From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Mar  1 00:18:14 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 00:18:14 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 216 released.
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Re-re-re...!

I found!!!

The problem is linked to this line:
   import win32ui

If I comment it (or delete), the problem disappears.
If I de-comment, the problem come back.

As I can replace  win32ui, the problem is solved for me. But, if you want 
that I try some other things, I am available for you.

@-salutations  (and sorry for my crappy english)
-- 
Michel Claveau





From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Mar  1 01:02:17 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 01:02:17 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 216 released.
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Re-re... etc.

I have the same problem with ietoolbar.py 
(in C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\demos)

good night  (here, it is late...)
-- 
Michel Claveau 


From rupole at hotmail.com  Tue Mar  1 01:11:16 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:11:16 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with win32print.SetPrinter
References: <1298888553.2645.29.camel@cacko>
Message-ID: <ikhdj0$vda$1@dough.gmane.org>

I think this is dependent on the printer driver.
Some use the paper size defined by the the form,
and others use the PaperSize member.

      Roger

"Tefnet Developers" <developers at tefnet.pl> wrote in message 
news:1298888553.2645.29.camel at cacko...
> Hi,
>
> I am adding some printers connection as a user with
> win32print.AddPrinterConnection().
>
> Afterwards I want to set paper size to A4 (I have no idea why Polish
> Windows XP sets it to Letter by default) with this example code:
>
> ==================================================================
> import win32print
> import win32con
> import win32gui
> import pywintypes
>
> printer = r'\\drukarki\kp01'
>
> handle = win32print.OpenPrinter(printer, {'DesiredAccess':
> win32print.PRINTER_ACCESS_USE})
>
> devmodeSize=win32print.DocumentProperties(0, handle, printer, None,
> None, 0)
> devmode = pywintypes.DEVMODEType(devmodeSize -
> pywintypes.DEVMODEType().Size)
> win32print.DocumentProperties(0, handle, printer, devmode, devmode,
> win32con.DM_IN_BUFFER | win32con.DM_OUT_BUFFER)
>
> print 'FormName before: %s' % devmode.FormName
> print 'PaperSize before: %s' % devmode.PaperSize
>
> devmode.FormName = "A4"
> devmode.PaperSize = win32con.DMPAPER_A4
> devmode.Fields = devmode.Fields | win32con.DM_FORMNAME |
> win32con.DM_PAPERSIZE
>
> print 'FormName set: %s' % devmode.FormName
> print 'PaperSize set: %s' % devmode.PaperSize
>
> info = win32print.GetPrinter(handle, 9)
> info["pDevMode"] = devmode
> win32print.SetPrinter(handle, 9, info, 0)
>
> devmodeSize=win32print.DocumentProperties(0, handle, printer, None,
> None, 0)
> devmode = pywintypes.DEVMODEType(devmodeSize -
> pywintypes.DEVMODEType().Size)
> win32print.DocumentProperties(0, handle, printer, devmode, devmode,
> win32con.DM_IN_BUFFER | win32con.DM_OUT_BUFFER)
>
> print 'FormName after: %s' % devmode.FormName
> print 'PaperSize after: %s' % devmode.PaperSize
>
> win32print.ClosePrinter(handle)
>
> win32gui.SendMessageTimeout(win32con.HWND_BROADCAST,
> win32con.WM_DEVMODECHANGE, 0, 0, 0, 2000)
> ==================================================================
>
> The output looks like this:
> ==================================================================
> FormName before: A4
> PaperSize before: 1
> FormName set: A4
> PaperSize set: 9
> FormName after: A4
> PaperSize after: 1
> ==================================================================
>
> So, as you can see - FormName changes, but PaperSize does not.
> Am I doing something wrong here? I've spent a lot of time trying to
> solve it, yet came up with nothing.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Filip Zyzniewski
> Tefnet 




From Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au  Tue Mar  1 01:14:41 2011
From: Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au (Andrew MacIntyre)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 11:14:41 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each other
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[apologies for top post]

 

I'm far from an expert, or even experienced, in Excel however the term "paste" rings bells.  Behind the scenes, material in the clipboard has lots of metadata and a selection copied from one open workbook includes the references to that workbook so when you paste it Excel includes those references and effectively links the pasted to cells to the pasted from cells.  If you must use paste, then you will probably need to use "paste special" and select "values" - this should break the references back to the original source.

 

If you carefully look at the "formula" of a pasted cell, you might see how the source workbook & worksheet are identified - I know that this sort of thing is visible when using the "function wizard" with such Excel functions as VLOOKUP.

 

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From: python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org] On Behalf Of Stefanie L?ck
Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2011 1:19 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each other

 

Hello!

 

I have a strange excel behaviour if 2 workbooks are open. I'm trying to create an excel workbook with a bar chart from some data which comes from my wxPython program. If I paste the data into my program from any source except another excel file, everything works as expected. But if I copy the values from a source excel workbook into my program and then try to create a new excel workbook with a chart, the new workbook takes the data of the chart from the source workbook and not from the sheet I specified. This happens only if the data of the source workbook are still selected from the copy before, if I click into another cell, my new created workbook will use the data of its sheet which I specified.

 

Does anybody know what this could be? In my code I clearly specify to use the data of my new created worksheet. The name of the source workbook sheet is completely different. Looks like excel ignore it and use the currently selected data of any workbook. Is there a way to specify the Workbook and Worksheet, which I want to use? 

 

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

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From smokefloat at gmail.com  Tue Mar  1 01:25:43 2011
From: smokefloat at gmail.com (David Hutto)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:25:43 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each other
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Andrew MacIntyre
<Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au> wrote:
> [apologies for top post]
>
>
>
> I?m far from an expert, or even experienced, in Excel however the term
> ?paste? rings bells.? Behind the scenes, material in the clipboard has lots
> of metadata and a selection copied from one open workbook includes the

I'm not an expert on excel either, but isn't excel a file that can be
read in and parsed for tags?
> references to that workbook so when you paste it Excel includes those
> references and effectively links the pasted to cells to the pasted from
> cells.? If you must use paste, then you will probably need to use ?paste
> special? and select ?values? ? this should break the references back to the
> original source.
>
>
>
> If you carefully look at the ?formula? of a pasted cell, you might see how
> the source workbook & worksheet are identified ? I know that this sort of
> thing is visible when using the ?function wizard? with such Excel functions
> as VLOOKUP.
>
>
>
> -------------------------> "These thoughts are mine alone!" <---------
>
> Andrew MacIntyre?????????? Operations Branch
>
> tel:?? +61 2 6219 5356???? Communications Infrastructure Division
>
> fax:?? +61 2 6253 3277???? Australian Communications & Media Authority
>
> email: andrew.macintyre at acma.gov.au??????????? http://www.acma.gov.au/
>
>
>
> From: python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Stefanie L?ck
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2011 1:19 AM
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each other
>
>
>
> Hello!
>
>
>
> I have a strange excel behaviour if 2 workbooks are open. I?m trying to
> create an excel workbook with a bar chart from some data which comes from my
> wxPython program. If I paste the data into my program from any source except
> another excel file, everything works as expected. But if I copy the values
> from a source excel workbook into my program and then try to create a new
> excel workbook with a chart, the new workbook takes the data of the chart
> from the source workbook and not from the sheet I specified. This happens
> only if the data of the source workbook are still selected from the copy
> before, if I click into another cell, my new created workbook will use the
> data of its sheet which I specified.
>
>
>
> Does anybody know what this could be? In my code I clearly specify to use
> the data of my new created worksheet. The name of the source workbook sheet
> is completely different. Looks like excel ignore it and use the currently
> selected data of any workbook. Is there a way to specify the Workbook and
> Worksheet, which I want to use?
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stefanie
>
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From orasnita at gmail.com  Tue Mar  1 08:44:35 2011
From: orasnita at gmail.com (Octavian Rasnita)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:44:35 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
References: <4D696319.8080803@canterbury.ac.nz><96FB0913B4C9465A8B1AB3EF8359AF63@teddy><D85EA30224A3CC40ACA1E2FE6D4D6914351735@cantwe3.canterbury.ac.nz><C0ACD4C9331D40C583F9F0270F25D89D@teddy>
	<4D6C1E4C.4090803@canterbury.ac.nz>
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From: "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
> Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>> From: "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
>>
>>> No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining
>>> the current implementation.
>>
>> Oh, in that case imho I think this is a very bad idea.
>
> Can you elaborate on exactly what is bad about it, and
> suggest an alternative?

Windows Forms - based apps have a few disadvantages:
- First, the most important, and with no solution is that Win32 GUI widgets 
are much fast responsive than Windows Forms, and it is annoying to use 
Windows Forms - based apps with the keyboard;
- Second, it is harder to create executables that include the support for 
DotNet, because it is not sure that DotNet is available. The package should 
be either very big and include DotNet, or it should detect if it is not 
present and offer the possibility of downloading it from the web, but some 
computers are not connected to the internet...;
- Windows Forms offer very many accessibility features for screen readers, 
however this GUI is *always* less accessible than the standard Win32 widgets 
for those who need to use a screen reader.
- I think there are solutions for making Windows Forms - based apps already, 
and they can be used if somebody prefers to use this GUI, so it wouldn't be 
a good idea to dupplicate it and offer the same interface.

>
> The standard Windows GUI API is severely crippled compared
> to what is available natively in Cocoa and Gtk. The only
> alternatives I see at the moment are:
>
> * Allow Windows to hold back the development of PyGUI on
> all the other platforms.
>
> * Implement the missing functionality on Windows in pure
> Python -- a lot of work, and probably not practical for
> something complex such as a rich text or HTML widget.
>
> * Rely on a third party library to supply the missing
> functionality on Windows.
>
> -- 
> Greg



I don't know which of these ways would be the most simple to implement, but 
it is true that it will be more difficult, because I've seen how these 
problems were solved in other GUIs like wxWIDGETS and SWT.

wxWIDGETS offers custom widgets for those which are not offered by the 
standard Win32 API, but most of them are badly made with no corresponding 
accessibility features, and if those widgets are used in an application, 
they could steal the focus or make other problems that make the whole 
application not accessible for those who use a screen reader.
So a better solution than the one offered by wxWIDGETS would mean much more 
work.

In SWT, as far as I know, those widgets which are not offered by the Win32 
API are not offered at all, but I am not sure, so others who may know more 
can comment. But if this is true, this is not an extraordinary solution 
either.

However, I don't know if the focus should be to offer all the possible 
widget types under all platforms, because now there are more and more 
platforms considered, like different kind of PDAs and mobile phones, and it 
would probably be very hard or impossible to offer a GUI that can do 
everything everywhere.

Octavian






From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Mar  1 11:05:09 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:05:09 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
In-Reply-To: <4D6B6D73.3080701@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D696319.8080803@canterbury.ac.nz>	<AANLkTi=JSGYvY49hEhu9L5U82i9cpAMq-6U70e9U93KJ@mail.gmail.com>	<AANLkTinDjc51pCap9ax3kv9SX9J6CUpxcJ2ChUhFtr6h@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote:
> Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by "barton_c", and Python27
> "support" (ie switches") were added 2 months ago. Looks like "Barton_C"
> needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can contact him/her through
> sf.

Got this reply from Barton, who's not subscribed to this list:

"""
Using the current state of the art, I freely mix wxPython, MS Framework 
2.0 (others are hooking to .NET 4.0) and ctypes in full GUI apps and 
drivers.
The current challenge for me is getting the whole thing working 
(together) on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10).
I have brought the PythonDotNet project up to python27 compatibility, 
but have not published the binaries yet.

