From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun  1 04:09:23 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:09:23 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Excel "stopped working" after reading in sheet
 names
In-Reply-To: <4DE4A220.1080905@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <8de3eae44155fbd7a60ae1c0cbd43cc8@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DE4A220.1080905@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4DE59F53.9090109@gmail.com>

On 31/05/2011 6:09 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 30/05/2011 21:26, Mark Mordeca wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I would appreciate any help I could get with the following problem. 30%
>> of the time after running the following code to get the sheet names out
>> of an excel file, I will receive a windows error saying that ?Microsoft
>> Office Excel has stopped working?.
>
> A few points:
>
> * The underlying problem is almost certainly going to be a subtle
> timing interaction around the refcounting on the pywin32 CDispatch
> objects which are proxying for the underlying Windows objects.
> It's a maze of twisty passages, so I'll let Mark or Roger comment
> if they think there's something to be said.

Unless I misunderstand, I don't think that will be the problem.  The 
sample is simple enough that each of the Python objects will die 
deterministically (ie, without relying on GC etc), which means all COM 
references will also be managed deterministically.  IOW, I think anyone 
running the sample will have exactly the same COM references being 
manipulated in same way each time it is run.

I fear the problem will just be something to do with the local install 
of Excel.  It might help if you can reproduce it on another box, or even 
try and reproduce it on the same box using something like wscript. 
<side-note> I recently had a problem where firefox would regularly hang 
and need to be force stopped.  After waiting for update to fix the 
problem, I bit-the-bullet and attached a debugger to a hanging instance 
to see if I could report a reasonable firefox bug on the issue.  The 
stack frames led me to the conclusion opengl (or something like it) was 
being used.  On a whim I looked for a new video driver and magically the 
problem went away.  ie, a driver actually caused one single application 
on my box to look very much like that app - and that app alone - had a 
strange bug - but it turned out to be nothing to do with the application 
at all.  Your problem might be similar.

Also, FWIW, it isn't a "windows error" as such - it is simply an excel 
crash which Windows Error Reporting is taking action on.  A fairly 
subtle difference, but the point is that the crash is "simple", 
constrained to Excel itself and not something serious that is upsetting 
Windows.  Not that that helps you though...

Mark

From mc at mclaveau.com  Wed Jun  1 10:59:36 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:59:36 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] inserting an image in a word (2003) document
In-Reply-To: <4DE55C2A.4000300@gmail.com>
References: <4DE55C2A.4000300@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20CBDB6BF6334C75A57848ECF76A36EE@M14>

Hi!

Try:
    sel = self.app.Selection
    sel.InlineShapes.AddPicture("C:\\monimage.jpg",False,True)

@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau 


From mark.mordeca at prosensus.ca  Wed Jun  1 17:07:38 2011
From: mark.mordeca at prosensus.ca (Mark Mordeca)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:07:38 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Excel "stopped working" after reading in sheet
	names
In-Reply-To: <4DE59F53.9090109@gmail.com>
References: <8de3eae44155fbd7a60ae1c0cbd43cc8@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DE4A220.1080905@timgolden.me.uk> <4DE59F53.9090109@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <173fe53f4ed6afa61a40b551a5bdab7e@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for your reply.  I tested this on another box and I did not get the
error.  I then tried different code that uses COM to manipulate Excel on
my machine which I know works and has worked in the past and I ended up
getting the error with that code.  So I know for sure it is the local
install of Excel on my machine.

Thanks for your help Mark and Tim.  I greatly appreciate it.  Sorry to
bother you and the mailing list with a problem that was not rooted in
pywin32.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hammond [mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 10:09 PM
To: Mark Mordeca
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Excel "stopped working" after reading in sheet
names

On 31/05/2011 6:09 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 30/05/2011 21:26, Mark Mordeca wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I would appreciate any help I could get with the following problem. 30%
>> of the time after running the following code to get the sheet names out
>> of an excel file, I will receive a windows error saying that "Microsoft
>> Office Excel has stopped working".
>
> A few points:
>
> * The underlying problem is almost certainly going to be a subtle
> timing interaction around the refcounting on the pywin32 CDispatch
> objects which are proxying for the underlying Windows objects.
> It's a maze of twisty passages, so I'll let Mark or Roger comment
> if they think there's something to be said.

Unless I misunderstand, I don't think that will be the problem.  The
sample is simple enough that each of the Python objects will die
deterministically (ie, without relying on GC etc), which means all COM
references will also be managed deterministically.  IOW, I think anyone
running the sample will have exactly the same COM references being
manipulated in same way each time it is run.

I fear the problem will just be something to do with the local install
of Excel.  It might help if you can reproduce it on another box, or even
try and reproduce it on the same box using something like wscript.
<side-note> I recently had a problem where firefox would regularly hang
and need to be force stopped.  After waiting for update to fix the
problem, I bit-the-bullet and attached a debugger to a hanging instance
to see if I could report a reasonable firefox bug on the issue.  The
stack frames led me to the conclusion opengl (or something like it) was
being used.  On a whim I looked for a new video driver and magically the
problem went away.  ie, a driver actually caused one single application
on my box to look very much like that app - and that app alone - had a
strange bug - but it turned out to be nothing to do with the application
at all.  Your problem might be similar.

Also, FWIW, it isn't a "windows error" as such - it is simply an excel
crash which Windows Error Reporting is taking action on.  A fairly
subtle difference, but the point is that the crash is "simple",
constrained to Excel itself and not something serious that is upsetting
Windows.  Not that that helps you though...

Mark

From jacobk at mailzone.co.za  Wed Jun  1 18:24:20 2011
From: jacobk at mailzone.co.za (Jacob Kruger)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:24:20 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Trying to get py2exe to install/work on my windows7
	64 bit machine
Message-ID: <A02EFC004B444887BA413EE052934D0F@jakes>

When I try installing:
py2exe-0.6.9.win64-py2.7.amd64.exe

It tells me:
Cannot install
Python version 2.7 required, which was not found in the registry.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

When I ran:
pywin32-216.win32-py2.7.exe

it was quite happy to install to c:\python27

Have tried restarting machine, etc., and can't remember if ran some other scripts on my windows7 32 bit machine before it worked, but anyway.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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From planders at gmail.com  Wed Jun  1 19:04:24 2011
From: planders at gmail.com (Preston Landers)
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:04:24 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Trying to get py2exe to install/work on my
 windows7 64 bit machine
In-Reply-To: <A02EFC004B444887BA413EE052934D0F@jakes>
References: <A02EFC004B444887BA413EE052934D0F@jakes>
Message-ID: <BANLkTim9QvmArTD3g3yxqd04xnoVCGtDaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Looks like you downloaded the 64 bit version of py2exe but are trying to use
it with the 32 bit version of Python.

Either get the 64 bit version of Python 2.7, or else the 32 bit version of
py2exe.

good luck,
Preston


On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za> wrote:

>  When I try installing:
> py2exe-0.6.9.win64-py2.7.amd64.exe
>
> It tells me:
> Cannot install
> Python version 2.7 required, which was not found in the registry.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>
> When I ran:
> pywin32-216.win32-py2.7.exe
>
> it was quite happy to install to c:\python27
>
> Have tried restarting machine, etc., and can't remember if ran some other
> scripts on my windows7 32 bit machine before it worked, but anyway.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
> _______________________________________________
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From stef.mientki at gmail.com  Wed Jun  1 19:10:59 2011
From: stef.mientki at gmail.com (Stef Mientki)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:10:59 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] inserting an image in a word (2003) document
In-Reply-To: <20CBDB6BF6334C75A57848ECF76A36EE@M14>
References: <4DE55C2A.4000300@gmail.com> <20CBDB6BF6334C75A57848ECF76A36EE@M14>
Message-ID: <4DE672A3.6080100@gmail.com>

On 01-06-2011 10:59, Michel Claveau wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Try:
>    sel = self.app.Selection
>    sel.InlineShapes.AddPicture("C:\\monimage.jpg",False,True)
>
> @-salutations
thanks Michel,
works like a charm.

Maybe the code I posted was also (almost) good,
but I had another error too in my code.
But after trying 10 .. 20 different combinations, you loose control.
With your 2 lines of code it was easy to find that other code.

cheers,
Stef



From jacobk at mailzone.co.za  Fri Jun  3 08:30:02 2011
From: jacobk at mailzone.co.za (Jacob Kruger)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 08:30:02 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
Message-ID: <PC1760201106030830020928d6ade9c2@JacobKruger-PC>

What I'm doing is trying to open a text file, but if it's not there, then I tell the code to exit(), and while it works when running the source code using the python executable, after I have run the code through py2exe, and then try testing it, I get the following message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mapData.py", line 39, in <module>
NameError: name 'exit' is not defined

The following is the actual little bit of code that's generating this after being py2exe'ed - the last line is the line number being mentioned above:

try:
	fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
except:
	fData = None
finally:
	if not bool(fData): print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt"); exit()


Any thoughts/ideas/alternative workarounds?

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'


From jacobk at mailzone.co.za  Fri Jun  3 10:33:48 2011
From: jacobk at mailzone.co.za (Jacob Kruger)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:33:48 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimA-5Mg9zO4HZ_FyrsBaD-FrorZdpGSrKURjT3Syj4Y8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <PC1760201106031033480008bca36f58@JacobKruger-PC>

Sorry, but replying on list now as well.

Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in that file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that, since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without any issues.

And, secondly, the reason I'm using tabs to handle indentation is partly since the editor I specifically am using for python source editing prefers that for use by VI/blind guys, and that's why it suits me, but anyway...<smile>

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'


----- Original Message ---------------

Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
   From: "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" <amauryfa at gmail.com>
   Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:43:47 +0200
     To: Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za>

>Hi,
>
>2011/6/3 Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za>:
>> What I'm doing is trying to open a text file, but if it's not there, then I tell the code to exit(), and while it works when running the source code using the python executable, after I have run the code through py2exe, and then try testing it, I get the following message:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "mapData.py", line 39, in <module>
>> NameError: name 'exit' is not defined
>>
>> The following is the actual little bit of code that's generating this after being py2exe'ed - the last line is the line number being mentioned above:
>>
>> try:
>> ? ? ? ?fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
>> except:
>> ? ? ? ?fData = None
>> finally:
>> ? ? ? ?if not bool(fData): print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt"); exit()
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts/ideas/alternative workarounds?
>
>"exit" is in the sys module, you shoud have an "import sys" somewhere,
>and then calll "sys.exit()".
>Maybe you tested your script from some IDE which already does "from
>sys import exit" for you?
>
>By the way, your code could be improved in several ways:
>- don't use tabs for indentation, use spaces instead.
>- "if not bool(fData)" could be rewritten as "if not fData"
>- open() always return a file object, so the logic could be:
>
>import sys
>
>try:
>    fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
>except IOError:
>    print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt")
>    sys.exit()
>
>I hope I did not spoil all the fun - coding with Python is fun!
>
>-- 
>Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

From usharma01 at gmail.com  Fri Jun  3 12:55:15 2011
From: usharma01 at gmail.com (Umesh Sharma)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:25:15 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32 py2exe
Message-ID: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>

hi,
i am working on outlook automation , in my code i am using
dispatchwithevents method for capturing events of outlook as newmail
,itemsend .The code works fine in command line but after converting it into
exe file using py2exe ,the generated exe file crashes .
I am not using dispatch for generating object of outlook because i have to
do event handling.
here is my code
/////
import time, win32event, win32com.client, pythoncom
class xlEv:
def OnNewMailEx(self,entry):
print 'event happened'
xl=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("Outlook.Application", xlEv)
i = input    #waiting till event captured
 /////

Thanks
Umesh Kumar Sharma
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun  3 16:53:56 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:53:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Excel "stopped working" after reading in sheet
 names
In-Reply-To: <173fe53f4ed6afa61a40b551a5bdab7e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8de3eae44155fbd7a60ae1c0cbd43cc8@mail.gmail.com>	<4DE4A220.1080905@timgolden.me.uk>
	<4DE59F53.9090109@gmail.com>
	<173fe53f4ed6afa61a40b551a5bdab7e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DE8F584.2070805@timgolden.me.uk>

On 01/06/2011 16:07, Mark Mordeca wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.  I tested this on another box and I did not get the
> error.  I then tried different code that uses COM to manipulate Excel on
> my machine which I know works and has worked in the past and I ended up
> getting the error with that code.  So I know for sure it is the local
> install of Excel on my machine.
>
> Thanks for your help Mark and Tim.  I greatly appreciate it.  Sorry to
> bother you and the mailing list with a problem that was not rooted in
> pywin32.

Speaking for myself, I'm glad you brought it up. Sometimes these things
throw up real (if obscure) bugs; sometimes they give other readers
ideas they might not have thought of. Feel free to ask again :)

TJG

From sharpblade1 at gmail.com  Fri Jun  3 21:14:51 2011
From: sharpblade1 at gmail.com (sharpblade)
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 20:14:51 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
In-Reply-To: <PC1760201106031033480008bca36f58@JacobKruger-PC>
References: <BANLkTimA-5Mg9zO4HZ_FyrsBaD-FrorZdpGSrKURjT3Syj4Y8Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<PC1760201106031033480008bca36f58@JacobKruger-PC>
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=MdFNZWMGWTiw17Y2n12V_Mo+nSQ@mail.gmail.com>

Why do you need a finally block there at all?
Just terminate on the exception, there is no point in setting it to
None then checking if its none.

