple
to implement, and worked perfectly - but it was slow. On non hardware
accelerated heads, the application was very sluggish being dragged around.
My next attempt was with UpdateLayeredWindow, but I had a pretty rough time
finding information on that, so I struck upon window regions - after all, I
was not looking for alpha blending, just 'there' and 'not there' on a few
pixels. Now I hear from you that window regions may not be so efficient :)

I have calculated that the window region requires 7 different rectangles,
all tiny except for one big one in the middle. My (simple) testing shows it
is faster than SetLayeredWindowAttributes.

Now, do you think I have found a good solution, or is there a better way? I
understand that having common controls on a window and using
UpdateLayeredWindow can be tricky. I'm interested to know what you think.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, it was very much appreciated :)


On Jan 14, 2008 4:26 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Henry Baxter wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some trouble working with window 'regions'. I need to
> > initialize some memory for the region and work with it.
> >
> > I have copied my best approach so far, but I know I don't know what
> > I'm doing when it comes to the 'Buffer' field in RGNDATA. MSDN
> > describes what HRGN points to (a RGNDATA struct) as:
>
> I don't believe that an HRGN literally points to an RGNDATA struct.  The
> RGNDATA is certainly behind an HRGN, but there's a mapping in there.
> You should use GetRgnData and ExtCreateRegion to convert between them.
>
>
> > How do I create an arbitrary-size buffer and initialize it? That
> > doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.
>
> In general, the best plan is to leave the RGNDATA management to GDI.
> You should build your region a bit at a time from the simpler structures
> and merge them into your region.  So, use CreateRectRgn to create the
> basic frame, and then add to it with CombineRgn and friends.
>
> Also, you should remember that working with region in Windows can be
> rather inefficient.  A drawing operation that is clipped by a region
> gets sent to the driver multiple times, once for each unique rectangle
> in the region.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 15 02:23:23 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:23:23 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] HRGN, RGNDATA, RGNDATAHEADER
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801141710h751028c6w3c8f71dcfd9d6ae2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>	
	<478BFDB0.7010908@probo.com>
	<8d04436f0801141710h751028c6w3c8f71dcfd9d6ae2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <478C0B0B.2090206@probo.com>

Henry Baxter wrote:
>
> I created a region from a series of points, used the region, and 
> everything works perfectly. I'm interested to know if you know of a 
> better way to do what I'm doing though, since you are obviously quite 
> knowledgeable :)
>
> I have an application with a graphical background and rounded corners. 
> The rounding requires that a certain very small portion of the 
> rectangular window area be fully transparent and/or not there at all. ...
>
> I have calculated that the window region requires 7 different 
> rectangles, all tiny except for one big one in the middle. My (simple) 
> testing shows it is faster than SetLayeredWindowAttributes.

If there are only 7 rectangles, that's not a big deal.  Sometimes people 
get surprised when they draw a polygonal region and discover to their 
horror that it requires 200 rectangles.  Having each blit result in 200 
calls to the driver is not a good thing.  Seven is not a problem.


> Now, do you think I have found a good solution, or is there a better 
> way? I understand that having common controls on a window and using 
> UpdateLayeredWindow can be tricky. I'm interested to know what you think.

One thing about the region code is that it has been in the operating for 
a very long time, and as a result, most of the icky bugs have long since 
been squashed.  The layered window stuff is relatively new.

GDI+ has some nifty features for turning paths into regions, but in the 
end it gets down to the same HRGN structure you have now, and I don't 
know if there are GDI+ wrappers for Python or not.  GDI+ is C++ classes, 
so it isn't a simple ctypes wrap.

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


From mayank_johri at ml.com  Mon Jan 14 20:17:15 2008
From: mayank_johri at ml.com (Johri, Mayank (GTI))
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:17:15 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator privilege
Message-ID: <354AE678C54C7540AF76CB09AAEF16EE0397DE61@MLNYC724MB.amrs.win.ml.com>

Patrick,
 
this might help you. 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q118626/
 
 

Thanks and Regards,

Mayank Johri
Merrill Lynch & Co.
Ph: 212.647.3076

	-----Original Message-----
	From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Li
	Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:55 PM
	To: python-win32 at python.org
	Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
privilege
	
	
	Hi,
	
	Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to
see if a user has windows administrator privilege?  I need this to work
in WinXP and Vista.
	
	Thanks in advance,
	Patrick
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From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 03:02:52 2008
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:02:52 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>

Follow-up question.

Why does type-ahead in PythonWin not show more functions after ctypes.windll. ?

Is this because of late-binding???

Message: 3
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0200
From: "Graeme Glass" <graemeglass at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
       privilege
To: "Patrick Li" <patrick at gxlinc.com>
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
On Jan 14, 2008 8:55 PM, Patrick Li <patrick at gxlinc.com> wrote:

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

(Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006)

I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it.

hth,

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 15 03:39:08 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:39:08 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>

> Follow-up question.
> 
> Why does type-ahead in PythonWin not show more functions after
> ctypes.windll. ?
> 
> Is this because of late-binding???

pythonwin basically just does a dir() of the name and the class, with
special support for COM objects.  See _AutoComplete() in
pywin/scintilla/view.py - I'd be happy to accept patches which made it work
better with ctypes.

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

And my followup is that pywin32-211 will have shell.IsUserAnAdmin() - but
I'm still trying to work out how to build Roger's win32security changes
which relate to Vista's UAC with the older compilers we need to support :(
Oh - and also how to either (a) force bdist_wininst executables to request
elevation or (b) have the .msi generation be smarter wrt upgrading so
installation is reasonable on Vista.  Does anyone here have bdist_msi
experience?

Mark


From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Jan 15 07:36:32 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:36:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
In-Reply-To: <0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>
References: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>
	<0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>
Message-ID: <DFE4D2AEF4DA4C7AA15C097E79711B00@MCI1330>

Hi!

> force bdist_wininst executables to request elevation ?

Sorry, not a real answer, (rather information).

On Vista, install is detected by Vista, and run automatically with 
elevation.  In theory. Because, in practice, it's true, or it's false, 
sometimes...

Perso, for my install softs, I use AutoIt (language "beurk!", but 
functionalities useful, like "Require Admin"). My AutoIt script 
require_admin (force "need elevation"), and, only run a batch (child 
process), who run pywin32 (after python25.msi, and before other packages).
Like batchs launched since a soft "with elevation" inherit elevation, my 
installs run OK.

Sorry for my bad English, and the half out-subject, and... have a good day.

Michel Claveau


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 15 08:52:34 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:52:34 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
In-Reply-To: <57124720801142329m74c9e8bfjf09a3225b8dd42fb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>	
	<0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>
	<57124720801142329m74c9e8bfjf09a3225b8dd42fb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <100c01c8574b$9d2a54e0$d77efea0$@com.au>

I should have been clearer - I need to come up with a way of integrating
that into distutils somehow.  I could make a local patch, but that is error
prone and makes it hard for others to reproduce my builds.  Having said that
though, it is possible I will do exactly that if it starts truly holding me
up.

Mark


Original message:
---------------------
From: Simon Dahlbacka [mailto:simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2008 6:29 PM
To: Mark Hammond
Cc: cappy2112 at gmail.com; python-win32 at python.org; graemeglass at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator


Oh - and also how to either (a) force bdist_wininst executables to request
elevation or (b) have the .msi generation be smarter wrt upgrading so 
installation is reasonable on Vista.??Does anyone here have bdist_msi
experience?

For a), it should work by adding a manifest like this 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" 
      processorArchitecture="X86"

      name="MyProjectName"
      type="win32" />
  <description>MyProjectDescription</description>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">

    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" />
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>

</assembly>

"$(DevEnvDir)..\..\Common7\Tools\Bin\mt.exe" -manifest
"$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest"
?outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1


From teekaysoh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 10:10:46 2008
From: teekaysoh at gmail.com (TK Soh)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:10:46 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] overlay icons handler freezes file dialog
Message-ID: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>

Greeting.

I have a shell extension that provide the overlay icons on Explorer,
using pythonwin bundled with ActivePython 2.5.1.1. However, when it
extension is installed, it causes the win32gui.GetSaveFileNameW file
dialog to freeze.

During the investigation, I noticed that by returning None from
GetOverlayInfo method (essentially causes a traceback during calls to
GetOverlayInfo) , the dialog would work fine. This of course doesn't
help, since it would render the shell extension useless.

I wonder if anyone can provide some clue or pointer on how I can
resolve this issue.

TIA

From niki at vintech.bg  Tue Jan 15 10:16:49 2008
From: niki at vintech.bg (niki)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:16:49 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] HRGN, RGNDATA, RGNDATAHEADER
In-Reply-To: <478C0B0B.2090206@probo.com>
References: <8d04436f0801141534h3acdeb04uae66de02fef108cc@mail.gmail.com>		<478BFDB0.7010908@probo.com>	<8d04436f0801141710h751028c6w3c8f71dcfd9d6ae2@mail.gmail.com>
	<478C0B0B.2090206@probo.com>
Message-ID: <478C7A01.4000006@vintech.bg>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> GDI+ has some nifty features for turning paths into regions, but in the 
> end it gets down to the same HRGN structure you have now, and I don't 
> know if there are GDI+ wrappers for Python or not.  GDI+ is C++ classes, 
> so it isn't a simple ctypes wrap.

Not inside :) GDI+ is pure .h file C++ wrapper over C dll. ctypes 
wrapper exists somewhere. I have small prototype too.

HTH
Niki Spahiev

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 15 10:29:34 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:29:34 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] overlay icons handler freezes file dialog
In-Reply-To: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <101801c85759$25f92550$71eb6ff0$@com.au>

> I wonder if anyone can provide some clue or pointer on how I can
> resolve this issue.

The best way would be to create an example which reproduces your problem.
Its likely that I would be able to simply locate the source once I could see
it.

Mark


From uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com  Tue Jan 15 10:47:56 2008
From: uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com (a_n_s_h_a_n)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:47:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] need help for searching of text in a textbox for ms
	word
Message-ID: <343388.52565.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

hi guys! i need help again. so i have this python program that is supposed to search and replace text in ms word. i have successfully searched and replaced all needed text but the problem is it only replaces the normal text and not the ones found in textboxes. i need your expert advice. thanks
       
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From teekaysoh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 10:50:16 2008
From: teekaysoh at gmail.com (TK Soh)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:50:16 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] overlay icons handler freezes file dialog
In-Reply-To: <101801c85759$25f92550$71eb6ff0$@com.au>
References: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>
	<101801c85759$25f92550$71eb6ff0$@com.au>
Message-ID: <58b84f8e0801150150k50d33105y81b53b56bd28d85f@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 15, 2008 9:29 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> > I wonder if anyone can provide some clue or pointer on how I can
> > resolve this issue.
>
> The best way would be to create an example which reproduces your problem.
> Its likely that I would be able to simply locate the source once I could see
> it.

Attached are two files to create the issue:

1. install the extension:

    python overlay.py

2. open a file dialog:

    python filedialog.py

BTW, I also noticed that returning 100 from GetPriority() also fixes
the problem, but somehow no overlay icons are displayed on Explorer.
Per msdn, "Possible values range from zero to 100, with zero the
highest priority."
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From teekaysoh at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 10:54:40 2008
From: teekaysoh at gmail.com (TK Soh)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:54:40 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] overlay icons handler freezes file dialog
In-Reply-To: <58b84f8e0801150150k50d33105y81b53b56bd28d85f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>
	<101801c85759$25f92550$71eb6ff0$@com.au>
	<58b84f8e0801150150k50d33105y81b53b56bd28d85f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <58b84f8e0801150154j70f45c83q7decd6b3288cd3b8@mail.gmail.com>

On Jan 15, 2008 9:50 AM, TK Soh <teekaysoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 9:29 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> > > I wonder if anyone can provide some clue or pointer on how I can
> > > resolve this issue.
> >
> > The best way would be to create an example which reproduces your problem.
> > Its likely that I would be able to simply locate the source once I could see
> > it.
>
> Attached are two files to create the issue:
>
> 1. install the extension:
>
>     python overlay.py

There's a slight problem the the file I sent earlier, please use use
the attached overlay.py instead. My apology.
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jan 15 11:05:51 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:05:51 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] need help for searching of text in a textbox for
 ms	word
In-Reply-To: <343388.52565.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <343388.52565.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <478C857F.4060305@timgolden.me.uk>

a_n_s_h_a_n wrote:
> hi guys! i need help again. so i have this python program 
that is supposed to search and replace text in ms word.
i have successfully searched and replaced all needed text
but the problem is it only replaces the normal text and not
the ones found in textboxes. i need your expert advice. thanks

My advice to you is: find an example in VBS/VBA which does
what you expect and then port it (or post it here so we
can help you port if needs be). Better still, record a Macro
in Word which does what you want, and port *that*.

IOW, this isn't so much a Python question as a Word/COM/VBA
one.

TJG

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 15 11:27:17 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:27:17 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] overlay icons handler freezes file dialog
In-Reply-To: <58b84f8e0801150150k50d33105y81b53b56bd28d85f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <58b84f8e0801150110l3cfdc477u51cd951c57c3156e@mail.gmail.com>	<101801c85759$25f92550$71eb6ff0$@com.au>
	<58b84f8e0801150150k50d33105y81b53b56bd28d85f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <103d01c85761$3682dfd0$a3889f70$@com.au>

> > The best way would be to create an example which reproduces your
> > problem.
> > Its likely that I would be able to simply locate the source once I
> > could see it.
> 
> Attached are two files to create the issue:

The problem is that GetOpenFileName and GetSaveFileName did not release the GIL.  I've checked a fix into CVS, but unfortunately I'm not sure that helps you.  Contact me offline if you would like a new win32gui (also let me know which python version you use).  Also let me know if you would like a beta-tester for any mercurial extensions you may be developing ;)

Mark



From simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 08:29:04 2008
From: simon.dahlbacka at gmail.com (Simon Dahlbacka)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:29:04 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
In-Reply-To: <0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>
References: <8249c4ac0801141802i484df449me985c5c0ec8b5cad@mail.gmail.com>
	<0ff701c8571f$d24921f0$76db65d0$@com.au>
Message-ID: <57124720801142329m74c9e8bfjf09a3225b8dd42fb@mail.gmail.com>

>
>
> Oh - and also how to either (a) force bdist_wininst executables to request
> elevation or (b) have the .msi generation be smarter wrt upgrading so
> installation is reasonable on Vista.  Does anyone here have bdist_msi
> experience?
>

For a), it should work by adding a manifest like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
  <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0"
      processorArchitecture="X86"
      name="MyProjectName"
      type="win32" />
  <description>MyProjectDescription</description>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges>
        <requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" />
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
</assembly>


"$(DevEnvDir)..\..\Common7\Tools\Bin\mt.exe" -manifest
"$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest"
?outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jan 15 15:39:18 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:39:18 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] need help for searching of text in a textbox for
 ms word
In-Reply-To: <207843.82029.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <207843.82029.qm@web50505.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <478CC596.7070803@timgolden.me.uk>

a_n_s_h_a_n wrote:
> ok. sorry about that but still thanks
> 
> i'm pretty new about this com stuff. 
> i just started reading a couple of days ago so 
> i don't know yet what are vbs/vba, or macro

[Copying back to the python-win32 list to keep
everything public: more people to help you!]

Well, there *are* search engines out there: putting
VBS and VBA into Google gets you some pretty convincing
hits. But, in short, they are Microsoft's scripting
languages, VBS general purpose, VBA specifically for
Word, Excel etc.

A macro is (in this context; it has several meanings) a
set of recorded actions within Microsoft Word which
eventually spits out a gobbet of VBA which will look
remarkably like the equivalent Python code.

TJG

From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 15 19:03:18 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:03:18 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] need help for searching of text in a textbox for
 ms	word
In-Reply-To: <343388.52565.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <343388.52565.qm@web50504.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <478CF566.3020203@probo.com>

a_n_s_h_a_n wrote:
> hi guys! i need help again. so i have this python program that is 
> supposed to search and replace text in ms word. i have successfully 
> searched and replaced all needed text but the problem is it only 
> replaces the normal text and not the ones found in textboxes.

Tim G's advice is right on, but as a little hint, textboxes in a Word 
document are considered "shapes", and are stored in the Document.Shapes 
collection.

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


From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 15 20:02:53 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:02:53 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Suitability of PyWin32 to manipulate windows
In-Reply-To: <20080114120517.GA60814@hal.rasterburn.org>
References: <20080114120517.GA60814@hal.rasterburn.org>
Message-ID: <478D035D.3040907@probo.com>

Torbj?rn Kristoffersen wrote:
> Hello, I'm not very familiar with Windows programming, so I would very much
> like some advice here.
>
> My goal is to start two programs from Python in Windows. These two windows
> will be maximized and cover the entire screen.
>
> Is Pywin32 capable of keeping track of these two programs, and control them in
> such a way that they can be focused (i.e. become the window on top, covering the
> other window) from my Python program?
>   

Yes, based on your description.  There are packages that make Windows 
automation a bit easier, but what you're describing doesn't even need 
that.  You can use win32ui.FindWindow to get window handles for the 
windows, based on their titles and/or window classes.  Once you have 
that, you can use SetWindowPos to adjust the "z-order" of the windows, 
which is the term Windows uses to describe the stacking order.  This 
forces a Notepad window to the rear:

    import win32con, win32ui
    p = win32ui.FindWindow( None, "x.txt - Notepad" )
    p.SetWindowPos( win32con.HWND_BOTTOM, (0,0,0,0),
        win32con.SWP_NOMOVE+win32con.SWP_NOSIZE+win32con.SWP_NOREPOSITION
    )

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


From wojtulek at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 12:50:48 2008
From: wojtulek at gmail.com (Wojtek P)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:50:48 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Events from Microsoft Word 97 (events for Word 2000
	is ok) - troubles
Message-ID: <4ed0e9d00801160350p509a7536tb28ac0593ade01f6@mail.gmail.com>

I have some troubles with events from word97. My application now works great
with Word2000 - but this is another python interface file (from makepy). But
when i try unistall w2k and install w97 i must write another events handler.
And now i have only OnDocumentChange event. Why i don't get any OnQuit
message?  Also when i ran testMSOfficeEvents.py test :|
But in 00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046x1033x8x0.py i see:
# Event Handlers
# If you create handlers, they should have the following prototypes:
#    def OnQuit(self):
#    def OnStartup(self):
#    def OnDocumentChange(self):

And another question - how to detect via win32com Word version - its my
self.wordVer variable.
Mayby i must write my own Document class? Please some help with this
problem!
[w.p.]

I use this code (incompleted):

########################
class KwWordEvents: # word2000
########################
  def OnQuit(self):
    print "OnQuit"
    self.seen_events["OnQuit"] = None

  def OnDocumentBeforeSave(self, Doc, SaveAsUI, Cancel):
    print "OnDocumentBeforeSave"
    self.seen_events["OnDocumentBeforeSave"] = None

  def OnDocumentBeforeClose(self, Doc, Cancel):
    print "OnDocumentBeforeClose"
    self.seen_events["OnDocumentBeforeClose"] = None


########################
class KwWordEvents8: # word 97
########################
  def OnQuit(self):
    print "w97 OnQuit"
    self.seen_events["OnQuit"] = None

  def OnStartup(self):
    print "w97 OnStartup"
    self.seen_events["OnStartup"] = None

  def OnDocumentChange(self):
    print "w97 OnDocumentChange"
    self.seen_events["OnDocumentChange"] = None

########################
class KwWord:
########################
  def __init__(self):
     self.wordVer = self.GetWordVer()
     if self.wordVer<=8:
       self.wordApp = win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("Word.Application",
KwWordEvents8)
     else:
       self.wordApp = win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("Word.Application",
KwWordEvents)

   def GetWordVer(self):
      ???
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From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 02:47:41 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:47:41 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I keep getting this error, and I cannot figure out why. I have code that
registers a window class that works, and code that does not. Both bits of
code create a WNDCLASS, both use byref(thewndclassinstance), both make sure
there is always a reference to the window class structure instance to ensure
it is not destroyed. Here is the error.

ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: expected
LP_WND
CLASS instance instead of pointer to WNDCLASS

Why would byref sometimes create an LP_WNDCLASS, and sometimes a 'pointer to
WNDCLASS'?


-- 
Henry
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From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 02:52:34 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:52:34 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801161752v30e82b6ci5a9812c1c8c40426@mail.gmail.com>

I also tried using 'pointer' instead of byref, just to see if I could learn
anything. The error is now:

ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: expected
LP_WND
CLASS instance instead of LP_WNDCLASS

Now I'm just more confused...

On Jan 16, 2008 5:47 PM, Henry Baxter <henry.baxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I keep getting this error, and I cannot figure out why. I have code that
> registers a window class that works, and code that does not. Both bits of
> code create a WNDCLASS, both use byref(thewndclassinstance), both make sure
> there is always a reference to the window class structure instance to ensure
> it is not destroyed. Here is the error.
>
> ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: expected
> LP_WND
> CLASS instance instead of pointer to WNDCLASS
>
> Why would byref sometimes create an LP_WNDCLASS, and sometimes a 'pointer
> to WNDCLASS'?
>
>
> --
> Henry




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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 17 03:37:22 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:37:22 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801161752v30e82b6ci5a9812c1c8c40426@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d04436f0801161752v30e82b6ci5a9812c1c8c40426@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <478EBF62.8080105@probo.com>

Henry Baxter wrote:
> I also tried using 'pointer' instead of byref, just to see if I could 
> learn anything. The error is now:
>
> ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 
> expected LP_WND
> CLASS instance instead of LP_WNDCLASS
>
> Now I'm just more confused...

Sample code?

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


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 04:21:55 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:21:55 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
In-Reply-To: <478EBF62.8080105@probo.com>
References: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
	<8d04436f0801161752v30e82b6ci5a9812c1c8c40426@mail.gmail.com>
	<478EBF62.8080105@probo.com>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801161921u4e577bc4u99a8d6e76392288@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Tim,

Both python files had code like this:

def register(self):
        self.wc = WNDCLASS()
        self.wc.style = win32con.CS_PARENTDC
        self.wc.lpfnWndProc = WNDPROC(WndProc)
        self.wc.cbClsExtra = self.wc.cbWndExtra = 0
        self.wc.hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL)
        self.wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, win32con.IDI_APPLICATION)
        self.wc.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, win32con.IDC_ARROW)
        self.wc.hbrBackground = NULL
        self.wc.lpszMenuName = None
        self.wc.lpszClassName = self.classname
        RegisterClass(byref(self.wc))

Which was, and is, 100% correct, I think. The problem, which I just figured
out, had to do with the modules they were both importing. One of them was
importing a module that I had deleted, but the .pyc file still existed for
it. I am not certain what was in that .pyc file, but it was causing the
problem. As soon as I stopped importing that module, the problem went away.

I am actually fairly annoyed that I could not easily determine what the
precise problem was, but thankfully for me it has gone away.


Henry

On Jan 16, 2008 6:37 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Henry Baxter wrote:
> > I also tried using 'pointer' instead of byref, just to see if I could
> > learn anything. The error is now:
> >
> > ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
> > expected LP_WND
> > CLASS instance instead of LP_WNDCLASS
> >
> > Now I'm just more confused...
>
> Sample code?
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 17 05:10:31 2008
From: uvhs_t3p at yahoo.com (a_n_s_h_a_n)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:10:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32]  desperately needing help for textbox for ms word
In-Reply-To: <478CF566.3020203@probo.com>
Message-ID: <333662.26557.qm@web50506.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

i am in desperate need of help now. my boss is going to kill me.
   
  my simple request would be, could someone please create a simple program that:
  - imports win32com.client
  - adds a textbox in a word document
  - the color of the textbox would be filled in red
  - and add a text in the textbox saying "help me"
   
  i've been trying this for 4 days now. please. thank you so much
   
  i've tried googling vba's but no results shown how to do this in python. i tried macros but i can't seem to create a textbox when recording a macro. if i create a textbox before recording the macro, the macro things are not compatible with python like the RGB() thing

       
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From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Jan 17 06:57:23 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:57:23 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] desperately needing help for textbox for ms word
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP051D3900CC61BBFB2114CEA3410@CEZ.ICE>

import win32com.client, win32api
w=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('word.application',0)
w.Visible=1
d=w.Documents.Add()
tb=d.Shapes.AddTextbox(1,10,10, 100, 100)
tb.Name='My text box'
tb.TextFrame.TextRange.Text='hey bubba!'
tb.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = win32api.RGB(255, 0, 0)


         Roger


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 17 09:49:52 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:49:52 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] need help for searching of text in a textbox for
 ms word
In-Reply-To: <342297.47115.qm@web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <342297.47115.qm@web50501.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <478F16B0.6010106@timgolden.me.uk>

[Copying back to the list... again. Please keep
your posts on-list: I'm not the only person who
can answer questions about python-win32!]

a_n_s_h_a_n wrote:
> hi! i found something on the web about finding 
> and replacing text anywhere in the ms word document. 
> the problem is that it is in vb form. i need help 
> converting this to python specifically the last line. 
> i tried converting the last line to 
> "Selection.Find.Execute(Replace=wdReplaceAll)" but python 
> said that wdReplaceAll is not defined. please help 
> converting. thanks

>     Find.Text = <find text>
>   Find.Replacement.Text = <replacement text>
>   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

OK. Good effort. As you've realised, while VBA/S allows
function calls without brackets, Python does not, so you're
quite right to use .Execute (Replace...

The missing piece is that the constants like wdReplaceAll
which are available in the global namespace under VBA/S
are in a special constants namespace under Python, and
even then only if you've generated the proxy modules
(early-binding) for the COM Object.

A suitable code snippet would be:

<code>
import win32com.client

#
# Make sure the proxy module is generated
#
word = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Word.Application")
constants = win32com.client.constants
print constants.wdReplaceAll

#
# ... other bits of program
#

Selection.Find.Execute (Replace=constants.wdReplaceAll)

</code>

I haven't actually tested the .Find.Execute bit (and I'm
not really that conversant in Word automation) but the
rest is sound enough.

TJG

From Amit.Arora at infogain.com  Thu Jan 17 09:53:38 2008
From: Amit.Arora at infogain.com (Amit Arora)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:23:38 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] desperately needing help for textbox for ms word
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP051D3900CC61BBFB2114CEA3410@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <C86899CCB10A6C4E93D5978DCB232D4B0780C202@GDCMX01.igglobal.com>


I guess it was more of a syntax error :
Try this now , it works and creates a text box with ReD Background
......

_______________________________________________________________________

import win32com.client, win32api
w=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('word.application',0)
w.Visible=1
d=w.Documents.Add()
tb=d.Shapes.AddTextbox(1,10,10, 100, 100)
tb.Name='My text box'
tb.TextFrame.TextRange.Text='hey bubba!'
tb.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = win32api.RGB(255, 0, 0)

_______________________________________________________________________

Best Regards,
-Amit Arora

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Roger Upole
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:27 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] desperately needing help for textbox for ms
word

import win32com.client, win32api
w=win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('word.application',0)
w.Visible=1
d=w.Documents.Add()
tb=d.Shapes.AddTextbox(1,10,10, 100, 100)
tb.Name='My text box'
tb.TextFrame.TextRange.Text='hey bubba!'
tb.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = win32api.RGB(255, 0, 0)


         Roger

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From theller at ctypes.org  Thu Jan 17 12:50:38 2008
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:50:38 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
In-Reply-To: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <fmnfed$pab$1@ger.gmane.org>

Henry Baxter schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I keep getting this error, and I cannot figure out why. I have code that
> registers a window class that works, and code that does not. Both bits of
> code create a WNDCLASS, both use byref(thewndclassinstance), both make sure
> there is always a reference to the window class structure instance to ensure
> it is not destroyed. Here is the error.
> 
> ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: expected
> LP_WND
> CLASS instance instead of pointer to WNDCLASS
> 
> Why would byref sometimes create an LP_WNDCLASS, and sometimes a 'pointer to
> WNDCLASS'?

This problem probably happens when you have several WNDCLASS classes defined,
perhaps in several modules.  These classes are similar, but separate, and ctypes
isinstance checks fail.