"""

TJG

From smokefloat at gmail.com  Tue Mar  1 11:14:24 2011
From: smokefloat at gmail.com (David Hutto)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 05:14:24 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote:
>>
>> Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by "barton_c", and Python27
>> "support" (ie switches") were added 2 months ago. Looks like "Barton_C"
>> needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can contact him/her through
>> sf.
>
> Got this reply from Barton, who's not subscribed to this list:

since when is being subscribed a prerequisite to commenting?

>
> """
> Using the current state of the art, I freely mix wxPython, MS Framework 2.0
> (others are hooking to .NET 4.0) and ctypes in full GUI apps and drivers.
> The current challenge for me is getting the whole thing working (together)
> on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10).
> I have brought the PythonDotNet project up to python27 compatibility, but
> have not published the binaries yet.
>
> """
>
> TJG
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From developers at tefnet.pl  Tue Mar  1 11:19:02 2011
From: developers at tefnet.pl (Tefnet Developers)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:19:02 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with win32print.SetPrinter
In-Reply-To: <ikhdj0$vda$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <1298888553.2645.29.camel@cacko>  <ikhdj0$vda$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <1298974742.7642.1.camel@cacko>

Dnia 2011-02-28, pon o godzinie 19:11 -0500, Roger Upole pisze:
> I think this is dependent on the printer driver.
> Some use the paper size defined by the the form,
> and others use the PaperSize member.

The driver used is the generic postscript driver (MS Publisher
Imagesetter) provided with Windows.

My problem is that changing paper size in the default printer
preferences UI changes both members of devmode.

Changing the way I do it (as shown before) does not change the paper
size in preferences UI - and that's exactly what I need to change.

I guess that if both fields are affected by the UI then I should also
change both to achieve the desired effect, right?

bye,
Filip Zyzniewski
Tefnet



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Mar  1 11:19:46 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:19:46 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
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On 01/03/2011 10:14, David Hutto wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Tim Golden<mail at timgolden.me.uk>  wrote:
>> On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by "barton_c", and Python27
>>> "support" (ie switches") were added 2 months ago. Looks like "Barton_C"
>>> needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can contact him/her through
>>> sf.
>>
>> Got this reply from Barton, who's not subscribed to this list:
>
> since when is being subscribed a prerequisite to commenting?

FWIW, I meant: "... and who had therefore not seen this discussion"
but, as a matter of fact, if a non-subscriber posts to this list, the
post is held in a moderator's queue and has to be released explicitly.

I've given him the information about this list, of which he was unaware
so he can decide for himself whether to post or subscribe or whatever...

TJG

From fuzzyman at gmail.com  Tue Mar  1 14:21:32 2011
From: fuzzyman at gmail.com (Michael Foord)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 13:21:32 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
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On 1 March 2011 07:44, Octavian Rasnita <orasnita at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
>
>> Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
>>>
>>>  No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining
>>>> the current implementation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oh, in that case imho I think this is a very bad idea.
>>>
>>
>> Can you elaborate on exactly what is bad about it, and
>> suggest an alternative?
>>
>
> Windows Forms - based apps have a few disadvantages:
> - First, the most important, and with no solution is that Win32 GUI widgets
> are much fast responsive than Windows Forms,



I've written (quite large) desktop Windows Forms applications with .NET and
just not found this to be the case - even when written with IronPython which
isn't the fastest .NET language there is.



> and it is annoying to use Windows Forms - based apps with the keyboard;
>

This need not be the case. You just need to set tab order and provide
shortcuts.


> - Second, it is harder to create executables that include the support for
> DotNet, because it is not sure that DotNet is available.


.NET is pretty ubiquitous these days - see other emails on the topic.



> The package should be either very big and include DotNet,


Definitely not.


> or it should detect if it is not present and offer the possibility of
> downloading it from the web, but some computers are not connected to the
> internet...;
>

Installers can detect this and provide a link.


> - Windows Forms offer very many accessibility features for screen readers,
> however this GUI is *always* less accessible than the standard Win32 widgets
> for those who need to use a screen reader.
>

Evidence for this?



> - I think there are solutions for making Windows Forms - based apps
> already, and they can be used if somebody prefers to use this GUI, so it
> wouldn't be a good idea to dupplicate it and offer the same interface.
>
>
The point is for writing *cross platform* applications that just happen to
use Windows Forms on Windows.

All the best,

Michael Foord



>
>
>> The standard Windows GUI API is severely crippled compared
>> to what is available natively in Cocoa and Gtk. The only
>> alternatives I see at the moment are:
>>
>> * Allow Windows to hold back the development of PyGUI on
>> all the other platforms.
>>
>> * Implement the missing functionality on Windows in pure
>> Python -- a lot of work, and probably not practical for
>> something complex such as a rich text or HTML widget.
>>
>> * Rely on a third party library to supply the missing
>> functionality on Windows.
>>
>> --
>> Greg
>>
>
>
>
> I don't know which of these ways would be the most simple to implement, but
> it is true that it will be more difficult, because I've seen how these
> problems were solved in other GUIs like wxWIDGETS and SWT.
>
> wxWIDGETS offers custom widgets for those which are not offered by the
> standard Win32 API, but most of them are badly made with no corresponding
> accessibility features, and if those widgets are used in an application,
> they could steal the focus or make other problems that make the whole
> application not accessible for those who use a screen reader.
> So a better solution than the one offered by wxWIDGETS would mean much more
> work.
>
> In SWT, as far as I know, those widgets which are not offered by the Win32
> API are not offered at all, but I am not sure, so others who may know more
> can comment. But if this is true, this is not an extraordinary solution
> either.
>
> However, I don't know if the focus should be to offer all the possible
> widget types under all platforms, because now there are more and more
> platforms considered, like different kind of PDAs and mobile phones, and it
> would probably be very hard or impossible to offer a GUI that can do
> everything everywhere.
>
> Octavian
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From roche.maxime at creativeinfinity.fr  Tue Mar  1 12:38:53 2011
From: roche.maxime at creativeinfinity.fr (Creative iNFiNiTY)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:38:53 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] (again) get Window Title encoding
In-Reply-To: <4D6C1A64.8060506@gmail.com>
References: <2917B8BC-F174-4B93-BCFE-5409980E8212@creativeinfinity.fr>
	<4D6C1A64.8060506@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B7ACCA2A-97A5-4C9A-B6EA-41A87DCBEC1E@creativeinfinity.fr>

Hello,
i wan't to decode the title to utf-8
'mbcs' encoding doesn't help me
sometimes the browser surf on russian, japanese, chinese language
and i couldn't decode if i don't know the encoding.....
thanks for your help

Roche Maxime

Le 28 f?vr. 2011 ? 22:57, Mark Hammond a ?crit :

> You might find the 'mbcs' encoding is what you are after?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 28/02/2011 11:22 PM, Creative iNFiNiTY wrote:
>> here is some code to get the window title:
>> 
>> hwnd = win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()
>> # we want the desktop window
>> objid = pyAA.Constants.OBJID_WINDOW
>> # get the object
>> ao = pyAA.AccessibleObjectFromWindow(hwnd, objid)
>> pr= ao.GetProcessAndThreadID()
>> processes = win32process.EnumProcesses()
>> for pid in processes:
>> if pid in pr:
>> handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS,False, pid)
>> processactif=win32process.GetModuleFileNameEx(handle, 0)
>> 
>> WindowTitle=ao.Name
>> another code:
>> importwin32gui
>> w=win32gui
>> w.GetWindowText (w.GetForegroundWindow())
>> 
>> *
>> *
>> and i need to get the encoding of the title for internalisation purpose,
>> does anyone know how to get it ?
>> the automatic charset recognition in python ," chardet" don't work for
>> every charset,
>> if i can take it by the process that will be great.
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Roche Maxime
>> Creative iNFiNiTY
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Mar  1 23:34:11 2011
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:34:11 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] (again) get Window Title encoding
In-Reply-To: <B7ACCA2A-97A5-4C9A-B6EA-41A87DCBEC1E@creativeinfinity.fr>
References: <2917B8BC-F174-4B93-BCFE-5409980E8212@creativeinfinity.fr>
	<4D6C1A64.8060506@gmail.com>
	<B7ACCA2A-97A5-4C9A-B6EA-41A87DCBEC1E@creativeinfinity.fr>
Message-ID: <4D6D7463.4070103@skippinet.com.au>

On 1/03/2011 10:38 PM, Creative iNFiNiTY wrote:
> Hello,
> i wan't to decode the title to utf-8
> 'mbcs' encoding doesn't help me
> sometimes the browser surf on russian, japanese, chinese language
> and i couldn't decode if i don't know the encoding.....
> thanks for your help

You can't decode the title to utf8 - what you need to do is decode the 
title *from* whatever encoding it is in, then encode it to utf8.  So 
something like window_title.decode('mbcs').encode('utf-8') should work 
in most cases.

HTH,

Mark

From rupole at hotmail.com  Wed Mar  2 00:11:50 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:11:50 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with win32print.SetPrinter
References: <1298888553.2645.29.camel@cacko> <ikhdj0$vda$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<1298974742.7642.1.camel@cacko>
Message-ID: <ikjufh$8sm$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Tefnet Developers" <developers at tefnet.pl> wrote in message 
news:1298974742.7642.1.camel at cacko...
> Dnia 2011-02-28, pon o godzinie 19:11 -0500, Roger Upole pisze:
>> I think this is dependent on the printer driver.
>> Some use the paper size defined by the the form,
>> and others use the PaperSize member.
>
> The driver used is the generic postscript driver (MS Publisher
> Imagesetter) provided with Windows.
>
> My problem is that changing paper size in the default printer
> preferences UI changes both members of devmode.
>
> Changing the way I do it (as shown before) does not change the paper
> size in preferences UI - and that's exactly what I need to change.
>
> I guess that if both fields are affected by the UI then I should also
> change both to achieve the desired effect, right?
>
> bye,
> Filip Zyzniewski
> Tefnet


Try adding a second GetPrinter immediately after the SetPrinter,
and see if the returned devmode has the expected values.

        Roger






From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar  2 00:30:54 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:30:54 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with win32print.SetPrinter
In-Reply-To: <ikjufh$8sm$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <1298888553.2645.29.camel@cacko>
	<ikhdj0$vda$1@dough.gmane.org>	<1298974742.7642.1.camel@cacko>
	<ikjufh$8sm$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4D6D81AE.6000208@probo.com>

Roger Upole wrote:
> "Tefnet Developers" <developers at tefnet.pl> wrote in message 
> news:1298974742.7642.1.camel at cacko...
>>
>> The driver used is the generic postscript driver (MS Publisher
>> Imagesetter) provided with Windows.
>>
>> My problem is that changing paper size in the default printer
>> preferences UI changes both members of devmode.
>>
>> Changing the way I do it (as shown before) does not change the paper
>> size in preferences UI - and that's exactly what I need to change.
>>
>> I guess that if both fields are affected by the UI then I should also
>> change both to achieve the desired effect, right?
>>
>> bye,
>> Filip Zyzniewski
>> Tefnet
> Try adding a second GetPrinter immediately after the SetPrinter,
> and see if the returned devmode has the expected values.