~Tom

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za> wrote:
> Sorry, but replying on list now as well.
>
> Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in that file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that, since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without any issues.
>
> And, secondly, the reason I'm using tabs to handle indentation is partly since the editor I specifically am using for python source editing prefers that for use by VI/blind guys, and that's why it suits me, but anyway...<smile>
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
> ? From: "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" <amauryfa at gmail.com>
> ? Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:43:47 +0200
> ? ? To: Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>2011/6/3 Jacob Kruger <jacobk at mailzone.co.za>:
>>> What I'm doing is trying to open a text file, but if it's not there, then I tell the code to exit(), and while it works when running the source code using the python executable, after I have run the code through py2exe, and then try testing it, I get the following message:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "mapData.py", line 39, in <module>
>>> NameError: name 'exit' is not defined
>>>
>>> The following is the actual little bit of code that's generating this after being py2exe'ed - the last line is the line number being mentioned above:
>>>
>>> try:
>>> ? ? ? ?fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
>>> except:
>>> ? ? ? ?fData = None
>>> finally:
>>> ? ? ? ?if not bool(fData): print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt"); exit()
>>>
>>>
>>> Any thoughts/ideas/alternative workarounds?
>>
>>"exit" is in the sys module, you shoud have an "import sys" somewhere,
>>and then calll "sys.exit()".
>>Maybe you tested your script from some IDE which already does "from
>>sys import exit" for you?
>>
>>By the way, your code could be improved in several ways:
>>- don't use tabs for indentation, use spaces instead.
>>- "if not bool(fData)" could be rewritten as "if not fData"
>>- open() always return a file object, so the logic could be:
>>
>>import sys
>>
>>try:
>> ? ?fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
>>except IOError:
>> ? ?print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt")
>> ? ?sys.exit()
>>
>>I hope I did not spoil all the fun - coding with Python is fun!
>>
>>--
>>Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au  Mon Jun  6 02:40:31 2011
From: Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au (Andrew MacIntyre)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 00:40:31 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined' [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
In-Reply-To: <PC1760201106031033480008bca36f58@JacobKruger-PC>
References: <BANLkTimA-5Mg9zO4HZ_FyrsBaD-FrorZdpGSrKURjT3Syj4Y8Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<PC1760201106031033480008bca36f58@JacobKruger-PC>
Message-ID: <A1E4E9D08D14924498E135FB4441EE8D0719159F@act01exmbx01vp.internal.govt>


> Jacob Kruger wrote:
> 
> Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in that
> file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that,
> since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without
> any issues.

I think you haven't yet caught up fully with how namespaces and scopes work in Python - the "Modules" section of the Python Tutorial might be a good place to start.

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> Jacob Kruger wrote:
> 
> Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in
that
> file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that,
> since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without
> any issues.

I think you haven't yet caught up fully with how namespaces and scopes work
in Python - the "Modules" section of the Python Tutorial might be a good
place to start.

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> Jacob Kruger wrote:
> 
> Either way, seems that while did have the import statement higher up in
that
> file for the sys module, maybe there was something interfering with that,
> since when changed that statement to sys.exit() it's now working without
> any issues.

I think you haven't yet caught up fully with how namespaces and scopes work
in Python - the "Modules" section of the Python Tutorial might be a good
place to start.

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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 15:16:54 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:16:54 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] 'exit is not defined'
In-Reply-To: <PC1760201106030830020928d6ade9c2@JacobKruger-PC>
References: <PC1760201106030830020928d6ade9c2@JacobKruger-PC>
Message-ID: <4DECD346.90905@gmail.com>

On 3/06/2011 4:30 PM, Jacob Kruger wrote:
> What I'm doing is trying to open a text file, but if it's not there, then I tell the code to exit(), and while it works when running the source code using the python executable, after I have run the code through py2exe, and then try testing it, I get the following message:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "mapData.py", line 39, in<module>
> NameError: name 'exit' is not defined
>
> The following is the actual little bit of code that's generating this after being py2exe'ed - the last line is the line number being mentioned above:
>
> try:
> 	fData = open(sMapName + ".txt", "r")
> except:
> 	fData = None
> finally:
> 	if not bool(fData): print("invalid map name - " + sMapName + ".txt"); exit()
>
>
> Any thoughts/ideas/alternative workarounds?

IIRC, exit() is added by site.py - I'd start looking what is going wrong 
in that module in your environment...

Mark


From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 15:19:07 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:19:07 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32 py2exe
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DECD3CB.1060806@gmail.com>

On 3/06/2011 8:55 PM, Umesh Sharma wrote:
> hi,
> i am working on outlook automation , in my code i am using
> dispatchwithevents method for capturing events of outlook as newmail
> ,itemsend .The code works fine in command line but after converting it
> into exe file using py2exe ,the generated exe file crashes .

What do you mean by "crashes"?

> I am not using dispatch for generating object of outlook because i have
> to do event handling.
> here is my code
> /////
> import time, win32event, win32com.client, pythoncom
> class xlEv:
> def OnNewMailEx(self,entry):
> print 'event happened'
> xl=win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents("Outlook.Application", xlEv)
> i = input    #waiting till event captured

Didn't we already exchange email about this?  You probably can't use 
input here - you want pythoncom.PumpMessages...

Mark


From usharma01 at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 15:23:55 2011
From: usharma01 at gmail.com (Umesh Sharma)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:53:55 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32 py2exe
In-Reply-To: <4DECD3CB.1060806@gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DECD3CB.1060806@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=vkZf5VNOujPO8wrMFyweNTexAQg@mail.gmail.com>

crashes means it just after double clicking on exe file it opens prompt
window and after some mili second it closes.
And about that part i have used pump message but first i want that exe of
this file should run properly.
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From malaclypse2 at gmail.com  Mon Jun  6 20:19:33 2011
From: malaclypse2 at gmail.com (Jerry Hill)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:19:33 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32 py2exe
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimcbev5XbkXwEgkw5g57-hb5ML1XA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTikNjTVJ1rEEMSVi4UTd9tvFESdwKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Umesh Sharma <usharma01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> i = input ? ?#waiting till event captured

This doesn't wait for anything.  It assigns the function input to the
local name i.  You probably want "i = input()" instead, which will
force the dos window to stay open until the user hits enter.

Plus, as Mark already pointed out, you'll probably never get any
notification of your event if you're not running the message pump.
I'm not sure how this could "work fine" on the command line.

-- 
Jerry

From gmail at nekolyanich.com  Tue Jun  7 13:11:57 2011
From: gmail at nekolyanich.com (nekolyanich)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:11:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] can't import dde module after importing win32ui
References: <1300898289.2808.8.camel@florete.mza.com>
	<FFCA87366F2B44758BF86B57FEC7E033@MCI1330>
Message-ID: <loom.20110607T130817-225@post.gmane.org>

Michel Claveau <mc <at> mclaveau.com> writes:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have also/another problem with  win32ui  in 216 version:  on several COM's 
> servers, if the line
>   import win32ui
> is present, servers can not be contacted.
> If I comment the line, no more problem. Uncomment, problem is coming back.
> 
> Waiting a solution, I come back to 214.
> 
> @-salutations

Saw this bug, and 214 version helped me with my 32-bit xp. But in production i'd 
have 64-bit mashine, and downgrading to 214 version don't helps. Any ideas, how 
to make it work?



From emmanuel.cazenave at gmail.com  Tue Jun  7 14:49:38 2011
From: emmanuel.cazenave at gmail.com (emmanuel CAZENAVE)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:49:38 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to create a windows service and set the service
 name through command line option
Message-ID: <BANLkTikQPYXobgcixdRE4-8qkzn_r9DmtA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I want to have a script which creates a windows service, and that the name
of the service could be fed by user input.
Example: *createservice --servicename=whatevernameichoose*
*
*
I came out with a solution which is below:


class WindowsService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
    _svc_name_ = "dummyname"
    _svc_display_name_ = "dummydisplayname"

    def __init__(self, args):
        self.__class__._svc_name_ = args[0]
        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)

    # My question is not about starting and stopping service
    def SvcStop(self):
        stop_service()

    def SvcDoRun(self):
         start_service()


def main():

    import argparse

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('action', type=str, nargs='?')
    parser.add_argument('-s', type=str, nargs='?', action='store',
dest='servicename',
                        help="Name of the service to handle")
    cmdargs = parser.parse_args()

    if cmdargs.servicename:
        WindowsService._svc_name_ = cmdargs.servicename

    win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(WindowsService,
customInstallOptions='s')


if __name__=='__main__':
    main()

As you might notice, my solution is pretty dirty. But it works, I can
install and remove services with a custom name not hard coded in the script.

My question is 'does someone knows a cleaner solution to achieve this ?'

Cleaner would be: not override _svc_name_  dynamically, and not call another
commandline parser before the one called by win32serviceutil....

As far as I understand, you can handle your customInstallOptions with a
customInstallOptionsHandler, but that one is called after the creation of
the service, so by that time the name of the service is already set. That's
why I came out with that solution.......

Thanks
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From jpiee at aim.com  Thu Jun  9 00:45:48 2011
From: jpiee at aim.com (jpiee at aim.com)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:45:48 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [python-win32] How to hide the cursor in Windows when dragging and
	dropping
Message-ID: <8CDF444F1DC3C1E-B80-1058E@webmail-m155.sysops.aol.com>

After hours of searching google, with little luck, I'm wondering if anybody knows how to either hide the cursor, or set a custom cursor (which could be made blank) in Windows when dragging and dropping.

I'm writing a program which draws its own mouse using openGL, and normally the mouse hides just fine, but when I drag files onto the program's window, the windows cursor shows the drag-and-drop square and will not hide. ShowCursor(False) and SetCursor(None) (in python) are inconsistent for hiding the cursor.

Ideally, if anybody knew how to do this in Python using pywin32, that would be ideal, as that's the language my project is using, but if I have to code this up in another language I will.

Alternately, if anybody knows when ShowCursor and SetCursor will guarantee to hide the cursor, whether this has to do with window focus or something related, that would also be helpful. I've tried the following:

while ShowCursor(False) > -1:
    pass

This code works sometimes, and I can't figure out reliable when it does. It doesn't seem to have to do with window focus. It works sometimes when I drag a file from a folder, and never when I drag a file from the desktop. It also never hides the cursor the first time I drag a file.

I've found this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.dodragdrop.aspx#Y1354 I cannot get the C++ code to compile, and I get exceptions when I use the C# and VB versions. I've copied cursors from C:\Windows\Cursors to the directory with the executable as 3dwarro.cur and 3dwno.cur. When I comment out the try clauses, when it tries to load the cursors it says they are corrupt.

I've also found this page: http://www.rockhoppertech.com/java-drag-and-drop-faq.html. It says to set the DragContext's cursor to null and then to your cursor in dragOver. The page is in Java, and I don't know how to do what it is saying.

Many thanks in advance!

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From steffen.froemer at gns-systems.de  Thu Jun  9 22:58:47 2011
From: steffen.froemer at gns-systems.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Steffen_Fr=F6mer?=)
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:58:47 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe & win32wnet - ImportError
Message-ID: <4DF13407.80800@gns-systems.de>

Hello,

i am having some trouble to include win32wnet library into my code.
Using this inside python, all works fine. When i make executable using 
py2exe, i get ImportError on importing the module win32wnet.

Have someone an idea?

Regards,
Steffen

System:
Windows7 Professional x86_64
Python 2.7.1 (32bit)


## Exception Error ##
---------------------------------
MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32wnet.pyd ## [diredit::getUNCPath(68)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "tfm\util\fileio\diredit.pyo", line 65, in getUNCPath
   File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 98, in load_module
ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32wnet.pyd


## snip of code from setup.py ##
-------------------------------------------------
includes = ["sip",
             "PyQt4.QtCore",
             "pubsub.*",
             "pubsub.core.*",
             "pubsub.core.kwargs.*",
             "lxml",
             "gzip",
             "lxml._elementpath",
             "win32api",
             "win32wnet",
             ]

# workaround of following error
# ... ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32api.pyd
dll_excludes = [ "mswsock.dll", "powrprof.dll" ]

From steffen.froemer at gns-systems.de  Fri Jun 10 09:32:22 2011
From: steffen.froemer at gns-systems.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Steffen_Fr=F6mer?=)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:32:22 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe & win32wnet - ImportError
In-Reply-To: <4DF13407.80800@gns-systems.de>
References: <4DF13407.80800@gns-systems.de>
Message-ID: <4DF1C886.5000609@gns-systems.de>

Hello,

i found out. that all works fine, if i change py2exe-option 
'bundle_files' from 1 to 3.

Someone know, where the problem is?

Regards,
Steffen


setup(
       package_dir = {"" : "src"},
       packages = packages,
       options={ "py2exe" : {
                 "includes" : includes,
                 'dll_excludes': dll_excludes,
                 #"bundle_files": 1, # bundle everything, including the 
Python interpreter
                 "bundle_files": 3, # bundle nothing, workaround for 
using win32wnet.pyd
                 "compressed": 1,
                 "optimize" : 2}},
       zipfile = None,


On 06/09/2011 10:58 PM, Steffen Fr?mer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am having some trouble to include win32wnet library into my code.
> Using this inside python, all works fine. When i make executable using 
> py2exe, i get ImportError on importing the module win32wnet.
>
> Have someone an idea?
>
> Regards,
> Steffen
>
> System:
> Windows7 Professional x86_64
> Python 2.7.1 (32bit)
>
>
> ## Exception Error ##
> ---------------------------------
> MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32wnet.pyd ## 
> [diredit::getUNCPath(68)]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tfm\util\fileio\diredit.pyo", line 65, in getUNCPath
>   File "zipextimporter.pyo", line 98, in load_module
> ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32wnet.pyd
>
>
> ## snip of code from setup.py ##
> -------------------------------------------------
> includes = ["sip",
>             "PyQt4.QtCore",
>             "pubsub.*",
>             "pubsub.core.*",
>             "pubsub.core.kwargs.*",
>             "lxml",
>             "gzip",
>             "lxml._elementpath",
>             "win32api",
>             "win32wnet",
>             ]
>
> # workaround of following error
> # ... ImportError: MemoryLoadLibrary failed loading win32api.pyd
> dll_excludes = [ "mswsock.dll", "powrprof.dll" ]
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Fri Jun 10 16:11:30 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:11:30 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] can't import dde module after importing win32ui
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110607T130817-225@post.gmane.org>
References: <1300898289.2808.8.camel@florete.mza.com>
	<FFCA87366F2B44758BF86B57FEC7E033@MCI1330>
	<loom.20110607T130817-225@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4DF22612.406@gmail.com>

On 7/06/2011 9:11 PM, nekolyanich wrote:
> Michel Claveau<mc<at>  mclaveau.com>  writes:
>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have also/another problem with  win32ui  in 216 version:  on several COM's
>> servers, if the line
>>    import win32ui
>> is present, servers can not be contacted.
>> If I comment the line, no more problem. Uncomment, problem is coming back.
>>
>> Waiting a solution, I come back to 214.
>>
>> @-salutations
>
> Saw this bug, and 214 version helped me with my 32-bit xp. But in production i'd
> have 64-bit mashine, and downgrading to 214 version don't helps. Any ideas, how
> to make it work?

