[python-win32] Walking the shell namespace in Python

[Thomas Heller]

Thomas Heller schrieb:
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> 
> What I find strange if this:
What I fond strange is this:
> 
>>>> desktop.GetDisplayNameOf(pidl, SHGDN_FORPARSING)
> u'C:\\Python26\\Lib\\site-packages'
>>>> desktop.GetDisplayNameOf(pidl, SHGDN_NORMAL)
> u'Python26'
>>>>
> 
> I would have expected that the last command would have returned
> 'site-packages' instead of 'Python26'.  But I can probably work around
> it by doing a little parsing on the output of SHGDN_FORPARSING myself.
> 

Addendum:

SHGetFileInfo() is able to retrive the string that I expected:

>>> name = desktop.GetDisplayNameOf(pidl, SHGDN_FORPARSING)
>>> SHGetFileInfo(name, 0, SHGFI_DISPLAYNAME)
(1L, (0, 0, 0, 'site-packages', ''))
>>>

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Thanks,
Thomas