This kind of thing is very tricky in Windows -- much trickier than it
should be -- and I've been doing Windows programming for a very, very
long time.  I have a wxPython application that I use to print envelopes
through my Dell 3100 laser printer.  The printer has a "multi-purpose
tray" that I keep stocked with #10 envelopes.  It's very convenient, and
since my handwriting it terrible, the people I write to appreciate it as
well.

Recently, I upgraded from Python 2.5 to Python 2.7, and suddenly my
envelope application stopped working.  It would print in portrait mode
on the normal paper stock, instead of selecting the envelopes in the
multi-purpose tray.  It required two or three hours of fairly intense
hacking before I figured out a recipe to make it work again.  If I had
not previously been a GDI driver developer, I doubt that I could have
figured out the DEVMODE magic that was required.

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


From lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de  Wed Mar  2 12:38:54 2011
From: lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Stefanie_L=FCck?=)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:38:54 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each
	other[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
In-Reply-To: <A09DCE99D720C841A141B0311AEFE51202F6B6@act01exc01.internal.govt>
References: <000301cbd752$696751a0$1022a8c0@ipkgatersleben.de>
	<A09DCE99D720C841A141B0311AEFE51202F6B6@act01exc01.internal.govt>
Message-ID: <000001cbd8ce$692a17e0$1022a8c0@ipkgatersleben.de>

Hello!

 

Thanks for the answers and pointing me to paste/copy references of Excel! I
solved the problem by adding self.xlApp.CutCopyMode = False into my excel
code just after I call self.xlApp = Dispatch ('Excel.Application').

 

I still don?t know how Excel keep the reference from coping data into
another program, save the data from the clipboard in a text (!) file,
writing the proceeded data from a text file into a new created Excel
workbook
But anyway, I solved it :-)

 

Thanks and kind regards,

Stefanie

 

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Von: python-win32-bounces+lueck=ipk-gatersleben.de at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+lueck=ipk-gatersleben.de at python.org] Im Auftrag
von Andrew MacIntyre
Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. M?rz 2011 01:15
An: python-win32 at python.org
Betreff: Re: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each
other[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

 

[apologies for top post]

 

I?m far from an expert, or even experienced, in Excel however the term
?paste? rings bells.  Behind the scenes, material in the clipboard has lots
of metadata and a selection copied from one open workbook includes the
references to that workbook so when you paste it Excel includes those
references and effectively links the pasted to cells to the pasted from
cells.  If you must use paste, then you will probably need to use ?paste
special? and select ?values? ? this should break the references back to the
original source.

 

If you carefully look at the ?formula? of a pasted cell, you might see how
the source workbook & worksheet are identified ? I know that this sort of
thing is visible when using the ?function wizard? with such Excel functions
as VLOOKUP.

 

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From: python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org] On
Behalf Of Stefanie L?ck
Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2011 1:19 AM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Python Excel - 2 workbooks affect each other

 

Hello!

 

I have a strange excel behaviour if 2 workbooks are open. I?m trying to
create an excel workbook with a bar chart from some data which comes from my
wxPython program. If I paste the data into my program from any source except
another excel file, everything works as expected. But if I copy the values
from a source excel workbook into my program and then try to create a new
excel workbook with a chart, the new workbook takes the data of the chart
from the source workbook and not from the sheet I specified. This happens
only if the data of the source workbook are still selected from the copy
before, if I click into another cell, my new created workbook will use the
data of its sheet which I specified.

 

Does anybody know what this could be? In my code I clearly specify to use
the data of my new created worksheet. The name of the source workbook sheet
is completely different. Looks like excel ignore it and use the currently
selected data of any workbook. Is there a way to specify the Workbook and
Worksheet, which I want to use? 

 

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Stefanie

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From aahz at pythoncraft.com  Wed Mar  2 17:19:07 2011
From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:19:07 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with msvcr90.dll
In-Reply-To: <1296576717.10017.75.camel@cacko>
References: <1296474888.4858.21.camel@cacko> <4D474953.3010409@gmail.com>
	<1296576717.10017.75.camel@cacko>
Message-ID: <20110302161907.GA25182@panix.com>

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Tefnet Developers wrote:
>
> $ make pytest.exe
> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -I./include -I./include/python -Wall -pedantic
> -std=c99    -c -o pytest.o pytest.c
> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -L./lib -o pytest.exe pytest.o -lmingw32 -lpython26
> rm pytest.o
> 
> The output looks like this:
> 
> C:\>pytest
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 3, in <module>
>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line
> 124, in <module>
>     __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals())
>   File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\pywintypes.py", line 64,
> in __import_pywin32_system_module__
>     import _win32sysloader
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found

What happens if you use VC++ 2008 Express?  (Yes, that "should" not
change anything, but I've seen people report all kinds of weird problems
with mingw.)
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"Programming language design is not a rational science. Most reasoning
about it is at best rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain
wrong."  --GvR, python-ideas, 2009-03-01

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Mar  2 23:25:55 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:25:55 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with msvcr90.dll
In-Reply-To: <1296576717.10017.75.camel@cacko>
References: <1296474888.4858.21.camel@cacko> <4D474953.3010409@gmail.com>
	<1296576717.10017.75.camel@cacko>
Message-ID: <4D6EC3F3.8020902@gmail.com>

On 2/02/2011 3:11 AM, Tefnet Developers wrote:
> Dnia 2011-02-01, wto o godzinie 10:44 +1100, Mark Hammond pisze:
>> This stuff is painful and poorly documented.  Is it possible the code
>> which triggers the failing import is on a different thread than the one
>> which loaded Python?  If so, I suspect the magic done by Python in
>> dl_nt.c may not be kicking in, which is supposed to ensure all python
>> modules are loaded using the "activation context" defined by pythonxx.dll.
>
> The smallest piece of program that shows the problem:
>
> $ cat pytest.c
> #include<Python.h>
>
>
> int main(void) {
>          Py_Initialize();
>          PyRun_SimpleString(
>                  "import traceback \n"
>                  "try:\n"
>                  "       import pywintypes\n"
>                  "except:\n"
>                  "       traceback.print_exc()\n"
>          );
> }
>
> $ make pytest.exe
> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -I./include -I./include/python -Wall -pedantic
> -std=c99    -c -o pytest.o pytest.c
>
> i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -L./lib -o pytest.exe pytest.o -lmingw32 -lpython26
> rm pytest.o

What happens if you give that executable a manifest referencing the CRT? 
  Note that things changed since pywin32 build 214 - now (almost) none 
of the pywin32 pyd files have a manifest at all, meaning they can be 
loaded correctly by Python itself in all cases - but the thing that 
loads Python *must* have a manifest - ie, python.exe needs (and has) 
one, as does the DLL which loads Python COM objects.  It gets even more 
complicated if Python is loaded via LoadLibrary - you can check the 
source to pythoncomloader in the pywin32 repo for more details (the 
short version is that the same hacks that Python itself does WRT 
"activation contexts" needs to be done...)

Aahz's suggestion is a good one - you should use the VC compiler as your 
"baseline", then try and get mingw going one you have initial success 
with VC.

HTH,

Mark

From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar  2 23:30:42 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 14:30:42 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with msvcr90.dll
In-Reply-To: <4D6EC3F3.8020902@gmail.com>
References: <1296474888.4858.21.camel@cacko>
	<4D474953.3010409@gmail.com>	<1296576717.10017.75.camel@cacko>
	<4D6EC3F3.8020902@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D6EC512.7060307@probo.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:
>
> What happens if you give that executable a manifest referencing the CRT? 
>  Note that things changed since pywin32 build 214 - now (almost) none 
> of the pywin32 pyd files have a manifest at all, meaning they can be 
> loaded correctly by Python itself in all cases - but the thing that 
> loads Python *must* have a manifest - ie, python.exe needs (and has) 
> one, as does the DLL which loads Python COM objects.  It gets even more 
> complicated if Python is loaded via LoadLibrary - you can check the 
> source to pythoncomloader in the pywin32 repo for more details (the 
> short version is that the same hacks that Python itself does WRT 
> "activation contexts" needs to be done...)

Let us HOPE that Python quickly migrates to Visual Studio 2010, in which
the team has wisely decided to abandon the side-by-side stuff altogether
and go back to a simpler way of life, where having the files in
\Windows\System32 is enough for everyone.

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


From vernondcole at gmail.com  Thu Mar  3 06:15:10 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 22:15:10 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>

Attempting to install using the binary installer, the installer gets to
"postinstall script finished", but the display window says:
v v v v v v v v
Copied pythoncom32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pythoncom32.dll
Copied pythoncomloader32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pythoncomloader32.dll
Copied pywintypes32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pywintypes32.dll
FAILED to register the Python COM objects
-> Software\Python\PythonCore\3.2\Help[None]=None
-> Software\Python\PythonCore\3.2\Help\Pythonwin
Reference[None]='C:\\Python32\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyWin32.chm'
Pythonwin has been registered in context menu
Shortcut for Pythonwin created
Shortcut to documentation created
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 372, in install
  File "<string>", line 170, in RegisterCOMObjects
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 47
    except win32api.error, (code, fn, msg):
                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 604, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 471, in install
  File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 424
    except pythoncom.com_error, details:
                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

When the adodbapi test is run, it gives:
v v v v v v
C:\hg\adodbapi\testP3k>c:\python32\python.exe testadodbapi.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testadodbapi.py", line 28, in <module>
    import win32com.client
  File "c:\python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 424
    except pythoncom.com_error, details:
                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Which sounds oddly familiar.
This is on Windows Vista Home Basic.
--
Vernon
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Thu Mar  3 08:10:22 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:10:22 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D6F3EDE.5090908@gmail.com>

On 3/03/2011 4:15 PM, Vernon Cole wrote:
> Attempting to install using the binary installer, the installer gets to
> "postinstall script finished", but the display window says:
> v v v v v v v v
> Copied pythoncom32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pythoncom32.dll
> Copied pythoncomloader32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pythoncomloader32.dll
> Copied pywintypes32.dll to C:\Windows\system32\pywintypes32.dll
> FAILED to register the Python COM objects
> -> Software\Python\PythonCore\3.2\Help[None]=None
> -> Software\Python\PythonCore\3.2\Help\Pythonwin
> Reference[None]='C:\\Python32\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyWin32.chm'
> Pythonwin has been registered in context menu
> Shortcut for Pythonwin created
> Shortcut to documentation created
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 372, in install
>    File "<string>", line 170, in RegisterCOMObjects
>    File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", line 47
>      except win32api.error, (code, fn, msg):
>                           ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 604, in <module>
>    File "<string>", line 471, in install
>    File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 424
>      except pythoncom.com_error, details:
>                                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
>
> When the adodbapi test is run, it gives:
> v v v v v v
> C:\hg\adodbapi\testP3k>c:\python32\python.exe testadodbapi.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "testadodbapi.py", line 28, in <module>
>      import win32com.client
>    File "c:\python32\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 424
>      except pythoncom.com_error, details:
>                                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> Which sounds oddly familiar.
> This is on Windows Vista Home Basic.

*sob* - I tested 3.2 with a 64bit build and didn't perform a test 
install of the 3.2 32bit exe.  The 64bit one is fine and I don't 
understand how that could have happened - in theory the 2 builds share 
the same .py files - but it has happened :(

I'll check 3.1 tomorrow and try to determine what went wrong in the 
build process, then put up new builds where necessary...