You should always use the WNDCLASS defined in ctypes.wintypes instead of defining
your own.  In ctypeslib dynamic modules, you should place a 'from ctypes import *'
and 'from ctypes.wintypes import *' at the top.

Thomas


From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 15:42:56 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:42:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] LP_WNDCLASS vs pointer to WNDCLASS
In-Reply-To: <fmnfed$pab$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <8d04436f0801161747p42bff86ew2711cdb21fd8584e@mail.gmail.com>
	<fmnfed$pab$1@ger.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801170642u76826ec1h74888db3444a526e@mail.gmail.com>

Somehow I managed to forget about the wintypes module :) I stopped using it
because it didn't define a lot of stuff I was using, but I'll be sure to use
it from now on, and only add new definitions in my code, to avoid the
confusion and redefinition.

Thank you for the help

On Jan 17, 2008 3:50 AM, Thomas Heller <theller at ctypes.org> wrote:

> Henry Baxter schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I keep getting this error, and I cannot figure out why. I have code that
> > registers a window class that works, and code that does not. Both bits
> of
> > code create a WNDCLASS, both use byref(thewndclassinstance), both make
> sure
> > there is always a reference to the window class structure instance to
> ensure
> > it is not destroyed. Here is the error.
> >
> > ctypes.ArgumentError: argument 1: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
> expected
> > LP_WND
> > CLASS instance instead of pointer to WNDCLASS
> >
> > Why would byref sometimes create an LP_WNDCLASS, and sometimes a
> 'pointer to
> > WNDCLASS'?
>
> This problem probably happens when you have several WNDCLASS classes
> defined,
> perhaps in several modules.  These classes are similar, but separate, and
> ctypes
> isinstance checks fail.
>
> You should always use the WNDCLASS defined in ctypes.wintypes instead of
> defining
> your own.  In ctypeslib dynamic modules, you should place a 'from ctypes
> import *'
> and 'from ctypes.wintypes import *' at the top.
>
> Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri Jan 18 05:09:39 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:09:39 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation on
	Vista
Message-ID: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>

On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from an "elevated"
process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a command-prompt open
started with "run as administrator", do registration and unregistration
there, then switch back to the normal command-prompt to do testing etc.  I
finally got annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this
error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation (the infamous
Vista "Allow" dialog).

However, it's not perfect;
* a new process is created to perform the actual registration, and the
output from this process is lost.  The normal ways of getting child process
will not work, as the child must be executed via ShellExecuteEx for the
elevation to happen.  We can get the exit code of the process, but no
output.
* The elevation prompt simply says "python.exe" wants big-bad-scary access
to your computer.  AFAIK, there is no way to have windows use a different
string (ie, to indicate a com object is being registered)
* It might be too magic - should this just be left as the responsibility of
the packager?  Will it interfere with "frozen" servers?

As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the specific
implementation and the general idea, or anything else you can think of.
I've attached the patch.

Thanks!

Mark

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From Andrew.MACKEITH at 3ds.com  Fri Jan 18 15:00:22 2008
From: Andrew.MACKEITH at 3ds.com (MACKEITH Andrew)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:00:22 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
	onVista
In-Reply-To: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
Message-ID: <EC65ECCDC9917646AB79CE66C8BA237B1F337C@CORP-CLT-EXB03.ds>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hammond
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:10 PM
> To: 'Python-Win32 List'
> Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and 
> elevation onVista
> 
> On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from 
> an "elevated"
> process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a 
> command-prompt open started with "run as administrator", do 
> registration and unregistration there, then switch back to 
> the normal command-prompt to do testing etc.  I finally got 
> annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this 
> error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation 
> (the infamous Vista "Allow" dialog).
> 
> However, it's not perfect;
> * a new process is created to perform the actual 
> registration, and the output from this process is lost.  The 
> normal ways of getting child process will not work, as the 
> child must be executed via ShellExecuteEx for the elevation 
> to happen.  We can get the exit code of the process, but no output.
> * The elevation prompt simply says "python.exe" wants 
> big-bad-scary access to your computer.  AFAIK, there is no 
> way to have windows use a different string (ie, to indicate a 
> com object is being registered)
> * It might be too magic - should this just be left as the 
> responsibility of the packager?  Will it interfere with 
> "frozen" servers?
> 
> As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the 
> specific implementation and the general idea, or anything 
> else you can think of.
> I've attached the patch.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 

Does this mean that a user needs administrator access to use Python COM
on Vista, or is this only for registering a Python COM object for use as
a COM server?

Andrew
 

From timr at probo.com  Fri Jan 18 19:02:06 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:02:06 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
 on	Vista
In-Reply-To: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
Message-ID: <4790E99E.3040506@probo.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:
> On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from an "elevated"
> process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a command-prompt open
> started with "run as administrator", do registration and unregistration
> there, then switch back to the normal command-prompt to do testing etc.  I
> finally got annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this
> error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation (the infamous
> Vista "Allow" dialog).
> ...
> As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the specific
> implementation and the general idea, or anything else you can think of.
> I've attached the patch.
>   

It is possible (since XP) to register a COM object in 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes instead of 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes (which is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).  
Writing to HKCU should not require elevation.  However, as you might 
expect, that results in a COM object that is usable only by the current 
user.

An application with "setup" or "install" or "update" in its filename 
automatically gets elevated.  I wonder if it would be possible to create 
a clone of Python.exe called PythonSetup.exe and use that for 
registration?  I guess that's not really better than your solution.

You're right, there are no perfect answers.

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


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sat Jan 19 00:30:35 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:35 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
	onVista
In-Reply-To: <EC65ECCDC9917646AB79CE66C8BA237B1F337C@CORP-CLT-EXB03.ds>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
	<EC65ECCDC9917646AB79CE66C8BA237B1F337C@CORP-CLT-EXB03.ds>
Message-ID: <003201c85a2a$23007d20$69017760$@com.au>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MACKEITH Andrew [mailto:Andrew.MACKEITH at 3ds.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 19 January 2008 1:00 AM
> To: Mark Hammond; Python-Win32 List
> Subject: RE: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and
> elevation onVista
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Mark Hammond
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:10 PM
> > To: 'Python-Win32 List'
> > Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and
> > elevation onVista
> >
> > On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from
> > an "elevated"
> > process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a
> > command-prompt open started with "run as administrator", do
> > registration and unregistration there, then switch back to
> > the normal command-prompt to do testing etc.  I finally got
> > annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this
> > error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation
> > (the infamous Vista "Allow" dialog).
> >
> > However, it's not perfect;
> > * a new process is created to perform the actual
> > registration, and the output from this process is lost.  The
> > normal ways of getting child process will not work, as the
> > child must be executed via ShellExecuteEx for the elevation
> > to happen.  We can get the exit code of the process, but no output.
> > * The elevation prompt simply says "python.exe" wants
> > big-bad-scary access to your computer.  AFAIK, there is no
> > way to have windows use a different string (ie, to indicate a
> > com object is being registered)
> > * It might be too magic - should this just be left as the
> > responsibility of the packager?  Will it interfere with
> > "frozen" servers?
> >
> > As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the
> > specific implementation and the general idea, or anything
> > else you can think of.
> > I've attached the patch.
> >
> 
> Does this mean that a user needs administrator access to use Python COM
> on Vista, or is this only for registering a Python COM object for use
> as a COM server?

The latter - only when registering the object.  Once registered, it can be
used by normal users.

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sat Jan 19 00:38:13 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:38:13 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
	on	Vista
In-Reply-To: <4790E99E.3040506@probo.com>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
	<4790E99E.3040506@probo.com>
Message-ID: <003301c85a2b$31a37a70$94ea6f50$@com.au>

> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-
> bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
> Sent: Saturday, 19 January 2008 5:02 AM

...
> It is possible (since XP) to register a COM object in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes instead of
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes (which is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).
> Writing to HKCU should not require elevation.  However, as you might
> expect, that results in a COM object that is usable only by the current
> user.

Yes, I weaseled my way out of that by saying it was necessary for
installation of "python COM" objects, not "COM objects" ;)  Supporting COM
objects in HKCU is probably worthwhile, but IMO is a different problem than
what I was solving, where the assumption is that the user trying to register
it does want it in HKLM, and is capable of doing so once elevated.

> An application with "setup" or "install" or "update" in its filename
> automatically gets elevated.  I wonder if it would be possible to
> create
> a clone of Python.exe called PythonSetup.exe and use that for
> registration?  I guess that's not really better than your solution.

An alternative there would be to name it anything we like, and give it the
manifest-foo that forces elevation.  MS have documented the hacks based on
filenames will go away in the future (yeah, riiiiight :)

> You're right, there are no perfect answers.

In your opinion, is my patch an improvement to the status-quo, or does it
have the potential to cause confusion?

Thanks,

Mark


From timr at probo.com  Sat Jan 19 01:16:46 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:16:46 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
 on	Vista
In-Reply-To: <003301c85a2b$31a37a70$94ea6f50$@com.au>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>	<4790E99E.3040506@probo.com>
	<003301c85a2b$31a37a70$94ea6f50$@com.au>
Message-ID: <4791416E.4080704@probo.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:
> In your opinion, is my patch an improvement to the status-quo, or does it
> have the potential to cause confusion?
>   

I think your patch is probably the right way to go.  It solves the 
problem for unsophisticated users, and sophisticated users will want to 
do their own thing anyway.

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


From rwupole at msn.com  Sat Jan 19 05:29:39 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:29:39 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
	onVista
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP13244FDA81CCD11C121B25A3430@CEZ.ICE>

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote in message 
news:129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au...
> On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from an "elevated"
> process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a command-prompt open
> started with "run as administrator", do registration and unregistration
> there, then switch back to the normal command-prompt to do testing etc.  I
> finally got annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this
> error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation (the 
> infamous
> Vista "Allow" dialog).
>
> However, it's not perfect;
> * a new process is created to perform the actual registration, and the
> output from this process is lost.  The normal ways of getting child 
> process
> will not work, as the child must be executed via ShellExecuteEx for the
> elevation to happen.  We can get the exit code of the process, but no
> output.
> * The elevation prompt simply says "python.exe" wants big-bad-scary access
> to your computer.  AFAIK, there is no way to have windows use a different
> string (ie, to indicate a com object is being registered)
> * It might be too magic - should this just be left as the responsibility 
> of
> the packager?  Will it interfere with "frozen" servers?
>
> As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the specific
> implementation and the general idea, or anything else you can think of.
> I've attached the patch.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark

Runas also works on XP, so you should be able to reduce the version check
by a notch.

Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile" to the passed args ?

For unattended installs, it might be helpful to have some way to suppress 
the
elevation attempt and just let it fail.

             Roger



From mc at mclaveau.com  Sat Jan 19 09:33:45 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:33:45 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation
	onVista
In-Reply-To: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
Message-ID: <D42A004919A64F18B2D25452A0E83089@MCI1330>

Hi, all!

Answer(s) "in bulk"...



[Mark]

a patch for register.py is a way moreover ; it is always good to take.

>The elevation prompt simply says "python.exe"

Yes. But developers can also inform their users.


> manifest

The problem is: manifest is link to python.exe (=> all python scripts). It's 
no possible to separate some scripts from others...


> Once registered (Python COM object/server), it can be used by normal 
> users.

I (to date) did not test a python-COM recorded with elevation, and used 
without elevation. Perhaps today...




[Tim Roberts]

> sophisticated users will want to do their own thing anyway

Wouah!!  I'm a "sophisticated user".  Yes, I already defined my own means, 
to install with elevation. I created scripts with AutoIt, which contains a 
pragma, "RequireAdmin", and can launch batchs. That is useful to me for 
PyWin32, but also for Python standard, and the majority of the 
installations/updates.


> An application with "setup" or "install" or "update" in its filename 
> automatically gets elevated

in theory, yes; but not (always) for me. I carried out some tests, of the 
times it's OK, of the times, not...




[Roger Upole]

> Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile"

Yes. This way run OK. I use that in my install, (with >>) like/for "log 
analyze", if problem.


> suppress the elevation

I confirm: Runas with non-admin user suppress the elevation




[Conclusion]:

some if my scripts don't run, if UAC is activated. Even in admin; even with 
elevation.
I am obliged to stop UAC; I do not have choice...  And, it's easy : only few 
reg entries & a reboot.



@-salutations

Michel Claveau


From rwupole at msn.com  Sat Jan 19 09:44:49 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:44:49 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and elevation on
	Vista
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP15A0868410FB6F7E6F8554A3430@CEZ.ICE>

"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message 
news:4790E99E.3040506 at probo.com...
> Mark Hammond wrote:
>> On Vista, it's necessary to register python COM objects from an 
>> "elevated"
>> process.  In practice, this means I tend to keep a command-prompt open
>> started with "run as administrator", do registration and unregistration
>> there, then switch back to the normal command-prompt to do testing etc. 
>> I
>> finally got annoyed at this, and came up with a patch that catches this
>> error, then retries the command after prompting for elevation (the 
>> infamous
>> Vista "Allow" dialog).
>> ...
>> As a result, I'd like some feedback on my approach - both the specific
>> implementation and the general idea, or anything else you can think of.
>> I've attached the patch.
>>
>
> It is possible (since XP) to register a COM object in
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes instead of
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes (which is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).
> Writing to HKCU should not require elevation.  However, as you might
> expect, that results in a COM object that is usable only by the current
> user.
>

A while back, I made some modifications to register.py to allow this, but
ran into a couple of roadblocks.

If the server has a typelib, RegisterTypeLib is called, which requires admin
privs.  There is RegisterTypeLibForUser, but it's not available on Win2k.
It should be possible to duplicate the keys created, but it will take some
research to identify them.

PyICatRegister.RegisterClassImplCategories also fails for a non-admin user,
and there doesn't appear to be any per-user call for this interface.
Anybody know if this is strictly necessary, or what the consequences of
omitting it are ?

               Roger


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sat Jan 19 11:17:19 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:17:19 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and
	elevation	onVista
In-Reply-To: <D42A004919A64F18B2D25452A0E83089@MCI1330>
References: <129101c85987$f2e09280$d8a1b780$@com.au>
	<D42A004919A64F18B2D25452A0E83089@MCI1330>
Message-ID: <005f01c85a84$7dac83e0$79058ba0$@com.au>

Hi Michel,

> > manifest
> 
> The problem is: manifest is link to python.exe (=> all python scripts).
> It's
> no possible to separate some scripts from others...

We could document that to get the admin privs, you should use a different
.exe.  But that still sucks :)

> I (to date) did not test a python-COM recorded with elevation, and used
> without elevation. Perhaps today...

That seems to work fine.

> [Roger Upole]
> 
> > Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile"
> 
> Yes. This way run OK. I use that in my install, (with >>) like/for "log
> analyze", if problem.

My patch uses ShellExecuteEx(); unless that uses %comspec%, redirection is
unlikely to work.  I've not tried though.  Any chance you could see if you
can get the child output?

> [Conclusion]:
> 
> some if my scripts don't run, if UAC is activated. Even in admin; even
> with
> elevation.
> I am obliged to stop UAC; I do not have choice...  And, it's easy :
> only few reg entries & a reboot.

I will not do that so I can test how things work for people who stick with
the recommended settings.  OTOH, Vista isn't my main dev env yet; it might
drive me mad if it was :)

Cheers,

Mark


From nicholasinparis at gmail.com  Sat Jan 19 18:22:06 2008
From: nicholasinparis at gmail.com (Nicholas)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:22:06 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] newbie question on calling DynamicPolicy.py from
	python com client
Message-ID: <cc213fa80801190922h1ad66c57y5f27fd670267f460@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have executed tried to call the ch12 example dynamic server "
DynamicPolicy.py" from python client via:

m = win32com.client.Dispatch('PythonDemos.StringModule')
m.split('hello there')

which gives the following error:
pythoncom error: Python error invoking COM method.
<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Objects of type 'function' can not be
converted to a COM VARIANT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 491,
in __getattr__
    raise pythoncom.com_error, details
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Python COM Server
Internal Error', "Unexpected Python Error: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
Objects of type 'function' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT", None, 0,
-2147467259), None)

Could anyone enlighted me on what I have done wrong?

Thanks

Nicholas
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From sebastian.home.nospam01 at wangnick.de  Sat Jan 19 13:51:20 2008
From: sebastian.home.nospam01 at wangnick.de (Sebastian Wangnick)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:51:20 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] IColumnProvider
Message-ID: <000001c85a99$ff285ab0$fd791010$@home.nospam01@wangnick.de>

Dear all,

 

I?m a happy user of win32com for long, generating Word documents from Python.

 

I?d now like to do something more ambitious, namely to implement an IColumnProvider.

Is an example of such a beast available, or could you provide me some help?

 

Also, does Vista still support IColumnProvider?s?

 

Kind regards,

Sebastian

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From sebastian.nospam01 at wangnick.de  Sat Jan 19 14:28:04 2008
From: sebastian.nospam01 at wangnick.de (Sebastian Wangnick)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:28:04 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] IColumnProvider
Message-ID: <000701c85a9f$1f2e5850$5d8b08f0$@nospam01@wangnick.de>

Dear all,

I?m a happy user of win32com for long, generating Word documents from Python.

I?d now like to do something more ambitious, namely to implement an IColumnProvider.
Is an example of such a beast available, or could you provide me some help?

Also, does Vista still support IColumnProvider?s?

Kind regards,
Sebastian
--
Sebastian Wangnick




From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Jan 20 02:56:25 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:56:25 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] newbie question on calling DynamicPolicy.py from
	python com client
In-Reply-To: <cc213fa80801190922h1ad66c57y5f27fd670267f460@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cc213fa80801190922h1ad66c57y5f27fd670267f460@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <00c401c85b07$ac532d10$04f98730$@com.au>

Somewhat embarrasingly, that sample doesn't work with Python (clearly I tried harder to make it work with VB then python :)  The problem is that Python itself attempts to fetch 'split' as a property, and depending on the error code it gets, it may retry as a method (the problem is that in the expression "a.b()", at the time 'a' is asked for property 'b' , its not yet known that the result will be called)

 

As a result, in the sample code, the lines:

 

        elif wFlags & pythoncom.DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET:

            return item

 

are being hit, so a function object is being returned from the COM method call, at which point pythoncom barfs with the error you see.  

 

There are 2 possible solutions: one would be to check that if the objects appears callable and DISPATCH_METHOD is not set, raise an exception with hresult DISP_E_MEMBERNOTFOUND.  Python will then retry as a method call.  The other alternative would be make a simple Dispatch wrapper for a function, with that wrapper having a '_value_' function, which should be called when python sees a call to a COM object (ie, "ob()" should cause the COM object 'ob' to be called with DISPID_VALUE)

 

Hope this helps,

 

Mark

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas
Sent: Sunday, 20 January 2008 4:22 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] newbie question on calling DynamicPolicy.py from python com client

 

Hi,

 

I have executed tried to call the ch12 example dynamic server "DynamicPolicy.py" from python client via:

 

m = win32com.client.Dispatch('PythonDemos.StringModule')

m.split('hello there')
 

which gives the following error:

pythoncom error: Python error invoking COM method.

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: Objects of type 'function' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> 
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 491, in __getattr__
    raise pythoncom.com_error, details
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, 'Python COM Server Internal Error', "Unexpected Python Error: <type ' exceptions.TypeError'>: Objects of type 'function' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT", None, 0, -2147467259), None)

 

Could anyone enlighted me on what I have done wrong?

 

Thanks

 

Nicholas

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Jan 20 03:01:48 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:01:48 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] IColumnProvider
In-Reply-To: <000701c85a9f$1f2e5850$5d8b08f0$@nospam01@wangnick.de>
References: <000701c85a9f$1f2e5850$5d8b08f0$@nospam01@wangnick.de>
Message-ID: <00c901c85b08$6d0550b0$470ff210$@com.au>

> Im a happy user of win32com for long, generating Word documents from
> Python.
> 
> Id now like to do something more ambitious, namely to implement an
> IColumnProvider.
> Is an example of such a beast available, or could you provide me some
> help?

You should find that other samples on the web are usable from python, and there is a 'column_provider.py' sample in the win32comext\shell\demos\servers directory.

> Also, does Vista still support IColumnProviders?

Nope, Vista has completely changed that world :(  I'm actually working on bringing more of that world to Python at the moment

Mark


From astralrod at gmail.com  Sun Jan 20 11:42:59 2008
From: astralrod at gmail.com (astralrod)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 04:42:59 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] transparency on window
In-Reply-To: <ffa5707d0801190214o221c2a8cw201d0015ebc040dc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ffa5707d0801190214o221c2a8cw201d0015ebc040dc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>

Hello!

I am doing a script to make a window transparent, but when using the
function:

Win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020.127, int
(win32api.RGB(255255255)), 0)

It always generates an error, so, I tried to see the attributes of the
window with

Win32gui.GetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020), but indicates that the
paramete is not correct

The handle what I found with the function win32.FindWindow (None, "*Python
Shell*")

Where my mistake and as I correct?

Thanks!

--
Thanks to google translator too.
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Jan 20 13:08:58 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:08:58 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and
	elevation	onVista
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP13244FDA81CCD11C121B25A3430@CEZ.ICE>
References: <BAYC1-PASMTP13244FDA81CCD11C121B25A3430@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <00ff01c85b5d$3f560fb0$be022f10$@com.au>

Hi Roger,

> Runas also works on XP, so you should be able to reduce the version
> check by a notch.

Does it actually do anything there?  Maybe it prompts for admin
username/password when the user isn't an admin (as opposed to vista, which
fails even when the user *is* admin but not yet elevated).  I guess I can
google as well as you (but not tonight :)

> Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile" to the passed
> args ?

It appears cmd.exe isn't used.  I probably could use COMSPEC as the command,
but then I'd be likely to get 'cmd.exe' instead of 'python.exe' (which would
be much worse) and I'm really not sure its worth it for the extra complexity
- what do you (or anyone) think?

> For unattended installs, it might be helpful to have some way to
> suppress the elevation attempt and just let it fail.

Yes, good point - I should check a value in 'flags' before - 'no_retry'
sounds reasonable (ideally the boolean wouldn't have a 'no_' prefix, but
having flags default to 0/None/False etc sounds more compelling). But now is
the time to get it right, so better names welcome :)

FYI, I've finally got everything building with the Vista SDK which is
excellent - thanks for your help.  I'll just get one more Vista/Explorer
sample working and I'll get onto a new pywin32.

Thanks,

Mark


From mc at mclaveau.com  Sun Jan 20 13:20:30 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:20:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] newbie question on calling DynamicPolicy.py
	frompython com client
In-Reply-To: <cc213fa80801190922h1ad66c57y5f27fd670267f460@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cc213fa80801190922h1ad66c57y5f27fd670267f460@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2BE3AF7BCAE34D87A600B6F21BE1274A@MCI1330>

Hi!

Sorry, I can't read "THE" book, today.

I only wish to say than Python-COM-dynamic-server run very well.  I use this 
techno all days, and also many of my customers (but they don't know it ; 
because it's transparent, for them).

@-salutations

Michel Claveau



From nicholasinparis at gmail.com  Sun Jan 20 13:36:32 2008
From: nicholasinparis at gmail.com (Nicholas)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:36:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Python and excel
Message-ID: <cc213fa80801200436t5277cc9fqf123eb976b71ed39@mail.gmail.com>

Progressing through (lower regions of) the python/Com learning curve I
cannot help but think (and I know im not the first to suggest this) that a
python interpreter could take the place of the VBA editor.
1. It seems to me we could automatically set a com wrapper around any
arbitrary function defined in python.
2. we can essentially get python to publish and renew when necessary any Com
definition excel is working with

Anyone have views or ideas on this issue?

Nicholas
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From henry.baxter at gmail.com  Mon Jan 21 02:03:54 2008
From: henry.baxter at gmail.com (Henry Baxter)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:03:54 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] transparency on window
In-Reply-To: <ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ffa5707d0801190214o221c2a8cw201d0015ebc040dc@mail.gmail.com>
	<ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8d04436f0801201703n675b5e4cg50cde6e58f07bcdd@mail.gmail.com>

Are you sure you are working with a layered window? I'm pretty certain that
for these functions to work you need to have a window with the WS_EX_LAYERED
style bit set.

On Jan 20, 2008 2:42 AM, astralrod <astralrod at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello!
>
> I am doing a script to make a window transparent, but when using the
> function:
>
> Win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020.127, int (win32api.RGB(255255255)), 0)
>
> It always generates an error, so, I tried to see the attributes of the
> window with
>
> Win32gui.GetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020), but indicates that the
> paramete is not correct
>
> The handle what I found with the function win32.FindWindow (None, "*Python
> Shell*")
>
> Where my mistake and as I correct?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Thanks to google translator too.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From rwupole at msn.com  Mon Jan 21 08:01:05 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:01:05 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: COM registration/unregistration and
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP06C2F38AEC6666C2A89D49A33D0@CEZ.ICE>

Mark Hammond wrote:
>> Runas also works on XP, so you should be able to reduce the version
>> check by a notch.
>
> Does it actually do anything there?  Maybe it prompts for admin
> username/password when the user isn't an admin (as opposed to vista, which
> fails even when the user *is* admin but not yet elevated).  I guess I can
> google as well as you (but not tonight :)

It brings up a dialog asking for alternate username/passwd, with the 
username
defaulting to admin acct.

>> Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile" to the passed
>> args ?
>
> It appears cmd.exe isn't used.  I probably could use COMSPEC as the
> command,
> but then I'd be likely to get 'cmd.exe' instead of 'python.exe' (which
> would
> be much worse) and I'm really not sure its worth it for the extra
> complexity
> - what do you (or anyone) think?

That does sound more confusing.

>> For unattended installs, it might be helpful to have some way to
>> suppress the elevation attempt and just let it fail.
>
> Yes, good point - I should check a value in 'flags' before - 'no_retry'
> sounds reasonable (ideally the boolean wouldn't have a 'no_' prefix, but
> having flags default to 0/None/False etc sounds more compelling). But now
> is
> the time to get it right, so better names welcome :)

How about 'unattended' ?  That way any other places that might ask for
user interaction would have a common switch.

> FYI, I've finally got everything building with the Vista SDK which is
> excellent - thanks for your help.  I'll just get one more Vista/Explorer
> sample working and I'll get onto a new pywin32.

I'm just about done with the changes for building win32api with UNICODE,
but I don't think I'm going to commit them before the next release.

            Roger





From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Jan 21 12:15:47 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:15:47 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM registration/unregistration and
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP06C2F38AEC6666C2A89D49A33D0@CEZ.ICE>
References: <BAYC1-PASMTP06C2F38AEC6666C2A89D49A33D0@CEZ.ICE>
Message-ID: <017501c85c1e$fb4e8320$f1eb8960$@com.au>

> >> Could you capture the output by adding ">somelogfile" to the passed
> >> args ?
> >
> > It appears cmd.exe isn't used.  I probably could use COMSPEC as the
> > command,
> > but then I'd be likely to get 'cmd.exe' instead of 'python.exe'
> (which
> > would
> > be much worse) and I'm really not sure its worth it for the extra
> > complexity
> > - what do you (or anyone) think?
> 
> That does sound more confusing.

For interest, I tried using cmd.exe instead of python.exe (but didn't try
redirection).  Ironically, the dialog that is thrown up is "friendlier" - it
says "windows needs your permission to continue" with a nice shield icon,
but using python.exe is a little scarier, with a yellow bar, no shield icon,
and saying "an unidentified program ...".  Still, the latter identifies
'python.exe' (as opposed to 'Windows Command Processor').  *sob* :)

> How about 'unattended' ?  That way any other places that might ask for
> user interaction would have a common switch.

nice!  I've used that - and noticed that specifying a hwnd centers the
dialog over the window, which is a good usability cue, so I've also added
support for a 'hwnd' flag defaulting to winxpgui.GetConsoleWindow()/0
(update cvs :)  Comments on the attached updated patch invited.
 
> I'm just about done with the changes for building win32api with
> UNICODE,
> but I don't think I'm going to commit them before the next release.