It will be something to do with the manifest and the mfc libraries.  I 
think that even though the mfc dlls are installed with pywin32, it might 
not work as hoped :)  Can you find a redistributable version of the MFC 
dlls you can try?  I can't explain why the 32 vs 64bit versions behave 
differently other than what libraries are already installed.

Sorry, not much help...

Mark

From rays at blue-cove.com  Fri Jun 10 19:19:08 2011
From: rays at blue-cove.com (RayS)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:19:08 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32, possible?
Message-ID: <20110610171910.GPJC16474.fed1rmfepo201.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>

Hello

I know that the default behavior since 2.? has been only one DDE 
server allowed.
Is it possible to back-hack this restriction?

I asked similarly a while back
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2010-October/010774.html
and Roger replied:
"It was done through some low-level hacks to create new C functions 
on the fly, which set off DEP and crashed in a 64-bit build. "

http://python.net/crew/pirx/win32/dde.zip 
(http://www.koders.com/cpp/fid7F744C525820DA799D8AB0484F2F97152DF30852.aspx?s=setwindowshookex) 
is apparently an older implementation and attempting to import the 
included dde.pyd fails with "<type 'exceptions.ImportError'> : DLL 
load failed: The specified module could not be found."
whether placed in Python27\DLLs or Python27\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin.
I assume that it would need to be compiled with MVC2008/Py2.7 to hope 
to work...

I have a legacy 6 year old DDE client app that I would really like to 
support with a new data server...

Ray


From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sat Jun 11 08:55:44 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:55:44 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
Message-ID: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>

How are you supposed to create a PyCComboBox? There
doesn't seem to be a CreateComboBox function anywhere.

I tried using CreateControl("COMBOBOX", ...) but it
says that the CLSID is invalid.

-- 
Greg

From rupole at hotmail.com  Sat Jun 11 12:47:22 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 06:47:22 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
 possible?
Message-ID: <SNT124-W6E6220EB3BC470C68760FDE670@phx.gbl>


If you can build the dde module yourself, reenabling multiple servers
for 32-bit is just a matter of uncommenting
 
// #define _CALLHACK_
 
in stddde.cpp.
 
     Roger
 
 		 	   		  
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Sat Jun 11 18:09:06 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:09:06 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
In-Reply-To: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <BANLkTinor5pphmORePe_XC4ooyvPozMBJg@mail.gmail.com>

I've been intending to make enough time to create a combobox for PyGUI.  In
my humble opinion, the combobox provided by Windows GUI is brain damaged to
the point of utter frustration and should not be used for human
consumption.  I sent an epistle to this effect to the wxpython group, and
got the answer "that's what the OS provides."
  The problem is that the Windows combobox does not allow for the user to
type more than one letter to select an item from the list -- there is no
provision for matching to a substring. Let's say that I am trying to select
"Wisconsin" from a list of states of the U.S.  I type the "W" and get
"Washington". Then I type the "I" and get "Idaho".  Most frustrating.  If I
am trying to select "1950" from a list of acceptable years, I must use the
mouse, or scroll down 50 times from "1900". Yech!
  I think that a proper combobox will have to be coded at a higher level.  I
hope I'm wrong.
--
Vernon Cole


On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> How are you supposed to create a PyCComboBox? There
> doesn't seem to be a CreateComboBox function anywhere.
>
> I tried using CreateControl("COMBOBOX", ...) but it
> says that the CLSID is invalid.
>
> --
> Greg
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From rays at blue-cove.com  Sat Jun 11 17:05:16 2011
From: rays at blue-cove.com (RayS)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:05:16 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
 possible?
In-Reply-To: <SNT124-W6E6220EB3BC470C68760FDE670@phx.gbl>
References: <SNT124-W6E6220EB3BC470C68760FDE670@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20110611150631.IGVO22406.fed1rmfepo203.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>

Nice, I'll give it a shot, providing they compile with free VS2008 Express (?)
The old page is a tad out of date 
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/BuildingExtensions.html
but it seems this might help
http://mattptr.net/2010/07/28/building-python-extensions-in-a-modern-windows-environment/
I'll also check with Enthought (I have their full MKL edition).

Ray

At 03:47 AM 6/11/2011, Roger Upole wrote:
>If you can build the dde module yourself, reenabling multiple servers
>for 32-bit is just a matter of uncommenting
>
>// #define _CALLHACK_
>
>in stddde.cpp.
>
>      Roger


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From jsheehan at jennasys.com  Sat Jun 11 22:28:41 2011
From: jsheehan at jennasys.com (John Sheehan)
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:28:41 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinor5pphmORePe_XC4ooyvPozMBJg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<BANLkTinor5pphmORePe_XC4ooyvPozMBJg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <op.vwxht3zk6ueu43@e6510>

Just my opinion, but if anyone decides to create a combo box, the one that  
has been part of MS Access since at least version 2.0 would be the one to  
model it after.  I have yet to see any combo box in any  
language/platform/application that has worked as well as that one does.

John Sheehan



On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:09:06 -0700, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I've been intending to make enough time to create a combobox for PyGUI.   
> In
> my humble opinion, the combobox provided by Windows GUI is brain damaged  
> to
> the point of utter frustration and should not be used for human
> consumption.  I sent an epistle to this effect to the wxpython group, and
> got the answer "that's what the OS provides."
>   The problem is that the Windows combobox does not allow for the user to
> type more than one letter to select an item from the list -- there is no
> provision for matching to a substring. Let's say that I am trying to  
> select
> "Wisconsin" from a list of states of the U.S.  I type the "W" and get
> "Washington". Then I type the "I" and get "Idaho".  Most frustrating.   
> If I
> am trying to select "1950" from a list of acceptable years, I must use  
> the
> mouse, or scroll down 50 times from "1900". Yech!
>   I think that a proper combobox will have to be coded at a higher  
> level.  I
> hope I'm wrong.
> --
> Vernon Cole

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sun Jun 12 01:57:06 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:57:06 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinor5pphmORePe_XC4ooyvPozMBJg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<BANLkTinor5pphmORePe_XC4ooyvPozMBJg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DF400D2.9010902@canterbury.ac.nz>

Vernon Cole wrote:
>   The problem is that the Windows combobox does not allow for the user 
> to type more than one letter to select an item from the list

I'm not sure it's necessary to replace the entire thing just to
fix that -- it ought to be possible to override the keyboard event
handling and do that part differently.

Writing a complete replacement might be a good idea in the long
run, but for the moment I just want to get something working
for a particular project.

Surely *someone* out there has used the PyComboBox object in
pywin32? Google is being particularly unhelpful on this.

-- 
Greg

From famacoin at hotmail.com  Mon Jun 13 14:00:26 2011
From: famacoin at hotmail.com (Famacoin)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:30:26 -0430
Subject: [python-win32] Telit PhytonWin
Message-ID: <BLU150-ds8EB50D5E6D667E277B1A9CF690@phx.gbl>

Hi

We have a problem loading script for the GM862-GPS module over 7k when we try to load gives ERROR IN THE DOWNLOAD, and sometimes says OK but does not load the entire file, we have checked the serial port but do not get the fault?.

Do not know if there is a newer version that we have is Telit PythonWin 1.5.2+ (#0, Oct  1 2004, 15:39:52)

Please thank your help

Best Regards

Giovanny Perez
FAMACOIN CA
VENEZUELA
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From tomforbes8 at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 14 01:20:26 2011
From: tomforbes8 at hotmail.com (Tom)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:20:26 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Converting HTML formatting to Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
I have a Javascript rich text editor (Specifically the Yahoo UI
libraries Simple Editor) which I have embedded within my web
application. This produces formatted HTML from the users input which
has to be placed within a Word document.
The number of formatting options is limited - Bold, italics,
underline, font size, font type, image insertion and lists. I thought
this would be rather simple to automate using words COM interface, but
I am having a lot of issues formatting the text using the COM
interface - my solution so far parses the HTML using BeautifulSoup and
rolls through each tag. If its a bold tag then it creates a range
object at the end of the current one, inserts the bold text and sets
the Bold attribute to True.

My issue is that this doesn't work and produces confusing results -
the text isn't formatted correctly and the Bold attribute is set to -1
(Which means a mix of both bold and non bold as far as I can tell).

Does anyone have any experience doing anything similar to this, or can
anyone give me a simpler way to do this?

~Tom

From rupole at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 14 07:13:58 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:13:58 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
 possible?
Message-ID: <SNT124-w61BF106A5E0E316D290937DE680@phx.gbl>


Compiling with VC 2008 Express is going to be a problem.  The free
compiler doesn't seem to support using the atl/mfc headers and libraries.
 
         Roger
  		 	   		  
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jun 14 09:53:51 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:53:51 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Converting HTML formatting to Microsoft Word
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DF7138F.9090107@timgolden.me.uk>

On 14/06/2011 00:20, Tom wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Javascript rich text editor (Specifically the Yahoo UI
> libraries Simple Editor) which I have embedded within my web
> application. This produces formatted HTML from the users input which
> has to be placed within a Word document.
> The number of formatting options is limited - Bold, italics,
> underline, font size, font type, image insertion and lists. I thought
> this would be rather simple to automate using words COM interface, but
> I am having a lot of issues formatting the text using the COM
> interface - my solution so far parses the HTML using BeautifulSoup and
> rolls through each tag. If its a bold tag then it creates a range
> object at the end of the current one, inserts the bold text and sets
> the Bold attribute to True.
>
> My issue is that this doesn't work and produces confusing results -
> the text isn't formatted correctly and the Bold attribute is set to -1
> (Which means a mix of both bold and non bold as far as I can tell).
>
> Does anyone have any experience doing anything similar to this, or can
> anyone give me a simpler way to do this?

It's not 100% clear whether what I'm about to suggest will help but...

Word will quite happily open (and edit) HTML directly. ie you can

   File > Open > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/index.html

and the result will be an editable version of that webpage.

What's not clear is whether this would serve your purpose or
how you're getting the "formatted HTML" from your YUI editor
to the Word doc, and whether it forms part of an existing
doc.

TJG

From sharpblade1 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 14 10:51:05 2011
From: sharpblade1 at gmail.com (sharpblade)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:51:05 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Converting HTML formatting to Microsoft Word
In-Reply-To: <4DF7138F.9090107@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DF7138F.9090107@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <BANLkTin0wee0W9ibUw79ERkZkPXRNibFZg@mail.gmail.com>

Ah yes, sorry I didn't specify that. It is part of an existing doc: I
have a Django web application with a Report model which contains
information I need to put into a word document. Most of this is simple
stuff requiring no formatting, and I achieve this by defining several
bookmarks within the master template and populate them like so:

doc.Bookmarks("prepared_for").Range.Text = job.customer.name
doc.Bookmarks("reference_UTN").Range.Text = job.UTN
doc.Bookmarks("test_type").Range.Text = job.get_type_display()

This works fine, but there are several fields (An appendix for
example) which may have text that needs to be formatted. The tl;dr of
it is that I need to parse the HTML and format the text using a Range
object accordingly.

I whipped up this function: http://pastebin.com/kaZz5dBd which should
work, but line 22 and 23 doesn't work for some reason - all text after
it is bold.

Anyone have any ideas?

~Tom

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 14/06/2011 00:20, Tom wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I have a Javascript rich text editor (Specifically the Yahoo UI
>> libraries Simple Editor) which I have embedded within my web
>> application. This produces formatted HTML from the users input which
>> has to be placed within a Word document.
>> The number of formatting options is limited - Bold, italics,
>> underline, font size, font type, image insertion and lists. I thought
>> this would be rather simple to automate using words COM interface, but
>> I am having a lot of issues formatting the text using the COM
>> interface - my solution so far parses the HTML using BeautifulSoup and
>> rolls through each tag. If its a bold tag then it creates a range
>> object at the end of the current one, inserts the bold text and sets
>> the Bold attribute to True.
>>
>> My issue is that this doesn't work and produces confusing results -
>> the text isn't formatted correctly and the Bold attribute is set to -1
>> (Which means a mix of both bold and non bold as far as I can tell).
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience doing anything similar to this, or can
>> anyone give me a simpler way to do this?
>
> It's not 100% clear whether what I'm about to suggest will help but...
>
> Word will quite happily open (and edit) HTML directly. ie you can
>
> ?File > Open > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/index.html
>
> and the result will be an editable version of that webpage.
>
> What's not clear is whether this would serve your purpose or
> how you're getting the "formatted HTML" from your YUI editor
> to the Word doc, and whether it forms part of an existing
> doc.
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Tue Jun 14 18:30:20 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
Message-ID: <244357.87334.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

I try to read a word document as follows:


	  
	  app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')
print doc.Content.Text

I receive the following error:

raceback (most recent call last):
? File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>
??? print doc.Content.Text
? File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode
??? return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in position 4397: character maps to <undefined>

How can I fix the problem. Thanks.


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From timr at probo.com  Tue Jun 14 19:36:01 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:36:01 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <244357.87334.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <244357.87334.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF79C01.5050703@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> I try to read a word document as follows:
>
> app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
> doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')
> print doc.Content.Text
>
> I receive the following error:
>
> raceback (most recent call last):
>   File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>
>     print doc.Content.Text
>   File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode
>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d'
> in position 4397: character maps to <undefined>
>

You are reading the Word document just fine.  The issue is printing it
to your terminal.  The document contains Unicode characters that aren't
present in your terminal's font.  You need to tell it how to handle the
conversion from Unicode to 8-bit.  Try this:

    print doc.Content.Text.encode('cp1252','replace')

That will print ? where invalid characters are found.