Thanks,

Mark

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar  3 09:50:49 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:50:49 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
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"""
Re: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
"""

Aha! There's your problem: you're trying to install pywin23.
Don't know why you didn't spot it yourself... ;)


TJG

From vernondcole at gmail.com  Thu Mar  3 14:12:02 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 06:12:02 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <4D6F5669.5000907@timgolden.me.uk>
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	<4D6F5669.5000907@timgolden.me.uk>
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Smarta....
(err) (umm)
Thanks Tim, I'll try that.
--
Vernon

On Mar 3, 2011 1:50 AM, "Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> """
> Re: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
> """
>
> Aha! There's your problem: you're trying to install pywin23.
> Don't know why you didn't spot it yourself... ;)
>
>
> TJG
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From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Thu Mar  3 21:33:23 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:33:23 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <4D6F5669.5000907@timgolden.me.uk>
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	<4D6F5669.5000907@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D6FFB13.9060307@canterbury.ac.nz>

Tim Golden wrote:
> """
> Re: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
> """
> 
> Aha! There's your problem: you're trying to install pywin23.

Unless of course you're using one of those rare machines based
on Intel's little-known 23-bit architecture. (There was a typo
early on in the design phase that wasn't spotted until an
embarrassingly late stage of the development process. They
hijacked the time machine and tried to cover it up, but a few
prototype machines slipped through.)

-- 
Greg

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Fri Mar  4 03:31:36 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:31:36 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
Message-ID: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>

I recently tried running PyGUI on Python 3 using
pywin32 build 216, and a couple of things are
not working quite the same way as they were with
Python 2 and build 213.

1) The default font used for control labels etc.
is slightly smaller.

2) When I calculate the width of a piece of text
using DC.GetTextExtent() I get a value that is
too small, and doesn't match the actual size of
the text as it is drawn.

Anyone have any idea what might have changed,
and what I can do about it?

-- 
Greg

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 04:37:30 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:37:30 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>

On 4/03/2011 1:31 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I recently tried running PyGUI on Python 3 using
> pywin32 build 216, and a couple of things are
> not working quite the same way as they were with
> Python 2 and build 213.
>
> 1) The default font used for control labels etc.
> is slightly smaller.
>
> 2) When I calculate the width of a piece of text
> using DC.GetTextExtent() I get a value that is
> too small, and doesn't match the actual size of
> the text as it is drawn.
>
> Anyone have any idea what might have changed,
> and what I can do about it?

What version of python and how many bits?  I'm guessing you tried 3.2, 
which means you must have used the 64bit version (as the 32 bit version 
of pywin32 appears to have 2.x syntax .py files).  Assuming you've been 
using 32bit builds on 2.x, I guess that could point to a bug in the 
64bit port of pywin32?

The only other thing I can think if is the manifest changes - windows 
uses the manifest of the "owning hmodule" for some things (notably the 
version of the "common controls" used), which is why the winxpgui module 
exists.  It seems unlikely, but I wonder if those changes have told 
windows to put things in some kind of compatibility mode.

Cheers,

Mark

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Fri Mar  4 05:26:44 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:26:44 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz>

Mark Hammond wrote:

> What version of python and how many bits?  I'm guessing you tried 3.2, 
> which means you must have used the 64bit version

No, it's 3.1, and 32 bit. It can't be 64, because the
machine I'm running it on can't handle that. (And it's
definitely not 23 bit either. :-)

> The only other thing I can think if is the manifest changes - windows 
> uses the manifest of the "owning hmodule" for some things

I don't really know anything about these manifest things.
Is there some tool I can use to examine them and see
whether anything is different?

-- 
Greg


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri Mar  4 05:30:56 2011
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:30:56 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
	<4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au>

On 4/03/2011 3:26 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Mark Hammond wrote:
>
>> What version of python and how many bits? I'm guessing you tried 3.2,
>> which means you must have used the 64bit version
>
> No, it's 3.1, and 32 bit. It can't be 64, because the
> machine I'm running it on can't handle that. (And it's
> definitely not 23 bit either. :-)

Interesting - I'm really confused how the 32 bit version for 3.2 failed 
to build correctly!

>> The only other thing I can think if is the manifest changes - windows
>> uses the manifest of the "owning hmodule" for some things
>
> I don't really know anything about these manifest things.
> Is there some tool I can use to examine them and see
> whether anything is different?

The Windows SDK (and I assume VC - haven't checked) comes with a 
"manifest tool" - mt.exe.  The syntax is fairly obscure, but it allows 
you to extract, change and add manifests (but not remove them AFAIK). 
Note the manifest ID for DLLs is 2 - so the command to extract would be 
something like:

mt.exe -inputresource:path\to\whatever.pyd;#2 -out:out.txt

HTH,

Mark




From ladymcse2000 at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 08:46:04 2011
From: ladymcse2000 at gmail.com (Becky Mcquilling)
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 23:46:04 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Mapping Drives in Python
Message-ID: <AANLkTikToQ6hv6yj+dPd7T1FnZtH=xS+8uxfEiWZ0Hw+@mail.gmail.com>

Hi:

Hoping you guys can help out a python noob here.

I have a list of machines that I am backing up flat files from to one
central machine.  I need to:
a)  Map Drives and b) run robocopy

I am iterating through a text file that has the share names and the and
directory that I want to be created:


count = 0
alphabet = 'klmnopqrstuv'
today = datetime.date.today()
backup_servers = {}
f = open('c:/test/backup_shares.txt')
for line in f:
    backup_server = line.split(',')
    backup_servers[ backup_server[0]]=backup_server[1]
for i, v in backup_servers.items():
    backup_shares = i
    archive_dir = v.strip()
    archive_dir += str(today)
    drive_letter = alphabet[count]
    count += 1


The above creates a dictionary and I iterate through that.

backup_shares = '\\server_name\c$' for example and archive_dir is the
directory on the local machine that I will create with a timestamp to backup
the files to on the local machine example "d:\backup_dir\03-03-2011\files

What I want to do is map a drive, which is why the alphabet string.  I
iterate through that and then get k first backup dir, etc.

I'm not sure what method to call to map a drive or how the best way to call
robocopy is.  I don't have the choice of using IronPython.  I have the win32
modules.
And this works:
 win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'\\server_name\c$','local':'K:'})
However, I want to use the variable backup_server and insert the
drive_letter variable in the script snippet, but I haven't been able to make
that work.  Any suggestions?

Also, suggestions and examples on calling robocopy?

Thanks so much!

Becky
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 09:50:29 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 01:50:29 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimcQamHDiDXnzfAU883fyomyYPXNdrCr-LuJxPY@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> the 32 bit version of pywin32 appears to have 2.x syntax .py files).
[...]

No, not completely 2.x syntax, only "except SomeError, e" so if you
get lucky, some modules might import okay.

? The version of setup.py that I use in the stand-alone version of
adodbapi runs pretty much the standard fixer set. (I provided a
version of it to Greg for PyGUI, too.) But the pywin32 version of
setup.py uses a smaller, hard coded list of fixers. We had to add the
"raise" fixer for adodbapi. I suspect that we need to add the "except"
fixer as well.
v v v v
except
Converts except X, T to except X as T.
^ ^ ^ ^
--
Vernon
P.S.? I actually _did_ work on a 24 bit computer once (the Harris
Datacraft) but 23 bits is, as mathematicians have discovered, an odd
number.

From vernondcole at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 10:17:53 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 02:17:53 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Mapping Drives in Python
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikToQ6hv6yj+dPd7T1FnZtH=xS+8uxfEiWZ0Hw+@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikToQ6hv6yj+dPd7T1FnZtH=xS+8uxfEiWZ0Hw+@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimzyReQdhgHNYgcg94FdYPTOnRM5WoACiDV0E0_@mail.gmail.com>

I've never used robocopy -- never heard about it until your post --
but it sounded funny to me that it should need to use drive letter
mappings. Microsoft has been moving away from them since MS DOS days.
Sure enough, this shiny new command line utility can be used with
server share names as well as drive letters.

I tried typing "robocopy /?" on my Vista machine, and I get this:
v v v v v
              Usage :: ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]...] [options]

             source :: Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
        destination :: Destination Dir  (drive:\path or \\server\share\path).
               file :: File(s) to copy  (names/wildcards: default is "*.*").
^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Note the "or \\server\share\path" in that help text.
That would be the way to go. Use server names, not drive letters.

Remember that Python uses the backslash as an escape character in
string literals, so it takes some work to make a Windows server name.
A double backslash becomes one backslash, so to get two you need to
type four. "\\\\someserver\\someshare\\somepath".
It's easier to use the "raw string" feature by putting an "r" before
the opening quote.
r"\\someserver\someshare\somepath"
in Python.
--
Vernon Cole

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Becky Mcquilling
<ladymcse2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> Hoping you guys can help out a python noob here.
> I have a list of machines that I am backing up flat files from to one
> central machine. ?I need to:
> a) ?Map Drives and b) run robocopy
> I am iterating through a text file that has the share names and the and
> directory that I want to be created:
>
> count = 0
> alphabet = 'klmnopqrstuv'
> today = datetime.date.today()
> backup_servers = {}
> f = open('c:/test/backup_shares.txt')
> for line in f:
> ?? ?backup_server = line.split(',')
> ?? ?backup_servers[ backup_server[0]]=backup_server[1]
> for i, v in backup_servers.items():
> ?? ?backup_shares = i
> ?? ?archive_dir = v.strip()
> ?? ?archive_dir += str(today)
> ?? ?drive_letter = alphabet[count]
> ?? ?count += 1
>
> The above creates a dictionary and I iterate through that.
> backup_shares = '\\server_name\c$' for example and archive_dir is the
> directory on the local machine that I will create with a timestamp to backup
> the files to on the local machine example "d:\backup_dir\03-03-2011\files
> What I want to do is map a drive, which is why the alphabet string. ?I
> iterate through that and then get k first backup dir, etc.
> I'm not sure what method to call to map a drive or how the best way to call
> robocopy is. ?I don't have the choice of using IronPython. ?I have the win32
> modules.
> And this works:
> ?win32net.NetUseAdd(None,1,{'remote':r'\\server_name\c$','local':'K:'})
> However, I want to use the variable backup_server and insert the
> drive_letter variable in the script snippet, but I haven't been able to make
> that work. ?Any suggestions?
> Also, suggestions and examples on calling robocopy?
> Thanks so much!
> Becky
>
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>

From mc at mclaveau.com  Fri Mar  4 11:23:37 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:23:37 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 216 released.
In-Reply-To: <4D6C1911.5010209@skippinet.com.au>
References: <4D6A3826.7020106@skippinet.com.au>
	<9D6FE5C2371A4297A8FE81ECE0C95B8A@MCI1330>
	<4D6B3E7C.4080701@gmail.com>
	<59AD9B91E48B42B5B94DA321C122F903@MCI1330>
	<4D6C1911.5010209@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <2F0BB46DEE7E4FAB86CCCD9107A11003@MCI1330>

Hi!

> Could you also please try "wscript.exe win32com\test\testInterp.vbs"

This is OK.  BUT, if I add this line:
    import win32ui     
in the script 
    C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\servers\interp.py
the test give the (allways same) error.

I tried on : 
  Python 2.6.5 with Windows 7 32 bits
  Python 2.7 with Windows 7 64 bits  (& Python/Pywin 32 bits)

The problem seems really linked to   win32ui...

@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau 



From ayaskanta.swain at altair.com  Fri Mar  4 12:59:03 2011
From: ayaskanta.swain at altair.com (Ayaskanta Swain)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:29:03 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
Message-ID: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>

Hi, 

 

I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read the
short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I
searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use
Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with the
solutions given there.