Actually I'd be inclined to go for it if you are fairly confident and put it
through some reasonable smoke tests.  I've previously said the next pywin32
build will be considered experimental/unstable, so I'd like to be
conservative about build 212 (in the aim of getting a new solid pywin32
release out less than 2 years before the last one <frown>)

It looks like I'll be at pycon 2008 too - I'd love to collect and/or buy
some beers for anyone who can make it ;)
 
Cheers,

Mark
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From le.dahut at laposte.net  Mon Jan 21 17:04:56 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:04:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] ctypes and python dll callbacks
Message-ID: <4794C2A8.5090106@laposte.net>

Hello,
I'm trying to use RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx. Since it isn't available 
in pywin32, I have to call it from advapi32.dll using ctypes.
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx is useful to replace winlogon notification 
package to get informations about login/logoff events. I could use SENS 
in a com server but I have already an NT service running a twisted 
PerspectiveBroker server.
A handler to a callback function must be passed to 
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx. How can a python callback function handler 
be created to be passed to a ctypes DLL function ?


advapi32 = ctypes.oledll.LoadLibrary('Advapi32.dll')
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx = advapi32.RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerExW
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx(svc_name, myPyFunc, svc_name)

returns :
<class 'ctypes.ArgumentError'>: argument 2: <type 
'exceptions.TypeError'>: Don't know how to convert parameter 2

Any idea ?



From Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com  Mon Jan 21 18:24:06 2008
From: Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com (Rickey, Kyle W)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:24:06 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Global Window Messages
Message-ID: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07069F79@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. I would
like to monitor system wide window messages to see when windows are
created/destroyed. The reason being I am writing a small app that will
reposition windows automatically. I thought of a couple of different
approaches.

 

First:

In a loop: use win32gui.EnumWindows() to see what windows are currently
displayed and in the next iteration of the loop, see what windows have
changed since the last run. This somewhat worked, but doesn't catch only
new windows. For example, some programs may change their title bar text
while they are displaying, causing some problems.

 

Second:

Also in a loop enumerate running processes. If I see a new process that
I want to find windows for, act accordingly. However, this ate up
bunches of CPU enumerating processes over and over. The following code
demonstrates that:

 

import win32com.client

wmi = win32com.client.GetObject('winmgmts:')

while self.keep_looking:

time.sleep(0.1)

            if self.processes == []:

            for p in wmi.InstancesOf('win32_process'):

                        process_name = str(p.Properties_('Name'))

                        process_id = int(p.Properties_('ProcessId'))

                        print process_name, process_id

 

So then I thought there must be a way to receive a message when a new
window is created so I can act accordingly. After some research it
appears that SetWindowsHookEx is what I'm after, however it is not
wrapped by python-win32. However ctypes will let me call those
functions, but I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I found a page
explaining how to do it in VB, and I've created my code based on it. The
site is down, but can be viewed with google cache.

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:orLCeZV4kjoJ:04.code-hosting.com/Vi
sual_Basic/1353728-Notification-of-program-launch-and-termination+python
+SetWindowsHookExA&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

 

I'm not sure where to go from here though. The following runs without
error, but doesn't show any messages. I know I need to setup a loop, but
how do I get the messages? Do I need to create a window with the
win32gui functions and read it's messages? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 

import win32con, win32gui, ctypes

 

hwnd = win32gui.GetActiveWindow()

msgShellHook = ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterWindowMessageA("SHELLHOOK")

hShellLib = ctypes.windll.kernel32.LoadLibraryA("shell32")
#GetModuleHandleA also return the same value

lpfnHookProc = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetProcAddress(hShellLib,
"ShellHookProc")

ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterShellHookWindow(hwnd)

hHook = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowsHookExA(win32con.WH_SHELL,
lpfnHookProc, hShellLib, 0)

 

Also, some useful links:

SetWindowsHookEx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644990.aspx

GetProcAddress
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683212.aspx

RegisterWindowMessage
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644947(VS.85).aspx

LoadLibrary
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684175(VS.85).aspx

 

 

-Kyle Rickey

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From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan 21 20:05:23 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:05:23 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] transparency on window
In-Reply-To: <ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ffa5707d0801190214o221c2a8cw201d0015ebc040dc@mail.gmail.com>
	<ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4794ECF3.8040003@probo.com>

astralrod wrote:
>
> I am doing a script to make a window transparent, but when using the 
> function:
>
> Win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020.127, int (win32api.RGB 
> (255255255)), 0)

This snippet is clearly wrong, because (a) win32gui is not capitalized, 
(b) window handles are not floating point numbers, and (c) the RGB 
function requires three arguments:
    win32api.RGB(255,255,255)

What version of PyWin32 are you running?  Mine doesn't include 
win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes at all.


> It always generates an error, so, I tried to see the attributes of the 
> window with
>
> Win32gui.GetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020), but indicates that the 
> paramete is not correct
>
> The handle what I found with the function win32.FindWindow (None, 
> "*Python Shell*")

Do you mean win32gui.FindWindow?  That calls the API directly, and the 
API doesn't handle wildcards, unless Mark added this in some new 
release.  In addition, Henry is right; you can only call 
SetLayeredWindowAttributes on a window with the WS_EX_LAYERED style.  
You can set that style on a window by using SetWindowLong, although 
there's no telling how the application that owns the window will respond.

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


From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan 21 20:17:23 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:17:23 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Global Window Messages
In-Reply-To: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07069F79@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>
References: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07069F79@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>
Message-ID: <4794EFC3.3070907@probo.com>

Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
>
> I?m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. I would 
> like to monitor system wide window messages to see when windows are 
> created/destroyed. The reason being I am writing a small app that will 
> reposition windows automatically. I thought of a couple of different 
> approaches.
>
>  
>
> First:
>
> In a loop: use win32gui.EnumWindows() to see what windows are 
> currently displayed and in the next iteration of the loop, see what 
> windows have changed since the last run. This somewhat worked, but 
> doesn?t catch only new windows. For example, some programs may change 
> their title bar text while they are displaying, causing some problems.
>
>  
>
> Second:
>
> Also in a loop enumerate running processes. If I see a new process 
> that I want to find windows for, act accordingly. However, this ate up 
> bunches of CPU enumerating processes over and over.
>

No, polling is not the answer.  You need a windows hook.  Note, however, 
that create and destroy are not the right things to look for; at the 
point a window is created, it isn't yet visible and doesn't have a 
location assigned. 

What you probably want is a WH_CBT hook so that you can catch 
WM_ACTIVATE and WM_DEACTIVATE.

> So then I thought there must be a way to receive a message when a new 
> window is created so I can act accordingly. After some research it 
> appears that SetWindowsHookEx is what I?m after, however it is not 
> wrapped by python-win32.
>

Right, and there's a reason for this.  When you create a windows hook, 
you are "injecting" your code into every process in the system.  If it 
is Python code, that means the Python interpreter DLL and any of the 
DLLs it requires will become part of the other processes.  Your hook 
code will be executed for every window message in the system, and that 
can be very, very expensive.

I suggest you look at the pyAA package from 
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/.  I suspect they have enough 
stuff for you to do what you want, in their NotifyOnClose and 
NotifyOnOpen events.


> I?m not sure where to go from here though. The following runs without 
> error, but doesn?t show any messages. I know I need to setup a loop, 
> but how do I get the messages? Do I need to create a window with the 
> win32gui functions and read it?s messages? Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
>  
>
> import win32con, win32gui, ctypes
>
>  
>
> hwnd = win32gui.GetActiveWindow()
>
> msgShellHook = ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterWindowMessageA("SHELLHOOK")
>
> hShellLib = ctypes.windll.kernel32.LoadLibraryA("shell32") 
> #GetModuleHandleA also return the same value
>
> lpfnHookProc = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetProcAddress(hShellLib, 
> "ShellHookProc")
>
> ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterShellHookWindow(hwnd)
>
> hHook = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowsHookExA(win32con.WH_SHELL, 
> lpfnHookProc, hShellLib, 0)
>

No, this does something that SOUNDS like what you want, but isn't.  What 
this does is tells the system to call ShellHookProc inside shell32.dll 
every time that the shell application (i.e., Explorer) is about to start 
or stop.  It doesn't call your own function, and it doesn't hook the 
right events.

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


From Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com  Mon Jan 21 22:29:08 2008
From: Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com (Rickey, Kyle W)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:08 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] transparency on window
In-Reply-To: <4794ECF3.8040003@probo.com>
References: <ffa5707d0801190214o221c2a8cw201d0015ebc040dc@mail.gmail.com><ffa5707d0801200242k55603b2ex3888774d40601f2e@mail.gmail.com>
	<4794ECF3.8040003@probo.com>
Message-ID: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C0706A1D5@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>

I'm using build 210 and I've got that method.

-Kyle Rickey

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:05 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] transparency on window

astralrod wrote:
>
> I am doing a script to make a window transparent, but when using the 
> function:
>
> Win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020.127, int (win32api.RGB 
> (255255255)), 0)

This snippet is clearly wrong, because (a) win32gui is not capitalized, 
(b) window handles are not floating point numbers, and (c) the RGB 
function requires three arguments:
    win32api.RGB(255,255,255)

What version of PyWin32 are you running?  Mine doesn't include 
win32gui.SetLayeredWindowAttributes at all.


> It always generates an error, so, I tried to see the attributes of the

> window with
>
> Win32gui.GetLayeredWindowAttributes (918020), but indicates that the 
> paramete is not correct
>
> The handle what I found with the function win32.FindWindow (None, 
> "*Python Shell*")

Do you mean win32gui.FindWindow?  That calls the API directly, and the 
API doesn't handle wildcards, unless Mark added this in some new 
release.  In addition, Henry is right; you can only call 
SetLayeredWindowAttributes on a window with the WS_EX_LAYERED style.  
You can set that style on a window by using SetWindowLong, although 
there's no telling how the application that owns the window will
respond.

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

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From Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com  Mon Jan 21 22:29:25 2008
From: Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com (Rickey, Kyle W)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:29:25 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Global Window Messages
In-Reply-To: <4794EFC3.3070907@probo.com>
References: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07069F79@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>
	<4794EFC3.3070907@probo.com>
Message-ID: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C0706A1D6@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>

Tim, thank you for your response. I'm looking at pyAA and they don't
have an installer for python 2.5. They've got one for 2.4, so I tried to
install it, and it exited telling me it requires 2.4. So I extracted the
files out of the installer and put them my site-packages directory.
However, I get in import error. That the python24.dll could not be
found. Will I not be able to use this package with python 2.5? Here's
the link for their sourceforge page
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65529&package_id=7
4417



-Kyle Rickey

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:17 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Global Window Messages

Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but here goes. I would

> like to monitor system wide window messages to see when windows are 
> created/destroyed. The reason being I am writing a small app that will

> reposition windows automatically. I thought of a couple of different 
> approaches.
>
>  
>
> First:
>
> In a loop: use win32gui.EnumWindows() to see what windows are 
> currently displayed and in the next iteration of the loop, see what 
> windows have changed since the last run. This somewhat worked, but 
> doesn't catch only new windows. For example, some programs may change 
> their title bar text while they are displaying, causing some problems.
>
>  
>
> Second:
>
> Also in a loop enumerate running processes. If I see a new process 
> that I want to find windows for, act accordingly. However, this ate up

> bunches of CPU enumerating processes over and over.
>

No, polling is not the answer.  You need a windows hook.  Note, however,

that create and destroy are not the right things to look for; at the 
point a window is created, it isn't yet visible and doesn't have a 
location assigned. 

What you probably want is a WH_CBT hook so that you can catch 
WM_ACTIVATE and WM_DEACTIVATE.

> So then I thought there must be a way to receive a message when a new 
> window is created so I can act accordingly. After some research it 
> appears that SetWindowsHookEx is what I'm after, however it is not 
> wrapped by python-win32.
>

Right, and there's a reason for this.  When you create a windows hook, 
you are "injecting" your code into every process in the system.  If it 
is Python code, that means the Python interpreter DLL and any of the 
DLLs it requires will become part of the other processes.  Your hook 
code will be executed for every window message in the system, and that 
can be very, very expensive.

I suggest you look at the pyAA package from 
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/.  I suspect they have enough 
stuff for you to do what you want, in their NotifyOnClose and 
NotifyOnOpen events.


> I'm not sure where to go from here though. The following runs without 
> error, but doesn't show any messages. I know I need to setup a loop, 
> but how do I get the messages? Do I need to create a window with the 
> win32gui functions and read it's messages? Any help would be greatly 
> appreciated.
>
>  
>
> import win32con, win32gui, ctypes
>
>  
>
> hwnd = win32gui.GetActiveWindow()
>
> msgShellHook =
ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterWindowMessageA("SHELLHOOK")
>
> hShellLib = ctypes.windll.kernel32.LoadLibraryA("shell32") 
> #GetModuleHandleA also return the same value
>
> lpfnHookProc = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetProcAddress(hShellLib, 
> "ShellHookProc")
>
> ctypes.windll.user32.RegisterShellHookWindow(hwnd)
>
> hHook = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowsHookExA(win32con.WH_SHELL, 
> lpfnHookProc, hShellLib, 0)
>

No, this does something that SOUNDS like what you want, but isn't.  What

this does is tells the system to call ShellHookProc inside shell32.dll 
every time that the shell application (i.e., Explorer) is about to start

or stop.  It doesn't call your own function, and it doesn't hook the 
right events.

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

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From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan 21 22:53:57 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:53:57 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Global Window Messages
In-Reply-To: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C0706A1D6@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>
References: <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07069F79@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>	<4794EFC3.3070907@probo.com>
	<E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C0706A1D6@MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com>
Message-ID: <47951475.6090107@probo.com>

Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
> Tim, thank you for your response. I'm looking at pyAA and they don't
> have an installer for python 2.5. They've got one for 2.4, so I tried to
> install it, and it exited telling me it requires 2.4. So I extracted the
> files out of the installer and put them my site-packages directory.
> However, I get in import error. That the python24.dll could not be
> found. Will I not be able to use this package with python 2.5?

That's the downside of living on the bleeding edge, I guess.  ;)

They use "swig" to generate the Python-to-C interface code for calling 
into system DLLs.  That creates a Python extension DLL (.pyd), which 
does have to be linked to a single Python version.  You can certainly 
fetch the source code yourself, using the cvs archive (I just did), but 
you would also need to install "swig".  That's not rocket science, 
either, but it has to be built from source.

Some of their subprojects do have 2.5 installers, so there may be hope 
that someone will upload one for pyAA.

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


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon Jan 21 23:46:50 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:46:50 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] ctypes and python dll callbacks
In-Reply-To: <4794C2A8.5090106@laposte.net>
References: <4794C2A8.5090106@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <01f001c85c7f$8585f590$9091e0b0$@com.au>

> Hello,
> I'm trying to use RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx. Since it isn't
> available
> in pywin32,

FYI, the pywin32 service framework does call RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx()
for you - it just doesn't expose it directly.  If all you are doing is
writing a service to capture these events, pywin32 should work fine.

Mark


From le.dahut at laposte.net  Tue Jan 22 09:36:23 2008
From: le.dahut at laposte.net (le dahut)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:36:23 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] ctypes and python dll callbacks
In-Reply-To: <01f001c85c7f$8585f590$9091e0b0$@com.au>
References: <4794C2A8.5090106@laposte.net>
	<01f001c85c7f$8585f590$9091e0b0$@com.au>
Message-ID: <4795AB07.4060401@laposte.net>

Sorry but where can I find "RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx" ? I could only 
find "servicemanager.RegisterServiceCtrlHandler" which is different and 
do not catch logon/logoff events.

Thanks.

Mark Hammond a ?crit :
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to use RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx. Since it isn't
>> available
>> in pywin32,
> 
> FYI, the pywin32 service framework does call RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx()
> for you - it just doesn't expose it directly.  If all you are doing is
> writing a service to capture these events, pywin32 should work fine.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 22 11:25:46 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:25:46 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] ctypes and python dll callbacks
In-Reply-To: <4795AB07.4060401@laposte.net>
References: <4794C2A8.5090106@laposte.net>	<01f001c85c7f$8585f590$9091e0b0$@com.au>
	<4795AB07.4060401@laposte.net>
Message-ID: <022501c85ce1$29958180$7cc08480$@com.au>

> Sorry but where can I find "RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx" ? I could
> only find "servicemanager.RegisterServiceCtrlHandler" which is different
and
> do not catch logon/logoff events.

servicemanager.RegisterServiceCtrlHandler() automatically calls
RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx on 2k and later. See PythonService.cpp:

        if (g_RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx) {
            // Use 2K/XP extended registration if available
            pe->sshStatusHandle = g_RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx(szName,
service_ctrl_ex, pe);
        } else {
            // Otherwise fall back to NT
            pe->sshStatusHandle = RegisterServiceCtrlHandler(szName,
service_ctrl);
        }

This also gives us the theoretical capability of hosting more than 1 service
in a python instance, but I've never tried that.

Cheers,

Mark


From caxelrud at pav.com  Tue Jan 22 11:56:02 2008
From: caxelrud at pav.com (caxelrud)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:56:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] problem accessing OPC clients from thread
Message-ID: <15012041.post@talk.nabble.com>


Hi,
I need some help on OPC and Python (using makepy and Matrikon simulator).
I am getting an error when trying to AddItem.
The error is:
The item definition doesn't conform to the server's syntax.
OPC_E_INVALIDITEMID  0xC0040008L

Any idea ?
Thanks
Here the code:
>>> import win32com.client
>>> opcserver=win32com.client.Dispatch('OPC.Automation.1')
>>> opcserver.Connect('Matrikon.OPC.Simulation.1')
>>> groups=opcserver.OPCGroups
>>> group=groups.Add('Group1')
>>> items=group.OPCItems
>>> item=items.AddItem('File1.item1',1)
>>> item=items.AddItem('File1.item1',1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 3, in AddItem
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0,
-1073479672), None)
 

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From twopill at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 16:06:30 2008
From: twopill at gmail.com (sai rabbit)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:06:30 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
Message-ID: <cb5389360801220706y1aa9baccp9347af34861abf55@mail.gmail.com>

I want to get bytes sent and received in total and by each application if
possible. I tried winpdh and winpdhutil but it reports the wrong number for
Received in XP and doesn't seem to work for network stats in Vista:

[code]
>>> import win32pdh
>>> intf = 'Intel[R] PRO_100 Network Connection'
>>> hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
>>> cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, None,
-1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
>>> hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
>>> type,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
    type,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG)
error: (-2147481645, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is
available'
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From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 22 19:14:12 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:14:12 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] problem accessing OPC clients from thread
In-Reply-To: <15012041.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <15012041.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <47963274.9010501@probo.com>

caxelrud wrote:
> Hi,
> I need some help on OPC and Python (using makepy and Matrikon simulator).
> I am getting an error when trying to AddItem.
> The error is:
> The item definition doesn't conform to the server's syntax.
> OPC_E_INVALIDITEMID  0xC0040008L
>
> Any idea ?
> Thanks
> Here the code:
>   
>>>> import win32com.client
>>>> opcserver=win32com.client.Dispatch('OPC.Automation.1')
>>>> opcserver.Connect('Matrikon.OPC.Simulation.1')
>>>> groups=opcserver.OPCGroups
>>>> group=groups.Add('Group1')
>>>> items=group.OPCItems
>>>> item=items.AddItem('File1.item1',1)
>>>> item=items.AddItem('File1.item1',1)
>>>>         
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 3, in AddItem
> com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0,
> -1073479672), None)
>   

I don't know the Matrikon product at all, but I would guess that this is 
because you are adding two items with exactly the same name.  Does it 
work if you make the second one "File1.item2"?

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


From timr at probo.com  Tue Jan 22 19:20:03 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:03 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <cb5389360801220706y1aa9baccp9347af34861abf55@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cb5389360801220706y1aa9baccp9347af34861abf55@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479633D3.9080501@probo.com>

sai rabbit wrote:
> I want to get bytes sent and received in total and by each application 
> if possible. I tried winpdh and winpdhutil but it reports the wrong 
> number for Received in XP and doesn't seem to work for network stats 
> in Vista:
>
> [code]
> >>> import win32pdh
> >>> intf = 'Intel[R] PRO_100 Network Connection'
> >>> hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
> >>> cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, 
> None, -1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
> >>> hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
> >>> type,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, 
> win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#5>", line 1, in <module>
>     type,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, 
> win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
> error: (-2147481645, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is 
> available'
> [/code]

-2147481645 is 0x800007D3, which is PDH_CSTATUS_ITEM_NOT_VALIDATED.  
"The data item has been added to the query, but has not been validated 
or accessed."  You're sure that you have the interface name correct?  Is 
that exactly what it says for the connection name when you do "ipconfig"?

Why do you think the number is wrong on XP?  Remember that this is bytes 
per second, not bytes since forever.

Windows doesn't track network statistics on a per-process basis.

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


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Tue Jan 22 23:40:03 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:40:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
Message-ID: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet Explorer 6 in
this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that I can
make said process the top window. Here's what I've tried so far:

<code>

import win32process
import win32gui

info = win32process.CreateProcess(None, proc, None, None, 0,
win32process.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, None, None,
win32process.STARTUPINFO())
handle = info[0]

# attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)

</code>

Unfortunately, this results in a traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#12>", line 1, in ?
    win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(info[2])
error: (1400, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'Invalid window handle.')

I can get the handle by doing this:

hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)

But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the window I
want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what amounts
to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.

I am using Windows XP SP2 with Python 2.4.3. Thanks!

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center


From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan 23 02:14:09 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:14:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
In-Reply-To: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <479694E1.6090203@probo.com>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet Explorer 6 in
> this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that I can
> make said process the top window. 

When you call CreateProcess, that window should automatically become the 
top window.  Are you saying that's not happening?  Have you tried 
creating a STARTUPINFO struct and filling in the wShowWindow element?

> Here's what I've tried so far:
>
> <code>
>
> import win32process
> import win32gui
>
> info = win32process.CreateProcess(None, proc, None, None, 0,
> win32process.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, None, None,
> win32process.STARTUPINFO())
> handle = info[0]
>
> # attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
> win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
>   

No, the error message is right.  A process handle is not the same as a 
window handle.  Indeed, a process need not have any windows at all.

> I can get the handle by doing this:
>
> hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
>
> But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the window I
> want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what amounts
> to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.
>   

One possibility is to enumerate through all of the top-level windows 
using EnumWindows, and for each window call GetWindowThreadProcessId to 
find the process ID associated with that window to find the one that 
matches your process.  Remember that the process ID is not the same as a 
process handle; the process ID is the third thing in the tuple 
CreateProcess returns.

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


From twopill at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 05:29:31 2008
From: twopill at gmail.com (>.>)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:29:31 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
Message-ID: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>

I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I think XP
is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what I'm reading in
perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down from that number after
every subsequent call.
ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
 win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes
Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet Scheduler
Miniport')

Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent call.

Is there another way to get this information?
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From whatyoulookin at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 23 08:26:50 2008
From: whatyoulookin at yahoo.com (Alec Bennett)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:26:50 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
In-Reply-To: <479694E1.6090203@probo.com>
Message-ID: <316017.40385.qm@web54603.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Please post what you find on this, I'm curious too.

If you do go the enum windows route, It thought I'd
post my notes on this since I recently got it working.
It's somewhat confusing (for me at least) since it
uses a callback:


# Callback function for findWindowHandle
def windowEnumerationHandler(hwnd, resultList):

    resultList.append((hwnd,
win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)))


def findWindowHandle(string):

    topWindows = []

    win32gui.EnumWindows(windowEnumerationHandler,
topWindows)

    for window in topWindows:
        if string in window[1]: return window[0],
window[1]

    # Looks like we didn't find anything
    return None, None


handle, windowtext = findWindowHandle("Notepad")







      ____________________________________________________________________________________
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 23 09:52:19 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:52:19 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
In-Reply-To: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <47970043.3000107@timgolden.me.uk>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet Explorer 6 in
> this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that I can
> make said process the top window. Here's what I've tried so far:
> 
> <code>
> 
> import win32process
> import win32gui
> 
> info = win32process.CreateProcess(None, proc, None, None, 0,
> win32process.NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, None, None,
> win32process.STARTUPINFO())
> handle = info[0]
> 
> # attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
> win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
> 
> </code>
> 
> Unfortunately, this results in a traceback:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#12>", line 1, in ?
>     win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(info[2])
> error: (1400, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'Invalid window handle.')
> 
> I can get the handle by doing this:
> 
> hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> 
> But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the window I
> want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what amounts
> to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.

I thought I'd posted a How-Do-I? on this one, but obviously
not. At any rate, here's the code I intended to post up. Hope
it helps as a starting point:

<code>
import subprocess
import time

import win32con
import win32gui
import win32process


def get_hwnds_for_pid (pid):

   def callback (hwnd, hwnds):
     if win32gui.IsWindowVisible (hwnd) and win32gui.IsWindowEnabled (hwnd):
       _, found_pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId (hwnd)
       if found_pid == pid:
         hwnds.append (hwnd)
     return True

   hwnds = []
   win32gui.EnumWindows (callback, hwnds)
   return hwnds

if __name__ == '__main__':
   notepad = subprocess.Popen ([r"notepad.exe"])
   #
   # sleep to give the window time to appear
   #
   time.sleep (2.0)

   for hwnd in get_hwnds_for_pid (notepad.pid):
     print hwnd, "=>", win32gui.GetWindowText (hwnd)
     win32gui.SendMessage (hwnd, win32con.WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)

</code>

TJG

From thunder54007 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 10:44:31 2008
From: thunder54007 at gmail.com (thunder thunder54007)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:44:31 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] what's wrong with the wmi.Terminate() method?
Message-ID: <b99241c50801230144t1e275bd3u12de80273fda7f04@mail.gmail.com>

hi, here is my script:

import win32con
import time
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI()
for process in c.Win32_Process(name = "notepad.exe"):
    print process.ProcessId, process.Name
    process.Terminate ()

when I have only one notepad.exe process in my system,  this works fine,
but when I have more than one notepad.exe , after terminal the first
notepad.exe, the Terminate() for the second notepad.exe process will
generate the following error:

3156 notepad.exe
6100 notepad.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\thunder\python\program\wmi\create_terminal_notepad.py", line 16,
in
module>
    process.Terminate()
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 376, in __call__
    handle_com_error (error_info)
  File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 188, in handle_com_error
    raise x_wmi, "\n".join (exception_string)
wmi.x_wmi: -0x7ffdfff7 - ????(ps: exception happened)?
  Error in: SWbemObjectEx
  -0x7ffbeffe - ???(ps:Can not found)


I don't know why this happend, is there somebody could give me a hand?
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 23 10:52:53 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:52:53 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] what's wrong with the wmi.Terminate() method?
In-Reply-To: <b99241c50801230144t1e275bd3u12de80273fda7f04@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b99241c50801230144t1e275bd3u12de80273fda7f04@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47970E75.4060004@timgolden.me.uk>

thunder thunder54007 wrote:
> hi, here is my script:
> 
> import win32con
> import time
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI()
> for process in c.Win32_Process(name = "notepad.exe"):
>     print process.ProcessId, process.Name
>     process.Terminate ()
> 
> when I have only one notepad.exe process in my system,  this works fine,
> but when I have more than one notepad.exe , after terminal the first
> notepad.exe, the Terminate() for the second notepad.exe process will
> generate the following error:

Sorry. Recently-fixed bug. Please try the latest version:

  http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip

and let me know if it works.

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 23 11:08:20 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:20 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47971214.6030703@timgolden.me.uk>

 >.> wrote:
> I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I think XP
> is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what I'm reading in
> perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down from that number after
> every subsequent call.
> ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
>  win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes
> Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet Scheduler
> Miniport')
> 
> Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent call.
> 
> Is there another way to get this information?

The likelihood is that WMI exposes this kind of thing, but I don't
have time to look into it at the moment. If you can find a WMI-based
solution (say in VBS) somewhere online, I'm happy to help translating
it into Python.

TJG

(BTW, what is win32util.browse ? It doesn't look like part of pywin32)

From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 11:43:45 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:13:45 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Export emails from msoutlook to my local directory
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801230243t26779681sabe23c33849150fd@mail.gmail.com>

1.Export emails from msoutlook to my local directory

The problem i am facing is that the embedded images are
getting as attachments

Any body help me to solve this problem.