U+F06D is not a valid character.  It's in the "private use" area, so
it's possible this is some special code to Word.

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


From rays at blue-cove.com  Tue Jun 14 20:34:25 2011
From: rays at blue-cove.com (RayS)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:34:25 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
 possible?
In-Reply-To: <SNT124-w61BF106A5E0E316D290937DE680@phx.gbl>
References: <SNT124-w61BF106A5E0E316D290937DE680@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <20110614183431.RSZK17030.fed1rmfepo101.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>

Ahh, this
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/MFC/MFCinVisualStudioExpress.aspx
might help.
I'll work through it later...
I do have VS6, but I'm assuming that I really need 2008 (?).

Thanks,
Ray

At 10:13 PM 6/13/2011, Roger Upole wrote:
>Compiling with VC 2008 Express is going to be a problem.  The free
>compiler doesn't seem to support using the atl/mfc headers and libraries.
>
>          Roger
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From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 02:49:25 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin_E6DfQ9BuuXzKfWfZqswyiznv2A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <521123.44108.qm@web43131.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the
document? I use the following code:

for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):
??? print word

It seems that word is each a character. How can I find API to process words in an open word document. Thanks.


--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "cool_go_blue" <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 12:37 PM

The document contains Unicode content that can't be rendered directly as the encoding cp1252 (Windows-1252) used by your console when you use the print statement.
You can always write the content to a file in UTF-8 or UTF-16 and then view the file in a program like notepad that can handle Unicode.?I'm not sure if there's any way to get the Windows console to produce actual Unicode.


If you absolutely must print this in the console, you can always substitute out unknown characters. ?
print doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace")


Hope this helps,Preston
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM, cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com> wrote:


I try to read a word document as follows:




	  
	  app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')
print doc.Content.Text

I receive the following error:



raceback (most recent call last):
? File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>
??? print doc.Content.Text
? File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode


??? return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in position 4397: character maps to <undefined>

How can I fix the problem. Thanks.





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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jun 15 03:02:06 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:06 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <521123.44108.qm@web43131.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <521123.44108.qm@web43131.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF8048E.6020400@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole
> document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the
> document? I use the following code:
>
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):
>     print word
>
> It seems that word is each a character.
>

No, what you are getting back is a Python string.  When you enumerate
through a string, you get characters.  This is basic Python.

If your words are all separated by spaces, you can use split:

    for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split():
        print word

Note, however, that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character
set until you want to print it.  If you are going to process these
words, then you might as well leave them in Unicode.

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


From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 03:20:59 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:20:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <4DF8048E.6020400@probo.com>
Message-ID: <731230.99185.qm@web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thanks. I just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How can I get these numbers. Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the contents of all items and ignore the table structure. Thanks. 

--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 9:02 PM

cool_go_blue wrote:
> Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole
> document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the
> document? I use the following code:
>
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):
>? ???print word
>
> It seems that word is each a character.
>

No, what you are getting back is a Python string.? When you enumerate
through a string, you get characters.? This is basic Python.

If your words are all separated by spaces, you can use split:

? ? for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split():
? ? ? ? print word

Note, however, that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character
set until you want to print it.? If you are going to process these
words, then you might as well leave them in Unicode.

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

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From planders at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 04:08:48 2011
From: planders at gmail.com (Preston Landers)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:08:48 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <731230.99185.qm@web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <4DF8048E.6020400@probo.com>
	<731230.99185.qm@web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTinKfZduyCSf1RyBnFFRWjdc0r3RKA@mail.gmail.com>

I think you'll have to get into the guts of the Document object to do things
like that.  Here's the official Word 2007 object model documentation. Any
tutorials or examples you can find that use other languages like C# or
VB.NET would be relevant, you just have to translate them a bit to Python.
 The underlying Document API is the same across languages.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb243297(v=office.12).aspx


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:20 PM, cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Thanks. I just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How can I
> get these numbers. Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the
> contents of all items and ignore the table structure. Thanks.
>
>
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 12:15:46 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:15:46 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
	possible?
In-Reply-To: <20110610171910.GPJC16474.fed1rmfepo201.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>
References: <20110610171910.GPJC16474.fed1rmfepo201.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>
Message-ID: <4DF88652.2070508@gmail.com>

On 11/06/2011 3:19 AM, RayS wrote:
> Hello
>
> I know that the default behavior since 2.? has been only one DDE server
> allowed.
> Is it possible to back-hack this restriction?

It is possible, yeah - it's just a matter of someone doing it :)

Cheers,

Mark

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 12:20:04 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:20:04 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,
	possible?
In-Reply-To: <4DF88652.2070508@gmail.com>
References: <20110610171910.GPJC16474.fed1rmfepo201.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>
	<4DF88652.2070508@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DF88754.2070001@gmail.com>

On 15/06/2011 8:15 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 11/06/2011 3:19 AM, RayS wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I know that the default behavior since 2.? has been only one DDE server
>> allowed.
>> Is it possible to back-hack this restriction?
>
> It is possible, yeah - it's just a matter of someone doing it :)

Oops - sorry - I misunderstood the question...

Mark

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 12:35:51 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:35:51 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
In-Reply-To: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4DF88B07.4040108@gmail.com>

On 11/06/2011 4:55 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> How are you supposed to create a PyCComboBox? There
> doesn't seem to be a CreateComboBox function anywhere.
>
> I tried using CreateControl("COMBOBOX", ...) but it
> says that the CLSID is invalid.

I think you just want a CreateWindow(Ex) with "Combobox" as the class.

Mark


From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 12:46:28 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:46:28 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Telit PhytonWin
In-Reply-To: <BLU150-ds8EB50D5E6D667E277B1A9CF690@phx.gbl>
References: <BLU150-ds8EB50D5E6D667E277B1A9CF690@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <4DF88D84.2010103@gmail.com>

On 13/06/2011 10:00 PM, Famacoin wrote:
> Hi
> We have a problem loading script for the GM862-GPS module over 7k when
> we try to load gives ERROR IN THE DOWNLOAD, and sometimes says OK but
> does not load the entire file, we have checked the serial port but do
> not get the fault?.

I'm afraid I have no idea what that GPS module is - you might have more 
luck if you copy and pasted the exact problem you have.

> Do not know if there is a newer version that we have is Telit PythonWin
> 1.5.2+ (#0, Oct 1 2004, 15:39:52)

Python 1.5.2 is extremely old.  You should upgrade to a newer Python 
then grab a new pywin32 for that version.

Cheers,

Mark

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 12:51:28 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:51:28 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Converting HTML formatting to Microsoft Word
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin0wee0W9ibUw79ERkZkPXRNibFZg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DF7138F.9090107@timgolden.me.uk>
	<BANLkTin0wee0W9ibUw79ERkZkPXRNibFZg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DF88EB0.50504@gmail.com>

On 14/06/2011 6:51 PM, sharpblade wrote:
> I whipped up this function: http://pastebin.com/kaZz5dBd which should
> work, but line 22 and 23 doesn't work for some reason - all text after
> it is bold.

The last thing you do in those lines is set the range to bold - 
presumably later you then insert more text right at the end of the range 
- maybe word is just keeping the bold for the new text just like it 
would do if you where typing (ie, IIRC, if the cursor is at the end of a 
bold range, new text you type is also bold...)

Or not - just a thought :)

Mark

From Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com  Wed Jun 15 13:57:58 2011
From: Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com (Tom Hawkins)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:57:58 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
Message-ID: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325B5@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>

>Thanks. I just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How
can I get these 

>numbers. Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the contents
of all items and 

>ignore the table structure. Thanks.

 

If you have auto-numbered paragraphs then I'd guess the numbers are
generated by Word as part of formatting the text for display and aren't
part of the literal text of the document.

 

Could you programatically or manually save the Word doc as plain text
and analyse the text file? That will get you the paragraph numbers as
text (at least it worked for me just now in a quick test on Word 2003)
and might solve your table issue as well.

 

Tom Hawkins

Principal Scientist

Innospec Inc

Tel: +44 (0)151 356 6197

Fax: +44 (0)151 356 6112

 

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   2. Re: UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file (Tim Roberts)

   3. Re: py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32, possible? (RayS)

   4. Re: UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file (cool_go_blue)

   5. Re: UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file (Tim Roberts)

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT)

From: cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>

To: python-win32 at python.org

Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

Message-ID: <244357.87334.qm at web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

 

I try to read a word document as follows:

 

 

            

            app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')

doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')

print doc.Content.Text

 

I receive the following error:

 

raceback (most recent call last):

? File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>

??? print doc.Content.Text

? File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in
encode

??? return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in
position 4397: character maps to <undefined>

 

How can I fix the problem. Thanks.

 

 

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:36:01 -0700

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>

To: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

Message-ID: <4DF79C01.5050703 at probo.com>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"

 

cool_go_blue wrote:

> I try to read a word document as follows:

> 

> app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')

> doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')

> print doc.Content.Text

> 

> I receive the following error:

> 

> raceback (most recent call last):

>   File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in
<module>

>     print doc.Content.Text

>   File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in
encode

>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)

> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d'

> in position 4397: character maps to <undefined>

> 

 

You are reading the Word document just fine.  The issue is printing it

to your terminal.  The document contains Unicode characters that aren't

present in your terminal's font.  You need to tell it how to handle the

conversion from Unicode to 8-bit.  Try this:

 

    print doc.Content.Text.encode('cp1252','replace')

 

That will print ? where invalid characters are found.

 

U+F06D is not a valid character.  It's in the "private use" area, so

it's possible this is some special code to Word.

 

-- 

Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

 

 

 

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Message: 3

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:34:25 -0700

From: RayS <rays at blue-cove.com>

To: <python-win32 at python.org>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32,

          possible?

Message-ID:

 
<20110614183431.RSZK17030.fed1rmfepo101.cox.net at fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"

 

Ahh, this

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/MFC/MFCinVisualStudioExpress.aspx

might help.

I'll work through it later...

I do have VS6, but I'm assuming that I really need 2008 (?).

 

Thanks,

Ray

 

At 10:13 PM 6/13/2011, Roger Upole wrote:

>Compiling with VC 2008 Express is going to be a problem.  The free

>compiler doesn't seem to support using the atl/mfc headers and
libraries.

> 

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From: cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>

To: python-win32 at python.org

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

Message-ID: <521123.44108.qm at web43131.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

 

Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole
document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the

document? I use the following code:

 

for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):

??? print word

 

It seems that word is each a character. How can I find API to process
words in an open word document. Thanks.

 

 

--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com> wrote:

 

From: Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

To: "cool_go_blue" <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>

Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 12:37 PM

 

The document contains Unicode content that can't be rendered directly as
the encoding cp1252 (Windows-1252) used by your console when you use the
print statement.

You can always write the content to a file in UTF-8 or UTF-16 and then
view the file in a program like notepad that can handle Unicode.?I'm not
sure if there's any way to get the Windows console to produce actual
Unicode.

 

 

If you absolutely must print this in the console, you can always
substitute out unknown characters. ?

print doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace")

 

 

Hope this helps,Preston

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:30 AM, cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>
wrote:

 

 

I try to read a word document as follows:

 

 

 

 

            

            app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')

doc = app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc')

print doc.Content.Text

 

I receive the following error:

 

 

 

raceback (most recent call last):

? File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>

??? print doc.Content.Text

? File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in
encode

 

 

??? return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in
position 4397: character maps to <undefined>

 

How can I fix the problem. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

 

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:02:06 -0700

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>

To: "python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

Message-ID: <4DF8048E.6020400 at probo.com>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"

 

cool_go_blue wrote:

> Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole

> document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the

> document? I use the following code:

> 

> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):

>     print word

> 

> It seems that word is each a character.

> 

 

No, what you are getting back is a Python string.  When you enumerate

through a string, you get characters.  This is basic Python.

 

If your words are all separated by spaces, you can use split:

 

    for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split():

        print word

 

Note, however, that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character

set until you want to print it.  If you are going to process these

words, then you might as well leave them in Unicode.

 

-- 

Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

 

 

 

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Message: 6

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:20:59 -0700 (PDT)

From: cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>

To: "python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

Message-ID: <731230.99185.qm at web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

 

Thanks. I just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How
can I get these numbers. Also, If all items are in a table, how can I
get the contents of all items and ignore the table structure. Thanks. 

 

--- On Tue, 6/14/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

 

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>

Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file

To: "python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org>

Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 9:02 PM

 

cool_go_blue wrote:

> Thanks. It works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole

> document. How can I retrieve the list of words in the

> document? I use the following code:

> 

> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"):

>? ???print word

> 

> It seems that word is each a character.

> 

 

No, what you are getting back is a Python string.? When you enumerate

through a string, you get characters.? This is basic Python.

 

If your words are all separated by spaces, you can use split:

 

? ? for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split():

? ? ? ? print word

 

Note, however, that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character

set until you want to print it.? If you are going to process these

words, then you might as well leave them in Unicode.

 

-- 

Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com

Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

 

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From sharpblade1 at gmail.com  Wed Jun 15 14:13:49 2011
From: sharpblade1 at gmail.com (sharpblade)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:13:49 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Converting HTML formatting to Microsoft Word
In-Reply-To: <4DF88EB0.50504@gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTimGMEKA=p7hXnN32eVj84rEWtQeyg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DF7138F.9090107@timgolden.me.uk>
	<BANLkTin0wee0W9ibUw79ERkZkPXRNibFZg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DF88EB0.50504@gmail.com>
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Heh, thanks!
I dreamed of writing some nice recursive function, but I gave up and
moved to the HTMLParser module:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/408125/

Its WIP at the moment but works nicely with bold, underline, italics
and bulletpoint lists. It was a lot nicer and more concise before I
found out that the WYSIWYG editor also outputs <span style="x"> to
format text as well as <strong> and <em>, so i'm hacking away at it to
get it to work with those.