 

I don't want to create a new shortcut or update an existing one. What I
want is to read the target location from an existing shortcut. The
shortcut can be anywhere in my computer & not necessarily on desktop.
For example - C:\temp\my_shortcut.lnk which is pointing to
D:\john\temp\myfile.txt file. Here i can pass the shortcut path
"C:\temp\my_shortcut.lnk" to my python script & then i want to retrieve
the target file's path from that shortcut. Is there anything equivalent
of os.readlink(symlink) which is used on Unix systems? Is there any way
to do that using win32com.shell modules? 

 

The following code works if the target file exists & hence returns me
the absolute path of the target, but fails if the shortcut is broken i.e
if the target file has been removed. In the later case this code creates
a target file of zero (0) size with the same path. This is bad .I want
to detect the broken shortcut case. 

 

      shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")

      shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(absolutepath)

 

Any help to solve this issue will be highly appreciated.

 

Regards

Ayaskant

Bangalore

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar  4 13:00:21 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:00:21 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
Message-ID: <4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk>

On 04/03/2011 11:59, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read the
> short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I
> searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use
> Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with the
> solutions given there.

Well I don't know if this was one of the solutions with which
you were "not satisfied", but it does at least have the merit
of working:

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/read-a-shortcut.html

TJG

From ayaskanta.swain at altair.com  Fri Mar  4 13:27:10 2011
From: ayaskanta.swain at altair.com (Ayaskanta Swain)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:57:10 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
	<4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>

Hi,

 

Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the
"shortcut_target(filename)" function into my script. But it does the
same thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me
the target path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard
disk, but behaves in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping
the shortcut intact (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an empty
file (0 size) with the same name as that of the existing target &
creates it at the same physical location where the target was existing
before. Looks like a bug in this function.

 

I want to see it fail in that case or return something lie NONE , but it
still returns me the target path.

 

Thanks

Ayaskant-

 

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Golden
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:30 PM
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut

 

On 04/03/2011 11:59, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read
the

> short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I

> searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use

> Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with
the

> solutions given there.

 

Well I don't know if this was one of the solutions with which

you were "not satisfied", but it does at least have the merit

of working:

 

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/read-a-shortcut.html

 

TJG

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From smokefloat at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 13:58:07 2011
From: smokefloat at gmail.com (David Hutto)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:58:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
	<4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk>
	<21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimesqtBDofQsa_DoHCNyounc8AHt4LUW_mhfqAK@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ayaskanta Swain
<ayaskanta.swain at altair.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the
> ?shortcut_target(filename)? function into my script. But it does the same
> thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me the target
> path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard disk, but behaves
> in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping the shortcut intact
> (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an empty file (0 size) with the
> same name as that of the existing target & creates it at the same physical
> location where the target was existing before. Looks like a bug in this
> function.

try:
 open file

except:
 file doesn't exist

or something of the such.
>
>
>
> I want to see it fail in that case or return something lie NONE , but it
> still returns me the target path.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Ayaskant-
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Tim Golden
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:30 PM
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
>
>
>
> On 04/03/2011 11:59, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
>>
>
>> I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read the
>
>> short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I
>
>> searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use
>
>> Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with the
>
>> solutions given there.
>
>
>
> Well I don't know if this was one of the solutions with which
>
> you were "not satisfied", but it does at least have the merit
>
> of working:
>
>
>
> ?? http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/read-a-shortcut.html
>
>
>
> TJG
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From smokefloat at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 13:59:42 2011
From: smokefloat at gmail.com (David Hutto)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:59:42 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimesqtBDofQsa_DoHCNyounc8AHt4LUW_mhfqAK@mail.gmail.com>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
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On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:58 AM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ayaskanta Swain
> <ayaskanta.swain at altair.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the
>> ?shortcut_target(filename)? function into my script. But it does the same
>> thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me the target
>> path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard disk, but behaves
>> in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping the shortcut intact
>> (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an empty file (0 size) with the
>> same name as that of the existing target & creates it at the same physical
>> location where the target was existing before. Looks like a bug in this
>> function.
>
> try:
> ?open file
>
> except:
> ?file doesn't exist
>
> or something of the such.

in other words, try to fix what it does, stop the creation of the file
IF it doesn't exist. I'm trying to give the homework explanations,
instead of pseudo code, just like the grandmaster peers.

>>
>>
>>
>> I want to see it fail in that case or return something lie NONE , but it
>> still returns me the target path.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ayaskant-
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org
>> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org] On
>> Behalf Of Tim Golden
>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:30 PM
>> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
>> Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/03/2011 11:59, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>>
>>
>>> I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read the
>>
>>> short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I
>>
>>> searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use
>>
>>> Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with the
>>
>>> solutions given there.
>>
>>
>>
>> Well I don't know if this was one of the solutions with which
>>
>> you were "not satisfied", but it does at least have the merit
>>
>> of working:
>>
>>
>>
>> ?? http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/read-a-shortcut.html
>>
>>
>>
>> TJG
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
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> the universe evolves gives rise to the fact that in another timeline,
> your interdimensional counterpart received helpful advice from me...so
> be eternally pleased for them.
>



-- 
According to theoretical physics, the division of spatial intervals as
the universe evolves gives rise to the fact that in another timeline,
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From ayaskanta.swain at altair.com  Fri Mar  4 15:29:32 2011
From: ayaskanta.swain at altair.com (Ayaskanta Swain)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:59:32 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinXiMoWWAcSWQoHDvc208M=SUJFnFy1_a0q-f+_@mail.gmail.com>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com><4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk><21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com><AANLkTimesqtBDofQsa_DoHCNyounc8AHt4LUW_mhfqAK@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi David,

 

Yes I need to do some thing like you have suggested. Will try to open
the link & catch the exception in case of any error. Though it's a
indirect way but I am quite optimistic that it will work for me.

 

Thanks

Ayaskant-

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Hutto [mailto:smokefloat at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 6:30 PM
To: Ayaskanta Swain
Cc: Tim Golden; python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut

 

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:58 AM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Ayaskanta Swain

> <ayaskanta.swain at altair.com> wrote:

>> Hi,

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the

>> "shortcut_target(filename)" function into my script. But it does the
same

>> thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me the
target

>> path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard disk, but
behaves

>> in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping the shortcut
intact

>> (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an empty file (0 size)
with the

>> same name as that of the existing target & creates it at the same
physical

>> location where the target was existing before. Looks like a bug in
this

>> function.

> 

> try:

>  open file

> 

> except:

>  file doesn't exist

> 

> or something of the such.

 

in other words, try to fix what it does, stop the creation of the file

IF it doesn't exist. I'm trying to give the homework explanations,

instead of pseudo code, just like the grandmaster peers.

 

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> I want to see it fail in that case or return something lie NONE , but
it

>> still returns me the target path.

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Thanks

>> 

>> Ayaskant-

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org

>> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org]
On

>> Behalf Of Tim Golden

>> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 5:30 PM

>> Cc: python-win32 at python.org

>> Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows
Shortcut

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> On 04/03/2011 11:59, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:

>> 

>>> Hi,

>> 

>>> 

>> 

>>> I want to know the target path of a windows shortcut. How do i read
the

>> 

>>> short cut & retrieve the actual target path it is pointing to? I

>> 

>>> searched the internet & all the documents I found there refer to use

>> 

>>> Win32com.shell or win32com.client module but was not satisfied with
the

>> 

>>> solutions given there.

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Well I don't know if this was one of the solutions with which

>> 

>> you were "not satisfied", but it does at least have the merit

>> 

>> of working:

>> 

>> 

>> 

>>    http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/read-a-shortcut.html

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> TJG

>> 

>> _______________________________________________

>> 

>> python-win32 mailing list

>> 

>> python-win32 at python.org

>> 

>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

>> 

>> _______________________________________________

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>> python-win32 at python.org

>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32

>> 

>> 

> 

> 

> 

> --

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> the universe evolves gives rise to the fact that in another timeline,

> your interdimensional counterpart received helpful advice from me...so

> be eternally pleased for them.

> 

 

 

 

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar  4 15:31:28 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:31:28 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>
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On 04/03/2011 12:27, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:
> Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the
> ?shortcut_target(filename)? function into my script. But it does the
> same thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me
> the target path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard
> disk, but behaves in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping
> the shortcut intact (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an empty
> file (0 size) with the same name as that of the existing target &
> creates it at the same physical location where the target was existing
> before. Looks like a bug in this function.

Well I'm not seeing that behaviour at all. Is it possible that
something else in your code is having this effect? I'm on
Win7 x64 Python 2.6.6 pywin32 216

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

def shortcut_target (filename):
   link = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance (
     shell.CLSID_ShellLink,
     None,
     pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
     shell.IID_IShellLink
   )
   link.QueryInterface (pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Load (filename)
   #
   # GetPath returns the name and a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure
   # which we're ignoring. The parameter indicates whether
   # shortname, UNC or the "raw path" are to be
   # returned. Bizarrely, the docs indicate that the
   # flags can be combined.
   #
   name, _ = link.GetPath (shell.SLGP_UNCPRIORITY)
   return name

if __name__ == '__main__':
   #
   # Create a dummy file
   #
   import tempfile
   filepath = tempfile.mktemp ()
   with open (filepath, "wb") as f:
     f.write ("abcdef")

   #
   # Create a shortcut on the desktop to the file
   #
   shortcut = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance (
     shell.CLSID_ShellLink,
     None,
     pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
     shell.IID_IShellLink
   )
   shortcut.SetPath (filepath)
   shortcut_path = os.path.join (shell.SHGetFolderPath (0, 
shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP, 0, 0), "test.link")
   shortcut.QueryInterface (pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Save 
(shortcut_path, 0)

   #
   # Check that the shortcut target is the file
   # and that the file exists
   #
   assert os.path.exists (filepath)
   assert shortcut_target (shortcut_path).lower () == filepath.lower ()

   #
   # Remove the target file
   #
   os.unlink (filepath)
   assert not os.path.exists (filepath)

   #
   # Check that the shortcut target is the file
   # and that the file no longer exists
   #
   assert shortcut_target (shortcut_path).lower () == filepath.lower ()
   assert not os.path.exists (filepath)

</code>

TJG

From smokefloat at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 15:40:54 2011
From: smokefloat at gmail.com (David Hutto)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:40:54 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A564@blrex.prog.altair.com>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com>
	<4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk>
	<21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>
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I probably forgot to include my sig, which means listen all of us like
a hive queen instead of like a bullish king.

-- 
According to theoretical physics, the division of spatial intervals as
the universe evolves gives rise to the fact that in another timeline,
your interdimensional counterpart received helpful advice from me...so
be eternally pleased for them.

From ayaskanta.swain at altair.com  Fri Mar  4 17:39:05 2011
From: ayaskanta.swain at altair.com (Ayaskanta Swain)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 22:09:05 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut
In-Reply-To: <4D70F7C0.5000504@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4D4@blrex.prog.altair.com><4D70D455.7080403@timgolden.me.uk><21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A4F0@blrex.prog.altair.com>
	<4D70F7C0.5000504@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <21581D39FA3BDF40904D75AF9653CE260608A59F@blrex.prog.altair.com>

Well, Here is how I have implemented in my script. Please take a look &
let me know whether I am doing something wrong. Mine is a
Windows-XP(SP3), 32-bit system.