Antony
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From singhai.nish at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 12:01:45 2008
From: singhai.nish at gmail.com (kNish)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:31:45 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] python layoutdialog
Message-ID: <81bfef2e0801230301x94bc2e2vbe4329e9557cd6cc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

        Maya python command layoutDialog, in my view works strange. It
takes the procedure from MEL equivalent if exists else gives an error.
How may I successfully execute a layoutDialog in python in maya.


BRgds,

kNish

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Wed Jan 23 16:19:53 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:19:53 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
Message-ID: <003001c85dd3$59f6faa0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim, 

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet Explorer
6 in
> > this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that I
can
> > make said process the top window. 

> When you call CreateProcess, that window should automatically become the

> top window.  Are you saying that's not happening?  Have you tried 
> creating a STARTUPINFO struct and filling in the wShowWindow element?

Sorry, I guess I thought more than I actually typed. It does make the
newly created window the top window. But later on in my program, I open
the source code for the displayed page and will need to make sure that I
return to the correct IE instance, which is why I wanted a handle on the
IE window. I thought I knew the correct terminology to express this, but I
guess not.

<snip>

> >
> > # attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
> > win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
> >   

> No, the error message is right.  A process handle is not the same as a 
> window handle.  Indeed, a process need not have any windows at all.

> > I can get the handle by doing this:
> >
> > hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> >
> > But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the
window I
> > want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what
amounts
> > to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.
> >   

> One possibility is to enumerate through all of the top-level windows 
> using EnumWindows, and for each window call GetWindowThreadProcessId to 
> find the process ID associated with that window to find the one that 
> matches your process.  Remember that the process ID is not the same as a

> process handle; the process ID is the third thing in the tuple 
> CreateProcess returns.

Yeah, I am well aware of this method and was hoping to avoid it. Thanks
for the clarification on window handle versus process handle. I was
thinking about this the wrong way because I thought they were the same.


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

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center



From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Wed Jan 23 16:27:34 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:27:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
Message-ID: <003501c85dd4$6cc52b10$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Alec,

> 
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:26:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alec Bennett <whatyoulookin at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
> To: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>, Python-Win32 List
> 	<python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID: <316017.40385.qm at web54603.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> Please post what you find on this, I'm curious too.
> 
> If you do go the enum windows route, It thought I'd
> post my notes on this since I recently got it working.
> It's somewhat confusing (for me at least) since it
> uses a callback:
> 
> 
> # Callback function for findWindowHandle
> def windowEnumerationHandler(hwnd, resultList):
> 
>     resultList.append((hwnd,
> win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)))
> 
> 
> def findWindowHandle(string):
> 
>     topWindows = []
> 
>     win32gui.EnumWindows(windowEnumerationHandler,
> topWindows)
> 
>     for window in topWindows:
>         if string in window[1]: return window[0],
> window[1]
> 
>     # Looks like we didn't find anything
>     return None, None
> 
> 
> handle, windowtext = findWindowHandle("Notepad")

I actually use a method similar to this later on in my program. But as I
mentioned to Tim, I was trying to get a handle on a window that I open so
I wouldn't have to search for it. I use the search method already to find
the source code window that I open from within IE. Sometimes automation
sucks.

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Wed Jan 23 16:33:27 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:33:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
In-Reply-To: <47970043.3000107@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <003401c85d47$ad807fc0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
	<47970043.3000107@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <003801c85dd5$3efd1610$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi Tim G., 

<snipped for brevity>

> > I can get the handle by doing this:
> > 
> > hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> > 
> > But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the 
> > window I want. That's why I would like to create my own so 
> I can have 
> > what amounts to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> I thought I'd posted a How-Do-I? on this one, but obviously 
> not. At any rate, here's the code I intended to post up. Hope 
> it helps as a starting point:
> 
> <code>
> import subprocess
> import time
> 
> import win32con
> import win32gui
> import win32process
> 
> 
> def get_hwnds_for_pid (pid):
> 
>    def callback (hwnd, hwnds):
>      if win32gui.IsWindowVisible (hwnd) and 
> win32gui.IsWindowEnabled (hwnd):
>        _, found_pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId (hwnd)
>        if found_pid == pid:
>          hwnds.append (hwnd)
>      return True
> 
>    hwnds = []
>    win32gui.EnumWindows (callback, hwnds)
>    return hwnds
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    notepad = subprocess.Popen ([r"notepad.exe"])
>    #
>    # sleep to give the window time to appear
>    #
>    time.sleep (2.0)
> 
>    for hwnd in get_hwnds_for_pid (notepad.pid):
>      print hwnd, "=>", win32gui.GetWindowText (hwnd)
>      win32gui.SendMessage (hwnd, win32con.WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)
> 
> </code>
> 
> TJG
> 

I think this will work. It's a little bit quicker than the method Alec
mentioned (and which I use in another part of my app) and it's definitely
a little less confusing. I just tested it by opening a couple other
instances of Notepad before running it and your script kills only the
Notepad process that it opens, as expected. Very cool.

Thanks for helping me once again.

Mike


From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan 23 19:11:14 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:11:14 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47978342.4000303@probo.com>

 >.> wrote:
> I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I 
> think XP is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what 
> I'm reading in perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down from 
> that number after every subsequent call.
> ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
>  win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes 
> Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet 
> Scheduler Miniport')
>
> Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent call.

Insert a call to win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq) before you fetch the 
counter value.  The counters are only fetched when you send a query, and 
that's done with CollectQueryData.

For me, this produces exactly the same numbers as perfmon:

import win32pdh
import time
intf = "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport"
hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, None, 
-1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
for i in range(100):
    win32pdh.CollectQueryData( hq )
    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
    print hex(tp),val
    time.sleep(1)

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


From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan 23 19:16:16 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:16:16 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Export emails from msoutlook to my local
	directory
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801230243t26779681sabe23c33849150fd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801230243t26779681sabe23c33849150fd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47978470.6050802@probo.com>

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> 1.Export emails from msoutlook to my local directory
>
> The problem i am facing is that the embedded images are
> getting as attachments

Of course, because that's exactly how they are sent.  What did you 
expect?  Email is a textual media.  There's no such thing as an embedded 
image.  Images are always sent as named attachments, and HTML tags in 
the message can tell the mail reader to display a particular image at a 
particular point, but even that varies from mail program to mail program.
 

> Any body help me to solve this problem.

What problem?

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


From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan 23 19:21:35 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:21:35 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] python layoutdialog
In-Reply-To: <81bfef2e0801230301x94bc2e2vbe4329e9557cd6cc@mail.gmail.com>
References: <81bfef2e0801230301x94bc2e2vbe4329e9557cd6cc@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479785AF.90801@probo.com>

kNish wrote:
>         Maya python command layoutDialog, in my view works strange. It
> takes the procedure from MEL equivalent if exists else gives an error.
> How may I successfully execute a layoutDialog in python in maya.
>   

This is a Maya question, so you should ask on a Maya mailing list.  My 
friend Google points to an example usage of layoutDialog here:
    
http://www.kxcad.net/autodesk/maya/Maya_Documentation/CommandsPython/layoutDialog.html

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


From twopill at gmail.com  Thu Jan 24 01:04:22 2008
From: twopill at gmail.com (>.>)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:04:22 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <47978342.4000303@probo.com>
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>
	<47978342.4000303@probo.com>
Message-ID: <cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458@mail.gmail.com>

That works for XP but not Vista, I guess M$ changed the API in Vista. Oh by
the way I mean to write win32pdhutil.browse() earlier. Thanks for the help.
I didn't run it as admin in Vista before so I gave your script a try.
The output from your script as run in vista by administrator follows:
[code]
>>> win32pdhutil.browse()
Value of '\Network Interface(Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection)\Current
Bandwidth' is 100000000.0
Added 'Current Bandwidth' on object 'Network Interface' (machine
\\SAIBOX-01), instance Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection(0)-parent of
None
>>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 310, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:\Python25\getrcv.py", line 10, in <module>
    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
error: (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is
available')
>>>
[/code]
I'm new to working in windows and am curious as to how to go about getting
the error codes, I tried hex(1073738810) but thats not right.


On Jan 23, 2008 1:11 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

>  >.> wrote:
> > I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I
> > think XP is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what
> > I'm reading in perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down from
> > that number after every subsequent call.
> > ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
> >  win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes
> > Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet
> > Scheduler Miniport')
> >
> > Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent call.
>
> Insert a call to win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq) before you fetch the
> counter value.  The counters are only fetched when you send a query, and
> that's done with CollectQueryData.
>
> For me, this produces exactly the same numbers as perfmon:
>
> import win32pdh
> import time
> intf = "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport"
> hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
> cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, None,
> -1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
> hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
> for i in range(100):
>     win32pdh.CollectQueryData ( hq )
>    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
>    print hex(tp),val
>    time.sleep(1)
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 01:28:46 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:28:46 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>	<47978342.4000303@probo.com>
	<cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4797DBBE.4080209@probo.com>

 >.> wrote:
> That works for XP but not Vista, I guess M$ changed the API in Vista. 
> Oh by the way I mean to write win32pdhutil.browse() earlier. Thanks 
> for the help.
> I didn't run it as admin in Vista before so I gave your script a try.
> The output from your script as run in vista by administrator follows:
> [code]
> >>> win32pdhutil.browse()
> Value of '\Network Interface(Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network 
> Connection)\Current Bandwidth' is 100000000.0
> Added 'Current Bandwidth' on object 'Network Interface' (machine 
> \\SAIBOX-01), instance Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network 
> Connection(0)-parent of None

Now, you know that "Current Bandwidth" is not what you want, right?  
This just shows it is a 100Mbit connection.


> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", 
> line 310, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File "C:\Python25\getrcv.py", line 10, in <module>
>     tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, 
> win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
> error: (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is 
> available')
> >>>
> [/code]
> I'm new to working in windows and am curious as to how to go about 
> getting the error codes, I tried hex(1073738810) but thats not right.

It's a 32-bit unsigned value that is printed as a signed value, so the 
minus sign is important.  From Python, try
    hex(2**32 - 1073738810)
You'll find it is C0000BC6, which is PDH_INVALID_DATA.

Perhaps Microsoft change the counter name in some way in Vista.

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


From twopill at gmail.com  Thu Jan 24 01:55:24 2008
From: twopill at gmail.com (>.>)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:55:24 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>	<47978342.4000303@probo.com><cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458@mail.gmail.com>
	<4797DBBE.4080209@probo.com>
Message-ID: <000a01c85e23$cf34f600$2f01a8c0@saibox01>


----- Original Message ----- 
Tim Roberts wrote:

> Now, you know that "Current Bandwidth" is not what you want, right?
> This just shows it is a 100Mbit connection.

Yes I am, win32pdhutil.browse() won't report anything for Bytes Received, 
Sent, or Total so I used Current Bandwidth.

> It's a 32-bit unsigned value that is printed as a signed value, so the
> minus sign is important.  From Python, try
>    hex(2**32 - 1073738810)
> You'll find it is C0000BC6, which is PDH_INVALID_DATA.

Ah, thanks.

> Perhaps Microsoft change the counter name in some way in Vista

win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None, None, 'Network Interface')
Shows them as the same.


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 02:52:28 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:52:28 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <000a01c85e23$cf34f600$2f01a8c0@saibox01>
References: <cb5389360801222029n7915b779oab67a0eb8bd29078@mail.gmail.com>	<47978342.4000303@probo.com><cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458@mail.gmail.com>	<4797DBBE.4080209@probo.com>
	<000a01c85e23$cf34f600$2f01a8c0@saibox01>
Message-ID: <4797EF5C.1050500@probo.com>

 >.> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> Tim Roberts wrote:
>
>   
>> Now, you know that "Current Bandwidth" is not what you want, right?
>> This just shows it is a 100Mbit connection.
>>     
>
> Yes I am, win32pdhutil.browse() won't report anything for Bytes Received, 
> Sent, or Total so I used Current Bandwidth.
>   

Well, maybe that's revealing.  Bytes Received certainly works fine for 
me on XP in the browser.  Are you using an IPv6 stack, or something else 
that would be filtering or combining your network connections in some way?

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


From thunder54007 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 24 10:01:59 2008
From: thunder54007 at gmail.com (thunder thunder54007)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:59 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] Why Win32_ prefixed classed in wmi didn't work?
Message-ID: <b99241c50801240101u13768f48sb8d80b796b4b74c7@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, here is the problem.
code like this in pythonwin:

>>> import wmi
>>> c = wmi.WMI()
>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.AdapterTypeID
None
>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.Availability
None
>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.Caption
None
>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.AdapterType
None <python-win32 at python.org>

this same thing happed for class Win32_Keyboard, it seems that there is not
value for these attributes, even the "Caption" attribute. why?
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 24 10:09:25 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:09:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Why Win32_ prefixed classed in wmi didn't work?
In-Reply-To: <b99241c50801240101u13768f48sb8d80b796b4b74c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b99241c50801240101u13768f48sb8d80b796b4b74c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479855C5.1090903@timgolden.me.uk>

thunder thunder54007 wrote:
> Hello, here is the problem.
> code like this in pythonwin:
> 
>>>> import wmi
>>>> c = wmi.WMI()
>>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.AdapterTypeID
> None
>>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.Availability
> None
>>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.Caption
> None
>>>> print c.Win32_NetWorkAdapter.AdapterType
> None <python-win32 at python.org>
> 
> this same thing happed for class Win32_Keyboard, it seems that there is not
> value for these attributes, even the "Caption" attribute. why?

(I've probably misled you with some of the examples
exchanged in private email), Although the properties
& methods are visible via the WMI class, they won't
have any values until you pick a particular instance
of that class.

For *which* of your network adapters do you expect
to see values above? All of the WMI classes return
lists of their instances -- even when, as in the case
of Win32_OperatingSystem, there's obviously only one.

You need to do something like this:

<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()

for nic in c.Win32_NetworkAdapter ():
   print nic.Caption
   print nic.AdapterTypeId
   print nic.Availability
   # or just
   # print nic

</code>

If you want a specific device, you'll have to pass in
some kind of identifying qualifier to the Win32_NetworkAdapter
call, eg:

<code>
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()

for nic in c.Win32_NetworkAdapter (
   Description="Cisco Systems VPN Adapter"
):
   print nic

</code>

TJG

From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 24 12:40:11 2008
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:10:11 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
Message-ID: <f14c4c340801240340p50b63b4alf9e814bf81e2d7a5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I can access and read mails from Ms Outlook
           ---  outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
           ...............................
can any one tell me , How can access and read mails from Outlook Express
          --- outlook Express=win32com.client.Dispatch(...............

1.Did the Dispatch method returns a same object for the both?



Thanks
Antony
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 24 12:46:43 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:46:43 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
In-Reply-To: <f14c4c340801240340p50b63b4alf9e814bf81e2d7a5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f14c4c340801240340p50b63b4alf9e814bf81e2d7a5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47987AA3.8070702@timgolden.me.uk>

Antony Joseph wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can access and read mails from Ms Outlook
>            ---  outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
>            ...............................
> can any one tell me , How can access and read mails from Outlook Express
>           --- outlook Express=win32com.client.Dispatch(...............
> 
> 1.Did the Dispatch method returns a same object for the both?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Antony

I'm sure I answered this question about a month ago. Or are you
hoping that someone who knows more than I do will have joined
the list in the interim? (Quite possible, of course!)

I don't believe that Outlook Express exposes an IDispatch
interface. I think that you have to manipulate the mailbox
directly. (Search for "DBX")

TJG

From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Jan 24 14:56:48 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:56:48 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
In-Reply-To: <47987AA3.8070702@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <f14c4c340801240340p50b63b4alf9e814bf81e2d7a5@mail.gmail.com>
	<47987AA3.8070702@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <C4C538F5AB8F461EAA6979AC9ABDD98F@MCI1330>

Hi!

> I don't believe that Outlook Express exposes an IDispatch interface. I 
> think that you have to manipulate the mailbox directly. (Search for "DBX")

+1  (or, I confirm)

But, if Outlook-Express is the default messagerie software, there are few 
possibilities, by use MAPI interface (I believe...)


@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 24 16:31:06 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:31:06 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Why Win32_ prefixed classed in wmi didn't work?
In-Reply-To: <b99241c50801240159o7c8dc244iffc1b9430166cab7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b99241c50801240101u13768f48sb8d80b796b4b74c7@mail.gmail.com>	
	<479855C5.1090903@timgolden.me.uk>
	<b99241c50801240159o7c8dc244iffc1b9430166cab7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4798AF3A.4070902@timgolden.me.uk>

thunder thunder54007 wrote:
> I got it, I should get an instance first before i can use it, and here is
> another problem, when I use Win32_Product to fetch the installed software on
> my system, but only some of them are returned, I don't know why? how can i
> get all the installed software on my system?

(Please keep copying back to this; you'll get more help that way)

That's a more general windows / Win32_Product question. If I remember
correctly, Win32_Product only lists products installed in a certain
way (probably via .MSI). Win32_SoftwareElement or associated
classes [1] may give you something. After that, you're just down to
scraping the registry, I think. I'm afraid this isn't really my
area of expertise. (He says, as though he *has* an area of
expertise :)

TJG

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390887(VS.85).aspx

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 17:15:12 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:15:12 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
Message-ID: <001501c85ea4$3d747930$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

I have a Python login script that runs various things on login for the
users in our Windows domain. Every once in a while, I'll get a traceback
when I use winshell to try to find the user's desktop. The offending code
is:

userDesktop = winshell.desktop()

And the traceback:

File "\\servername\logon\MCISpy.py", line 256, in ?
    import SoScripts
  File "\\servername\logon\PythonPackages\Utilities\SoScripts.py", line
42, in ?
    userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
  File "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
48, in desktop
    return get_path ((shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP,
shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY)[common])
  File "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
44, in get_path
    return shell.SHGetPathFromIDList (shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0,
folder_id))
com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)


Our login scripts have an error reporting module that emails the
tracebacks to us when they occur. Since this doesn't happen every time the
user logs in, it is difficult to track down. Does anyone know what this is
and how to fix it?

Thanks!

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 24 17:23:47 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:23:47 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
In-Reply-To: <001501c85ea4$3d747930$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <001501c85ea4$3d747930$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <4798BB93.9030302@timgolden.me.uk>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> I have a Python login script that runs various things on login for the
> users in our Windows domain. Every once in a while, I'll get a traceback
> when I use winshell to try to find the user's desktop. The offending code
> is:
> 
> userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
> 
> And the traceback:
> 
> File "\\servername\logon\MCISpy.py", line 256, in ?
>     import SoScripts
>   File "\\servername\logon\PythonPackages\Utilities\SoScripts.py", line
> 42, in ?
>     userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
>   File "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
> 48, in desktop
>     return get_path ((shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP,
> shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY)[common])
>   File "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
> 44, in get_path
>     return shell.SHGetPathFromIDList (shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0,
> folder_id))
> com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)
> 
> 
> Our login scripts have an error reporting module that emails the
> tracebacks to us when they occur. Since this doesn't happen every time the
> user logs in, it is difficult to track down. Does anyone know what this is
> and how to fix it?

Doing things in login scripts is, unfortunately, a recipe for
sporadic issues of this sort. I don't know if it's documented
(and I haven't actually looked too hard) but the interaction
between the Windows Shell's own startup activities and a
domain-level logon script seems to be ill-defined.

I hope that someone reading this has more recent experience
(and more knowledge) than I do re login scripts, but when I
was responsible for a several-thousand-line Kixtart login
script, we found that we just had to throw in random delays
-- perhaps, here, catching the exception and trying again after
delay -- because the login script had somehow got ahead of the
desktop / profile setup.

TJG

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 19:34:26 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:34:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
Message-ID: <001b01c85eb7$b0a8ae90$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

In a login script I helped write, we have some code that maps drives based
on what department or group the user belongs to. One of our groups has
users that use USB devices that will occasionally be plugged in before
they log in. This causes the map drive part of the script to fail at
mapping one of the drives if the USB device grabs that drive letter first.

If the map drives script doesn't get the drives mapped correctly, then we
usually get calls because the user cannot get to their network share. I
came up with a hack that uses a diskpart script to re-map the errant USB
drive to another letter and then map the correct network share to the
drive letter that the USB device had stolen. What I would like to know is
if there is a better way to do that?

Here's how we map a drive:

from win32netcon import RESOURCETYPE_DISK as DISK
win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(DISK, mapping[0], mapping[1])


And here's the diskpart line:

subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' % pdcName) 

where the text file contains the following two lines:


select volume G:
assign letter=T


Any ideas or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center



From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 19:34:34 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:34:34 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
In-Reply-To: <C4C538F5AB8F461EAA6979AC9ABDD98F@MCI1330>
References: <f14c4c340801240340p50b63b4alf9e814bf81e2d7a5@mail.gmail.com>	<47987AA3.8070702@timgolden.me.uk>
	<C4C538F5AB8F461EAA6979AC9ABDD98F@MCI1330>
Message-ID: <4798DA3A.8020908@probo.com>

Michel Claveau wrote:
>   
>> I don't believe that Outlook Express exposes an IDispatch interface. I 
>> think that you have to manipulate the mailbox directly. (Search for "DBX")
>>     
>
> +1  (or, I confirm)
>
> But, if Outlook-Express is the default messagerie software, there are few 
> possibilities, by use MAPI interface (I believe...)
>   

Correct, and not even full MAPI -- just the Simple MAPI interface.  
Here's an example in C++:
    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms527946.aspx

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


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 19:40:27 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:40:27 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
In-Reply-To: <001501c85ea4$3d747930$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <001501c85ea4$3d747930$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <4798DB9B.6060505@probo.com>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> I have a Python login script that runs various things on login for the
> users in our Windows domain. Every once in a while, I'll get a traceback
> when I use winshell to try to find the user's desktop. The offending code
> is:
>
> userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
>
> And the traceback:
> ...
> com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)
>   

That's 80004005, or E_FAIL.  Not very helpful.

How quickly does this run?  At login time, there is a transition from 
the login window station to the interactive window station.  The login 
window station runs under a system user account that doesn't have a 
desktop.  As an experiment, you might try adding a delay of a few seconds.

Is it possible that this happens for a user that doesn't currently have 
a profile on that machine?  It takes time for the system to build a new 
profile for a first-time user, and until it's built, the CSIDLs probably 
do not exist.

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


From belyaev at smartdesktop.com  Thu Jan 24 20:02:50 2008
From: belyaev at smartdesktop.com (Alexander Belyaev)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:02:50 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4238.1201133070.894.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.4238.1201133070.894.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <E0F4662F086FAD4086480BD5D772FD2A6D7392@titan.smartdesktop.lan>

I am new to python and so far could not figure out what 'tp' means in
the following?

Thanks,
Alexander

    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc,
win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
    print hex(tp),val

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Today's Topics:

   1. python layoutdialog (kNish)
   2. Re: Creating a process and getting a handle (Mike Driscoll)
   3. Re: Creating a process and getting a handle (Mike Driscoll)
   4. Re: Creating a process and getting a handle (Mike Driscoll)
   5. Re: Getting Network Information/Statistics (Tim Roberts)
   6. Re: Export emails from msoutlook to my local	directory
      (Tim Roberts)
   7. Re: python layoutdialog (Tim Roberts)
   8. Re: Getting Network Information/Statistics (>.>)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:31:45 +0530
From: kNish <singhai.nish at gmail.com>
Subject: [python-win32] python layoutdialog
To: python-win32 at python.org
Message-ID:
	<81bfef2e0801230301x94bc2e2vbe4329e9557cd6cc at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi,

        Maya python command layoutDialog, in my view works strange. It
takes the procedure from MEL equivalent if exists else gives an error.
How may I successfully execute a layoutDialog in python in maya.


BRgds,

kNish


------------------------------

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:19:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mike Driscoll" <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
To: <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <003001c85dd3$59f6faa0$96c051d8 at mcis0492>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Tim, 

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > I am trying to get a handle on an external process (Internet
Explorer
6 in
> > this case) that I open using win32process. I need the handle so that
I
can
> > make said process the top window. 

> When you call CreateProcess, that window should automatically become
the

> top window.  Are you saying that's not happening?  Have you tried 
> creating a STARTUPINFO struct and filling in the wShowWindow element?

Sorry, I guess I thought more than I actually typed. It does make the
newly created window the top window. But later on in my program, I open
the source code for the displayed page and will need to make sure that I
return to the correct IE instance, which is why I wanted a handle on the
IE window. I thought I knew the correct terminology to express this, but
I
guess not.

<snip>

> >
> > # attempt to make Internet Explorer 6 the Foreground Window
> > win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
> >   

> No, the error message is right.  A process handle is not the same as a

> window handle.  Indeed, a process need not have any windows at all.

> > I can get the handle by doing this:
> >
> > hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> >
> > But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the
window I
> > want. That's why I would like to create my own so I can have what
amounts
> > to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints would be appreciated.
> >   

> One possibility is to enumerate through all of the top-level windows 
> using EnumWindows, and for each window call GetWindowThreadProcessId
to 
> find the process ID associated with that window to find the one that 
> matches your process.  Remember that the process ID is not the same as
a

> process handle; the process ID is the third thing in the tuple 
> CreateProcess returns.

Yeah, I am well aware of this method and was hoping to avoid it. Thanks
for the clarification on window handle versus process handle. I was
thinking about this the wrong way because I thought they were the same.


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

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center




------------------------------

Message: 3
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:27:34 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mike Driscoll" <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
To: <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <003501c85dd4$6cc52b10$96c051d8 at mcis0492>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Alec,

> 
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:26:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alec Bennett <whatyoulookin at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
> To: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>, Python-Win32 List
> 	<python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID: <316017.40385.qm at web54603.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> 
> Please post what you find on this, I'm curious too.
> 
> If you do go the enum windows route, It thought I'd
> post my notes on this since I recently got it working.
> It's somewhat confusing (for me at least) since it
> uses a callback:
> 
> 
> # Callback function for findWindowHandle
> def windowEnumerationHandler(hwnd, resultList):
> 
>     resultList.append((hwnd,
> win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)))
> 
> 
> def findWindowHandle(string):
> 
>     topWindows = []
> 
>     win32gui.EnumWindows(windowEnumerationHandler,
> topWindows)
> 
>     for window in topWindows:
>         if string in window[1]: return window[0],
> window[1]
> 
>     # Looks like we didn't find anything
>     return None, None
> 
> 
> handle, windowtext = findWindowHandle("Notepad")

I actually use a method similar to this later on in my program. But as I
mentioned to Tim, I was trying to get a handle on a window that I open
so
I wouldn't have to search for it. I use the search method already to
find
the source code window that I open from within IE. Sometimes automation
sucks.

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center



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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:33:27 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mike Driscoll" <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Creating a process and getting a handle
To: "'Tim Golden'" <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Message-ID: <003801c85dd5$3efd1610$96c051d8 at mcis0492>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"

Hi Tim G., 

<snipped for brevity>

> > I can get the handle by doing this:
> > 
> > hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow('IEFrame',None)
> > 
> > But if there's multiple Explorer windows open, I may not get the 
> > window I want. That's why I would like to create my own so 
> I can have 
> > what amounts to an "exclusive" handle to it. Any hints 
> would be appreciated.
> 
> I thought I'd posted a How-Do-I? on this one, but obviously 
> not. At any rate, here's the code I intended to post up. Hope 
> it helps as a starting point:
> 
> <code>
> import subprocess
> import time
> 
> import win32con
> import win32gui
> import win32process
> 
> 
> def get_hwnds_for_pid (pid):
> 
>    def callback (hwnd, hwnds):
>      if win32gui.IsWindowVisible (hwnd) and 
> win32gui.IsWindowEnabled (hwnd):
>        _, found_pid = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId (hwnd)
>        if found_pid == pid:
>          hwnds.append (hwnd)
>      return True
> 
>    hwnds = []
>    win32gui.EnumWindows (callback, hwnds)
>    return hwnds
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>    notepad = subprocess.Popen ([r"notepad.exe"])
>    #
>    # sleep to give the window time to appear
>    #
>    time.sleep (2.0)
> 
>    for hwnd in get_hwnds_for_pid (notepad.pid):
>      print hwnd, "=>", win32gui.GetWindowText (hwnd)
>      win32gui.SendMessage (hwnd, win32con.WM_CLOSE, 0, 0)
> 
> </code>
> 
> TJG
> 

I think this will work. It's a little bit quicker than the method Alec
mentioned (and which I use in another part of my app) and it's
definitely
a little less confusing. I just tested it by opening a couple other
instances of Notepad before running it and your script kills only the
Notepad process that it opens, as expected. Very cool.