On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/06/2011 6:51 PM, sharpblade wrote:
>>
>> I whipped up this function: http://pastebin.com/kaZz5dBd which should
>> work, but line 22 and 23 doesn't work for some reason - all text after
>> it is bold.
>
> The last thing you do in those lines is set the range to bold - presumably
> later you then insert more text right at the end of the range - maybe word
> is just keeping the bold for the new text just like it would do if you where
> typing (ie, IIRC, if the cursor is at the end of a bold range, new text you
> type is also bold...)
>
> Or not - just a thought :)
>
> Mark
>

From jacobk at mailzone.co.za  Wed Jun 15 14:51:13 2011
From: jacobk at mailzone.co.za (Jacob Kruger)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:51:13 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Generic/simple way to make backups of objects/their
	states?
Message-ID: <PC1760201106151451130660a7a15921@JacobKruger-PC>

I know I can do a version of manual import/export process to do something like either backup all relevant attributes of some or other object to something like a CSV, or XML string rendition, and then save that to a file easily enough, but just wondering if there's any simpler way to render an object/class instance to a string rendition, and then to maybe reiterate the original object later on..?

TIA (and not too important, but just wondering)

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jun 15 15:01:05 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:01:05 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Generic/simple way to make backups of
 objects/their states?
In-Reply-To: <PC1760201106151451130660a7a15921@JacobKruger-PC>
References: <PC1760201106151451130660a7a15921@JacobKruger-PC>
Message-ID: <4DF8AD11.5030909@timgolden.me.uk>

On 15/06/2011 13:51, Jacob Kruger wrote:
> I know I can do a version of manual import/export process to do
> something like either backup all relevant attributes of some or other
> object to something like a CSV, or XML string rendition, and then
> save that to a file easily enough, but just wondering if there's any
> simpler way to render an object/class instance to a string rendition,
> and then to maybe reiterate the original object later on..?
>
> TIA (and not too important, but just wondering)

The standard Python way is the pickle module:

   http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html

If your objects are very simple (basically core Python objects)
then marshal is lighter and faster:

   http://docs.python.org/library/marshal.html

There are definitely other options out there. The stdlib has
recently included JSON support:

   http://docs.python.org/library/json.html

and there are definitely third-party options as well. Just
Google for "python object serialisation" or something.

TJG

From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 16:16:17 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:16:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325B5@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>
Message-ID: <668505.40166.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thanks for your suggestion,? Tom. Yes.I think it's an auto-number paragraph. How can I auto programatically
save the word file in Python? The manual save means I
copy and paste to a wordpad file, right?

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Tom Hawkins <Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com> wrote:

From: Tom Hawkins <Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: python-win32 at python.org
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 7:57 AM




 
 

 







 



>Thanks. I
just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How can I get these  

>numbers.
Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the contents of all items and  

>ignore the
table structure. Thanks. 

 ? 

If you have
auto-numbered paragraphs then I?d guess the numbers are generated by Word
as part of formatting the text for display and aren?t part of the literal
text of the document. 

 ? 

Could you
programatically or manually save the Word doc as plain text and analyse the
text file? That will get you the paragraph numbers as text (at least it worked
for me just now in a quick test on Word 2003) and might solve your table issue
as well. 

 ? 

Tom Hawkins 

Principal
Scientist 

Innospec Inc 

Tel: +44 (0)151
356 6197 

Fax: +44 (0)151
356 6112 

 ? 

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun
2011 09:30:20 -0700 (PDT) 

From:
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To:
python-win32 at python.org 

Subject:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

Message-ID:
<244357.87334.qm at web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> 

Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 

 ? 

I try to read a
word document as follows: 

 ? 

 ? 

????????? ?
 

????????? ?
app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application') 

doc =
app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc') 

print doc.Content.Text 

 ? 

I receive the
following error: 

 ? 

raceback (most
recent call last): 

? File
"D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in
<module> 

??? print
doc.Content.Text 

? File
"D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode 

??? return
codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table) 

UnicodeEncodeError:
'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in position 4397: character
maps to <undefined> 

 ? 

How can I fix the
problem. Thanks. 

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun
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From: Tim Roberts
<timr at probo.com> 

To: Python-Win32
List <python-win32 at python.org> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

Message-ID:
<4DF79C01.5050703 at probo.com> 

Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" 

 ? 

cool_go_blue wrote: 

> I try to
read a word document as follows: 

> ? 

> app =
win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application') 

> doc =
app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc') 

> print
doc.Content.Text 

> ? 

> I receive
the following error: 

> ? 

> raceback
(most recent call last): 

>??
File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in
<module> 

>????
print doc.Content.Text 

>??
File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in
encode 

>????
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table) 

>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' 

> in position
4397: character maps to <undefined> 

> ? 

 ? 

You are reading
the Word document just fine.? The issue is printing it 

to your
terminal.? The document contains Unicode characters that aren't 

present in your
terminal's font.? You need to tell it how to handle the 

conversion from
Unicode to 8-bit.? Try this: 

 ? 

???
print doc.Content.Text.encode('cp1252','replace') 

 ? 

That will print ?
where invalid characters are found. 

 ? 

U+F06D is not a
valid character.? It's in the "private use" area, so 

it's possible
this is some special code to Word. 

 ? 

--  

Tim Roberts,
timr at probo.com 

Providenza &
Boekelheide, Inc. 

 ? 

 ? 

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Message: 3 

Date: Tue, 14 Jun
2011 11:34:25 -0700 

From: RayS
<rays at blue-cove.com> 

To:
<python-win32 at python.org> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] py2.7 and multiple DDE servers on Win32, 

????????? possible? 

Message-ID: 

????????? <20110614183431.RSZK17030.fed1rmfepo101.cox.net at fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> 

Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" 

 ? 

Ahh, this 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/MFC/MFCinVisualStudioExpress.aspx 

might help. 

I'll work through
it later... 

I do have VS6,
but I'm assuming that I really need 2008 (?). 

 ? 

Thanks, 

Ray 

 ? 

At 10:13 PM
6/13/2011, Roger Upole wrote: 

>Compiling
with VC 2008 Express is going to be a problem.? The free 

>compiler
doesn't seem to support using the atl/mfc headers and libraries. 

> ? 

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From:
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To:
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Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

Message-ID:
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Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 

 ? 

Thanks. It works.
Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole document. How can I retrieve
the list of words in the 

document? I use
the following code: 

 ? 

for word in
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"): 

??? print word 

 ? 

It seems that
word is each a character. How can I find API to process words in an open word
document. Thanks. 

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From: Preston
Landers <planders at gmail.com> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

To:
"cool_go_blue" <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com> 

Date: Tuesday,
June 14, 2011, 12:37 PM 

 ? 

The document
contains Unicode content that can't be rendered directly as the encoding cp1252
(Windows-1252) used by your console when you use the print statement. 

You can always
write the content to a file in UTF-8 or UTF-16 and then view the file in a
program like notepad that can handle Unicode.?I'm not sure if there's any way
to get the Windows console to produce actual Unicode. 

 ? 

 ? 

If you absolutely
must print this in the console, you can always substitute out unknown
characters. ? 

print
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace") 

 ? 

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Hope this helps,
 Preston 

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2011 at 11:30 AM, cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com> wrote: 

 ? 

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I try to read a
word document as follows: 

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????????? ?
 

????????? ?
app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application') 

doc =
app.Documents.Open('D:\myfile.doc') 

print
doc.Content.Text 

 ? 

I receive the
following error: 

 ? 

 ? 

 ? 

raceback (most
recent call last): 

? File
"D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in
<module> 

??? print
doc.Content.Text 

? File
"D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 12, in encode 

 ? 

 ? 

??? return
codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table) 

UnicodeEncodeError:
'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\uf06d' in position 4397: character
maps to <undefined> 

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How can I fix the
problem. Thanks. 

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From: Tim Roberts
<timr at probo.com> 

To:
"python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

Message-ID:
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Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" 

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cool_go_blue
wrote: 

> Thanks. It
works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole 

> document.
How can I retrieve the list of words in the 

> document? I
use the following code: 

> ? 

> for word in
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"): 

>????
print word 

> ? 

> It seems
that word is each a character. 

> ? 

 ? 

No, what you are
getting back is a Python string.? When you enumerate 

through a string,
you get characters.? This is basic Python. 

 ? 

If your words are
all separated by spaces, you can use split: 

 ? 

???
for word in
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split(): 

???????
print word 

 ? 

Note, however,
that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character 

set until you
want to print it.? If you are going to process these 

words, then you
might as well leave them in Unicode. 

 ? 

--  

Tim Roberts,
timr at probo.com 

Providenza &
Boekelheide, Inc. 

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Date: Tue, 14 Jun
2011 18:20:59 -0700 (PDT) 

From: cool_go_blue
<cool_go_blue at yahoo.com> 

To:
"python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

Message-ID:
<731230.99185.qm at web43140.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> 

Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 

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Thanks. I just
find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How can I get these numbers.
Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the contents of all items and
ignore the table structure. Thanks.  

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--- On Tue,
6/14/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote: 

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From: Tim Roberts
<timr at probo.com> 

Subject: Re:
[python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file 

To:
"python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org> 

Date: Tuesday,
June 14, 2011, 9:02 PM 

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cool_go_blue
wrote: 

> Thanks. It
works. Actually, what I want to do is to parse the whole 

> document.
How can I retrieve the list of words in the 

> document? I
use the following code: 

> ? 

> for word in
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace"): 

>? ???print
word 

> ? 

> It seems
that word is each a character. 

> ? 

 ? 

No, what you are
getting back is a Python string.? When you enumerate 

through a string,
you get characters.? This is basic Python. 

 ? 

If your words are
all separated by spaces, you can use split: 

 ? 

? ? for word in
doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252","replace").split(): 

? ? ? ? print
word 

 ? 

Note, however,
that you don't need to convert it to an 8-bit character 

set until you
want to print it.? If you are going to process these 

words, then you
might as well leave them in Unicode. 

 ? 

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timr at probo.com 

Providenza &
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From Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com  Wed Jun 15 16:30:32 2011
From: Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com (Tom Hawkins)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:30:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
Message-ID: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325B9@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>

By 'manually' I mean choosing the File->Save As menu item and changing
'Save as type' to Plain Text.

 

I'm not familiar with how to automate it directly from Python, but in
Word VBA you would use something like:

 

    ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="myfile.txt",
FileFormat:=wdFormatText

 

 

Again these examples are for Word 2003.

 

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From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 16:44:26 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:44:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinKfZduyCSf1RyBnFFRWjdc0r3RKA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <307459.53636.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thanks. I clicked on the following link and I get lost about how to find APIs. I think I need to go to the following page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb225019%28v=office.12%29.aspx

to find APIs. To read an auto-number paragraph, I check: word Document Object Map and find paragraph. But what API should I use to read all words and the auto-number of this paragraph. It seems a huge table in each object map. Thanks.
-- On Tue, 6/14/11, Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com> wrote
From: Preston Landers <planders at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "cool_go_blue" <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com>
Cc: "python-win32 at python.org" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 10:08 PM

I think you'll have to get into the guts of the Document object to do things like that. ?Here's the official?Word 2007 object model documentation. Any tutorials or examples you can find that use other languages like C# or VB.NET would be relevant, you just have to translate them a bit to Python. ?The underlying Document API is the same across languages.


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb243297(v=office.12).aspx


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:20 PM, cool_go_blue <cool_go_blue at yahoo.com> wrote:


Thanks. I just find that all item numbers such as 1.1.1 are gone. How can I get these numbers. Also, If all items are in a table, how can I get the contents of all items and ignore the table structure. Thanks. 





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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jun 15 16:50:32 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:50:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325B9@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>
References: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325B9@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>
Message-ID: <4DF8C6B8.9080403@timgolden.me.uk>

On 15/06/2011 15:30, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> By ?manually? I mean choosing the File->Save As menu item and changing
> ?Save as type? to Plain Text.
>
> I?m not familiar with how to automate it directly from Python, but in
> Word VBA you would use something like:
>
> ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="myfile.txt", FileFormat:=wdFormatText

.. and for anyone who couldn't guess, in Python that would be something
like:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs (
   FileName="myfile.txt", 
FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText
)

TJG

From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 17:11:18 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <4DF8C6B8.9080403@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <815735.65110.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

I did try the one you suggest. But I got:

? File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>
??? app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
? File "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 170, in __getattr__
??? raise AttributeError(a)
AttributeError: wdFormatText

Also I replace wdFormatText with wdFormatTextLineBreaks. Same error...

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: 
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 10:50 AM

On 15/06/2011 15:30, Tom Hawkins wrote:
> By ?manually? I mean choosing the File->Save As menu item and changing
> ?Save as type? to Plain Text.
>
> I?m not familiar with how to automate it directly from Python, but in
> Word VBA you would use something like:
>
> ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="myfile.txt", FileFormat:=wdFormatText

.. and for anyone who couldn't guess, in Python that would be something
like:

ActiveDocument.SaveAs (
???FileName="myfile.txt", 
FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText
)

TJG
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jun 15 19:10:05 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:10:05 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <815735.65110.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <815735.65110.qm@web43142.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF8E76D.9060503@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> I did try the one you suggest. But I got:
>
>   File "D:\projects\Myself\MySVD\src\ReadWord.py", line 11, in <module>
>    
> app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
>   File
> "D:\Softwares\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 170, in __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError(a)
> AttributeError: wdFormatText
>
> Also I replace wdFormatText with wdFormatTextLineBreaks. Same error...
>

How are you creating your Word object?  The Dispatch process should
import these constants for you.

In any case, 15 seconds with Google would have showed you that
wdFormatText = 2 and wdFormatTextLineBreaks = 3.