 

# Reads the windows shortcut & returns the target path

def shortcut_target (shortcutfile):

    link = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance (

    shell.CLSID_ShellLink,    

    None,

    pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,    

    shell.IID_IShellLink

    )

    link.QueryInterface (pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Load (shortcutfile)

    target_path, _ = link.GetPath (shell.SLGP_UNCPRIORITY)

    return target_path

 

#############################Main#######################################
##

linkpath = sys.argv[1]

#Read the target of the windows shortcut

target_of_link = shortcut_target(linkpath)

 

print 'Target = ' + target_of_link

 

I run the script like this C:\Documents and Settings\pbsadmin>python
filelinkscript.py "C:\temp\myfile.lnk"

Here myfile.lnk is a link to a file C:\stage\myfile.txt

 

 

Thanks

Ayaskant-

-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+ayaskanta.swain=altair.com at python.org] On
Behalf Of Tim Golden
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:01 PM
Cc: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to read the target of a Windows Shortcut

 

On 04/03/2011 12:27, Ayaskanta Swain wrote:

> Thank you for sending me the link. I tried it by copying the

> "shortcut_target(filename)" function into my script. But it does the

> same thing as I had mentioned in my previous e-mail. i.e It returns me

> the target path correctly if the target exists physically in my hard

> disk, but behaves in a wrongful manner if I delete the target keeping

> the shortcut intact (Broken shortcut). In that case it creates an
empty

> file (0 size) with the same name as that of the existing target &

> creates it at the same physical location where the target was existing

> before. Looks like a bug in this function.

 

Well I'm not seeing that behaviour at all. Is it possible that

something else in your code is having this effect? I'm on

Win7 x64 Python 2.6.6 pywin32 216

 

<code>

import os, sys

import glob

import pythoncom

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

 

def shortcut_target (filename):

   link = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance (

     shell.CLSID_ShellLink,

     None,

     pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,

     shell.IID_IShellLink

   )

   link.QueryInterface (pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Load (filename)

   #

   # GetPath returns the name and a WIN32_FIND_DATA structure

   # which we're ignoring. The parameter indicates whether

   # shortname, UNC or the "raw path" are to be

   # returned. Bizarrely, the docs indicate that the

   # flags can be combined.

   #

   name, _ = link.GetPath (shell.SLGP_UNCPRIORITY)

   return name

 

if __name__ == '__main__':

   #

   # Create a dummy file

   #

   import tempfile

   filepath = tempfile.mktemp ()

   with open (filepath, "wb") as f:

     f.write ("abcdef")

 

   #

   # Create a shortcut on the desktop to the file

   #

   shortcut = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance (

     shell.CLSID_ShellLink,

     None,

     pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,

     shell.IID_IShellLink

   )

   shortcut.SetPath (filepath)

   shortcut_path = os.path.join (shell.SHGetFolderPath (0, 

shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP, 0, 0), "test.link")

   shortcut.QueryInterface (pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Save 

(shortcut_path, 0)

 

   #

   # Check that the shortcut target is the file

   # and that the file exists

   #

   assert os.path.exists (filepath)

   assert shortcut_target (shortcut_path).lower () == filepath.lower ()

 

   #

   # Remove the target file

   #

   os.unlink (filepath)

   assert not os.path.exists (filepath)

 

   #

   # Check that the shortcut target is the file

   # and that the file no longer exists

   #

   assert shortcut_target (shortcut_path).lower () == filepath.lower ()

   assert not os.path.exists (filepath)

 

</code>

 

TJG

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From ghostility at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 18:24:42 2011
From: ghostility at gmail.com (Ghostly)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:24:42 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] print file byte contents distribution
Message-ID: <20110304182439.B639.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>

Hi,

As I don't see any CLI tool other then hex editor, I thought on writing
small script that will display byte distribution from file content

So I thought on this:

-----------------------------
counter = {}

for bytes in open('c:\\temp\\bin.dat', "rb").read():
    counter[bytes] = counter.get(bytes, 0) + 1

print counter
-----------------------------

It works fine, but as I need to parse large file data, I thought to ask
if someone knows a better way of doing this

Thanks

From timr at probo.com  Fri Mar  4 19:55:23 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 10:55:23 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4D71359B.6050504@probo.com>

Greg Ewing wrote:
> I recently tried running PyGUI on Python 3 using
> pywin32 build 216, and a couple of things are
> not working quite the same way as they were with
> Python 2 and build 213.
>
> 1) The default font used for control labels etc.
> is slightly smaller.
>
> 2) When I calculate the width of a piece of text
> using DC.GetTextExtent() I get a value that is
> too small, and doesn't match the actual size of
> the text as it is drawn.
>
> Anyone have any idea what might have changed,
> and what I can do about it?

Are you running this on a different computer?  The default font and the
size of a "dialog unit" is based on the dots-per-inch resolution of the
monitor on that computer.  If you have a machine with a big screen where
the user has chosen a different resolution, that will affect the size of
everything in a dialog.

This is the same problem we used to refer to as "small fonts / large fonts".

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


From vernondcole at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 21:20:03 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:20:03 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] print file byte contents distribution
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References: <20110304182439.B639.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>
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What a nifty script!  I love it!
Here's my version.  I tested using a 800 KByte image file and it runs
in a blink. Dictionary access in Python is very fast.
<code>
counter = {}

for bytes in open('c:\\temp\\16.jpg', "rb").read():
   try:
       counter[bytes] += 1
   except KeyError:
       counter[bytes] = 1

for key in sorted(counter.keys()):
    print '%s: %d,' % (repr(key),counter[key]),
print
</code>
--
Vernon

From timr at probo.com  Fri Mar  4 22:06:17 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:06:17 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] print file byte contents distribution
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinjkvMQUxDFJ5F-dHGhO8489R1-5GGpz+0mx0wn@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20110304182439.B639.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>
	<AANLkTinjkvMQUxDFJ5F-dHGhO8489R1-5GGpz+0mx0wn@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D715449.9050501@probo.com>

Vernon Cole wrote:
> What a nifty script!  I love it!
> Here's my version.  I tested using a 800 KByte image file and it runs
> in a blink. Dictionary access in Python is very fast.
> <code>
> counter = {}
>
> for bytes in open('c:\\temp\\16.jpg', "rb").read():
>    try:
>        counter[bytes] += 1
>    except KeyError:
>        counter[bytes] = 1
>
> for key in sorted(counter.keys()):
>     print '%s: %d,' % (repr(key),counter[key]),
> print
> </code>

Since the size of the universe is small and known in advance, a list
would be faster yet:

    counter = [0]*256
    for bytes in open('c:\\temp\\16.jpg', "rb").read():
        counter[ord(bytes)] += 1
    for key,cnt in enumerate(counter):
        print '%d: %d,' % (key,cnt),

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


From ghostility at gmail.com  Fri Mar  4 22:31:37 2011
From: ghostility at gmail.com (Ghostly)
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:31:37 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] print file byte contents distribution
Message-ID: <20110304223134.B641.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>


Thanks guys for your input

As I need this for larger files (couple of tens even hundrets of MB) I
tested your suggestion and it seems that dict method is fastest.

I ended with this:

----------------------------
import sys

try:
    counter = {}

    for bytes in open(sys.argv[1], "rb").read():
        try:
            counter[bytes] += 1
        except KeyError:
            counter[bytes] = 1

    peak = max(counter.values())

    for key in sorted(counter.keys()):
        print '%02x: %08d %s' % (ord(key), counter[key], '-' * (66 * counter[key]/peak))

except Exception, e:
    print e
----------------------------

Cheers

From timr at probo.com  Fri Mar  4 22:46:56 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:46:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] print file byte contents distribution
In-Reply-To: <20110304223134.B641.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>
References: <20110304223134.B641.5FE01CF9@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D715DD0.4060608@probo.com>

Ghostly wrote:
> Thanks guys for your input
>
> As I need this for larger files (couple of tens even hundrets of MB) I
> tested your suggestion and it seems that dict method is fastest.

I decided to find out, so I ran "timeit" on both schemes using a 2MB
file.  The two methods are within 1% of each other -- sometimes the dict
is slightly faster, sometimes the list is slightly faster.  Thus, for
all practical purposes, they are identical.  I'm surprised.  That means
you should use the one that makes sense to you.

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


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sat Mar  5 01:18:47 2011
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:18:47 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D718167.8060207@skippinet.com.au>

The Python 3.2 32-bit build was the only one affected and I've uploaded 
a 216.1 build for this version only.  It is identical to the 216 builds 
except for the build ID and the conversion of all files to py3k syntax.

What went wrong?  I was incorrect the other day about the 32bit and 
64bit versions sharing the same .py files - they do share the same 
"source" files obviously, but the build process copies them to a 
different directory for each build (the "build" directory).  The hacks I 
have in the build process for the 2to3 conversion do the conversion 
in-place in the build directory - which is error prone.  I'm fairly 
confident the problem was that I interrupted the build while 3.2 32-bits 
was being generated and while the 2to3 conversion was happening.  When I 
restarted the build, the logic which checks if files need copying 
determined that the build directory was up-to-date - even though the 
py3k conversion process wasn't complete.  As a result, that build 
directory was left alone with some pre-converted files.

Sadly, it isn't trivial to fix this in distutils, so I am just going to 
need to be more careful when making future releases.  I *usually* am 
good about nuking the entire build tree and rebuilding the world before 
release, but now that I do that on a VM, a full build takes many hours 
to complete.  I took a shortcut and paid the price :)

Cheers,

Mark

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sat Mar  5 01:35:05 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:35:05 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently with Py3/216
In-Reply-To: <4D71359B.6050504@probo.com>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D71359B.6050504@probo.com>
Message-ID: <4D718539.7060007@canterbury.ac.nz>

Tim Roberts wrote:

> Are you running this on a different computer?

No, it's the same computer. I can run 2.x and 3.x versions
of the same test side by side, and the 2.x one has normal
sized text whereas the 3.x one has tiny text.

Oddly, it only seems to affect text drawn by the standard
win32 controls. Text that I draw myself using GDI+ comes
out the same size in both cases. So it looks like GDI
and GDI+ are doing different things with the fonts,
somehow.

-- 
Greg

From jdmain at comcast.net  Sat Mar  5 15:06:11 2011
From: jdmain at comcast.net (J.D. Main)
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 07:06:11 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Classic ASP in IIS with Python - 500 Server Error
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Sat Mar  5 17:48:18 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:48:18 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Possible trouble with pywin23-216 on python 3.2
In-Reply-To: <4D718167.8060207@skippinet.com.au>
References: <AANLkTi=CdxcfMzjniVG-YJ6xXjYUqJx=J_5t7TPJgamn@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D718167.8060207@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=K==nk-_4rpy8cLFjgpBGPG0JxEZsm31U74Pa_@mail.gmail.com>

I ran across this problem myself awhile back, and it seems to be
common enough that they added a feature to distutils to handle it.
I have added a copy of my setup.cfg to CVS, which contains:
<code>
[build]
force=1
[bdist_wininst]
user_access_control=auto
</code>

With "force=1", it should theoretically clean out the build directory
on every run.
--
Vernon

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> The Python 3.2 32-bit build was the only one affected and I've uploaded a
> 216.1 build for this version only. ?It is identical to the 216 builds except
> for the build ID and the conversion of all files to py3k syntax.
>
> What went wrong? ?I was incorrect the other day about the 32bit and 64bit
> versions sharing the same .py files - they do share the same "source" files
> obviously, but the build process copies them to a different directory for
> each build (the "build" directory). ?The hacks I have in the build process
> for the 2to3 conversion do the conversion in-place in the build directory -
> which is error prone. ?I'm fairly confident the problem was that I
> interrupted the build while 3.2 32-bits was being generated and while the
> 2to3 conversion was happening. ?When I restarted the build, the logic which
> checks if files need copying determined that the build directory was
> up-to-date - even though the py3k conversion process wasn't complete. ?As a
> result, that build directory was left alone with some pre-converted files.
>
> Sadly, it isn't trivial to fix this in distutils, so I am just going to need
> to be more careful when making future releases. ?I *usually* am good about
> nuking the entire build tree and rebuilding the world before release, but
> now that I do that on a VM, a full build takes many hours to complete. ?I
> took a shortcut and paid the price :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sun Mar  6 05:07:37 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:07:37 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently - The plot thickens a bit
In-Reply-To: <4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
	<4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz>

I think I've narrowed down what's going on with the font
sizes a bit more. It has to do with the interperetation
of the nHeight parameter to CreateFont.