Thanks for helping me once again.

Mike



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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:11:14 -0800
From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
To: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <47978342.4000303 at probo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

 >.> wrote:
> I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I 
> think XP is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what 
> I'm reading in perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down from

> that number after every subsequent call.
> ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
>  win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes 
> Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet 
> Scheduler Miniport')
>
> Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent
call.

Insert a call to win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq) before you fetch the 
counter value.  The counters are only fetched when you send a query, and

that's done with CollectQueryData.

For me, this produces exactly the same numbers as perfmon:

import win32pdh
import time
intf = "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport"
hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, None, 
-1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
for i in range(100):
    win32pdh.CollectQueryData( hq )
    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc,
win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
    print hex(tp),val
    time.sleep(1)

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



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:16:16 -0800
From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Export emails from msoutlook to my local
	directory
To: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <47978470.6050802 at probo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Antony Joseph wrote:
>
> 1.Export emails from msoutlook to my local directory
>
> The problem i am facing is that the embedded images are
> getting as attachments

Of course, because that's exactly how they are sent.  What did you 
expect?  Email is a textual media.  There's no such thing as an embedded

image.  Images are always sent as named attachments, and HTML tags in 
the message can tell the mail reader to display a particular image at a 
particular point, but even that varies from mail program to mail
program.
 

> Any body help me to solve this problem.

What problem?

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



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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:21:35 -0800
From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] python layoutdialog
To: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <479785AF.90801 at probo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

kNish wrote:
>         Maya python command layoutDialog, in my view works strange. It
> takes the procedure from MEL equivalent if exists else gives an error.
> How may I successfully execute a layoutDialog in python in maya.
>   

This is a Maya question, so you should ask on a Maya mailing list.  My 
friend Google points to an example usage of layoutDialog here:
    
http://www.kxcad.net/autodesk/maya/Maya_Documentation/CommandsPython/lay
outDialog.html

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



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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:04:22 -0500
From: ">.>" <twopill at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
To: python-win32 at python.org
Message-ID:
	<cb5389360801231604l3ab18187s4c2394604e75c458 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

That works for XP but not Vista, I guess M$ changed the API in Vista. Oh
by
the way I mean to write win32pdhutil.browse() earlier. Thanks for the
help.
I didn't run it as admin in Vista before so I gave your script a try.
The output from your script as run in vista by administrator follows:
[code]
>>> win32pdhutil.browse()
Value of '\Network Interface(Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network
Connection)\Current
Bandwidth' is 100000000.0
Added 'Current Bandwidth' on object 'Network Interface' (machine
\\SAIBOX-01), instance Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection(0)-parent
of
None
>>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py"
,
line 310, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:\Python25\getrcv.py", line 10, in <module>
    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc,
win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
error: (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'No error message is
available')
>>>
[/code]
I'm new to working in windows and am curious as to how to go about
getting
the error codes, I tried hex(1073738810) but thats not right.


On Jan 23, 2008 1:11 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

>  >.> wrote:
> > I got the interface name from win32util.browse() in Vista and XP. I
> > think XP is Giving me the wrong number because it differs from what
> > I'm reading in perfmon everytime and it seems to be counting down
from
> > that number after every subsequent call.
> > ex: perfmon will give me a last of 0.0 and
> >  win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes('Network Interface','Bytes
> > Received/sec','Intel[R] PRO_100 VE Network Connection - Packet
> > Scheduler Miniport')
> >
> > Will return something like 12107 and will go down every subsequent
call.
>
> Insert a call to win32pdh.CollectQueryData(hq) before you fetch the
> counter value.  The counters are only fetched when you send a query,
and
> that's done with CollectQueryData.
>
> For me, this produces exactly the same numbers as perfmon:
>
> import win32pdh
> import time
> intf = "NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler
Miniport"
> hq = win32pdh.OpenQuery()
> cp = win32pdh.MakeCounterPath( (None, 'Network Interface', intf, None,
> -1, 'Bytes Received/sec') )
> hc = win32pdh.AddCounter( hq, cp )
> for i in range(100):
>     win32pdh.CollectQueryData ( hq )
>    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc,
win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
>    print hex(tp),val
>    time.sleep(1)
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 20:24:09 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:24:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <001b01c85eb7$b0a8ae90$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <001b01c85eb7$b0a8ae90$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <4798E5D9.1000802@probo.com>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> ...
> If the map drives script doesn't get the drives mapped correctly, then we
> usually get calls because the user cannot get to their network share. I
> came up with a hack that uses a diskpart script to re-map the errant USB
> drive to another letter and then map the correct network share to the
> drive letter that the USB device had stolen. What I would like to know is
> if there is a better way to do that?
>
> Here's how we map a drive:
>
> from win32netcon import RESOURCETYPE_DISK as DISK
> win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(DISK, mapping[0], mapping[1])
>
> And here's the diskpart line:
>
> subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' % pdcName) 
>   

In my own personal opinion, there's absolutely nothing wrong with this.  
That's what the tool is there for, after all.  Yes, it would probably be 
possible for you to dig up the disk manager APIs you need to do the same 
thing programmatically, but because their use is obscure, they probably 
aren't going to be exposed in the standard PyWin32 modules, and then you 
have the added burden of error handling.

When people use subprocess to call "copy" or "rename" or "delete", it 
grates on me, but for something like this, I think it's fine.

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


From timr at probo.com  Thu Jan 24 20:29:07 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:29:07 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
In-Reply-To: <E0F4662F086FAD4086480BD5D772FD2A6D7392@titan.smartdesktop.lan>
References: <mailman.4238.1201133070.894.python-win32@python.org>
	<E0F4662F086FAD4086480BD5D772FD2A6D7392@titan.smartdesktop.lan>
Message-ID: <4798E703.8040908@probo.com>

    Alexander Belyaev wrote:
> I am new to python and so far could not figure out what 'tp' means in
> the following?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
>     tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc,
> win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
>     print hex(tp),val
>   

The PdhGetFormattedCounterValue API has two output parameters: the type 
of data returned, and the value of the counter.  
win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue handles that by returning a tuple of 
the 2 values.  I could have written it this way:

    ret = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
    print hex(ret[0]), ret[1]

but the Python assignment statement allows me to assign the values of a 
tuple to individual variables.  So, for example, I can say either:

    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.
     >>> xxx = (1,2,3)
     >>> xxx
    (1, 2, 3)
     >>> a, b, c = (1,2,3)
     >>> a
    1
     >>> b
    2
     >>> c
    3
     >>>

In the code you quoted, "tp" receives the counter's type, and "val" gets 
the value.  "type" is a built-in function in Python, so it's not safe to 
us it as a variable name.

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


From pkoning at equallogic.com  Thu Jan 24 20:31:07 2008
From: pkoning at equallogic.com (Paul Koning)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
References: <001b01c85eb7$b0a8ae90$96c051d8@mcis0492>
	<4798E5D9.1000802@probo.com>
Message-ID: <18328.59259.62643.47581@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com>

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

 >> ...And here's the diskpart line:
 >> 
 >> subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' %
 >> pdcName)

 Tim> In my own personal opinion, there's absolutely nothing wrong
 Tim> with this.  That's what the tool is there for, after all.  Yes,
 Tim> it would probably be possible for you to dig up the disk manager
 Tim> APIs you need to do the same thing programmatically, but because
 Tim> their use is obscure, they probably aren't going to be exposed
 Tim> in the standard PyWin32 modules, and then you have the added
 Tim> burden of error handling.

I agree.  If you do want to use an API rather than a subprocess, WMI
might serve.  The biggest drawback of WMI is that the documentation is
partly nonexistent and, when it does exist, is of very low quality.

On the other hand, the Python WMI module is quite nice.

   paul


From pkoning at equallogic.com  Thu Jan 24 20:28:33 2008
From: pkoning at equallogic.com (Paul Koning)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:28:33 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Network Information/Statistics
References: <mailman.4238.1201133070.894.python-win32@python.org>
	<E0F4662F086FAD4086480BD5D772FD2A6D7392@titan.smartdesktop.lan>
Message-ID: <18328.59105.921564.931685@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com>

>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Belyaev <belyaev at smartdesktop.com> writes:

 Alexander> I am new to python and so far could not figure out what
 Alexander> 'tp' means in the following?

 >>    tp,val = win32pdh.GetFormattedCounterValue( hc, win32pdh.PDH_FMT_LONG )
 >>    print hex(tp),val

I don't know that specific function, but the Python syntax:

   x, y = thing

indicates that "thing" is a tuple (of two elements in this case) and
the elements of that tuple are assigned to x and y.

In the example you mentioned, the function returns a two-tuple, and
those two parts are assigned to tp and val respectively.

You might want to find and read a good Python tutorial (or textbook)
if this material is new to you.

      paul


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 21:05:17 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:05:17 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 58, Issue 40
Message-ID: <002101c85ec4$617e7ea0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

> thunder thunder54007 wrote:
> > I got it, I should get an instance first before i can use
> it, and here is
> > another problem, when I use Win32_Product to fetch the
> installed software on
> > my system, but only some of them are returned, I don't know
> why? how can i
> > get all the installed software on my system?
> 
> (Please keep copying back to this; you'll get more help that way)
> 
> That's a more general windows / Win32_Product question. If I remember 
> correctly, Win32_Product only lists products installed in a certain 
> way (probably via .MSI). Win32_SoftwareElement or associated classes 
> [1] may give you something. After that, you're just down to scraping 
> the registry, I think. I'm afraid this isn't really my area of 
> expertise. (He says, as though he *has* an area of expertise :)
> 
> TJG
> 
> [1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390887(VS.85).aspx
> 
> 
> ------------------------------

I had to write a script that was supposed to get all the installed
software on any system. There is no way to get everything because some
software does not write anything to the registry or if they do, they don't
follow the normal standard locations. The following script which I built
from examples I found will get you most of your installed software:

<code>

import StringIO
import traceback
import wmi
import win32api
from _winreg import HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, OpenKey,
EnumValue, QueryValueEx

# logs the software to a text file
# edit to your taste
appFile = open(r'c:\software.log', 'w')

r = wmi.Registry ()
result, names = r.EnumKey (hDefKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
sSubKeyName=r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall")
index = 0

userName = win32api.GetUserName()
domainName = win32api.GetDomainName()
compName = win32api.GetComputerName()

appFile.write('Computer Name: \t%s\n' % compName)
appFile.write('Domain: \t\t%s\n' % domainName)
appFile.write('User ID: \t\t%s\n\n' % userName)

appFile.write('These subkeys are found under
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"\n
\n')

for subkey in names:
    try:
 
appFile.write('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++\n\n')
        key = OpenKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
 
r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%s" % subkey,0,
KEY_ALL_ACCESS) 
	try:            
            temp = QueryValueEx(key, 'DisplayName')
            display = str(temp[0])
            appFile.write('Display Name: ' + display + '\nRegkey: ' +
subkey + '\n')
        except:            
            appFile.write('Regkey: ' + subkey + '\n')
        
    except:        
        fp = StringIO.StringIO()
        traceback.print_exc(file=fp)
        errorMessage = fp.getvalue()
##        print 'Error for ' + key + '. Message follows:\n' + errorMessage
    index = 0

appFile.close()

</code>

Hope that helps. I have a more complicated one too, but I don't think it
gets much more information than the above.

Mike


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 21:14:40 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:14:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4441.1201202102.894.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.4441.1201202102.894.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <002301c85ec5$b14115a0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi Tim,

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:23:47 +0000
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] winshell error
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID: <4798BB93.9030302 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > I have a Python login script that runs various things on 
> login for the
> > users in our Windows domain. Every once in a while, I'll 
> get a traceback
> > when I use winshell to try to find the user's desktop. The 
> offending code
> > is:
> > 
> > userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
> > 
> > And the traceback:
> > 
> > File "\\servername\logon\MCISpy.py", line 256, in ?
> >     import SoScripts
> >   File 
> "\\servername\logon\PythonPackages\Utilities\SoScripts.py", line
> > 42, in ?
> >     userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
> >   File 
> "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
> > 48, in desktop
> >     return get_path ((shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP,
> > shellcon.CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY)[common])
> >   File 
> "\\servername\logon\Python24\lib\site-packages\winshell.py", line
> > 44, in get_path
> >     return shell.SHGetPathFromIDList 
> (shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0,
> > folder_id))
> > com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)
> > 
> > 
> > Our login scripts have an error reporting module that emails the
> > tracebacks to us when they occur. Since this doesn't happen 
> every time the
> > user logs in, it is difficult to track down. Does anyone 
> know what this is
> > and how to fix it?
> 
> Doing things in login scripts is, unfortunately, a recipe for
> sporadic issues of this sort. I don't know if it's documented
> (and I haven't actually looked too hard) but the interaction
> between the Windows Shell's own startup activities and a
> domain-level logon script seems to be ill-defined.
> 
> I hope that someone reading this has more recent experience
> (and more knowledge) than I do re login scripts, but when I
> was responsible for a several-thousand-line Kixtart login
> script, we found that we just had to throw in random delays
> -- perhaps, here, catching the exception and trying again after
> delay -- because the login script had somehow got ahead of the
> desktop / profile setup.
> 
> TJG
> 
> 

When I was hired, I had to convert almost all our Kixtart scripts to
Python. The Kixtart programmer we had didn't seem to understand loops or
functions, so the code was a mess and very difficult to follow. Thus, I
don't know if his was any more reliable than the Python login scripts, but
at least we know when the Python ones have a problem.

I don't know if putting in a delay is feasible. We get complaints from
users on our T1 and wireless connections that it's too slow. Maybe I'll
spin some of the stuff into their own threads that can repeat themselves
in some kind of try/exception loop for x iterations...

Mike


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 21:16:40 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:16:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32]  Why Win32_ prefixed classed in wmi didn't work?
Message-ID: <002501c85ec5$f8d5f980$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Sorry...forgot to change the Subject line on that last one. This is a
repost

> thunder thunder54007 wrote:
> > I got it, I should get an instance first before i can use
> it, and here is
> > another problem, when I use Win32_Product to fetch the
> installed software on
> > my system, but only some of them are returned, I don't know
> why? how can i
> > get all the installed software on my system?
> 
> (Please keep copying back to this; you'll get more help that way)
> 
> That's a more general windows / Win32_Product question. If I remember 
> correctly, Win32_Product only lists products installed in a certain 
> way (probably via .MSI). Win32_SoftwareElement or associated classes 
> [1] may give you something. After that, you're just down to scraping 
> the registry, I think. I'm afraid this isn't really my area of 
> expertise. (He says, as though he *has* an area of expertise :)
> 
> TJG
> 
> [1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa390887(VS.85).aspx
> 
> 
> ------------------------------

I had to write a script that was supposed to get all the installed
software on any system. There is no way to get everything because some
software does not write anything to the registry or if they do, they don't
follow the normal standard locations. The following script which I built
from examples I found will get you most of your installed software:

<code>

import StringIO
import traceback
import wmi
import win32api
from _winreg import HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, KEY_ALL_ACCESS, OpenKey,
EnumValue, QueryValueEx

# logs the software to a text file
# edit to your taste
appFile = open(r'c:\software.log', 'w')

r = wmi.Registry ()
result, names = r.EnumKey (hDefKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
sSubKeyName=r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall")
index = 0

userName = win32api.GetUserName()
domainName = win32api.GetDomainName()
compName = win32api.GetComputerName()

appFile.write('Computer Name: \t%s\n' % compName)
appFile.write('Domain: \t\t%s\n' % domainName) appFile.write('User ID:
\t\t%s\n\n' % userName)

appFile.write('These subkeys are found under
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall"\n
\n')

for subkey in names:
    try:
 
appFile.write('+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++\n\n')
        key = OpenKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
 
r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%s" % subkey,0,
KEY_ALL_ACCESS) 
	try:            
            temp = QueryValueEx(key, 'DisplayName')
            display = str(temp[0])
            appFile.write('Display Name: ' + display + '\nRegkey: ' +
subkey + '\n')
        except:            
            appFile.write('Regkey: ' + subkey + '\n')
        
    except:        
        fp = StringIO.StringIO()
        traceback.print_exc(file=fp)
        errorMessage = fp.getvalue()
##        print 'Error for ' + key + '. Message follows:\n' + errorMessage
    index = 0

appFile.close()

</code>

Hope that helps. I have a more complicated one too, but I don't think it
gets much more information than the above.

Mike



From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 21:25:36 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:25:36 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
Message-ID: <002701c85ec7$3880d810$96c051d8@mcis0492>

> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:40:27 -0800
> From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] winshell error
> To: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID: <4798DB9B.6060505 at probo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > I have a Python login script that runs various things on 
> login for the
> > users in our Windows domain. Every once in a while, I'll 
> get a traceback
> > when I use winshell to try to find the user's desktop. The 
> offending code
> > is:
> >
> > userDesktop = winshell.desktop()
> >
> > And the traceback:
> > ...
> > com_error: (-2147467259, 'Unspecified error', None, None)
> >   
> 
> That's 80004005, or E_FAIL.  Not very helpful.
> 
> How quickly does this run?  At login time, there is a transition from 
> the login window station to the interactive window station.  
> The login 
> window station runs under a system user account that doesn't have a 
> desktop.  As an experiment, you might try adding a delay of a 
> few seconds.


The run time depends on which location the user is in. We have some users
on a T1 and others on microwave. This particular user is on the T1, so the
script probably runs 20-40 seconds depending on the load. We have set a
registry setting to force the login script to run before the desktop is
loaded...not sure if that helps though.

I'll ask my boss if putting in a delay is something he would want.


> 
> Is it possible that this happens for a user that doesn't 
> currently have 
> a profile on that machine?  It takes time for the system to 
> build a new 
> profile for a first-time user, and until it's built, the 
> CSIDLs probably 
> do not exist.


This is a possibility, I suppose. I know that this user has been with our
company for quite a while, but since his department shares PCs, he may
have logged into a PC that he hasn't logged into before or that has had
its profiles cleaned.

I don't suppose anyone knows how to do a logout script? There are some
things that would be better off if we could do them on logout rather than
login.

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

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist



From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 24 21:41:46 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:41:46 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4460.1201206216.894.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.4460.1201206216.894.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <002a01c85ec9$7a2f0b40$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim & Paul,

> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:31:07 -0500
> From: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
> To: timr at probo.com
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID: <18328.59259.62643.47581 at pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:
> 
>  >> ...And here's the diskpart line:
>  >> 
>  >> subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' %
>  >> pdcName)
> 
>  Tim> In my own personal opinion, there's absolutely nothing wrong
>  Tim> with this.  That's what the tool is there for, after all.  Yes,
>  Tim> it would probably be possible for you to dig up the disk manager
>  Tim> APIs you need to do the same thing programmatically, but because
>  Tim> their use is obscure, they probably aren't going to be exposed
>  Tim> in the standard PyWin32 modules, and then you have the added
>  Tim> burden of error handling.
> 
> I agree.  If you do want to use an API rather than a subprocess, WMI
> might serve.  The biggest drawback of WMI is that the documentation is
> partly nonexistent and, when it does exist, is of very low quality.
> 
> On the other hand, the Python WMI module is quite nice.
> 
>    paul
> 

Well, that's good to know. I would like it to map the USB device to the
next available drive letter and while the docs for diskpart claim that
changing the assign command to the following works:

assign letter

I can't get my test script to work. Oh well...I'll just keep doing what
I'm doing and hope that it doesn't clobber some other device. Thanks for
the affirmations, guys.

Mike



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jan 24 21:55:55 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:55:55 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <18328.59259.62643.47581@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com>
References: <001b01c85eb7$b0a8ae90$96c051d8@mcis0492>	<4798E5D9.1000802@probo.com>
	<18328.59259.62643.47581@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com>
Message-ID: <4798FB5B.6000205@timgolden.me.uk>

Paul Koning wrote:
> I agree.  If you do want to use an API rather than a subprocess, WMI
> might serve.  The biggest drawback of WMI is that the documentation is
> partly nonexistent and, when it does exist, is of very low quality.
> 
> On the other hand, the Python WMI module is quite nice.

Why, thank you! <grin>

I did a bit of research and it seems that you can only do
this via WMI from Win2k3 onwards (which I assume your
users, Mike, are not running on their desktops?). There
are a couple of workaround suggestions involving the registry
and/or the mountvol command, but I don't think they amount
to anything better than the original proposal. Good luck!

TJG


From whatyoulookin at yahoo.com  Thu Jan 24 22:20:30 2008
From: whatyoulookin at yahoo.com (Alec Bennett)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:20:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
In-Reply-To: <4798DA3A.8020908@probo.com>
Message-ID: <967092.83435.qm@web54604.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

What do you need to do to it? If you're simply remote
controlling it (triggering commands), you might look
into PostMessage. 




--- Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Michel Claveau wrote:
> >   
> >> I don't believe that Outlook Express exposes an
> IDispatch interface. I 
> >> think that you have to manipulate the mailbox
> directly. (Search for "DBX")
> >>     
> >
> > +1  (or, I confirm)
> >
> > But, if Outlook-Express is the default messagerie
> software, there are few 
> > possibilities, by use MAPI interface (I
> believe...)
> >   
> 
> Correct, and not even full MAPI -- just the Simple
> MAPI interface.  
> Here's an example in C++:
>    
>
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms527946.aspx
> 
> -- 
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 



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From Gary.Scorby at harlandfs.com  Thu Jan 24 21:59:48 2008
From: Gary.Scorby at harlandfs.com (Gary Scorby)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:59:48 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Exposing a Java bean in Python
Message-ID: <35060D8B9453294F98923B7F6FAA2DAD01342B47@pdx-srv-ex1.harlandfs.com>

I have a Java bean and I don't know what to do with it.   Has anyone
exposed a Java bean in Python?  I'm sending the questions to this group
because win-32 does what I need for com objects.  Similar goal so I'm
hoping someone else has had this need for a Java bean.  Any help would
be appreciated.  If there is a different group that this question is
better suited for please let me know.  I've put in a bit of time
searching the web and haven't found anything useful.

 

Thanks

 

Gary

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From rwupole at msn.com  Thu Jan 24 23:04:33 2008
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:04:33 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: Changing a drive letter
Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP011ABE75732CFCA97BC8DEA3380@CEZ.ICE>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a login script I helped write, we have some code that maps drives based
> on what department or group the user belongs to. One of our groups has
> users that use USB devices that will occasionally be plugged in before
> they log in. This causes the map drive part of the script to fail at
> mapping one of the drives if the USB device grabs that drive letter first.
>
> If the map drives script doesn't get the drives mapped correctly, then we
> usually get calls because the user cannot get to their network share. I
> came up with a hack that uses a diskpart script to re-map the errant USB
> drive to another letter and then map the correct network share to the
> drive letter that the USB device had stolen. What I would like to know is
> if there is a better way to do that?
>
> Here's how we map a drive:
>
> from win32netcon import RESOURCETYPE_DISK as DISK
> win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(DISK, mapping[0], mapping[1])
>
>
> And here's the diskpart line:
>
> subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' % pdcName)
>
> where the text file contains the following two lines:
>
>
> select volume G:
> assign letter=T
>
>
> Any ideas or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

You can use functions in win32file to remap a drive letter.

import win32file
v=win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint('x:\\')
win32file.DeleteVolumeMountPoint('x:\\')
win32file.SetVolumeMountPoint('t:\\',v)

                Roger


From mc at mclaveau.com  Fri Jan 25 08:16:45 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:16:45 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to access the Outlook Express
In-Reply-To: <967092.83435.qm@web54604.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
References: <967092.83435.qm@web54604.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <EE68DA4CE7164A39B590A05AE44DEBA0@MCI1330>

Hi!

> What do you need to do to it? If you're simply remote controlling it 
> (triggering commands), you might look into PostMessage.

It's Antony Joseph who needs something (he sent the first message).
if not, with MAPI, we can (also) obtain the list of the messages received in 
the past, to remove, obtain the contents of it, etc. And, therefore, not 
only to send new messages.

@-salutations

Michel Claveau


From arve.knudsen at gmail.com  Fri Jan 25 10:01:12 2008
From: arve.knudsen at gmail.com (Arve Knudsen)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:01:12 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
Message-ID: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)

Thanks,
Arve Knudsen

From pkoning at equallogic.com  Fri Jan 25 12:45:45 2008
From: pkoning at equallogic.com (Paul Koning)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:45:45 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B032DB58E@M31.equallogic.com>

We've done that by using py2exe to build the executable program, then
take the output from that process and give it to an installer in the
conventional Windows way.  Works nicely, no external dependencies at all
(it's all self-contained).  You can even avoid the installer at a small
cost in runtime startup time.

If you do that with multiple apps you get multiples copies of the
dependencies (everything is self-contained).  I expect that can be
avoided but I haven't looked to see how.

	paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Arve Knudsen
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:01 AM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
> on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
> you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
> bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
> googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
> embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Arve Knudsen
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Fri Jan 25 15:27:40 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:27:40 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] winshell error
In-Reply-To: <562bcc10801241443j1139d3fcm1fb1252f661aa084@mail.gmail.com>
References: <002701c85ec7$3880d810$96c051d8@mcis0492>
	<562bcc10801241443j1139d3fcm1fb1252f661aa084@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <002901c85f5e$618882c0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Horn [mailto:kevin.horn at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:44 PM
> To: Mike Driscoll
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] winshell error
> 	
> 	I don't suppose anyone knows how to do a logout script? 
> There are some
> 	things that would be better off if we could do them on 
> logout rather than
> 	login.
> 	
> 	
> 	Mike Driscoll
> 	Applications Specialist 
>
> Its not a whole lot different, just point the appropriate 
> setting in Group Policy to your logoff script, and it should be run.
> 
> Look here in Group Policy:
> User Configuration->Windows Settings->Scripts (Logon/Logoff)->Logoff 
> 
> Kevin Horn
> 
> 
> 

Hmmm...that sounds easy, except that we run Windows NT4 for our primary
domain controller. Of course, that also means we don't have Active
Directory. I wonder if there's an equivalent in NT4?

I'll look on Google. If someone else knows, drop me a line, please.

Thanks.

Mike


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Fri Jan 25 15:49:33 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:49:33 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
Message-ID: <003001c85f61$700a5190$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim,

> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:55:55 +0000
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID: <4798FB5B.6000205 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Paul Koning wrote:
> > I agree.  If you do want to use an API rather than a 
> subprocess, WMI 
> > might serve.  The biggest drawback of WMI is that the 
> documentation is 
> > partly nonexistent and, when it does exist, is of very low quality.
> > 
> > On the other hand, the Python WMI module is quite nice.
> 
> Why, thank you! <grin>
> 
> I did a bit of research and it seems that you can only do 
> this via WMI from Win2k3 onwards (which I assume your users, 
> Mike, are not running on their desktops?). There are a couple 
> of workaround suggestions involving the registry and/or the 
> mountvol command, but I don't think they amount to anything 
> better than the original proposal. Good luck!
> 
> TJG
> 


You are correct. We do not have Win2k3 on any desktops, nor are we running
Vista. We have stuck with XP. Since I work for the government, we have
enough old equipment and software that upgrading would not only be too
costly monetarily but also in time and aggravation. Besides, we just got
done upgrading all the Win98 machines to XP last year. I'll give Roger's
idea a whirl (see other post) and see if it's more reliable than diskpart.

Mike


From lreenaers at ressource-toi.org  Fri Jan 25 15:50:35 2008
From: lreenaers at ressource-toi.org (Ludovic Reenaers)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:50:35 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
References: <86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B032DB58E@M31.equallogic.com>
Message-ID: <026D5AE3BEC24CA2926A8CBF846F8A10@PERCEVAL>

For info Py2exe provides same functionalities for linux package generation 
aswell, in case your app' has to be distributed on other platforms.
Ludo

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:45 PM
To: "Arve Knudsen" <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>; <python-win32 at python.org>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?