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


From timr at probo.com  Wed Jun 15 21:26:31 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:26:31 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <383957.4735.qm@web43138.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <383957.4735.qm@web43138.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF90767.9040802@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> this is the first three lines of my code:
>
> app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
> app.Documents.Open('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir.doc')
> app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
>

If you use this instead:
    app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Word.Application')
then the framework will build a Python wrapper for objects of that type,
and that Python wrapper will create the constants.

You MUST get in the habit of using the proper escape characters.  The
backslash has special meaning in Python strings.  You have three choices:

1. Use a "raw" string:
   
apps.Documents.Open(r'D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir.doc')
2. Double the backslashes:
   
apps.Documents.Open('D:\\projects\\Myself\\HelloPython\\src\\Drugreservoir.doc')
3. Use forward slashes:
   
apps.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir.doc')

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


From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 22:03:31 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <4DF90767.9040802@probo.com>
Message-ID: <951180.58863.qm@web43137.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

Thank you so much. It works. But where can I find the APIs such as Dispatch vs gencache.EnsureDispatch? Now, I have another problem. Using the auto save, all auto-numbers before paragraphs are not read by the following code:

for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
??? print word
??? count += 1
print "total word: " , count

It works for the manual saved txt file.

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 3:26 PM

cool_go_blue wrote:
> this is the first three lines of my code:
>
> app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
> app.Documents.Open('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir.doc')
> app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs('D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
>

If you use this instead:
? ? app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Word.Application')
then the framework will build a Python wrapper for objects of that type,
and that Python wrapper will create the constants.

You MUST get in the habit of using the proper escape characters.? The
backslash has special meaning in Python strings.? You have three choices:

1. Use a "raw" string:
???
apps.Documents.Open(r'D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir.doc')
2. Double the backslashes:
???
apps.Documents.Open('D:\\projects\\Myself\\HelloPython\\src\\Drugreservoir.doc')
3. Use forward slashes:
???
apps.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir.doc')

-- 
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jun 15 22:12:21 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:12:21 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <951180.58863.qm@web43137.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <951180.58863.qm@web43137.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF91225.7060900@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> Thank you so much. It works. But where can I find the APIs such as
> Dispatch vs gencache.EnsureDispatch?
>

To a certain extent, this comes from on-the-job experience.  It is
described in the win32com documentation.  There's also a couple of books
on Python in Windows ("Python Programming on Win32" is one).

> Now, I have another problem. Using the auto save, all auto-numbers
> before paragraphs are not read by the following code:
>
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
>     print word
>     count += 1
> print "total word: " , count
>
> It works for the manual saved txt file.
>

You aren't using "auto save" here.  You are still reading the document
directly from the application.  The idea was, after you save the
document as text, you go read that text file instead of using
doc.Content.Text.  You aren't THINKING about your problem.

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


From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Wed Jun 15 22:21:42 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:21:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <4DF91225.7060900@probo.com>
Message-ID: <161844.74180.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

So, my following code:

app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Word.Application')
app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir.doc')
app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
doc = app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')
count = 0
for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
??? print word

Does SaveAs save the doc to a txt file? What I was thinking is "app.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')" can open the txt file which I can read. Is there any way I can read the saved txt file after SaveAs...

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 4:12 PM

cool_go_blue wrote:
> Thank you so much. It works. But where can I find the APIs such as
> Dispatch vs gencache.EnsureDispatch?
>

To a certain extent, this comes from on-the-job experience.? It is
described in the win32com documentation.? There's also a couple of books
on Python in Windows ("Python Programming on Win32" is one).

> Now, I have another problem. Using the auto save, all auto-numbers
> before paragraphs are not read by the following code:
>
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
>? ???print word
>? ???count += 1
> print "total word: " , count
>
> It works for the manual saved txt file.
>

You aren't using "auto save" here.? You are still reading the document
directly from the application.? The idea was, after you save the
document as text, you go read that text file instead of using
doc.Content.Text.? You aren't THINKING about your problem.

-- 
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Jun 16 01:52:30 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:52:30 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <161844.74180.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <161844.74180.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF945BE.3060509@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> So, my following code:
>
> app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Word.Application')
> app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir.doc')
> app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
> doc =
> app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')
> count = 0
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
>     print word
>
> Does SaveAs save the doc to a txt file? What I was thinking is
> "app.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')"
> can open the txt file which I can read. Is there any way I can read
> the saved txt file after SaveAs...
>

Well, of course there is.  At that point, you have a plain, old,
ordinary text file.  Just use the normal Python techniques to read it.

    doc = open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')
    for word in doc.read().split():
        print word

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


From cool_go_blue at yahoo.com  Thu Jun 16 03:03:14 2011
From: cool_go_blue at yahoo.com (cool_go_blue)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:03:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <4DF945BE.3060509@probo.com>
Message-ID: <115167.10803.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

THanks. After replying to your email, I thought about what you wrote, just like what you said in the following email. So, for a normal text file, just use open to read the file. There is no need to use the way to open a word document via win32com to read a text file. Will win32com consume more time and memory to read a text file than the general input stream? Thanks again.

--- On Wed, 6/15/11, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

From: Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
To: "Python-Win32 List" <python-win32 at python.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 7:52 PM

cool_go_blue wrote:
> So, my following code:
>
> app = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('Word.Application')
> app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir.doc')
> app.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt',FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatText)
> doc =
> app.Documents.Open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')
> count = 0
> for word in doc.Content.Text.encode("cp1252", "replace").split():
>? ???print word
>
> Does SaveAs save the doc to a txt file? What I was thinking is
> "app.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')"
> can open the txt file which I can read. Is there any way I can read
> the saved txt file after SaveAs...
>

Well, of course there is.? At that point, you have a plain, old,
ordinary text file.? Just use the normal Python techniques to read it.

? ? doc = open(r'D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.txt')
? ? for word in doc.read().split():
? ? ? ? print word

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

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From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Jun 16 03:05:18 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:05:18 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] Creating PyCComboBox?
In-Reply-To: <4DF88B07.4040108@gmail.com>
References: <4DF31170.6040600@canterbury.ac.nz> <4DF88B07.4040108@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DF956CE.6010904@canterbury.ac.nz>

Mark Hammond wrote:

> I think you just want a CreateWindow(Ex) with "Combobox" as the class.

Yes, but the puzzle was how to get a PyCComboBox object rather
than a raw window handle.

I discovered it can be done by calling CreateWindowFromHandle
on the resulting handle, but I don't think I should have to do
that. All the other PyCFoo classes have a corresponding
CreateFoo function, but CreateComboBox seems to be missing.

-- 
Greg

From timr at probo.com  Thu Jun 16 03:25:50 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:25:50 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
In-Reply-To: <115167.10803.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
References: <115167.10803.qm@web43132.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4DF95B9E.5090807@probo.com>

cool_go_blue wrote:
> THanks. After replying to your email, I thought about what you wrote,
> just like what you said in the following email. So, for a normal text
> file, just use open to read the file. There is no need to use the way
> to open a word document via win32com to read a text file. Will
> win32com consume more time and memory to read a text file than the
> general input stream?
>

It's not win32com that is the issue.  Win32com is merely the gateway you
are using to run Microsoft Word.  And yes, Microsoft Word consumes a
HELL of a lot more time and memory than reading a file using Python I/O.

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


From Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com  Thu Jun 16 09:15:07 2011
From: Tom.Hawkins at innospecinc.com (Tom Hawkins)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:15:07 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] UnicodeEncodingError when print a doc file
Message-ID: <80EF6E679A466046BA07D071932847B32325BB@UKEPX101.innospec.itnet.octel>

>Does SaveAs save the doc to a txt file? What I was thinking is 
>"app.Documents.Open('D:/projects/Myself/HelloPython/src/Drugreservoir1.
txt')" can 
>open the txt file which I can read. Is there any way I can read the
saved txt file after 
>SaveAs...

Yes of course, you can use the ordinary Python file functions as
described here:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-fil
es
For example:

	myfile =
open(r'D:\projects\Myself\HelloPython\src\Drugreservoir.txt')
	filetext = myfile.read()
	myfile.close()

will read the entire contents of the text file into the Python variable
filetext.

If you just want to get the word count of this text, you don't need to
use a loop, by the way - you can get it from:

	wordcount = len(filetext.split())

Tom Hawkins
Principal Scientist
Innospec Inc
Tel: +44 (0)151 356 6197
Fax: +44 (0)151 356 6112

From shashwat.ds at gmail.com  Fri Jun 17 00:16:37 2011
From: shashwat.ds at gmail.com (Shashwat Sinha)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:16:37 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python vs Outlook Question
Message-ID: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I wrote this simple code that works fine:

import win32com.client as W

olook = W.gencache.EnsureDispatch("%s.Application" %profilename)
mail = olook.CreateItem(W.constants.olMailItem)
mail.Recipients.Add('xx at yahoo.com)
mail.Subject = 'Hello'
mail.Body = 'Hello'
mail.Send()


When I have Outlook open it sends the email from my Outlook account.  How
can I change the "From" field in the code so that I can specify a
different sender?  Also how can I add attachment from this python code?


Thanks,
Sinha.
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From timr at probo.com  Fri Jun 17 01:21:06 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:21:06 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python vs Outlook Question
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFA8FE2.2070000@probo.com>

Shashwat Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I wrote this simple code that works fine:
>  
> import win32com.client as W
>  
> olook = W.gencache.EnsureDispatch("%s.Application" %profilename)
> mail = olook.CreateItem(W.constants.olMailItem)
> mail.Recipients.Add('xx at yahoo.com <mailto:%27xx at yahoo.com>)
> mail.Subject = 'Hello'
> mail.Body = 'Hello'
> mail.Send()
>
> When I have Outlook open it sends the email from my Outlook account. 
> How can I change the "From" field in the code so that I can specify a
> different sender?  Also how can I add attachment from this python code?

Search for the Outlook object model.  Your "mail" object is a MailItem
object.  That object has many properties, including SenderEmailAddress,
SenderEmailType, and SenderName.

It also has an Attachments property, which is a collection.  You should
be able to do something like this:

    mail.Attachments.Add( filename, win32com.constants.olByValue )

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


From shashwat.ds at gmail.com  Fri Jun 17 01:57:39 2011
From: shashwat.ds at gmail.com (Shashwat Sinha)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:39 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python vs Outlook Question
In-Reply-To: <4DFA8FE2.2070000@probo.com>
References: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DFA8FE2.2070000@probo.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimewLaUnuG88pot=TParit9P+Urzg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Tim,

Thanks for your response.  After sending the post I was able to do
attachments but other properties like SenderEmailAddress are not working.
It gives me an AttributeError as follows:


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "autoMailer.py", line 146, in <module>
    AutoMailSend()
  File "autoMailer.py", line 27, in __init__
    self.sendMail("Outlook")
  File "autoMailer.py", line 118, in sendMail
    mail.SenderEmailAddress = 'shashwat.ds at gmail.com'
  File "C:\Python272\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
470, i
n __setattr__
    raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self),
attr
))
*AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Outlook 12.0 Object
Library._MailIte
m instance at 0x39818584>' object has no attribute 'SenderEmailAddress'*
C:\Temp>


I am confused as 'Attachments' works but not other properties.  Could you
provide some more hints?  I was also trying to add signature by doing:

mail.AddBusinessCard = 'Signature1'

but that too gave an error.


Thanks for your help.

Sinha.





On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Shashwat Sinha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wrote this simple code that works fine:
> >
> > import win32com.client as W
> >
> > olook = W.gencache.EnsureDispatch("%s.Application" %profilename)
> > mail = olook.CreateItem(W.constants.olMailItem)
> > mail.Recipients.Add('xx at yahoo.com <mailto:%27xx at yahoo.com>)
> > mail.Subject = 'Hello'
> > mail.Body = 'Hello'
> > mail.Send()
> >
> > When I have Outlook open it sends the email from my Outlook account.
> > How can I change the "From" field in the code so that I can specify a
> > different sender?  Also how can I add attachment from this python code?
>
> Search for the Outlook object model.  Your "mail" object is a MailItem
> object.  That object has many properties, including SenderEmailAddress,
> SenderEmailType, and SenderName.
>
> It also has an Attachments property, which is a collection.  You should
> be able to do something like this:
>
>    mail.Attachments.Add( filename, win32com.constants.olByValue )
>
> --
> 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  Fri Jun 17 02:33:40 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:33:40 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python vs Outlook Question
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimewLaUnuG88pot=TParit9P+Urzg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>	<4DFA8FE2.2070000@probo.com>
	<BANLkTimewLaUnuG88pot=TParit9P+Urzg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFAA0E4.3080305@probo.com>

Shashwat Sinha wrote:
>  
> Thanks for your response.  After sending the post I was able to do
> attachments but other properties like SenderEmailAddress are not
> working.  It gives me an AttributeError as follows:
>  
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
>   File "autoMailer.py", line 118, in sendMail
>     mail.SenderEmailAddress = 'shashwat.ds at gmail.com'
> <mailto:%27shashwat.ds at gmail.com%27>
>   File "C:\Python272\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 470, i
> n __setattr__
>     raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
> (repr(self), attr
> ))
> *AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Outlook 12.0 Object
> Library._MailIte
> m instance at 0x39818584>' object has no attribute 'SenderEmailAddress'*
> C:\Temp>

Yes, I see now that the documentation says that's a "read-only"
attribute;  it is only present when you read an existing message that's
already in your Outlook data store.  Apparently, Outlook will only send
messages that come from one of your Outlook identities.

That's not really much of a surprise.

> I am confused as 'Attachments' works but not other properties.  Could
> you provide some more hints?  I was also trying to add signature by
> doing:
>  
> mail.AddBusinessCard = 'Signature1'

AddBusinessCard is a method, not a property.  It has to be called like a
function.  However, it doesn't accept a simple string; it takes a
ContactItem object, which you would have to get from the list of Outlook
contacts.