It appears that you can specify the height using either
a positive or negative number. One is taken to include
the font's internal leading, and the other isn't.

What seems to have happened is that somewhere between
builds 212 and 216 of pywin32, the behaviour of these
two cases has *swapped over*.

In my 2.x installation, which is using either 212 or
213 (I'm not exactly sure which at the moment) if I
ask for "Tahoma" with height +11 it comes out with
ascent = 11, descent = 2; whereas height -11 gives
ascent = 9, descent = 2.

But under 3.x with build 216, it's the other way around:
height +11 gives ascent = 9, -11 gives ascent = 11.

If I'm interpreting the MS docs correctly, then the new
behaviour is correct and the old one is wrong. Was there
a bug relating to this fixed at some point?

Also, is there a version number somewhere in pywin32 that
I can check at run time to work around this?

-- 
Greg

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sun Mar  6 06:42:25 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:42:25 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently - The plot thickens a
 bit
In-Reply-To: <4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>	<4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au>
	<4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <4D731EC1.4060902@gmail.com>

On 6/03/2011 3:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> I think I've narrowed down what's going on with the font
> sizes a bit more. It has to do with the interperetation
> of the nHeight parameter to CreateFont.
>
> It appears that you can specify the height using either
> a positive or negative number. One is taken to include
> the font's internal leading, and the other isn't.
>
> What seems to have happened is that somewhere between
> builds 212 and 216 of pywin32, the behaviour of these
> two cases has *swapped over*.
>
> In my 2.x installation, which is using either 212 or
> 213 (I'm not exactly sure which at the moment) if I
> ask for "Tahoma" with height +11 it comes out with
> ascent = 11, descent = 2; whereas height -11 gives
> ascent = 9, descent = 2.
>
> But under 3.x with build 216, it's the other way around:
> height +11 gives ascent = 9, -11 gives ascent = 11.
>
> If I'm interpreting the MS docs correctly, then the new
> behaviour is correct and the old one is wrong. Was there
> a bug relating to this fixed at some point?

Not that I can find - I guess you mean in win32gui?  win32gui has not 
changed since build 214, and the log shows nothing related back to 212.

> Also, is there a version number somewhere in pywin32 that
> I can check at run time to work around this?

There is only pywin32.version.txt installed into site-packages - you 
should look for the value before the first dot without assuming how many 
dots follow...

Mark

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Mar  6 07:05:11 2011
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:05:11 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Conversion to Mercurial is done
Message-ID: <4D732417.6010800@skippinet.com.au>

I've converted the CVS repository to a Mercurial (hg) and after a few 
tweaks and re-conversions, it seems to have done a good job.  It is 
purely a coincidence that this finally happened on the same week Python 
itself flicked the Mercurial switch :).

I'd like to encourage everyone with an interest in this to grab a clone 
and have a play - note that you can make a clone, make some local test 
commits, then throw the clone away without pushing back to sourceforge.

Some notes:

* People not familiar with hg should read the hg book at 
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/ and any other tutorials they can find.  The 
model is significantly different to CVS and SVN (but somewhat similar to 
Bazaar and Git)

* The hg repo is at sourceforge and all developers who had CVS access 
should have mercurial "push" access.  You can browse the repo via the 
normal sourceforge web interface.  The pywin32 sourceforge page with the 
configuration information is at 
https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=hg&group_id=78018

* I've disabled access to CVS for all developers - the CVS repo still 
exists and can be re-enabled should some serious issue be found, but 
eventually it will be removed completely from the project (and probably 
make the raw repo available for download via sourceforge)

* I'm still battling the hg hook for sending emails as changes are 
pushed, but think I have that working.  I'll make a trivial commit in 
the next few minutes to test that out, but note that in the worst case, 
commit email may not appear for a day or few.

* You should enable the "eol" extension for Mercurial to ensure you get 
Windows line endings.  Eventually I hope to have a hg server-side hook 
to reject changes which screw up the line-endings, but I've failed to 
make that happen so far.  Note that support for Windows line-endings is 
a recent mercurial feature and may have rough edges.  Before committing 
to your local repo, please check that 'hg diff' isn't marking a change 
in every line in one of the changed files - it is does, please hold off 
the commit and contact me.

* I can recommend the "Tortoise HG" tool for Windows - it allows you to 
disable the "shell extensions", but you still wind up with normal 
command-line hg plus a nice GUI tool you can invoke if desired.

* Sourceforge hg seems a little slow, especially fetching the full repo. 
  Fetching incremental updates should be better, but if there are 
performance issues related to sourceforge, we can look at hosting the 
master repo elsewhere.

* Although it should not be necessary, I reserve the right to nuke the 
hg repo and start again with the CVS conversion.  This will only be done 
over the next week or 2, and only if someone notices a significant 
problem in the conversion and I would need to "back-port" any hg changes 
into CVS.  If this did happen, you would be unable to update any 
existing clones you made - you would have to start again into a clean 
local tree.

Please let me know how you go!

Thanks,

Mark

From vernondcole at gmail.com  Sun Mar  6 08:49:47 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 00:49:47 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Conversion to Mercurial is done
In-Reply-To: <4D732417.6010800@skippinet.com.au>
References: <4D732417.6010800@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <AANLkTingKzzUt4KPzJUqa5DRT2iJiyS50pQtc6WA6aPb@mail.gmail.com>

Working fine here.  Here's a sample for anyone who has not tried sourceforge
hg before.
I have PuTTY loaded on this machine, and already have my ssh keys set up on
sourceforge -- just like with CVS.
Mercurial is loaded using the binary installer.
And, I actually remembered to load my sourceforge keys into Pagent before I
started. ;-)

In order to get read/write access, I used the ssh:// url as documented on
the page Mark referenced.
https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=hg&group_id=78018

If your are reading a rich text (html) version of this, my input below
is highlighted
in yellow.
Don't copy this exactly, you will need to use your own username where I have
"kf7xm".
I keep my mercurial trees in a C:\hg folder. YMMV

I had the usual "The server's host key is not cached in the registry"
problem.
Solved by running a quick plink command to the server in question:

<screen dump>
C:\hg>plink kf7xm at pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net ls
The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
think it is.
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 2048 86:7b:1b:12:85:35:8a:b7:98:b6:d2:97:5e:96:58:1d
If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to
PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.
If you want to carry on connecting just once, without
adding the key to the cache, enter "n".
If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the
connection.
Store key in cache? (y/n) y

Welcome to *.hg.sourceforge.net
<snip>
C:\hg>hg clone ssh://kf7xm at pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/pywin32/pywin32
destination directory: pywin32
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 4100 changesets with 9863 changes to 1831 files (+1 heads)
updating to branch default
1545 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
<snip>
C:\hg>cd pywin32
C:\hg>dir
</screen dump>
--
Vernon

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
wrote:
> I've converted the CVS repository to a Mercurial (hg) and after a few
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From: jdmain at comcast.net (J.D. Main)
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 11:58:41 -0700
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From rupole at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  6 20:56:34 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:56:34 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently - The plot thickens a
	bit
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz><4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>	<4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz><4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au><4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D731EC1.4060902@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <il0ote$c00$1@dough.gmane.org>


Mark Hammond wrote:

news:4D731EC1.4060902 at gmail.com...
> On 6/03/2011 3:07 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> I think I've narrowed down what's going on with the font
>> sizes a bit more. It has to do with the interperetation
>> of the nHeight parameter to CreateFont.
>>
>> It appears that you can specify the height using either
>> a positive or negative number. One is taken to include
>> the font's internal leading, and the other isn't.
>>
>> What seems to have happened is that somewhere between
>> builds 212 and 216 of pywin32, the behaviour of these
>> two cases has *swapped over*.
>>
>> In my 2.x installation, which is using either 212 or
>> 213 (I'm not exactly sure which at the moment) if I
>> ask for "Tahoma" with height +11 it comes out with
>> ascent = 11, descent = 2; whereas height -11 gives
>> ascent = 9, descent = 2.
>>
>> But under 3.x with build 216, it's the other way around:
>> height +11 gives ascent = 9, -11 gives ascent = 11.
>>
>> If I'm interpreting the MS docs correctly, then the new
>> behaviour is correct and the old one is wrong. Was there
>> a bug relating to this fixed at some point?
>
> Not that I can find - I guess you mean in win32gui?  win32gui has not
> changed since build 214, and the log shows nothing related back to 212.

The conversion in win32ui has changed since 212.  At one time it
was negating the height that was passed in:

if (PyInt_Check (v))
    pLF->lfHeight = -PyInt_AsLong(v);

I looked at it 2 or 3 times before I noticed the minus sign.

>> Also, is there a version number somewhere in pywin32 that
>> I can check at run time to work around this?
>
> There is only pywin32.version.txt installed into site-packages - you
> should look for the value before the first dot without assuming how many
> dots follow...
>
> Mark

You can also extract the version embedded in the pyd's using
win32api.GetFileVersionInfo.

        Roger




From rupole at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  6 21:18:47 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 15:18:47 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Repost: Classic ASP in IIS with Python - 500
	ServerError
References: <4D73D961.3287.4189A6@jdmain.comcast.net>
Message-ID: <il0q73$i0m$1@dough.gmane.org>

J.D. Main wrote:
> (repost of previous message apparently HTML'd by my mailer...sorry)
>
> Hello,
> I have been hunting for a solution to this one for some time.  I've
> already tried all the easy stuff.  I have IIS 5 on a WinXP Pro machine.
> I recently posted this to the Python WEB sig - apparently not many windows
> users on that
> list.
> I can run python scripts as CGI but not as ASP.  All I get is:
>
> HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
> (nothing else - no other errors or explanation - seriously)
>
> I have tried:
>
> 1.  Reinstalling Python (v2.7 from ActiveState)
> 2.  Reinstalling IIS
> 3.  Running pyscript.py from "site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client"
> 4.  I have "friendly errors" turned off in IE
> 5.  ASP does work with VB Scripts
>
> Here is the most basic ASP page I'm trying to run:
>
> <%@LANGUAGE=Python%>
> <html>
> <body>
> <%
> response.write("Hello World!")
> %>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Does anybody have any ideas?  This is really getting annoying and I can't
> find a solution.  Other people have complained of this and I've seen no
> solution.
>
> Thanks.
> J.D.