> We've done that by using py2exe to build the executable program, then
> take the output from that process and give it to an installer in the
> conventional Windows way.  Works nicely, no external dependencies at all
> (it's all self-contained).  You can even avoid the installer at a small
> cost in runtime startup time.
>
> If you do that with multiple apps you get multiples copies of the
> dependencies (everything is self-contained).  I expect that can be
> avoided but I haven't looked to see how.
>
> paul
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
>> [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Arve Knudsen
>> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:01 AM
>> To: python-win32 at python.org
>> Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
>> on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
>> you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
>> bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
>> googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
>> embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Arve Knudsen
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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 mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Fri Jan 25 16:05:24 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:05:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <mailman.59.1201258823.30164.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.59.1201258823.30164.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <003201c85f63$a75adcd0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Roger,


> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:04:33 -0500
> From: "Roger Upole" <rwupole at msn.com>
> Subject: [python-win32]  Re: Changing a drive letter
> To: <python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID: <BAYC1-PASMTP011ABE75732CFCA97BC8DEA3380 at CEZ.ICE>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> 	reply-type=original
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In a login script I helped write, we have some code that 
> maps drives 
> > based on what department or group the user belongs to. One of our 
> > groups has users that use USB devices that will occasionally be 
> > plugged in before they log in. This causes the map drive 
> part of the 
> > script to fail at mapping one of the drives if the USB 
> device grabs that drive letter first.
> >
> > Here's how we map a drive:
> >
> > from win32netcon import RESOURCETYPE_DISK as DISK 
> > win32wnet.WNetAddConnection2(DISK, mapping[0], mapping[1])
> >
> >
> > And here's the diskpart line:
> >
> > subprocess.call(r'diskpart /s \\%s\someFolder\change_g.txt' 
> % pdcName)
> >
> > where the text file contains the following two lines:
> >
> >
> > select volume G:
> > assign letter=T
> >
> >
> > Any ideas or tips would be appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> You can use functions in win32file to remap a drive letter.
> 
> import win32file
> v=win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint('x:\\')
> win32file.DeleteVolumeMountPoint('x:\\')
> win32file.SetVolumeMountPoint('t:\\',v)
> 
>                 Roger
> 

This sounds pretty cool. I'll give it go and see if it works better than
what I am already doing. Thanks!

Mike




From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Fri Jan 25 16:11:56 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:11:56 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
Message-ID: <003601c85f64$912c5870$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Arve,

> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:01:12 +0100
> From: "Arve Knudsen" <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We're planning to embed Python in our application, which 
> mainly runs on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to 
> bundle Python. Do any of you know of any resources on the Web 
> describing best practices for bundling Python with an 
> application, particularly on Windows? I have googled a bit, 
> but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of 
> embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Arve Knudsen
> 

I've never done this before, but I have read about it a bit. The official
Python docs talk about it (see below):

http://www.python.org/doc/ext/embedding.html

And this article talks about it briefly:
http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/2217941

Finally, I found an article that explains the difference between extending
and embedding: 

http://twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/extendit.html

Why do you want to embed it? If you're just distributing an application,
you don't need to do embedding. You can just use py2exe.

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center
1 E. Main St. 
Marshalltown, IA 50158
mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us
641-844-2802



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jan 25 16:32:34 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:32:34 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <003001c85f61$700a5190$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <003001c85f61$700a5190$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <479A0112.9040705@timgolden.me.uk>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> You are correct. We do not have Win2k3 on any desktops, nor are we running
> Vista. We have stuck with XP. Since I work for the government, we have
> enough old equipment and software that upgrading would not only be too
> costly monetarily but also in time and aggravation. Besides, we just got
> done upgrading all the Win98 machines to XP last year. I'll give Roger's
> idea a whirl (see other post) and see if it's more reliable than diskpart.

Well I've already snitched it (and your solution) for
a how-do-I page (with suitable acknowledgement, of course):

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/change-a-drive-letter.html

so thanks to both of you for bringing the subject to light.

TJG

From timr at probo.com  Fri Jan 25 19:12:45 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:12:45 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479A269D.9000908@probo.com>

Arve Knudsen wrote:
> We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
> on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
> you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
> bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
> googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
> embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
>   

This is not really that hard to do.  The Python interpreter lives in a 
DLL (python25.dll).  You just need to call it like any other Windows 
DLL.  You have the issue of providing any plugin modules that you need.

There's a tendency to think that the work is all done in python.exe, 
which would make it difficult to integrate with other applications, but 
that's not the case.  Python.exe contains less than 900 bytes of 
executable code.  (The whole exe is less than 5k!)  It does very little 
other than load python25.dll and call it.

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


From leegold at fastmail.fm  Sat Jan 26 00:57:20 2008
From: leegold at fastmail.fm (leegold)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:57:20 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
Message-ID: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Hi,

Given an MS-Access table with a date type field with a value of:
12:00:00 AM - just"12:00:00 AM", there's nothing else in the field.

I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. "12:00:00 AM". What I
get printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00

I try:

import win32com.client
from win32.client import Dispatch

oConn=Dispatch('ADODB.Connection')
db = r'C:\mydb.mdb'
oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data Source="+db)
oRS = Dispatch('ADODB.RecordSet')
oRS.ActiveConnection =  oConn
c = oConn.OpenSchema(20)

while not c.EOF:
    tn = c.Fields.Item('Table_Name').Value
    oRS.Open(tn)
    (oRS, dt) = oConn.Execute('SELECT date_field FROM '+tn+' GROUP BY
    date_field')
    while not oRS.EOF:
        print oRS.Fields(dt).Value  # print here
         oRS.MoveNext()
    c.MoveNext()

oRS.Close()
oConn.Close()
# end

What's printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00

How do I get exactly what's in the field? Note, there could be any legal
date time in the field - I'm trying in all cases to get exactly what's
in the field...or to put it another way, exactly what I see when I open
Access and look.

Thanks very much,

Lee G 

From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Sat Jan 26 04:48:48 2008
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (bob gailer)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:48:48 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
In-Reply-To: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <479AADA0.2080101@alum.rpi.edu>

leegold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given an MS-Access table with a date type field with a value of:
> 12:00:00 AM - just"12:00:00 AM", there's nothing else in the field.
>   
As you note later nothing "visible" If you run the following query:
SELECT Year([field1]) AS Expr1, Month([field1]) AS Expr2, Day([field1]) 
AS Expr3, Hour([field1]) AS Expr4, Minute([field1]) AS Expr5, 
Second([field1]) AS Expr6
FROM Table1

You will get 1899 12 30 0 0 0. That is what is in the field. That date 
is the "epoch" or starting time for date time values. Access suppresses 
the display of YMD for 1899 12 30 so it can have a way to store a "time 
only" values.

So you need to test for this date and treat it differently from all 
other dates.
> I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. "12:00:00 AM". What I
> get printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00
>
> I try:
>
> import win32com.client
> from win32.client import Dispatch
>
> oConn=Dispatch('ADODB.Connection')
> db = r'C:\mydb.mdb'
> oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data Source="+db)
> oRS = Dispatch('ADODB.RecordSet')
> oRS.ActiveConnection =  oConn
> c = oConn.OpenSchema(20)
>
> while not c.EOF:
>     tn = c.Fields.Item('Table_Name').Value
>     oRS.Open(tn)
>     (oRS, dt) = oConn.Execute('SELECT date_field FROM '+tn+' GROUP BY
>     date_field')
>     while not oRS.EOF:
>         print oRS.Fields(dt).Value  # print here
>          oRS.MoveNext()
>     c.MoveNext()
>
> oRS.Close()
> oConn.Close()
> # end
>
> What's printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00
>
> How do I get exactly what's in the field? Note, there could be any legal
> date time in the field - I'm trying in all cases to get exactly what's
> in the field...or to put it another way, exactly what I see when I open
> Access and look.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Lee G 
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>   


-- 
Bob Gailer
919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC


From arve.knudsen at gmail.com  Sun Jan 27 13:16:01 2008
From: arve.knudsen at gmail.com (Arve Knudsen)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:16:01 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B032DB58E@M31.equallogic.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
	<86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B032DB58E@M31.equallogic.com>
Message-ID: <a0d6258d0801270416p4ca8a8a3vdbd58e0932df5505@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Paul, I'm guessing you think I need to distribute a Python
application? The problem at hand is embedding Python into our existing
*C++* application, so we can write parts of it in Python.

Arve

On Jan 25, 2008 12:45 PM, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
> We've done that by using py2exe to build the executable program, then
> take the output from that process and give it to an installer in the
> conventional Windows way.  Works nicely, no external dependencies at all
> (it's all self-contained).  You can even avoid the installer at a small
> cost in runtime startup time.
>
> If you do that with multiple apps you get multiples copies of the
> dependencies (everything is self-contained).  I expect that can be
> avoided but I haven't looked to see how.
>
>         paul
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Arve Knudsen
> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:01 AM
> > To: python-win32 at python.org
> > Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
> > on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
> > you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
> > bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
> > googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
> > embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Arve Knudsen
> > _______________________________________________
> > python-win32 mailing list
> > python-win32 at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>

From arve.knudsen at gmail.com  Sun Jan 27 13:40:20 2008
From: arve.knudsen at gmail.com (Arve Knudsen)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:40:20 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <479A269D.9000908@probo.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
	<479A269D.9000908@probo.com>
Message-ID: <a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Tim

On Jan 25, 2008 7:12 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
> Arve Knudsen wrote:
> > We're planning to embed Python in our application, which mainly runs
> > on Windows. To avoid dependencies, we want to bundle Python. Do any of
> > you know of any resources on the Web describing best practices for
> > bundling Python with an application, particularly on Windows? I have
> > googled a bit, but most advice I found was to extend Python instead of
> > embedding it, which wasn't very helpful :)
> >
>
> This is not really that hard to do.  The Python interpreter lives in a
> DLL (python25.dll).  You just need to call it like any other Windows
> DLL.  You have the issue of providing any plugin modules that you need.
>
> There's a tendency to think that the work is all done in python.exe,
> which would make it difficult to integrate with other applications, but
> that's not the case.  Python.exe contains less than 900 bytes of
> executable code.  (The whole exe is less than 5k!)  It does very little
> other than load python25.dll and call it.

I'm aware that I can disregard the Python executable. The problem is
rather how the Python runtime can be safely bundled. I guess it would
be enough to copy the parts of the Python installation that contains
the Python DLL and its extension modules (standard library as well as
site-packages)? Then Python, when loaded, should be able to find its
library relative to the DLL?

Also, our application is built with VS 2005, should Python also be
built with the same VS version for compatibility?

Arve

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Mon Jan 28 16:43:26 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:43:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4813.1201305444.894.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.4813.1201305444.894.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <006801c861c4$747d9290$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim (and Roger), 

> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:32:34 +0000
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID: <479A0112.9040705 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > You are correct. We do not have Win2k3 on any desktops, nor 
> are we running
> > Vista. We have stuck with XP. Since I work for the 
> government, we have
> > enough old equipment and software that upgrading would not 
> only be too
> > costly monetarily but also in time and aggravation. 
> Besides, we just got
> > done upgrading all the Win98 machines to XP last year. I'll 
> give Roger's
> > idea a whirl (see other post) and see if it's more reliable 
> than diskpart.
> 
> Well I've already snitched it (and your solution) for
> a how-do-I page (with suitable acknowledgement, of course):
> 
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/change-a-drive-le
> tter.html
> 
> so thanks to both of you for bringing the subject to light.
> 
> TJG
> 

Just an FYI here. When using Roger's method, I get a traceback, so you
might want to add some caveats to your "How-do-I":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\\someServer\scripts\changeDriveLetter.py", line 4, in -toplevel-
    v = win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint('L:\\')
error: (3, 'GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint', 'The system cannot find the
path specified.')

I'm not sure what the issue is, but I suspect that Windows is being dumb.
I don't think this call understands the paths since they are mapped to a
Linux server path which runs Samba. However,I tried it with another drive
that is mapped to a location on one of our NT4 machines and get the same
error. 

Can someone get this to work on newer software? Such as an XP client with
a Win2k3 server? 

Mike

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Jan 28 16:50:49 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:50:49 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <006801c861c4$747d9290$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <mailman.4813.1201305444.894.python-win32@python.org>
	<006801c861c4$747d9290$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <479DF9D9.8080101@timgolden.me.uk>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Just an FYI here. When using Roger's method, I get a traceback, so you
> might want to add some caveats to your "How-do-I":
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "\\someServer\scripts\changeDriveLetter.py", line 4, in -toplevel-
>     v = win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint('L:\\')
> error: (3, 'GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint', 'The system cannot find the
> path specified.')

Well I did try it before posting it up (I always do!) and it
worked fine for me. That said, I'm using XP against a Win2k3
and I don't have access to NT4 or Samba. I note, though, that
the msdn page [1] indicates "Requires Windows Server 2008, Windows
Server 2003, or Windows 2000 Server." which would seem to rule
out NT4 and possibly Samba. Shame.

TJG

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Mon Jan 28 16:57:46 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:57:46 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
In-Reply-To: <479DF9D9.8080101@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <mailman.4813.1201305444.894.python-win32@python.org>
	<006801c861c4$747d9290$96c051d8@mcis0492>
	<479DF9D9.8080101@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <006a01c861c6$753d4e30$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Golden [mailto:mail at timgolden.me.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:51 AM
> To: Mike Driscoll
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Changing a drive letter
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > Just an FYI here. When using Roger's method, I get a 
> traceback, so you 
> > might want to add some caveats to your "How-do-I":
> > 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "\\someServer\scripts\changeDriveLetter.py", line 4, 
> in -toplevel-
> >     v = win32file.GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint('L:\\')
> > error: (3, 'GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint', 'The system 
> cannot find 
> > the path specified.')
> 
> Well I did try it before posting it up (I always do!) and it 
> worked fine for me. That said, I'm using XP against a Win2k3 
> and I don't have access to NT4 or Samba. I note, though, that 
> the msdn page [1] indicates "Requires Windows Server 2008, 
> Windows Server 2003, or Windows 2000 Server." which would 
> seem to rule out NT4 and possibly Samba. Shame.
> 
> TJG
> 

I figured you checked them before posting. I didn't mean to imply that you
didn't. I'll try to be more verbose in my future postings so that everyone
know what I'm using. I'll stick with diskpart and generalize it a bit for
future use.

Thanks again!

Mike

From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan 28 19:20:56 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:20:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>	
	<479A269D.9000908@probo.com>
	<a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479E1D08.2020106@probo.com>

Arve Knudsen wrote:
>
> I'm aware that I can disregard the Python executable. The problem is
> rather how the Python runtime can be safely bundled. I guess it would
> be enough to copy the parts of the Python installation that contains
> the Python DLL and its extension modules (standard library as well as
> site-packages)? Then Python, when loaded, should be able to find its
> library relative to the DLL?
>   

You need to set the Python path variable before calling the 
interpreter.  You can do that by setting the PYTHONPATH environment 
variable, but I believe you can also do that by setting variables when 
you initialize the interpreter.

Py2exe might prove useful for you, if only because it scans through a 
Python script and determines exactly which auxiliary DLLs and modules 
the script needs in order to operate in a standalone environment.

> Also, our application is built with VS 2005, should Python also be
> built with the same VS version for compatibility?
>   

Yes, this is required.  The Python run-time DLL links to the Visual C++ 
run-time library.  My python24.dll, for example, links to msvcr71.dll, 
which is the run-time from VS 2003.

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


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Mon Jan 28 19:34:35 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:34:35 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Manipulating MAPI
Message-ID: <007a01c861dc$55ef3aa0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

Our organization has been slowly migrating away from closed source
software. As part of this, we recently had to upgrade our mail system and
found that going from Exchange 5 to its newest version was cost
prohibitive. Thus we went with Zimbra, an open source / open standards
alternative. Now we use a web client instead of Outlook (in most cases) to
check out email.

Unfortunately, we discovered that there a number of users who like to be
able to use MS Word to send email. So I wrote a Python script using
wxPython that can send email, including attachments. My problem is getting
the email function in MS Word/Office to send its information to my
program. I've been able to get the mailto functionality from web pages to
work, but not this.

Mozilla Thunderbird works, so there must be some change I need to make in
the registry. Here's what Thunderbird changes:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\.eml]
@="ThunderbirdEML"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{29F458BE-8866-11D5-A3DD-00B0D0
F3BAA7}]
@="Mozilla MAPI"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\mailto\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Thunderbird\\thunderbird.exe\" -osint
-compose \"%1\""


I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the .eml and the mailto
directories, but I'm not sure what to do. I tried changing the paths to
point to my program rather than Thunderbird, but nothing happens when I
try to send an email with Word. I've googled for this off and on for quite
a while (read: months) but haven't found much so I thought that there
might be some experts in this group who could give me a push in the right
direction.

Any hints and/or tips are appreciated. Thanks!

Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist
MCIS - Technology Center


From timr at probo.com  Mon Jan 28 19:35:02 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:35:02 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
In-Reply-To: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <479E2056.5010909@probo.com>

leegold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Given an MS-Access table with a date type field with a value of:
> 12:00:00 AM - just"12:00:00 AM", there's nothing else in the field.
>
> I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. "12:00:00 AM".

Do you understand that this is not really what's present in that field?  
What's present in the field is a floating point number.  The number 
happens to represent the number of days since December 30, 1899.  Hours, 
minutes, and seconds are stored as the decimal part of the fraction.  
One hour is 0.04166666..., for example.

Access formats it as "12:00:00 AM" for you, because that's the local 
time format on your machine, and as Bob said, Access omits the date 
portion in the formatting if the number is less than 1.0.  That's part 
of the Access application, NOT the database engine.

> What's printed is:   12/30/0/ 00:00:00
>
> How do I get exactly what's in the field? Note, there could be any legal
> date time in the field - I'm trying in all cases to get exactly what's
> in the field...or to put it another way, exactly what I see when I open
> Access and look.
>   

The value of the "Value" property is a PyTime object.  It supports the 
Format method.  To get the time only, use:
    v = oRS.Fields(dt).Value
    print v.Format( "%H:%M:%S %p")

See:
    
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.3/pywin32/PyTime__Format_meth.html

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


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 29 01:28:34 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:28:34 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <479E1D08.2020106@probo.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>		<479A269D.9000908@probo.com>	<a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>
	<479E1D08.2020106@probo.com>
Message-ID: <064101c8620d$e5546770$affd3650$@com.au>

TimR wrote:

> You need to set the Python path variable before calling the
> interpreter.  You can do that by setting the PYTHONPATH environment
> variable, but I believe you can also do that by setting variables when
> you initialize the interpreter.

Actually, if the 'lib' directory can be found relative to pythonxx.dll, it
should not be necessary to set PYTHONPATH at all.  Even then, if it *was*
necessary to set such a variable, it may be better to set PYTHONHOME instead
- that should adjust PYTHONPATH (again, the lib can be located relative to
that dir), along with ensuring sys.prefix etc are all correct, thereby
allowing things like distutils to do the right thing.

> Py2exe might prove useful for you, if only because it scans through a
> Python script and determines exactly which auxiliary DLLs and modules
> the script needs in order to operate in a standalone environment.
> 
> > Also, our application is built with VS 2005, should Python also be
> > built with the same VS version for compatibility?
> >
> 
> Yes, this is required.  The Python run-time DLL links to the Visual C++
> run-time library.  My python24.dll, for example, links to msvcr71.dll,
> which is the run-time from VS 2003.

On the other hand, it would work fine if you built Python and all modules
with the same compiler.  You can not *mix* compilers, but using a
non-default one should work fine so long as you control every binary you
load.  That is a burden though.

Cheers,

Mark



From leegold at fastmail.fm  Tue Jan 29 03:47:36 2008
From: leegold at fastmail.fm (leegold)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:47:36 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
In-Reply-To: <479E2056.5010909@probo.com>
References: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>
	<479E2056.5010909@probo.com>
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...snip...
> > I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. "12:00:00 AM".
 
> Do you understand that this is not really what's present in that field?  
> What's present in the field is a floating point number.  The number 
> happens to represent the number of days since December 30, 1899.  Hours, 
> minutes, and seconds are stored as the decimal part of the fraction.  
> One hour is 0.04166666..., for example.
> 
> Access formats it as "12:00:00 AM" for you, because that's the local 
> time format on your machine, and as Bob said, Access omits the date 
> portion in the formatting if the number is less than 1.0.  That's part 
> of the Access application, NOT the database engine.

Yes, but I want Python to print what I see when I open Access and 
look-see. Python is also printing dates w/out times differently 
too compared to what I see in Access. 

I was coming from the equivalent Perl code and now trying 
it in Python. 

The equivalent Perl code seems to print what I see in Access
for Date/Time. eg. it'll print 12:00:00 AM.

VS. 

Python always changes the Date/Time format. 

For what it's worth here's the Perl code vs Python. 

Test on Access table with Date/Time Field and 
you'll see what I'm saying.


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Win32::OLE();
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
$Win32::OLE::Warn=2;

my $conn = Win32::OLE->new("ADODB.Connection");
my $db = 'C:\Folder4\datetest1.mdb';
$conn->Open('Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source='.$db);

my $zztop = $conn->Execute("SELECT DATE_FIELD FROM dtest_table");
$zztop->MoveFirst();
while( !$zztop->EOF) {
    my $ss = $zztop->Fields("DATE_FIELD")->value;
    print "$ss\n";
    $zztop->MoveNext;
}

VS.

import win32com.client
from win32com.client import Dispatch

oConn=Dispatch('ADODB.Connection')
db = r'C:\GIS_Folder4\datetest1.mdb'
oConn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data Source="+db)

oRS = Dispatch('ADODB.RecordSet')
oRS.ActiveConnection =  oConn

oRS.Open("dtest_table")
(oRS, dt) = oConn.Execute('SELECT DATE_FIELD FROM dtest_table')


while not oRS.EOF:
    ss =  oRS.Fields(dt).Value
    print ss
    oRS.MoveNext()


From vernondcole at gmail.com  Tue Jan 29 06:21:01 2008
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:21:01 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <064101c8620d$e5546770$affd3650$@com.au>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>
	<479A269D.9000908@probo.com>
	<a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>
	<479E1D08.2020106@probo.com> <064101c8620d$e5546770$affd3650$@com.au>
Message-ID: <b7eb4a700801282121v20fa0cfbwd221021af64987c@mail.gmail.com>

Mark:
  Where can one find a cookbook for HOW to build python and/or pywin32 from
source? I  guessed that one should use VS 2003 (which I have) but I have no
clue how to make it actually compile.  Someone mentioned a patch to compile
using a later (2005?) version of Visual Studio. I really want to try with VS
2008 express, so that I can work on my home machine, rather than the one at
work where we have the licen$ed version, but the first step is to make it
work with the supported environment. Where do I look for documentation?
--
Vernon Cole

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
wrote:

> TimR wrote:
>
> > You need to set the Python path variable before calling the
> > interpreter.  You can do that by setting the PYTHONPATH environment
> > variable, but I believe you can also do that by setting variables when
> > you initialize the interpreter.
>
> Actually, if the 'lib' directory can be found relative to pythonxx.dll, it
> should not be necessary to set PYTHONPATH at all.  Even then, if it *was*
> necessary to set such a variable, it may be better to set PYTHONHOME
> instead
> - that should adjust PYTHONPATH (again, the lib can be located relative to
> that dir), along with ensuring sys.prefix etc are all correct, thereby
> allowing things like distutils to do the right thing.
>
> > Py2exe might prove useful for you, if only because it scans through a
> > Python script and determines exactly which auxiliary DLLs and modules
> > the script needs in order to operate in a standalone environment.
> >
> > > Also, our application is built with VS 2005, should Python also be
> > > built with the same VS version for compatibility?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, this is required.  The Python run-time DLL links to the Visual C++
> > run-time library.  My python24.dll, for example, links to msvcr71.dll,
> > which is the run-time from VS 2003.
>
> On the other hand, it would work fine if you built Python and all modules
> with the same compiler.  You can not *mix* compilers, but using a
> non-default one should work fine so long as you control every binary you
> load.  That is a burden though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Jan 29 10:33:13 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:33:13 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?
In-Reply-To: <b7eb4a700801282121v20fa0cfbwd221021af64987c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a0d6258d0801250101w2785ef4i42a9db9745aa9f61@mail.gmail.com>	
	<479A269D.9000908@probo.com>	
	<a0d6258d0801270440y48ddd0e2m49ef69d5c3c439f@mail.gmail.com>	
	<479E1D08.2020106@probo.com>
	<064101c8620d$e5546770$affd3650$@com.au>
	<b7eb4a700801282121v20fa0cfbwd221021af64987c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <067d01c86259$fd019590$f704c0b0$@com.au>

There is no single such document I'm aware of.  Each version of Python has
exactly one official MSVC version, details of which can be found in Python's
PCBuild\readme.txt file.  pywin32 uses distutils, and that too only supports
a single supported version - although other versions are supported in one
way or another (googling for MSSdk and DISTUTILS_USE_SDK should work).
VS2008 is supported by both Python and pywin32's svn/cvs trunk, so maybe
that is an option for you.  The lack of official support and documentation
is part of the burden I mentioned <wink>

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

From: Vernon Cole [mailto:vernondcole at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 4:21 PM
To: Mark Hammond
Cc: Tim Roberts; Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Embedding/bundling Python, best practices?

 

Mark:
  Where can one find a cookbook for HOW to build python and/or pywin32 from
source? I  guessed that one should use VS 2003 (which I have) but I have no
clue how to make it actually compile.  Someone mentioned a patch to compile
using a later (2005?) version of Visual Studio. I really want to try with VS
2008 express, so that I can work on my home machine, rather than the one at
work where we have the licen$ed version, but the first step is to make it
work with the supported environment. Where do I look for documentation?
--
Vernon Cole

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
wrote:

TimR wrote:

> You need to set the Python path variable before calling the
> interpreter.  You can do that by setting the PYTHONPATH environment
> variable, but I believe you can also do that by setting variables when
> you initialize the interpreter.

Actually, if the 'lib' directory can be found relative to pythonxx.dll, it
should not be necessary to set PYTHONPATH at all.  Even then, if it *was*
necessary to set such a variable, it may be better to set PYTHONHOME instead
- that should adjust PYTHONPATH (again, the lib can be located relative to
that dir), along with ensuring sys.prefix etc are all correct, thereby
allowing things like distutils to do the right thing.


> Py2exe might prove useful for you, if only because it scans through a
> Python script and determines exactly which auxiliary DLLs and modules
> the script needs in order to operate in a standalone environment.
>
> > Also, our application is built with VS 2005, should Python also be
> > built with the same VS version for compatibility?
> >
>
> Yes, this is required.  The Python run-time DLL links to the Visual C++
> run-time library.  My python24.dll, for example, links to msvcr71.dll,
> which is the run-time from VS 2003.

On the other hand, it would work fine if you built Python and all modules
with the same compiler.  You can not *mix* compilers, but using a
non-default one should work fine so long as you control every binary you
load.  That is a burden though.

Cheers,

Mark



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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jan 29 10:54:07 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:54:07 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Manipulating MAPI
In-Reply-To: <007a01c861dc$55ef3aa0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
References: <007a01c861dc$55ef3aa0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
Message-ID: <479EF7BF.7070206@timgolden.me.uk>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Our organization has been slowly migrating away from closed source
> software. ... Now we use a web client instead of Outlook (in most cases) to
> check out email.
> 
> Unfortunately, we discovered that there a number of users who like to be
> able to use MS Word to send email. So I wrote a Python script using
> wxPython that can send email, including attachments. My problem is getting
> the email function in MS Word/Office to send its information to my
> program. I've been able to get the mailto functionality from web pages to
> work, but not this.

OK. Gleaned knowledge here with just a touch of experience.
I think that any email client must actually support MAPI
via a DLL. I remembered this from looking into Eudora's
support a while ago which gave me a leg up in searching
and led me to this page:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/MAPI_Support

It occurred to me that you could look at the Thunderbird
source if you were really serious, but I suspect it would
be no small amount of work to get it to work. I don't know
where your registry keys came from, but running RegMon while
asking Thunderbird or Outlook to set themselves as the
default email client is quite illustrative.