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


From shashwat.ds at gmail.com  Fri Jun 17 03:29:08 2011
From: shashwat.ds at gmail.com (Shashwat Sinha)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:29:08 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python vs Outlook Question
In-Reply-To: <4DFAA0E4.3080305@probo.com>
References: <BANLkTikdY3RPYOHqVdHmOCNDA=e2E48KHw@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DFA8FE2.2070000@probo.com>
	<BANLkTimewLaUnuG88pot=TParit9P+Urzg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4DFAA0E4.3080305@probo.com>
Message-ID: <BANLkTinj6yAoLx873NTg13zXvRs2BX3zPg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Tim.



On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Shashwat Sinha wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your response.  After sending the post I was able to do
> > attachments but other properties like SenderEmailAddress are not
> > working.  It gives me an AttributeError as follows:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > ...
> >   File "autoMailer.py", line 118, in sendMail
> >     mail.SenderEmailAddress = 'shashwat.ds at gmail.com'
> > <mailto:%27shashwat.ds at gmail.com%27>
> >   File "C:\Python272\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> > line 470, i
> > n __setattr__
> >     raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
> > (repr(self), attr
> > ))
> > *AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Outlook 12.0 Object
> > Library._MailIte
> > m instance at 0x39818584>' object has no attribute 'SenderEmailAddress'*
> > C:\Temp>
>
> Yes, I see now that the documentation says that's a "read-only"
> attribute;  it is only present when you read an existing message that's
> already in your Outlook data store.  Apparently, Outlook will only send
> messages that come from one of your Outlook identities.
>
> That's not really much of a surprise.
>
> > I am confused as 'Attachments' works but not other properties.  Could
> > you provide some more hints?  I was also trying to add signature by
> > doing:
> >
> > mail.AddBusinessCard = 'Signature1'
>
> AddBusinessCard is a method, not a property.  It has to be called like a
> function.  However, it doesn't accept a simple string; it takes a
> ContactItem object, which you would have to get from the list of Outlook
> contacts.
>
> --
> 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 greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Fri Jun 17 05:18:28 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:18:28 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] ANN: PyGUI 2.5
Message-ID: <4DFAC784.1010609@canterbury.ac.nz>

PyGUI 2.5 is available:

   http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/

Lots of new stuff in this version. Highlights include:

   - Improved facilities for customising the standard menus.

   - Functions for creating PyGUI Images from PIL images and numpy arrays.

   - ListButton - a pop-up or pull-down menu of choices.

   - GridView - a user-defined view consisting of a regular grid of cells.

   - PaletteView - a GridView specialised for implementing tool palettes.

There is also a big pile of other improvements and bug fixes. See the
CHANGES file for full details.


What is PyGUI?
--------------

PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be lightweight
and have a highly Pythonic API.

-- 
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/

From reckoner at gmail.com  Fri Jun 17 15:19:44 2011
From: reckoner at gmail.com (reckoner)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:19:44 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
Message-ID: <4DFB5470.10305@gmail.com>

Is it possible to get access to the Most Recently Used (MRU) list in 
windows. This is where Windows keeps a list of the most recently opened 
documents and programs.

By the way, I'm on Windows XP.

Thanks!


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 17 15:54:26 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:54:26 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
In-Reply-To: <4DFB5470.10305@gmail.com>
References: <4DFB5470.10305@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFB5C92.2040100@timgolden.me.uk>

On 17/06/2011 14:19, reckoner wrote:
> Is it possible to get access to the Most Recently Used (MRU) list in
> windows. This is where Windows keeps a list of the most recently opened
> documents and programs.
>
> By the way, I'm on Windows XP.

Depends what you need to do. To add in item, use the SHAddToRecentDocs
API from the shell module:

<code>
import sys
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

shell.SHAddToRecentDocs (
   shellcon.SHARD_PATHW,
   sys.executable
)

</code>

To access its contents (in file system terms):

<code>
import os, sys
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

mru = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT, 0)
print os.listdir (mru)

</code>

To access it as shell folder:

<code>
import os, sys
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

mru_pidl = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT)
desktop = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder ()
mru_folder = desktop.BindToObject (
   mru_pidl,
   None,
   shell.IID_IShellFolder
)

for i in mru_folder:
   print mru_folder.GetDisplayNameOf (i, shellcon.SHGDN_NORMAL)

</code>

TJG

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sat Jun 18 06:31:28 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:31:28 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] [Pygui] Installing PyGUI-2.5 on Mac OSX 10.5.8
	fails
In-Reply-To: <9DF6A6F7-948E-4DB9-A585-F0EE01E60598@gmail.com>
References: <9DF6A6F7-948E-4DB9-A585-F0EE01E60598@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFC2A20.6080806@canterbury.ac.nz>

Colin Brown wrote:
> Macintosh:PyGUI-2.5 colin$ python setup.py install
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 12, in <module>
>     from distutils_extensions import pygui_build_py
> ImportError: No module named distutils_extensions

Sorry about that! The missing file is attached, and I'll
upload a fixed distribution soon.

-- 
Greg
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From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sat Jun 18 08:14:30 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Gregory Ewing)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:14:30 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] ANN: PyGUI 2.5.1
Message-ID: <4DFC4246.2060502@canterbury.ac.nz>

PyGUI 2.5.1 is available:

   http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/

Minor update to fix missing distutils_extensions.py file.


What is PyGUI?
--------------

PyGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit designed to be lightweight
and have a highly Pythonic API.

-- 
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/

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From reckoner at gmail.com  Sun Jun 19 01:00:42 2011
From: reckoner at gmail.com (reckoner)
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:00:42 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.33.1308391202.19710.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.33.1308391202.19710.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <4DFD2E1A.4020404@gmail.com>


> On 17/06/2011 14:19, reckoner wrote:
>
> Depends what you need to do. To add in item, use the SHAddToRecentDocs
> API from the shell module:
>
> <code>
> import sys
> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>
> shell.SHAddToRecentDocs (
>     shellcon.SHARD_PATHW,
>     sys.executable
> )
>
> </code>
>
> To access its contents (in file system terms):
>
> <code>
> import os, sys
> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>
> mru = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT, 0)
> print os.listdir (mru)
>
> </code>
>
> To access it as shell folder:
>
> <code>
> import os, sys
> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>
> mru_pidl = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT)
> desktop = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder ()
> mru_folder = desktop.BindToObject (
>     mru_pidl,
>     None,
>     shell.IID_IShellFolder
> )
>
> for i in mru_folder:
>     print mru_folder.GetDisplayNameOf (i, shellcon.SHGDN_NORMAL)
>
> </code>
>
> TJG


Thank you! This is a big help. Is there a way to find out which program 
called which item in the MRU list and when that occurred?


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun Jun 19 23:19:21 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:19:21 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Access Most Recently Used (MRU) entries ?
In-Reply-To: <4DFD2E1A.4020404@gmail.com>
References: <mailman.33.1308391202.19710.python-win32@python.org>
	<4DFD2E1A.4020404@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4DFE67D9.9000605@timgolden.me.uk>

On 19/06/2011 00:00, reckoner wrote:
>
>> On 17/06/2011 14:19, reckoner wrote:
>>
>> Depends what you need to do. To add in item, use the SHAddToRecentDocs
>> API from the shell module:
>>
>> <code>
>> import sys
>> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>>
>> shell.SHAddToRecentDocs (
>> shellcon.SHARD_PATHW,
>> sys.executable
>> )
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> To access its contents (in file system terms):
>>
>> <code>
>> import os, sys
>> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>>
>> mru = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT, 0)
>> print os.listdir (mru)
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> To access it as shell folder:
>>
>> <code>
>> import os, sys
>> from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
>>
>> mru_pidl = shell.SHGetSpecialFolderLocation (0, shellcon.CSIDL_RECENT)
>> desktop = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder ()
>> mru_folder = desktop.BindToObject (
>> mru_pidl,
>> None,
>> shell.IID_IShellFolder
>> )
>>
>> for i in mru_folder:
>> print mru_folder.GetDisplayNameOf (i, shellcon.SHGDN_NORMAL)
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> TJG
>
>
> Thank you! This is a big help. Is there a way to find out which program
> called which item in the MRU list and when that occurred?

Not AFAIK. However, you can assume that the program
associated with the file extension created the link and that the
time the link was created was when it occurred. You can find the
associated program with the win32api.FindExecutable API and the
standard os.getmtime will tell you when the link was created.

TJG

From matt.jibson at gmail.com  Tue Jun 21 00:58:12 2011
From: matt.jibson at gmail.com (Matt Jibson)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:58:12 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] windows 2008 services on reboot
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=+W74z7VG79_e3q42jYsv-ghMc6Q@mail.gmail.com>

I'm using the win32 extensions to install and run a service that can take
10-15 seconds to gracefully shutdown. It successfully receives the shutdown
signal, but Windows Server 2008 kills the process before it can shutdown
normally. Works fine on Windows Server 2003. I'm aware this is possibly a
Windows issue. Anyone seen this or have ideas?
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From cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net  Tue Jun 21 02:59:44 2011
From: cfuller084 at thinkingplanet.net (Chris Fuller)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:59:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] windows 2008 services on reboot
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=+W74z7VG79_e3q42jYsv-ghMc6Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTi=+W74z7VG79_e3q42jYsv-ghMc6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <201106201959.47302.cfuller084@thinkingplanet.net>


I believe it is possible to catch the shutdown event, cancel it, and send a 
new one when the service is done cleaning up.  Not pretty, but nothing ever is 
when there's a hardwired timeout involved.

On Monday 20 June 2011, Matt Jibson wrote:
> I'm using the win32 extensions to install and run a service that can take
> 10-15 seconds to gracefully shutdown. It successfully receives the shutdown
> signal, but Windows Server 2008 kills the process before it can shutdown
> normally. Works fine on Windows Server 2003. I'm aware this is possibly a
> Windows issue. Anyone seen this or have ideas?

From imageguy1206 at gmail.com  Tue Jun 21 14:23:14 2011
From: imageguy1206 at gmail.com (geoff)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:23:14 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] [Pygui] Convert RGBA to BGRA using standard
	library?
In-Reply-To: <4DE0B884.10206@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4DE0B884.10206@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <BANLkTikkpB+hm7d+poGfP7MDAoBrixMkzg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> Can anyone think of an efficient way to convert a string
> full of RGBA image data to BGRA, using only what's available
> in the standard library?
>
> I'm trying to add a function to PyGUI for creating an Image
> object from arbitrary data. The problem I'm having is that
> GDI+ on Windows expects BGRA, whereas most other platforms
> deal with RGBA. I don't want to require the user to supply
> the data in different formats on different platforms, so
> PyGUI needs to be able to convert where necessary.
>
> I know the conversion can be done easily using something
> like PIL or numpy, but I'm after a solution that doesn't
> depend on any third-party libraries.
>
> --
> Greg
> ______________________________**_________________
> Pygui mailing list
> Pygui at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/pygui<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui>
>


Greg, I had to solve this problem in another application and ended up using
the array module and the with the slice syntax.

import array

input = "rgbaRGBA1234"
ba = array.array('c', input)
ba[0::4], ba[2::4] = ba[2::4], ba[0::4]

print ba.tostring()

>> bgraBGRA3214

It is fairly fast too.

Good luck and keep up the great work.
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From saunders.m3 at we-learn.com  Tue Jun 21 17:13:44 2011
From: saunders.m3 at we-learn.com (M Saunders TAS)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:13:44 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
Message-ID: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>

Hi,

I'm trying to use python and the fantastic WMI module to manage Hyper-V virtual machine resources and am having problems trying to modify properties of an instance to pass back via WMI.

The following code in powershell is what I need to emulate in python:

$vmms = gwmi -namespace root\virtualization Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService
$hardDisk = gwmi -namespace root\virtualization Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData -filter  InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default'"
$hardDisk.Address = 0
$vmms.AddVirtualSystemResources($vm,@($hardDisk.GetText(1)))

The equivalent python code below produces a COM error "Provider is not capable of the attempted operation" when trying to change object properties.

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI(namespace="virtualization", find_classes=False)
VMMS = c.Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService()[-1]
HD =  c.Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData(InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default')
HD.Address = 0
VMMS.AddVirtualSystemResources([HD.gettext_(1),], VM)

I am sure that it is something simple and obvious that I am doing incorrectly so apologies in advance for my stupidity.
Any help or suggestions will be gratefully received.

Thanks

Matt

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jun 21 17:51:21 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:51:21 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
Message-ID: <4E00BDF9.7040005@timgolden.me.uk>

On 21/06/2011 16:13, M Saunders TAS wrote:
> I'm trying to use python and the fantastic WMI module to manage
> Hyper-V virtual machine resources and am having problems trying to
> modify properties of an instance to pass back via WMI.
>
> The following code in powershell is what I need to emulate in python:

[... snip horrendous Powershell stuff ...]

I never can understand why people like Powershell syntax so much <grin>


> The equivalent python code below produces a COM error "Provider is
> not capable of the attempted operation" when trying to change object
> properties.

I'm not going to be much help here, I'm afraid: I don't have access
to a Hyper-V installation and the error message is a fairly generic
one.

What might just help is a full traceback which would show exactly
where the error is arising. Frankly, I'm not too hopeful, although
I'm happy to try.

TJG

From graham.bloice at trihedral.com  Tue Jun 21 18:06:37 2011
From: graham.bloice at trihedral.com (Graham Bloice)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:06:37 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
Message-ID: <4E00C18D.60201@trihedral.com>

On 21/06/2011 16:13, M Saunders TAS wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use python and the fantastic WMI module to manage Hyper-V virtual machine resources and am having problems trying to modify properties of an instance to pass back via WMI.
>
> The following code in powershell is what I need to emulate in python:
>
> $vmms = gwmi -namespace root\virtualization Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService
> $hardDisk = gwmi -namespace root\virtualization Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData -filter  InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default'"
> $hardDisk.Address = 0
> $vmms.AddVirtualSystemResources($vm,@($hardDisk.GetText(1)))
>
> The equivalent python code below produces a COM error "Provider is not capable of the attempted operation" when trying to change object properties.
>
> import wmi
> c = wmi.WMI(namespace="virtualization", find_classes=False)
> VMMS = c.Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService()[-1]
> HD =  c.Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData(InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default')
> HD.Address = 0
> VMMS.AddVirtualSystemResources([HD.gettext_(1),], VM)
>
> I am sure that it is something simple and obvious that I am doing incorrectly so apologies in advance for my stupidity.
> Any help or suggestions will be gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
>
In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the order of
the parameters.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Jun 21 19:35:10 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:35:10 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <4E00C18D.60201@trihedral.com>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
	<4E00C18D.60201@trihedral.com>
Message-ID: <4E00D64E.3070402@timgolden.me.uk>

On 21/06/2011 17:06, Graham Bloice wrote:
> In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the
> order of the parameters.