Could you not simply have Thunderbird installed for those
users who wanted a non-web email client? (Maybe that's
what you already do). It seems better than the old wheel
reinvention :)

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jan 29 11:39:25 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
In-Reply-To: <1201574856.26371.1233783791@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1201305440.30360.1233347323@webmail.messagingengine.com>	<479E2056.5010909@probo.com>
	<1201574856.26371.1233783791@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <479F025D.1040007@timgolden.me.uk>

leegold wrote:
> ...snip...

> I was coming from the equivalent Perl code and now trying 
> it in Python. 

[... snip code examples ...]

Well, seeing you've gone to the trouble of posting the code...
even if you didn't provide a working database for those of
use without access to Access (pun entirely intended)....
I've put together a working test case to make sure we're
talking about the same thing.

This code creates a new Jet/.mdb databasem, creates a test
table with an INT id and a TIME dt field and populates it
with one row. I hope this is sufficient to simulate your
source data.

It then queries that table, looping over the (one) rows
it contains and printing out the values *and their repr*.
It can be cut-and-pasted directly into a Python console
session or you can save it as a file and run it.

<code>
import os, sys
from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch as Dispatch

DATABASE_FILEPATH = r"c:\temp\test.mdb"
CONNECTION_STRING = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data Source=%s" % 
DATABASE_FILEPATH

if os.path.exists (DATABASE_FILEPATH):
   os.remove (DATABASE_FILEPATH)

adox = Dispatch ("ADOX.Catalog")
adox.Create (CONNECTION_STRING)

db = Dispatch ('ADODB.Connection')
db.Open (CONNECTION_STRING)
try:
   db.Execute ('CREATE TABLE dtest (id INT, dt TIME)')
   db.Execute ("INSERT INTO dtest (id, dt) VALUES (1, NOW ())")
   (rs, n) = db.Execute ('SELECT id, dt FROM dtest')
   while not rs.EOF:
     for field in rs.Fields:
       print field.Name, "=>", field.Value, repr (field.Value)
     print
     rs.MoveNext ()
finally:
   db.Close ()

</code>

The results on my machine show that the TIME field is
returned as a PyTime value. Assuming the same is true
for you, you should be able to use this technique:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/use-a-pytime-value.html#from-timestamp

to produce a standard Python datetime value, from which
you can then format it as you like with .strftime.

If you *don't* get a PyTime value, then can you post the
output from your run and let's take it from there?

TJG

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Tue Jan 29 15:36:38 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:36:38 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] Manipulating MAPI
In-Reply-To: <479EF7BF.7070206@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <007a01c861dc$55ef3aa0$96c051d8@mcis0492>
	<479EF7BF.7070206@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <001b01c86284$48ece930$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Tim, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Golden [mailto:mail at timgolden.me.uk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:54 AM
> To: Mike Driscoll
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Manipulating MAPI
> 
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
> > Our organization has been slowly migrating away from closed source 
> > software. ... Now we use a web client instead of Outlook (in most 
> > cases) to check out email.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, we discovered that there a number of users 
> who like to 
> > be able to use MS Word to send email. So I wrote a Python 
> script using 
> > wxPython that can send email, including attachments. My problem is 
> > getting the email function in MS Word/Office to send its 
> information 
> > to my program. I've been able to get the mailto 
> functionality from web 
> > pages to work, but not this.
> 
> OK. Gleaned knowledge here with just a touch of experience.
> I think that any email client must actually support MAPI via 
> a DLL. I remembered this from looking into Eudora's support a 
> while ago which gave me a leg up in searching and led me to this page:
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/MAPI_Support
> 
> It occurred to me that you could look at the Thunderbird 
> source if you were really serious, but I suspect it would be 
> no small amount of work to get it to work. I don't know where 
> your registry keys came from, but running RegMon while asking 
> Thunderbird or Outlook to set themselves as the default email 
> client is quite illustrative.
> 
> Could you not simply have Thunderbird installed for those 
> users who wanted a non-web email client? (Maybe that's what 
> you already do). It seems better than the old wheel reinvention :)
> 
> TJG
> 

We are looking at Thunderbird, but only a couple of people in the IS
department have it. We may go with it, but we have to make sure that
Thunderbird doesn't allow extremely non-standard things like Outlook did.
For instance, Outlook/Exchange allowed the user to open an Office document
from within Outlook, edit the document and save it back to its email
location somewhere in the nebulous Exchange server. Basically this opens
the door for litigation if someone sends a legal document here and one of
the users edits it, then there is no record of the original document being
received anymore.

Anyway, I agree that reinventing wheels is usually not a good
idea...except for practice or in the pursuit of learning.

Thank you for your input. I'll check out your link as well.

Mike

From mauro.tiz at gmail.com  Tue Jan 29 18:09:11 2008
From: mauro.tiz at gmail.com (mauro tizianel)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:09:11 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message
Message-ID: <d2d681c60801290909u1a5cd24fkecf1ba7b3a02924a@mail.gmail.com>

Hi list,

I am calling  a method on a COM server within a python script. The method
takes a long time to return ( > 15s) and I am getting  a "Server Busy" popup
message "This action cannot be completed because the program is busy." To
continue the user has to click ( "Switch to..." or "Retry").

Typing in the command-line window:
--------
from win32com.client import Dispatch
myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
--------
everything works fine (no popup message, thisIsAVeryLongOperation returning
without user interaction) but if I put it into a file and run it as a script
the message appears: why?

I tried to get rid of the popup with the solution proposed in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2006-August/004923.html
--------
import win32ui
import win32uiole
from win32com.client import Dispatch

win32uiole.AfxOleInit()
win32uiole.SetMessagePendingDelay(aBigDelay);
win32uiole.EnableNotRespondingDialog(False);
win32uiole.EnableBusyDialog(False);

myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
--------
without any effect.

pythoncom.CoInitialize() should  also work, as suggested in
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B248019&x=14&y=15,  but again
no positive effect.

I was now looking for something like (
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240809/en-us):
OLERequestPendingTimeout
to turn off the messages, but it seems not to be available in pywin32.

By the way, I am running:

Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
pywin32-210.win32-py2.4
WinXP SP2

Thanks in advance. Any suggestion is welcome!

Mauro
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Jan 29 19:39:08 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:39:08 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message
In-Reply-To: <d2d681c60801290909u1a5cd24fkecf1ba7b3a02924a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d2d681c60801290909u1a5cd24fkecf1ba7b3a02924a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FEB837EED202493B90FA4565A42B12C2@MCI1330>

Hi!

"Server Busy" is primarily during the opening of the server.
Minimize the code inside opening (or use thread), for a faster return).

@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau 



From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 01:17:43 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:17:43 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
	attribute
Message-ID: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>

So I'm trying to automate some tasks with SMS, and I've run into a roadblock
when creating new collection membership rules.  The code below is a method
of a Collection object.  It's a rough draft, so don't worry too much about
the top half unless you think it might be screwing something up.  My problem
is that I go to create a new SMS_CollectionRuleDirect object (at the bottom
of the code provided) and I get the following error:

>>> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "H:\p4rootw\lib\ops\sms.py", line 495, in AddMembershipRule
    rule_obj.RuleName = name
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 550,
in __setattr__
    raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." %
(self._username_, attr)

If you look in the SMS 2003 SDK v3.1 or here (
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/opsguide/ops_854m.mspx?mfr=true)
you can see that the property is indeed Read/Write.  Is there any way to
override this or some workaround that I can use to fix this?  I'm about
ready to start hopping up and down in my office chair like an angry
chimpanzee.





# This is a method of an sms.Collection object.
#
# self.parent.wmi_connection is an object created via wmi.WMI() with the
#   namespace set to
\\server\root\sms\site_S01<file://server/root/sms/site_S01>,

#   and I can retrieve information fine, as well as add/edit Collection,
#   advertisement, and other objects just fine.
#
# self.parent.db_connection is an object created via odbc.odbc(), connected
to the SMS database

  def AddMembershipRule(self, rule):
    """Adds a membership rule using an sms.MemberShipRule object.

    Note: this method only supports adding System Resources through direct
          membership, not User or Group Resources.

    Args:
      rule: an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object

    Raises:
      TypeError: if rule is not an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
      SmsUnsupportedResourceType: if a direct membership rule for a
non-system
        resource type is passed

    Returns:
      True on Success
      None on Failure

    TODO: Remove object type limitation for direct membership rules
    """
    if not isinstance(rule, CollectionMembershipRule):
      raise TypeError

    self.parent.ConnectWmi()
    self.parent.ConnectDb()
    conn = self.parent.wmi_connection

    if rule.type == 'direct':
      if rule.resource_type != 5:
        raise SmsUnsupportedResourceType

      cursor = self.parent.db_connection.cursor()
      cursor.execute('SELECT Netbios_Name0, Name0 from v_R_System '
                     'WHERE ResourceID = %s' % rule.resource_id)
      names = cursor.fetchall()
      name = None

      if names[0]:
        name = names[0]
      else:
        name = names[1]

      # This is the problem section
      rule_obj = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
      rule_obj.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
      rule_obj.RuleName = name
      rule_obj.ResourceID = rule.resource_id
      coll_obj = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="%s"'
                          % self.collection_id)
      coll_obj.AddMembershipRule(rule_obj)



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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Jan 30 01:39:01 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:39:01 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on
	read/write	attribute
In-Reply-To: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>

I can't see docs for that property, but if it takes optional params, it might have been transformed to a SetRuleName() method.  You could try adding:

 

rule_obj. _print_details_()

 

and see what is dumped.  Finally, if you can use makepy, the generated file should make it clearer to see what is going on.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:18 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write attribute

 

So I'm trying to automate some tasks with SMS, and I've run into a roadblock when creating new collection membership rules.  The code below is a method of a Collection object.  It's a rough draft, so don't worry too much about the top half unless you think it might be screwing something up.  My problem is that I go to create a new SMS_CollectionRuleDirect object (at the bottom of the code provided) and I get the following error:

 

>>> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "H:\p4rootw\lib\ops\sms.py", line 495, in AddMembershipRule
    rule_obj.RuleName = name
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 550, in __setattr__
    raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." % (self._username_, attr)

 

If you look in the SMS 2003 SDK v3.1 or here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/opsguide/ops_854m.mspx?mfr=true) you can see that the property is indeed Read/Write.  Is there any way to override this or some workaround that I can use to fix this?  I'm about ready to start hopping up and down in my office chair like an angry chimpanzee.

 

 

 

 

 

# This is a method of an sms.Collection object.

#

# self.parent.wmi_connection is an object created via wmi.WMI() with the 

#   namespace set to  <file:///\\server\root\sms\site_S01> \\server\root\sms\site_S01, 

#   and I can retrieve information fine, as well as add/edit Collection, 

#   advertisement, and other objects just fine.

#

# self.parent.db_connection is an object created via odbc.odbc(), connected to the SMS database

 

  def AddMembershipRule(self, rule):
    """Adds a membership rule using an sms.MemberShipRule object.
    
    Note: this method only supports adding System Resources through direct
          membership, not User or Group Resources.
    
    Args:
      rule: an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
      
    Raises:
      TypeError: if rule is not an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
      SmsUnsupportedResourceType: if a direct membership rule for a non-system
        resource type is passed
      
    Returns:
      True on Success
      None on Failure
      
    TODO: Remove object type limitation for direct membership rules
    """
    if not isinstance(rule, CollectionMembershipRule):
      raise TypeError
    
    self.parent.ConnectWmi()
    self.parent.ConnectDb()
    conn = self.parent.wmi_connection
    
    if rule.type == 'direct':
      if rule.resource_type != 5:
        raise SmsUnsupportedResourceType
      
      cursor = self.parent.db_connection.cursor()
      cursor.execute('SELECT Netbios_Name0, Name0 from v_R_System '
                     'WHERE ResourceID = %s' % rule.resource_id)
      names = cursor.fetchall()
      name = None
      
      if names[0]:
        name = names[0]
      else:
        name = names[1]

 

      # This is the problem section

      rule_obj = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
      rule_obj.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
      rule_obj.RuleName = name
      rule_obj.ResourceID = rule.resource_id
      coll_obj = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="%s"'
                          % self.collection_id)
      coll_obj.AddMembershipRule(rule_obj)

 



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From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 01:51:29 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:51:29 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
	attribute
In-Reply-To: <072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>
	<072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>
Message-ID: <5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, I always forget about makepy (what a terrible name).  I'm still
relatively new to Python.

On Jan 29, 2008 4:39 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:

>  I can't see docs for that property, but if it takes optional params, it
> might have been transformed to a SetRuleName() method.  You could try
> adding:
>
>
>
> rule_obj. _print_details_()
>
>
>
> and see what is dumped.  Finally, if you can use makepy, the generated
> file should make it clearer to see what is going on.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim Johnson
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:18 AM
> *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> *Subject:* [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
> attribute
>
>
>
> So I'm trying to automate some tasks with SMS, and I've run into a
> roadblock when creating new collection membership rules.  The code below is
> a method of a Collection object.  It's a rough draft, so don't worry too
> much about the top half unless you think it might be screwing something up.
> My problem is that I go to create a new SMS_CollectionRuleDirect object (at
> the bottom of the code provided) and I get the following error:
>
>
>
> >>> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "H:\p4rootw\lib\ops\sms.py", line 495, in AddMembershipRule
>     rule_obj.RuleName = name
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 550, in __setattr__
>     raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." %
> (self._username_, attr)
>
>
>
> If you look in the SMS 2003 SDK v3.1 or here (
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/opsguide/ops_854m.mspx?mfr=true)
> you can see that the property is indeed Read/Write.  Is there any way to
> override this or some workaround that I can use to fix this?  I'm about
> ready to start hopping up and down in my office chair like an angry
> chimpanzee.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> # This is a method of an sms.Collection object.
>
> #
>
> # self.parent.wmi_connection is an object created via wmi.WMI() with the
>
> #   namespace set to \\server\root\sms\site_S01,
>
> #   and I can retrieve information fine, as well as add/edit Collection,
>
> #   advertisement, and other objects just fine.
>
> #
>
> # self.parent.db_connection is an object created via odbc.odbc(),
> connected to the SMS database
>
>
>
>   def AddMembershipRule(self, rule):
>     """Adds a membership rule using an sms.MemberShipRule object.
>
>     Note: this method only supports adding System Resources through direct
>           membership, not User or Group Resources.
>
>     Args:
>       rule: an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
>
>     Raises:
>       TypeError: if rule is not an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
>       SmsUnsupportedResourceType: if a direct membership rule for a
> non-system
>         resource type is passed
>
>     Returns:
>       True on Success
>       None on Failure
>
>     TODO: Remove object type limitation for direct membership rules
>     """
>     if not isinstance(rule, CollectionMembershipRule):
>       raise TypeError
>
>     self.parent.ConnectWmi()
>     self.parent.ConnectDb()
>     conn = self.parent.wmi_connection
>
>     if rule.type == 'direct':
>       if rule.resource_type != 5:
>         raise SmsUnsupportedResourceType
>
>       cursor = self.parent.db_connection.cursor()
>       cursor.execute('SELECT Netbios_Name0, Name0 from v_R_System '
>                      'WHERE ResourceID = %s' % rule.resource_id)
>       names = cursor.fetchall()
>       name = None
>
>       if names[0]:
>         name = names[0]
>       else:
>         name = names[1]
>
>
>
>       # This is the problem section
>
>       rule_obj = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
>       rule_obj.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
>       rule_obj.RuleName = name
>       rule_obj.ResourceID = rule.resource_id
>       coll_obj = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="%s"'
>                           % self.collection_id)
>       coll_obj.AddMembershipRule(rule_obj)
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> _____________________
> Ceci n'est pas un email.
>



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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Jan 30 02:03:25 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:03:25 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message
In-Reply-To: <d2d681c60801290909u1a5cd24fkecf1ba7b3a02924a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d2d681c60801290909u1a5cd24fkecf1ba7b3a02924a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <073f01c862db$edb3e9d0$c91bbd70$@com.au>

If by "command-line window" you mean the interactive prompt in pythonwin,
IDLE or any other GUI environment, the problem will likely be the lack of a
"message pump" (google for that, particularly on this list).  Although if
"command-line window" means running python.exe from a command-prompt and
entering the commands there, I've no idea why it would work interactively
but fail when run by python.exe as a script.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Mark

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of mauro tizianel
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2008 4:09 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message

 

Hi list,

I am calling  a method on a COM server within a python script. The method
takes a long time to return ( > 15s) and I am getting  a "Server Busy" popup
message "This action cannot be completed because the program is busy." To
continue the user has to click ( "Switch to..." or "Retry").

Typing in the command-line window:
--------
from win32com.client import Dispatch
myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
--------
everything works fine (no popup message, thisIsAVeryLongOperation returning
without user interaction) but if I put it into a file and run it as a script
the message appears: why?

I tried to get rid of the popup with the solution proposed in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2006-August/004923.html
--------
import win32ui
import win32uiole
from win32com.client import Dispatch

win32uiole.AfxOleInit()
win32uiole.SetMessagePendingDelay(aBigDelay);
win32uiole.EnableNotRespondingDialog(False);
win32uiole.EnableBusyDialog(False);

myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
--------
without any effect.

pythoncom.CoInitialize() should  also work, as suggested in
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B248019
<http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B248019&x=14&y=15>
&x=14&y=15,  but again no positive effect.

I was now looking for something like
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240809/en-us): 
OLERequestPendingTimeout
to turn off the messages, but it seems not to be available in pywin32.

By the way, I am running:

Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
pywin32-210.win32-py2.4
WinXP SP2

Thanks in advance. Any suggestion is welcome!

Mauro

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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jan 30 02:18:34 2008
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:18:34 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
 attribute
In-Reply-To: <5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>	<072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>
	<5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <479FD06A.6040807@probo.com>

Tim Johnson wrote:
> Thanks, I always forget about makepy (what a terrible name).

Ah, tool names.  Makepy is at least descriptive.  My vote for worst tool 
names has to be the WiX project, Windows Installer XML, which lets you 
build Windows installer packages with a text editor and a command-line 
interface as God intended, instead of through an opaque GUI interface.  
Noticing that "WiX" rhymes with "wicks", their tools are called 
candle.exe, tallow.exe, lit.exe, light.exe, and dark.exe.

The problem is that, although cute, those names give no clue as to what 
the tools do.  "Candle" is basically the compiler and "light" is the 
linker, but I have to go to the documentation every time I need to use one.

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


From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 02:21:31 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:21:31 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
	attribute
In-Reply-To: <5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>
	<072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>
	<5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5394762f0801291721i1e812cd0vcdb50a3bc993a657@mail.gmail.com>

Hmm, I'm getting a different error now.  Could it be having trouble passing
one wmi object as a parameter to the method of another?

import wmi
site = 'MV1'
wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
resource = 23012
wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
coll = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
rule = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
rule.ResourceID = resource
rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)

Gives me :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
    coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 491,
in __getattr__
    raise pythoncom.com_error, details
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
'SWbemObjectEx', 'Not found ', None, 0, -2147217406), None)

But this:

import wmi
site = 'MV1'
wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
resource = 23012
wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
rule.ResourceID = resource
rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)

Gives me:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
    coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)


On Jan 29, 2008 4:51 PM, Tim Johnson <tojo2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I always forget about makepy (what a terrible name).  I'm still
> relatively new to Python.
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 4:39 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >  I can't see docs for that property, but if it takes optional params, it
> > might have been transformed to a SetRuleName() method.  You could try
> > adding:
> >
> >
> >
> > rule_obj. _print_details_()
> >
> >
> >
> > and see what is dumped.  Finally, if you can use makepy, the generated
> > file should make it clearer to see what is going on.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> > python-win32-bounces at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Tim Johnson
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 January 2008 11:18 AM
> > *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> > *Subject:* [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on
> > read/write attribute
> >
> >
> >
> > So I'm trying to automate some tasks with SMS, and I've run into a
> > roadblock when creating new collection membership rules.  The code below is
> > a method of a Collection object.  It's a rough draft, so don't worry too
> > much about the top half unless you think it might be screwing something up.
> > My problem is that I go to create a new SMS_CollectionRuleDirect object (at
> > the bottom of the code provided) and I get the following error:
> >
> >
> >
> > >>> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >   File "H:\p4rootw\lib\ops\sms.py", line 495, in AddMembershipRule
> >     rule_obj.RuleName = name
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> > 550, in __setattr__
> >     raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." %
> > (self._username_, attr)
> >
> >
> >
> > If you look in the SMS 2003 SDK v3.1 or here (
> > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/opsguide/ops_854m.mspx?mfr=true)
> > you can see that the property is indeed Read/Write.  Is there any way to
> > override this or some workaround that I can use to fix this?  I'm about
> > ready to start hopping up and down in my office chair like an angry
> > chimpanzee.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > # This is a method of an sms.Collection object.
> >
> > #
> >
> > # self.parent.wmi_connection is an object created via wmi.WMI() with the
> >
> >
> > #   namespace set to \\server\root\sms\site_S01,
> >
> > #   and I can retrieve information fine, as well as add/edit Collection,
> >
> >
> > #   advertisement, and other objects just fine.
> >
> > #
> >
> > # self.parent.db_connection is an object created via odbc.odbc(),
> > connected to the SMS database
> >
> >
> >
> >   def AddMembershipRule(self, rule):
> >     """Adds a membership rule using an sms.MemberShipRule object.
> >
> >     Note: this method only supports adding System Resources through
> > direct
> >           membership, not User or Group Resources.
> >
> >     Args:
> >       rule: an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
> >
> >     Raises:
> >       TypeError: if rule is not an sms.CollectionMembershipRule object
> >       SmsUnsupportedResourceType: if a direct membership rule for a
> > non-system
> >         resource type is passed
> >
> >     Returns:
> >       True on Success
> >       None on Failure
> >
> >     TODO: Remove object type limitation for direct membership rules
> >     """
> >     if not isinstance(rule, CollectionMembershipRule):
> >       raise TypeError
> >
> >     self.parent.ConnectWmi()
> >     self.parent.ConnectDb()
> >     conn = self.parent.wmi_connection
> >
> >     if rule.type == 'direct':
> >       if rule.resource_type != 5:
> >         raise SmsUnsupportedResourceType
> >
> >       cursor = self.parent.db_connection.cursor()
> >       cursor.execute('SELECT Netbios_Name0, Name0 from v_R_System '
> >                      'WHERE ResourceID = %s' % rule.resource_id)
> >       names = cursor.fetchall()
> >       name = None
> >
> >       if names[0]:
> >         name = names[0]
> >       else:
> >         name = names[1]
> >
> >
> >
> >       # This is the problem section
> >
> >       rule_obj = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
> >       rule_obj.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> >       rule_obj.RuleName = name
> >       rule_obj.ResourceID = rule.resource_id
> >       coll_obj = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="%s"'
> >                           % self.collection_id)
> >       coll_obj.AddMembershipRule(rule_obj)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _____________________
> > Ceci n'est pas un email.
> >
>
>
>
> --
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From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Tue Jan 29 04:09:21 2008
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:09:21 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Character sets and symbols question
Message-ID: <479E98E1.8040601@alum.rpi.edu>

I'm copying from a pdf file.

When I paste it in an email it looks like what I want:
?????word:??????????????

When I paste it into PythonWin I get:
??????????word:????????????????????????????

How can I get the nice graphic in PythonWin?

-- 
Bob Gailer
919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Jan 30 09:07:46 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:07:46 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Character sets and symbols question
In-Reply-To: <479E98E1.8040601@alum.rpi.edu>
References: <479E98E1.8040601@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <076601c86317$35602470$a0206d50$@com.au>

I'm afraid pythonwin has a few issues regarding non-ascii characters - eg, see:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1746689&group_id=78018&atid=551954

and I think there are a couple of others, but I can't find them at the moment.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Bob Gailer
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2008 2:09 PM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Character sets and symbols question
> 
> I'm copying from a pdf file.
> 
> When I paste it in an email it looks like what I want:
> +----word:-------------
> 
> When I paste it into PythonWin I get:
> word:
> 
> How can I get the nice graphic in PythonWin?
> 
> --
> Bob Gailer
> 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill, NC
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 30 10:14:57 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:14:57 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
 attribute
In-Reply-To: <5394762f0801291721i1e812cd0vcdb50a3bc993a657@mail.gmail.com>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>	<072b01c862d8$84e3d1c0$8eab7540$@com.au>	<5394762f0801291651u43d807d8kfd4e6169b8a56d32@mail.gmail.com>
	<5394762f0801291721i1e812cd0vcdb50a3bc993a657@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <47A04011.1080105@timgolden.me.uk>

Tim Johnson wrote:
> Hmm, I'm getting a different error now.  Could it be having trouble passing
> one wmi object as a parameter to the method of another?
> 
> import wmi
> site = 'MV1'
> wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> resource = 23012
> wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> coll = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
> rule = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
> rule.ResourceID = resource
> rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> 
> Gives me :
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
>     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 491,
> in __getattr__
>     raise pythoncom.com_error, details
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> 'SWbemObjectEx', 'Not found ', None, 0, -2147217406), None)
> 
> But this:
> 
> import wmi
> site = 'MV1'
> wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> resource = 23012
> wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
> rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
> rule.ResourceID = resource
> rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> 
> Gives me:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
>     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Hi, Tim.

This is one of those ones where I can't easily check my suspicions
because I don't have the namespace on my box. I can probably give
a hint or two, though. And I'll almost certainly find along the
way that you're doing something no-one's asked the wmi module to
do before and which, therefore, I don't support too cleanly!

No. 1 - get the latest release:

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip

which may actually solve the first problem if it's
what I think it is, and will certainly help you with
the second. If I'm wrong -- and even if I'm right :) --
feel free to post back.

The first one *might* be a symptom of a long-standing bug
I've just squashed which over-cached the WMI methods so
that any method call after the first one was attempting
to call on the *first* object again.

The second one is the slight gotcha that -- prior to the
latest release but one -- you had to pass method params
as keyword-only. Not helped by the slightly obscure error
message which even has me scratching my head when I forget.
I've fixed that in the latest release so please run it through
and make sure for me.

Thanks
TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 30 10:28:15 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:28:15 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
 attribute
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Message-ID: <47A0432F.5040608@timgolden.me.uk>

Tim Johnson wrote:
> import wmi
> site = 'MV1'
> wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> resource = 23012
> wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> coll = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
> rule = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
> rule.ResourceID = resource
> rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)

As an aside from the error messages you're getting, the wmi
module has some slightly more Pythonic support for what
you're doing there. Something like this (untested) should
work:

<code - untested>
import wmi

site = 'MV1'
wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
resource = 23012

conn = wmi.WMI (computer=smi_server, namespace="sms/site_%s" % site)
coll = conn.get ('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
#
# or, using the more common wmi idiom
#
# coll = conn.SMS_Collection (CollectionID="MV100362")[0]

rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new (
   ResourceID=resource,
   RuleName="ResourceID: " + str (resource),
   ResourceClassName = "SMS_R_System"
)
coll.AddMembershipRule (rule)

</code>

FWIW, this stuff is covered in the tutorial:
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi-tutorial.html#creating-wmi-objects

Obviously, your code should also work as the module simply passes
the .Get method call through to the underlying WMI object. It also,
as a matter of fact, offers a local version .get which wraps the
result. The wrapped version is handy if you want to do things with
the properties and methods, but offers little if you're just passing
the whole thing along as an opaque object.

TJG

From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 10:39:50 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:39:50 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
	attribute
In-Reply-To: <47A04011.1080105@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <5394762f0801291617m3df45036tff7bce04d76534ee@mail.gmail.com>
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YES!!!  It works.  I was able to successfully run the following version:

###

import wmi
site = 'MV1'
wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
resource = 23012
wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
rule.ResourceID = resource
rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' + str(resource)
rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
result = coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)

###

I still get the error on my old code, but maybe mixing
win32com.client-styleobjects with wmi objects is causing weirdness
there.  In any case, I have
what I need from here on out.  I'd say almost 100% of all WMI scripts out
there are for getting information, not setting it, but when you're dealing
with SMS it's the only way to go.

Thanks again, and someday I'll pull a thorn out of your foot or something.
:)

On Jan 30, 2008 1:14 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

>  Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hmm, I'm getting a different error now.  Could it be having trouble
> passing
> > one wmi object as a parameter to the method of another?
> >
> > import wmi
> > site = 'MV1'
> > wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> > resource = 23012
> > wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> > conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> > coll = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
> > rule = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
> > rule.ResourceID = resource
> > rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> > rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> > coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> >
> > Gives me :
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
> >     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 491,
> > in __getattr__
> >     raise pythoncom.com_error, details
> > pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> > 'SWbemObjectEx', 'Not found ', None, 0, -2147217406), None)
> >
> > But this:
> >
> > import wmi
> > site = 'MV1'
> > wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> > resource = 23012
> > wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> > conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> > coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
> > rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
> > rule.ResourceID = resource
> > rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> > rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> > coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> >
> > Gives me:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
> >     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
>
> Hi, Tim.
>
> This is one of those ones where I can't easily check my suspicions
> because I don't have the namespace on my box. I can probably give
> a hint or two, though. And I'll almost certainly find along the
> way that you're doing something no-one's asked the wmi module to
> do before and which, therefore, I don't support too cleanly!
>
> No. 1 - get the latest release:
>
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip
>
> which may actually solve the first problem if it's
> what I think it is, and will certainly help you with
> the second. If I'm wrong -- and even if I'm right :) --
> feel free to post back.
>
> The first one *might* be a symptom of a long-standing bug
> I've just squashed which over-cached the WMI methods so
> that any method call after the first one was attempting
> to call on the *first* object again.
>
> The second one is the slight gotcha that -- prior to the
> latest release but one -- you had to pass method params
> as keyword-only. Not helped by the slightly obscure error
> message which even has me scratching my head when I forget.
> I've fixed that in the latest release so please run it through
> and make sure for me.
>
> Thanks
> TJG
>  _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From tojo2000 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 10:44:03 2008
From: tojo2000 at gmail.com (Tim Johnson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:44:03 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
	attribute
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Oh, and thanks for pointing out the Pythonic style points as well.  I'm
still a relative newbie to Python, and when I'm reading examples written in
vbscripts I sometimes get out of the groove.  I'll go take another look at
those examples.

On Jan 30, 2008 1:39 AM, Tim Johnson <tojo2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> YES!!!  It works.  I was able to successfully run the following version:
>
> ###
>
> import wmi
> site = 'MV1'
> wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> resource = 23012
> wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
> rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
> rule.ResourceID = resource
> rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' + str(resource)
> rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> result = coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
>
> ###
>
> I still get the error on my old code, but maybe mixing
> win32com.client-style objects with wmi objects is causing weirdness
> there.  In any case, I have what I need from here on out.  I'd say almost
> 100% of all WMI scripts out there are for getting information, not setting
> it, but when you're dealing with SMS it's the only way to go.
>
> Thanks again, and someday I'll pull a thorn out of your foot or
> something.  :)
>
>   On Jan 30, 2008 1:14 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >  Tim Johnson wrote:
> > > Hmm, I'm getting a different error now.  Could it be having trouble
> > passing
> > > one wmi object as a parameter to the method of another?
> > >
> > > import wmi
> > > site = 'MV1'
> > > wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> > > resource = 23012
> > > wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> > > conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> > > coll = conn.Get('SMS_Collection.CollectionID="MV100362"')
> > > rule = conn.Get('SMS_CollectionRuleDirect').SpawnInstance_()
> > > rule.ResourceID = resource
> > > rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> > > rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> > > coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > >
> > > Gives me :
> > >
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
> > >     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > >   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
> > line 491,
> > > in __getattr__
> > >     raise pythoncom.com_error, details
> > > pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> > > 'SWbemObjectEx', 'Not found ', None, 0, -2147217406), None)
> > >
> > > But this:
> > >
> > > import wmi
> > > site = 'MV1'
> > > wmi_server = 'mtv-sql-2'
> > > resource = 23012
> > > wmi_namespace = 'root\\sms\\site_%s' % site
> > > conn = wmi.WMI(computer=wmi_server, namespace=wmi_namespace)
> > > coll = conn.SMS_Collection(CollectionID='MV100362')[0]
> > > rule = conn.SMS_CollectionRuleDirect.new()
> > > rule.ResourceID = resource
> > > rule.RuleName = 'ResourceID: ' +str(resource)
> > > rule.ResourceClassName = 'SMS_R_System'
> > > coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > >
> > > Gives me:
> > >
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "C:\Users\timjohnson\Desktop\addrule.py", line 16, in ?
> > >     coll.AddMembershipRule(rule)
> > > TypeError: __call__() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
> >
> > Hi, Tim.
> >
> > This is one of those ones where I can't easily check my suspicions
> > because I don't have the namespace on my box. I can probably give
> > a hint or two, though. And I'll almost certainly find along the
> > way that you're doing something no-one's asked the wmi module to
> > do before and which, therefore, I don't support too cleanly!
> >
> > No. 1 - get the latest release:
> >
> > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/wmi-1.3.2.zip
> >
> > which may actually solve the first problem if it's
> > what I think it is, and will certainly help you with
> > the second. If I'm wrong -- and even if I'm right :) --
> > feel free to post back.
> >
> > The first one *might* be a symptom of a long-standing bug
> > I've just squashed which over-cached the WMI methods so
> > that any method call after the first one was attempting
> > to call on the *first* object again.
> >
> > The second one is the slight gotcha that -- prior to the
> > latest release but one -- you had to pass method params
> > as keyword-only. Not helped by the slightly obscure error
> > message which even has me scratching my head when I forget.
> > I've fixed that in the latest release so please run it through
> > and make sure for me.
> >
> > Thanks
> > TJG
> >  _______________________________________________
> > python-win32 mailing list
> > python-win32 at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>
>
>
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jan 30 10:47:46 2008
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:47:46 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] "Property '%s.%s' can not be set" on read/write
 attribute
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Tim Johnson wrote:
> YES!!!  It works.  I was able to successfully run the following version:
> 

[... snip working version ...]

Excellent news. Glad to hear it.

 > I'd say almost 100% of all WMI scripts out
> there are for getting information, not setting it

I think you're right. It took me several goes to even understand
what the SpawnInstance_ stuff was for: the first few versions of
the module did the wrong thing with it completely! The only
real example I have on the Cookbook site is this one:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#create_iis_site

which isn't so very different from your situation now I look at it.

TJG

From mauro.tiz at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 17:02:27 2008
From: mauro.tiz at gmail.com (mauro tizianel)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:02:27 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message
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Thans a lot for your answer. In an indirect way it brought me towards the
solution.

"command-line window" was a bad way to indicate PythonWin, IPython shell or
just the Python interactive prompt running python.exe from command line.
After trying without success also "python.exe < test.py" I figured out that
the main difference with the interactive prompt was in the time which
elapses between the execution of each line.

I also found somewhere:

> 1) You call a method of the COM server that takes a lot of time
> 2) Before it is done, you call a method of the same COM server.
> 3) The COM server detects it is busy with the first request and returns
> BUSY, causing COM to put up the error message.

> The fix is not to call the COM server while it is busy performing requests

> on your behalf.

Thus adding a time.sleep( ) call before calling the long operation method I
got the script running. The question then is: Why the function returns if I
then have to wait...?

BUT this was only one of the problems: if the user does some other operation
in the meanwhile (like switching to another application while waiting for
the output) the message MAY appear again.

After a while I realized that:
1. Even if I hide the GUI (.Visible = False), the application keep the focus
after I call Dispatch. That's why I never get the messages in the
interactive-prompt: I am activating the python prompt window by typing a
command: this way the application looses the focus.
2. The server busy message comes from the application, not from Python.
Since the application get the focus, when the user does some other operation
the first thing he does is interacting with the application, which is
currently busy with the Python request... hence the message.

Starting the application (using Dispatch) and minimizing it manually before
running the script seems to solve also this problem. Is there a way to do so
automatically (.Visible = True, get in some way the handle of the window and
call some win32api function to minimize the window)?

Mauro

2008/1/30, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>:
>
>  If by "command-line window" you mean the interactive prompt in pythonwin,
> IDLE or any other GUI environment, the problem will likely be the lack of a
> "message pump" (google for that, particularly on this list).  Although if
> "command-line window" means running python.exe from a command-prompt and
> entering the commands there, I've no idea why it would work interactively
> but fail when run by python.exe as a script.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org] *On Behalf Of *mauro tizianel
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 30 January 2008 4:09 AM
> *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> *Subject:* [python-win32] win32com: ServerBusy message
>
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I am calling  a method on a COM server within a python script. The method
> takes a long time to return ( > 15s) and I am getting  a "Server Busy" popup
> message "This action cannot be completed because the program is busy." To
> continue the user has to click ( "Switch to..." or "Retry").
>
> Typing in the command-line window:
> --------
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
> anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
> res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
> --------
> everything works fine (no popup message, thisIsAVeryLongOperation
> returning without user interaction) but if I put it into a file and run it
> as a script the message appears: why?
>
> I tried to get rid of the popup with the solution proposed in
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2006-August/004923.html
> --------
> import win32ui
> import win32uiole
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
> win32uiole.AfxOleInit()
> win32uiole.SetMessagePendingDelay(aBigDelay);
> win32uiole.EnableNotRespondingDialog(False);
> win32uiole.EnableBusyDialog(False);
>
> myComObj = Dispatch("myApp.Application")
> anotherComObj = myComObj.method()
> res = anotherComObj.thisIsAVeryLongOperation()
> --------
> without any effect.
>
> pythoncom.CoInitialize() should  also work, as suggested in
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B248019&x=14&y=15,  but
> again no positive effect.
>
> I was now looking for something like (
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240809/en-us):
> OLERequestPendingTimeout
> to turn off the messages, but it seems not to be available in pywin32.
>
> By the way, I am running:
>
> Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
> pywin32-210.win32-py2.4
> WinXP SP2
>
> Thanks in advance. Any suggestion is welcome!
>
> Mauro
>
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From leegold at fastmail.fm  Thu Jan 31 00:16:59 2008
From: leegold at fastmail.fm (leegold)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:16:59 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Python ADO and Date Time Field in Access
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Thank for the stellar explanations and code. 

You plus the other posters and esp. the code examples make it clear
what's going on.

It's been very helpful. Thanks,
Lee G.



On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:39:25 +0000, "Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
said:
> leegold wrote:
> > ...snip...
> 
> > I was coming from the equivalent Perl code and now trying 
> > it in Python. 
> 
> [... snip code examples ...]
> 
> Well, seeing you've gone to the trouble of posting the code...
> even if you didn't provide a working database for those of
> use without access to Access (pun entirely intended)....
> I've put together a working test case to make sure we're
> talking about the same thing.
> 
> This code creates a new Jet/.mdb databasem, creates a test
> table with an INT id and a TIME dt field and populates it
> with one row. I hope this is sufficient to simulate your
> source data.
> 
> It then queries that table, looping over the (one) rows
> it contains and printing out the values *and their repr*.
> It can be cut-and-pasted directly into a Python console
> session or you can save it as a file and run it.
> 
> <code>
> import os, sys
> from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch as Dispatch
> 
> DATABASE_FILEPATH = r"c:\temp\test.mdb"
> CONNECTION_STRING = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; data Source=%s" % 
> DATABASE_FILEPATH
> 
> if os.path.exists (DATABASE_FILEPATH):
>    os.remove (DATABASE_FILEPATH)
> 
> adox = Dispatch ("ADOX.Catalog")
> adox.Create (CONNECTION_STRING)
> 
> db = Dispatch ('ADODB.Connection')
> db.Open (CONNECTION_STRING)
> try:
>    db.Execute ('CREATE TABLE dtest (id INT, dt TIME)')
>    db.Execute ("INSERT INTO dtest (id, dt) VALUES (1, NOW ())")
>    (rs, n) = db.Execute ('SELECT id, dt FROM dtest')
>    while not rs.EOF:
>      for field in rs.Fields:
>        print field.Name, "=>", field.Value, repr (field.Value)
>      print
>      rs.MoveNext ()
> finally:
>    db.Close ()
> 
> </code>
> 
> The results on my machine show that the TIME field is
> returned as a PyTime value. Assuming the same is true
> for you, you should be able to use this technique:
> 
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/use-a-pytime-value.html#from-timestamp
> 
> to produce a standard Python datetime value, from which
> you can then format it as you like with .strftime.
> 
> If you *don't* get a PyTime value, then can you post the
> output from your run and let's take it from there?
> 
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From maria.reinhammar at swisslog-accalon.com  Thu Jan 31 07:26:09 2008
From: maria.reinhammar at swisslog-accalon.com (Reinhammar Maria)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:26:09 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Parameter problem
Message-ID: <B123D8A5E6A59042A1F844516315233F01610345@sseq8sw3mail.bts-box.local>

Hello all,

 

Not really sure that I have a problem with win32 Extensions here but
anyway..

(Please also note that I'm not very well versed with win32 nor COM, I
merely use it when

I develop Python apps that use COM objects.)

 

I try to call a method on the Solid Edge API, which provides a COM
interface.

In general, things work nicely, Thanks Mark for supplying win32
Extensions :o)

 

The specific call expects two parameters by reference and these
parameters

shall, upon return, contain the sought data.

Usually, I get the data as a returned tuple but this specific call
instead raise an exception(!)

 

>>> first = 1.0

>>> scnd = 1.0

>>>
se.ActiveDocument.Sheets(3).ComplexStrings2d(10).GetCentroid(x=first,
y=scnd)

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

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

 
se.ActiveDocument.Sheets(3).ComplexStrings2d(10).GetCentroid(x=first,
y=scnd)

  File
"C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\943AC5C6-F4DB-11D1-BE00-0
80036B4D502x0x1x0.py", line 3088, in GetCentroid

    , y)

  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
448, in _ApplyTypes_

    dispid, 0, wFlags, retType, argTypes, *args),

com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)

 

 

Question: Where should I really look? Is it win32 Extensions or is it
Solid Edge?

Thought: The COM error states that the *server* threw exception so look
there BUT the call works from VB..

 

Using Python 2.5.1, pywin32-210, SolidEdge v18

 

PS.

In case someone out there happens to know about Solid Edge, the call is
object.GetCentroid(x, y) which is expected to return coordinates

for the object. The VB call looks like 

Dim dblx As Double
Dim dbly As Double

 

Call objCompStrn1.GetCentroid(x:=dblx, y:=dbly)

DS.

 

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Software Engineer

Swisslog-Accalon AB

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Jan 31 09:05:22 2008
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:05:22 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Parameter problem
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It would be good if you knew the IDL signature of the args - its not clear
if they are truly byref, or simply "out".  Named params might also be
getting in the way.

 

Try these - one might work :)

 

GetCentroid(first, scnd)

GetCentroid()

GetCentroid(pythoncom.Missing, pythoncom.Missing)

 

Mark

 

From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Reinhammar Maria
Sent: Thursday, 31 January 2008 5:26 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Parameter problem

 

Hello all,

 

Not really sure that I have a problem with win32 Extensions here but
anyway..

(Please also note that I?m not very well versed with win32 nor COM, I merely
use it when

I develop Python apps that use COM objects.)

 

I try to call a method on the Solid Edge API, which provides a COM
interface.

In general, things work nicely, Thanks Mark for supplying win32 Extensions
:o)

 

The specific call expects two parameters by reference and these parameters

shall, upon return, contain the sought data.

Usually, I get the data as a returned tuple but this specific call instead
raise an exception(!)

 

>>> first = 1.0

>>> scnd = 1.0

>>> se.ActiveDocument.Sheets(3).ComplexStrings2d(10).GetCentroid(x=first,
y=scnd)

 

Traceback (most recent call last):

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

    se.ActiveDocument.Sheets(3).ComplexStrings2d(10).GetCentroid(x=first,
y=scnd)

  File
"C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\943AC5C6-F4DB-11D1-BE00-08003
6B4D502x0x1x0.py", line 3088, in GetCentroid

    , y)

  File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
448, in _ApplyTypes_

    dispid, 0, wFlags, retType, argTypes, *args),

com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)

 

 

Question: Where should I really look? Is it win32 Extensions or is it Solid
Edge?

Thought: The COM error states that the *server* threw exception so look
there BUT the call works from VB..

 

Using Python 2.5.1, pywin32-210, SolidEdge v18

 

PS.

In case someone out there happens to know about Solid Edge, the call is
object.GetCentroid(x, y) which is expected to return coordinates

for the object. The VB call looks like 

Dim dblx As Double
Dim dbly As Double

 

Call objCompStrn1.GetCentroid(x:=dblx, y:=dbly)

DS.

 

Maria Reinhammar
Software Engineer

Swisslog-Accalon AB

Box 135 
SE590 10 Boxholm 

Sweden

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From pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com  Thu Jan 31 10:43:16 2008
From: pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com (Pallavi Apotikar)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:16 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
Message-ID: <OFAB4D5FB9.1ABE9138-ON652573E1.0035435F-652573E1.003566C4@tcs.com>

Hello Sir/Madam, 

I would like to know, is it possible to read a python file from an excel 
sheet ? 

Thanks and Regards 

Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar
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From graemeglass at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 11:01:59 2008
From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:01:59 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
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On Jan 31, 2008 11:43 AM, Pallavi Apotikar <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com> wrote:

>
> Hello Sir/Madam,
>
> I would like to know, is it possible to read a python file from an excel
> sheet ?
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar
>


I don't fully understand what you are asking,

But...

If you where however asking, if it is possible to display the contents of a
python script in an excel sheet, yes it's possible (it's just text), why you
would want to? a .pyc file would be pretty meaningless to you as it is a
'compiled' python script, and is 'bytecode'.

If you where asking if you could control excel via a python script, which I
think is the most plausible, the answer is a resounding yes!

There are countless examples on this mailing list of such tasks.

Google for 'python +excel', will bring up loads of examples.

(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html)

import win32com.client
xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xl.Visible = 1


I hope one of these answers will help with what you where asking.

G
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From pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com  Thu Jan 31 11:36:08 2008
From: pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com (Pallavi Apotikar)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:08 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
In-Reply-To: <ead817660801310201g60917e65k133b0f8b80378b14@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <OFFFD62BF6.41D497DA-ON652573E1.0039DDAF-652573E1.003A3DC7@tcs.com>

Actually, I have an excel sheet, where I am entering the data.

I am reading the entered data in python.

excel takes data as a string.

before passing it to python, i wanted to check whether the entered 
data(value) is a valid python data type. 

so instead of checking this in python script(/ say program), I wanted to 
put macro in excel , so that all the values are checked at a stretch (or 
say while entering - before passing it to the python program.)

So is it possible ?

Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar
Tata Consultancy Services
Mailto: pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com
Website: http://www.tcs.com
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"Graeme Glass" <graemeglass at gmail.com> 
01/31/2008 03:31 PM

To
"Pallavi Apotikar" <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com>
cc
python-win32 at python.org
Subject
Re: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet







On Jan 31, 2008 11:43 AM, Pallavi Apotikar <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com> 
wrote:

Hello Sir/Madam, 

I would like to know, is it possible to read a python file from an excel 
sheet ? 

Thanks and Regards 

Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar


I don't fully understand what you are asking,

But...

If you where however asking, if it is possible to display the contents of 
a python script in an excel sheet, yes it's possible (it's just text), why 
you would want to? a .pyc file would be pretty meaningless to you as it is 
a 'compiled' python script, and is 'bytecode'.

If you where asking if you could control excel via a python script, which 
I think is the most plausible, the answer is a resounding yes! 

There are countless examples on this mailing list of such tasks. 

Google for 'python +excel', will bring up loads of examples. 

(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/chapter/ch12.html)

import win32com.client
xl = win32com.client.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xl.Visible = 1

I hope one of these answers will help with what you where asking.

G
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From tovas at answers.com  Thu Jan 31 11:54:48 2008
From: tovas at answers.com (Tova Sirkis)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:54:48 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to get the dynamic parts of the url,
	with python ?
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urllib2.urlopen(url)   only returns the static part of the url.
Is it possible, with python, to get the dynamic parts of the url, too? (for example ads)
If yes, how?
Thanks
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From graemeglass at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 12:57:18 2008
From: graemeglass at gmail.com (Graeme Glass)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:57:18 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
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On Jan 31, 2008 12:36 PM, Pallavi Apotikar <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com> wrote:

>
> Actually, I have an excel sheet, where I am entering the data.
>
> I am reading the entered data in python.
>
> excel takes data as a string.
>
> before passing it to python, i wanted to check whether the entered
> data(value) is a valid python data type.
>
> so instead of checking this in python script(/ say program), I wanted to
> put macro in excel , so that all the values are checked at a stretch (or say
> while entering - before passing it to the python program.)
>
> So is it possible ?
>

Yes of course this is possible. Like you said, create a MACRO in excel. This
has nothing to do with python, it's an excel macro you want.

In the python script you could easily check the data/values and convert
them/(make sure they are valid) to whatever 'type' you need them to be,
within reason. (You can not create a flying spaghetti monster from a
datetime for example)

hth,

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From fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk  Thu Jan 31 13:06:08 2008
From: fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk (Michael Foord)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:06:08 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to get the dynamic parts of the url,
 with python ?
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Tova Sirkis wrote:
> urllib2.urlopen(url)   only returns the static part of the url.
> Is it possible, with python, to get the dynamic parts of the url, too? 
> (for example ads)
> If yes, how?

It is possible - although can be difficult as ads are usually fetched 
with Javascript. You can certainly get the javascript though.

I'll give you a clue - how do you think the browser does it when you 
only type the main URL into the address bar...

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord

> Thanks
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From pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com  Thu Jan 31 13:18:56 2008
From: pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com (Pallavi Apotikar)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:48:56 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
In-Reply-To: <ead817660801310357o4741dccq21231accf2b40f9c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <OFAF700FDA.5EDCBE82-ON652573E1.00438527-652573E1.0043A3EF@tcs.com>

I know how to write the macro using VB, but I don't know how to do the 
same thing using python -- where is the option available etc.
Can you give me any reference?
Thanks and Regards.

Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar
Tata Consultancy Services
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"Graeme Glass" <graemeglass at gmail.com> 
01/31/2008 05:27 PM

To
"Pallavi Apotikar" <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com>
cc
python-win32 at python.org
Subject
Re: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet







On Jan 31, 2008 12:36 PM, Pallavi Apotikar <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com> 
wrote:

Actually, I have an excel sheet, where I am entering the data. 

I am reading the entered data in python. 

excel takes data as a string. 

before passing it to python, i wanted to check whether the entered 
data(value) is a valid python data type. 

so instead of checking this in python script(/ say program), I wanted to 
put macro in excel , so that all the values are checked at a stretch (or 
say while entering - before passing it to the python program.) 

So is it possible ? 

Yes of course this is possible. Like you said, create a MACRO in excel. 
This has nothing to do with python, it's an excel macro you want. 

In the python script you could easily check the data/values and convert 
them/(make sure they are valid) to whatever 'type' you need them to be, 
within reason. (You can not create a flying spaghetti monster from a 
datetime for example)

hth,

Graeme

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From amish at net-square.com  Thu Jan 31 13:42:31 2008
From: amish at net-square.com (Amish Shah)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:12:31 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] COM server support on Vista
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Greetings Friends,

I'm having a problem with IE7 on Vista under "Protected mode". The 
python win32com sample "ietoolbar" even doesn't load under protected 
mode enable condition on IE7 vista.

Are your plug-ins for Internet Explorer (IE7) working on Vista 
"Protected Mode" enable (on) ? If yes, can you point out the code for that?

Regards,
--Amish

James Matthews wrote:
> all fine on my end...!
>
> On 11/5/07, *Michel Claveau* <mc at mclaveau.com 
> <mailto:mc at mclaveau.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>
>     My COM servers, in Python, run without problem on Vista. I had
>     also try :
>     plug-in in Internet-Explorer ; plug-in in Excel. All is OK.
>
>     @-salutations
>
>     Michel Claveau
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From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Jan 31 15:29:08 2008
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:29:08 -0600 (CST)
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 58, Issue 53
In-Reply-To: <mailman.391.1201775788.9266.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.391.1201775788.9266.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <000001c86415$981b0ea0$96c051d8@mcis0492>

Hi,

Are you wanting to use Python in Excel instead of VBA? There's a thread
about just that sort of thing here:

http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t319222-re-python-in-excel.html

Otherwise you'll need to figure out how to use VBA to do some kind of
Python voodoo to check the data type. I suppose something that checks if
it is a long, pass that info along so Python doesn't think it's an int. In
fact, you'll probably have to pass some kind of flag or sentinel value
along to identify the data type for Python.

Maybe one of the gurus here will weigh in with more and better
information.

Mike

> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:06:08 +0530
> From: Pallavi Apotikar <pallavi.apotikar at tcs.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
> To: "Graeme Glass" <graemeglass at gmail.com>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
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> Actually, I have an excel sheet, where I am entering the data.
> 
> I am reading the entered data in python.
> 
> excel takes data as a string.
> 
> before passing it to python, i wanted to check whether the entered
> data(value) is a valid python data type. 
> 
> so instead of checking this in python script(/ say program), 
> I wanted to put macro in excel , so that all the values are 
> checked at a stretch (or say while entering - before passing 
> it to the python program.)
> 
> So is it possible ?
> 
> Pallavi Ajabrao Apotikar
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Jan 31 18:52:09 2008
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:52:09 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM server support on Vista
In-Reply-To: <47A1C237.2080604@net-square.com>
References: <58b84f8e0711050109t473f5bf3rf33156f95bc133@mail.gmail.com>	<3D0CF802BB2B4EFB97686A335C13AE07@MCI1330>
	<8a6b8e350711051458o35b5aab8hd78229a97b5e880c@mail.gmail.com>
	<47A1C237.2080604@net-square.com>
Message-ID: <32D138BDBFD14DEAB12BA7439BB8A77F@MCI1330>

Hi!

Because Protected mode need to activate UAC, I prefer to test (to try) on a 
virtual-PC. I have done a Vista-premium with UAC on, Security center on, 
Protected mode on.

In the passing, I benefitted from it to test my procedures of installation 
for Vista.

Results :
    iebutton: install OK ; run OK (a "bit" slow)
    ietoolbar: install OK ; run OK.

@-salutations

Michel Claveau







From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 19:21:15 2008
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:21:15 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Reading .py or .pyc from an excel sheet
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0801311021y3fafa205h69d33e2c53da5406@mail.gmail.com>

Why not just format the entire column as string data, before calling Python?
That's just requires a few menu clicks, then pass that column to Python.

Another option is to use a Python library called xlrd, which reads
Excel (.XLS) files from Python.
This way you can avoid using COM and the need to have Excel on the
machine where you are reading the file.
There are some limits to what you can do with the library, but for
just pulling in data, it should be ok.

Your Python script can check the data type of each cell as you are
iterating over the cells.

From chuang at rim.com  Thu Jan 31 23:27:08 2008
From: chuang at rim.com (Chen Huang)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:27:08 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] parameters got changed after passing to a function
	through COM
Message-ID: <0B64B3EBDFC5AB44A2898D0AAE088DD0051AC12D@XCH47YKF.rim.net>

Hello all,

 

I am experiencing a weird problem when using third-party software
through COM. There is an API function X belongs to Object A from that
third-party software. I use python generated COM interface and use
dispatch to get that Object A. Then I call that function X in python.
The function X requires an unsigned integer N as a parameter along with
2 other parameters. But for some reason, the parameter N got changed
after it's going through COM, it's changed to 0xFFFFFFFF. I printed the
parameter before calling that function X in python and the function in
third-party print out the initial parameter it receives. These two
print-outs are different. I also experienced with other Object in that
third-party software. The problem doesn't exist in other object or other
functions in object A.

 

Does anyone have any idea of what went wrong here? I don't know if the
problem lies in my part of python program or in the python win32com or
in the third-party COM support.

 

Thank you very much!

 

 

Chen


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