Aha. And to help out the OP, you can pass parameters by name as
well as by position. (As you have done in the previous method
call).

TJG

From saunders.m3 at we-learn.com  Tue Jun 21 22:57:53 2011
From: saunders.m3 at we-learn.com (M Saunders TAS)
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:57:53 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <4E00BDF9.7040005@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
	<4E00BDF9.7040005@timgolden.me.uk>
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> [... snip horrendous Powershell stuff ...]
>
> I never can understand why people like Powershell syntax so much <grin>

Indeed, it is syntactically horrendous. I wrote that after I hit problem in Python to test the concept, honest...

> I'm not going to be much help here, I'm afraid: I don't have access
> to a Hyper-V installation

I can give you access to one ;)

> What might just help is a full traceback which would show exactly
> where the error is arising. Frankly, I'm not too hopeful, although
> I'm happy to try.

python scsi_add_short.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scsi_add_short.py", line 15, in <module>
    HD.Address = "100"
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 571, in __setattr__
    handle_com_error ()
  File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 241, in handle_com_error
    raise klass (com_error=err)
wmi.x_wmi: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
 u'SWbemObjectEx', u'Provider is not capable of the attempted operation ', None,
 0, -2147217372), None)>

The traceback, for the following code;

import wmi
c = wmi.WMI("hostname", namespace="virtualization", find_classes=False)
VM = c.Msvm_ComputerSystem(ElementName="vmname")[-1]
DiskPool = c.Msvm_ResourcePool(ResourceType=22,ResourceSubtype="Microsoft Physical Disk Drive")[-1]
Disks = DiskPool.associators(wmi_result_class="Msvm_DiskDrive")
Disk = [d for d in Disks if d.DriveNumber==10][0]
VSSDs = VM.associators(wmi_result_class="Msvm_VirtualSystemSettingData")
VSSD = [v for v in VSSDs if v.SettingType==3][0]
SCSIs = VSSD.associators(wmi_result_class="Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData")
SCSI = [s for s in SCSIs if s.ResourceType==6][0]
AC = c.Msvm_AllocationCapabilities(ResourceType=22,ResourceSubtype="Microsoft Physical Disk Drive")[-1]
Default = c.Msvm_SettingsDefineCapabilities(ValueRange=0,GroupComponent=AC.Path_.Path)[-1]
# Problematic section
HD = Default.PartComponent
HD.Address = "100"
HD.Parent = SCSI.Path_.Path
HD.HostResource= DISK.Path_.Path
VMMS.AddVirtualSystemResources(VM, [HD.gettext_(1),])

> In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the order of the parameters.
I'm sure in testing there was a reason why i'd switched them around, but I cannot remember right now. As you can see in this example they are the correct way around (but the code doesn't get that far anyway).

Thanks again for looking.

Matt

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From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Wed Jun 22 01:18:20 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:18:20 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] [Pygui] Convert RGBA to BGRA using standard
	library?
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikkpB+hm7d+poGfP7MDAoBrixMkzg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4DE0B884.10206@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<BANLkTikkpB+hm7d+poGfP7MDAoBrixMkzg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4E0126BC.806@canterbury.ac.nz>

geoff wrote:

> Greg, I had to solve this problem in another application and ended up 
> using the array module and the with the slice syntax.
> 
> import array
> 
> input = "rgbaRGBA1234"
> ba = array.array('c', input)
> ba[0::4], ba[2::4] = ba[2::4], ba[0::4]

Yep, I was thinking the same thing myself. I'll give it a try
next time I'm working on the problem.

Thanks,
Greg

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Wed Jun 22 01:53:26 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:53:26 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] PyGUI Example and a New Game
Message-ID: <4E012EF6.9030003@canterbury.ac.nz>

If anyone would like to see a substantial application built with
PyGUI, you might like to take a look at my latest game, currently
posted on the Pyggy Awards site:

http://pyggy.pyweek.org/e/SimChip/

Any feedback you care to provide on the game would be welcome
as well. :-)

-- 
Greg

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jun 22 15:19:02 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:19:02 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE14EF673@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>	<4E00BDF9.7040005@timgolden.me.uk>
	<3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE14EF673@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
Message-ID: <4E01EBC6.4050304@timgolden.me.uk>

On 21/06/2011 21:57, M Saunders TAS wrote:
> python scsi_add_short.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "scsi_add_short.py", line 15, in<module>
>      HD.Address = "100"
>    File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 571, in __setattr__
>      handle_com_error ()
>    File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 241, in handle_com_error
>      raise klass (com_error=err)
> wmi.x_wmi:<x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
>   u'SWbemObjectEx', u'Provider is not capable of the attempted operation ', None,
>   0, -2147217372), None)>

Thanks for posting. Nothing's jumping out at me I'm afraid.
If you were serious about giving me access to Hyper-V I'm
happy to try to poke at it at a distance if you wanted to
contact me off-list.

TJG

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Jun 23 09:03:04 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:03:04 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] Finding out whether there are any visible windows
Message-ID: <4E02E528.8030802@canterbury.ac.nz>

In PyGUI I have a need to find out whether the application
has any visible windows, so I can quit when the last visible
window is closed.

However, I can't seem to find a way of iterating over all
the windows belonging to the application, without also
getting windows belonging to *other* applications.

Any suggestions?

-- 
Greg

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Jun 23 09:46:15 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:46:15 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Finding out whether there are any visible windows
In-Reply-To: <4E02E528.8030802@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4E02E528.8030802@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4E02EF47.5030003@timgolden.me.uk>

On 23/06/2011 08:03, Greg Ewing wrote:
> In PyGUI I have a need to find out whether the application
> has any visible windows, so I can quit when the last visible
> window is closed.
>
> However, I can't seem to find a way of iterating over all
> the windows belonging to the application, without also
> getting windows belonging to *other* applications.

I think you're stuck with that (although I haven't trawled
post-XP additions to the API to see if anything's changed).

Just for information, my nearly-what-you-want is here:

 
http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/find-the-window-for-my-subprocess.html

but I imagine you're already there if you're asking this question

:)

TJG

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Jun 23 10:00:13 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:00:13 +1200
Subject: [python-win32] Finding out whether there are any visible windows
In-Reply-To: <4E02EF47.5030003@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4E02E528.8030802@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4E02EF47.5030003@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4E02F28D.6050701@canterbury.ac.nz>

Tim Golden wrote:

> Just for information, my nearly-what-you-want is here:
> 
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/find-the-window-for-my-subprocess.html

Yep, I came up something similar -- was just wondering whether
there was some more obvious way that I was missing. Seems not.

Thanks,
Greg

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Thu Jun 23 13:16:44 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:16:44 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] windows 2008 services on reboot
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=+W74z7VG79_e3q42jYsv-ghMc6Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <BANLkTi=+W74z7VG79_e3q42jYsv-ghMc6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4E03209C.2050109@gmail.com>

On 21/06/2011 8:58 AM, Matt Jibson wrote:
> I'm using the win32 extensions to install and run a service that can
> take 10-15 seconds to gracefully shutdown. It successfully receives the
> shutdown signal, but Windows Server 2008 kills the process before it can
> shutdown normally. Works fine on Windows Server 2003. I'm aware this is
> possibly a Windows issue. Anyone seen this or have ideas?

This is documented at 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms685149%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Cheers,

Mark

From saunders.m3 at we-learn.com  Fri Jun 24 15:59:54 2011
From: saunders.m3 at we-learn.com (M Saunders TAS)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:59:54 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
In-Reply-To: <4E01EBC6.4050304@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <3A8573B667AAE24D810B12B0ECDEB0B1012DE1923CDD@EXVS-1.WARWICK.welearn.internal>
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Tim Golden wrote:
> Thanks for posting. Nothing's jumping out at me I'm afraid.

I've had another chance to look at this today and have found a workaround using win32com.client but still cannot figure why it exempts when using the WMI module.

Using WMI module
HD =  c.Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData(InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default')[0]
HD.Address = 30

Results in the error;
wmi.x_wmi: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
 u'SWbemObjectEx', u'Provider is not capable of the attempted operation ', None,
 0, -2147217372), None)>

Using win32com.client and rewrapping it using wmi._wmi_object() after setting properties works correctly.
HDobj = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")\
    .ConnectServer("avs-cnode-06","root/virtualization")\
    .Get("Msvm_ResourceAllocationSettingData.InstanceID='Microsoft:Definition\\353B3BE8-310C-4CF4-839E-4E1B14616136\\Default'")
HDobj.Address = 30
HD = wmi._wmi_object(HDobj)

Any ideas? The win32com.client is a really ugly hack.


Graham Bloice wrote:
> In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the order of the parameters.

Additionally the method signature for AddVirtualSystemResources() returns
<function AddVirtualSystemResources (ResourceSettingData[], TargetSystem) => (Job, NewResources[], ReturnValue)>
Which is backwards to the previously demonstrated powershell example.

Thanks

Matt




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From graham.bloice at trihedral.com  Fri Jun 24 16:09:10 2011
From: graham.bloice at trihedral.com (Graham Bloice)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:09:10 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
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On 24/06/2011 14:59, M Saunders TAS wrote:
>
> Graham Bloice wrote:
>> In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the order of the parameters.
> Additionally the method signature for AddVirtualSystemResources() returns
> <function AddVirtualSystemResources (ResourceSettingData[], TargetSystem) => (Job, NewResources[], ReturnValue)>
> Which is backwards to the previously demonstrated powershell example.
>
> Thanks
>
>
That's really handy, not!

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 24 16:29:32 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:29:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
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On 24/06/2011 15:09, Graham Bloice wrote:
> On 24/06/2011 14:59, M Saunders TAS wrote:
>>
>> Graham Bloice wrote:
>>> In the Python call to AddVirtualSystemResources() you've reversed the order of the parameters.
>> Additionally the method signature for AddVirtualSystemResources() returns
>> <function AddVirtualSystemResources (ResourceSettingData[], TargetSystem) =>  (Job, NewResources[], ReturnValue)>
>> Which is backwards to the previously demonstrated powershell example.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> That's really handy, not!

FWIW, the wmi method signature is simply a summary of whatever
the .InParameters & .OutParameters give for that method. Not
sure what PowerShell's doing differently here.

The __setattr__ logic does involve a certain level of cacheing
and redirection, so there definitely is scope for an error in
the WMI code, especially as WMI is most often a read-only or
a method-set technology. (ie the __setattr__ logic probably
hasn't been exercised as much as it might have).

I've contacted the OP off-list to see if we can take it further
with a direct connection.

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 24 16:50:38 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:50:38 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
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On 24/06/2011 15:29, Tim Golden wrote:
> The __setattr__ logic does involve a certain level of cacheing
> and redirection, so there definitely is scope for an error in
> the WMI code

... and here I mean "in the code of the wmi.py module" ;)

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Jun 25 14:05:07 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:05:07 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to get a proxy instance of a WMI object.
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OK: a summary for those who're following the story.
I was able to VPN into the OP's setup to get hold of
the objects as they come along, so to speak. (Which
helped tremendously in trying to see what was going
on). The situation is this:

When you're setting the attribute of a WMI object (via
COM) you employ the usual Python __setattr__ magic,
courtesy of the pywin32 COM wrappers, and then you
usually call the .Put_ method of the object in question
to ensure that changes are written back to the real
object for which WMI is proxying. This is what the
wmi module's __setattr__ logic does, modulo a certain
amount of cacheing of the property object itself which
is irrelevant here.

Occasionally you create WMI objects from scratch, via
the underlying .SpawnInstance_ method which is wrapped
in the wmi module by the .new method of the _wmi_class.
When this happens, you don't want to call the .Put_
method because there isn't usually an underlying object
to write back to: this is a structure, such as ProcessStartup
or a security structure, which will be passed into, eg,
the .Create method of a Win32_Process object. Therefore,
the __setattr__ logic checks that the object whose attributes
are being updated has a non-empty .Path_ attribute, which
would indicate that it is proxying a real, underlying
object. If .Path_  is empty, .Put_ is not called.

So far, so good. In the OP's case, one of the complex of
objects which arise as you're trying to set up a VM was
a sort of template of defaults which somehow has a real,
underlying object (and therefore a non-empty Path_) but
whose underlying object cannot be written back to. The
__setattr__ code was seeing the non-empty Path_ and trying
to write back. At which point the code was failing.

At the moment, the only workaround I can offer is, for that
particular set of updates, to write directly to the underlying
COM object, exposed for all wmi module objects as the
.ole_object attribute. This bypasses the wmi module's
__setattr__ logic and the fault .Put_ call. It's not
brilliant, but it's not a great overhead, either.

As a long-term fix, I'm not quite sure what to offer: there
doesn't seem to be any Qualifier which would indicate whether
or not an object is read-only. In principle, a WMI Property
can include a "write" qualifier but that only indicates that
the WMI property can be written (which, in this case, it can) rather
than that the underlying object can have its properties updated.

I'll try to find an object with similar behaviour closer to home
which might help to narrow down the identifiable characteristics.
An alternative (which would apply fairly neatly in this case) is
to extend the .set method, which is designed to allow slightly
neater updates of multiple attributes, to have an additional flag
indicating whether or not .Put_ was to be called.

TJG