Try registering it in debug mode, by passing --debug to pyscript.py.
The trace collector in Pythonwin should show any error msgs
generated by Python (assuming it gets as far as loading Python).

           Roger







From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sun Mar  6 22:51:34 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 10:51:34 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently - The plot thickens
	a	bit
In-Reply-To: <il0ote$c00$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com>
	<4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au>
	<4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz> <4D731EC1.4060902@gmail.com>
	<il0ote$c00$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4D7401E6.2070103@canterbury.ac.nz>

Roger Upole wrote:

> The conversion in win32ui has changed since 212.  At one time it
> was negating the height that was passed in:
> 
> if (PyInt_Check (v))
>     pLF->lfHeight = -PyInt_AsLong(v);

Ah, that explains it all!

> You can also extract the version embedded in the pyd's using
> win32api.GetFileVersionInfo.

That sounds great, thanks.

Do you happen to know exactly which version the change was
made in, so I can get the version test right?

-- 
Greg

From rupole at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  6 23:23:44 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 17:23:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Fonts behaving differently - The plot
	thickensa	bit
References: <4D704F08.8010104@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D705E7A.7090507@gmail.com><4D706A04.6040706@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D706B00.4080500@skippinet.com.au><4D730889.6090307@canterbury.ac.nz>
	<4D731EC1.4060902@gmail.com><il0ote$c00$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<4D7401E6.2070103@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <il11hc$kds$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:4D7401E6.2070103 at canterbury.ac.nz...
> Roger Upole wrote:
>
>> The conversion in win32ui has changed since 212.  At one time it
>> was negating the height that was passed in:
>>
>> if (PyInt_Check (v))
>>     pLF->lfHeight = -PyInt_AsLong(v);
>
> Ah, that explains it all!
>
>> You can also extract the version embedded in the pyd's using
>> win32api.GetFileVersionInfo.
>
> That sounds great, thanks.
>
> Do you happen to know exactly which version the change was
> made in, so I can get the version test right?
>
> -- 
> Greg

213 was the first build without the negation.

       Roger




From rupole at hotmail.com  Mon Mar  7 01:58:42 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 19:58:42 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Repost: Classic ASP in IIS with Python - 500
	ServerError
Message-ID: <il1aju$rc6$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:...
> J.D. Main wrote:
>> (repost of previous message apparently HTML'd by my mailer...sorry)
>>
>> Hello,
>> I have been hunting for a solution to this one for some time.  I've
>> already tried all the easy stuff.  I have IIS 5 on a WinXP Pro machine.
>> I recently posted this to the Python WEB sig - apparently not many windows
>> users on that
>> list.
>> I can run python scripts as CGI but not as ASP.  All I get is:
>>
>> HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
>> (nothing else - no other errors or explanation - seriously)
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> 1.  Reinstalling Python (v2.7 from ActiveState)
>> 2.  Reinstalling IIS
>> 3.  Running pyscript.py from "site-packages\win32comext\axscript\client"
>> 4.  I have "friendly errors" turned off in IE
>> 5.  ASP does work with VB Scripts
>>
>> Here is the most basic ASP page I'm trying to run:
>>
>> <%@LANGUAGE=Python%>
>> <html>
>> <body>
>> <%
>> response.write("Hello World!")
>> %>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas?  This is really getting annoying and I can't
>> find a solution.  Other people have complained of this and I've seen no
>> solution.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> J.D.
>
> Try registering it in debug mode, by passing --debug to pyscript.py.
> The trace collector in Pythonwin should show any error msgs
> generated by Python (assuming it gets as far as loading Python).
>
>           Roger
>

Just noticed the lowercase "response".  Python is case sensitive, try
Response.Write instead.

         Roger




From jdmain at comcast.net  Mon Mar  7 19:29:50 2011
From: jdmain at comcast.net (jdmain at comcast.net)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:29:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] Repost: Classic ASP in IIS with Python -
	500	ServerError
In-Reply-To: <il0q73$i0m$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <1845513182.679612.1299522590343.JavaMail.root@sz0093a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>



Thanks for the tip Roger. 



I did try the Respone.Write (capital R and W) - no difference) 



I did this: 



pyscript.py --debug 



It said registered in debug mode. 



Now what?? Is there a log or something that would get created if python were ever invoked by ASP? 



It seem like Python is just not getting called at all.? The strange thing is this used to work on my PC.? Now that I 

actually have a project that could use classic ASP and Python, I can't make it work.? Bummer. 



I do have other alternatives but I wanted to use ASP specifically for the session variable support.? These behave just like 

globals and can be pass around from ASP script to ASP script.? Very handy... 



Best Regards, 



J.D. 






Try registering it in debug mode, by passing --debug to pyscript.py. 
The trace collector in Pythonwin should show any error msgs 
generated by Python (assuming it gets as far as loading Python). 

?? ? ? ? ? Roger 


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From rupole at hotmail.com  Tue Mar  8 04:30:30 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 22:30:30 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Repost: Classic ASP in IIS with Python
	-500	ServerError
References: <il0q73$i0m$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<1845513182.679612.1299522590343.JavaMail.root@sz0093a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>
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jdmain at comcast.net wrote

> Now what? Is there a log or something that would get created if python were ever invoked by ASP?

Open Pythonwin and select
Tools->Trace collector debugging tool

This will show a window that displays any debug output.

         Roger




From python at bdurham.com  Tue Mar  8 16:15:13 2011
From: python at bdurham.com (python at bdurham.com)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:15:13 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Detect new/changed file in a folder
Message-ID: <1299597313.18613.1427463489@webmail.messagingengine.com>

I'm looking for advice on ways to have a script detect new or
changed files in a specific folder.

The easy way is to simply poll every second and to sleep between
polling cycles.

Is there a win32 technique that works from XP forward that might
be a better choice? And/or are there issues with a simple polling
technique that I should be aware of?

Thank you,
Malcolm
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Mar  8 16:29:36 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:29:36 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Detect new/changed file in a folder
In-Reply-To: <1299597313.18613.1427463489@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1299597313.18613.1427463489@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <4D764B60.8050400@timgolden.me.uk>

On 08/03/2011 15:15, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> I'm looking for advice on ways to have a script detect new or changed
>  files in a specific folder. The easy way is to simply poll every
> second and to sleep between polling cycles. Is there a win32
> technique that works from XP forward that might be a better choice?
> And/or are there issues with a simple polling technique that I should
> be aware of?

Brian Curtin's just written about this very subject:

 
http://blog.briancurtin.com/2011/02/18/the-five-year-project-net-filesystemwatcher-clone-for-python/

   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watcher/

TJG

From brian.curtin at gmail.com  Tue Mar  8 16:36:29 2011
From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:36:29 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Detect new/changed file in a folder
In-Reply-To: <4D764B60.8050400@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <1299597313.18613.1427463489@webmail.messagingengine.com>
	<4D764B60.8050400@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinSH_t+xDULPc5gyUzWXhaoQt_NmPOH4QMd2JuK@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 09:29, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 08/03/2011 15:15, python at bdurham.com wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for advice on ways to have a script detect new or changed
>>  files in a specific folder. The easy way is to simply poll every
>> second and to sleep between polling cycles. Is there a win32
>> technique that works from XP forward that might be a better choice?
>> And/or are there issues with a simple polling technique that I should
>> be aware of?
>>
>
> Brian Curtin's just written about this very subject:
>
>
>
> http://blog.briancurtin.com/2011/02/18/the-five-year-project-net-filesystemwatcher-clone-for-python/
>
>  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watcher/
>
> TJG


Thanks for the plug :)
I should also note that watcher now supports Python 2 and 3.
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From python at bdurham.com  Tue Mar  8 16:54:32 2011
From: python at bdurham.com (python at bdurham.com)
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:54:32 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Detect new/changed file in a folder
In-Reply-To: <4D764B60.8050400@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <1299597313.18613.1427463489@webmail.messagingengine.com>
	<4D764B60.8050400@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <1299599672.31670.1427478421@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Tim, Ben and Brian,

Thank you all for your posts - excellent information(!!!).

You have all answered my question.

Cheers,
Malcolm

From graham.bloice at trihedral.com  Wed Mar  9 17:40:02 2011
From: graham.bloice at trihedral.com (Graham Bloice)
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:40:02 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
Message-ID: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com>

The dll adsi.pyd is missing from the 216 build for Python 3.2.  I've checked
both the 32 and 64 bit variants and it's missing from both.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice

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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar 10 12:29:13 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:29:13 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
In-Reply-To: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com>
References: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com>
Message-ID: <4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk>

On 09/03/2011 16:40, Graham Bloice wrote:
> The dll adsi.pyd is missing from the 216 build for Python 3.2.  I've
> checked both the 32 and 64 bit variants and it's missing from both.

Roger Upole can obviously speak for himself, but in a email
conversation I had with him a while back, he said that they hadn't
been able to build it because of an issue with the version
of SWIG they were using (or something). IOW, even if you were
to build pywin32 yourself, it still won't be there: it's not just
a distribution issue.

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar 10 12:30:53 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:30:53 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
In-Reply-To: <4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com> <4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D78B66D.9080701@timgolden.me.uk>

On 10/03/2011 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 09/03/2011 16:40, Graham Bloice wrote:
>> The dll adsi.pyd is missing from the 216 build for Python 3.2. I've
>> checked both the 32 and 64 bit variants and it's missing from both.
>
> Roger Upole can obviously speak for himself, but in a email
> conversation I had with him a while back, he said that they hadn't
> been able to build it because of an issue with the version
> of SWIG they were using (or something). IOW, even if you were
> to build pywin32 yourself, it still won't be there: it's not just
> a distribution issue.

And, to clarify, I mean that it couldn't be built under Python 3.x;
ie adsi should be present in all Python 2.x builds and won't be
present in any python 3.x build.

TJG

From inf200640 at ucf.edu.cu  Thu Mar 10 18:59:29 2011
From: inf200640 at ucf.edu.cu (inf200640 at ucf.edu.cu)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:59:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_NTLogEvent access denied exception
Message-ID: <2361.10.14.18.36.1299779969.squirrel@correo>

Hello list,

I'm having problems recieving local wmi events from Win32_NTLogEvent class. It turns
out
that I want to know which user starts or stops services. I set a watcher for that
propose and it raises the following exception:

x_access_denied: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Ocurri\xf3 una exce
pci\xf3n.', (0, u'SWbemServicesEx', u'Acceso denegado ', None, 0, -2147217405),
None)>

I have done the same with other classes and everything works just fine.

The script is running from the system's administration account. Do I need to provide
extra privileges in con = wmi.WMI()?

Could anyone help me figure out what is happening, please?

Thanks a lot for your assistance,
Silvia




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From timr at probo.com  Thu Mar 10 19:24:09 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:24:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_NTLogEvent access denied exception
In-Reply-To: <2361.10.14.18.36.1299779969.squirrel@correo>
References: <2361.10.14.18.36.1299779969.squirrel@correo>
Message-ID: <4D791749.5050302@probo.com>

inf200640 at ucf.edu.cu wrote:
> I'm having problems recieving local wmi events from Win32_NTLogEvent class. It turns
> out that I want to know which user starts or stops services. I set a watcher for that
> propose and it raises the following exception:
>
> x_access_denied: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Ocurri\xf3 una exce
> pci\xf3n.', (0, u'SWbemServicesEx', u'Acceso denegado ', None, 0, -2147217405),
> None)>
>
> I have done the same with other classes and everything works just fine.
>
> The script is running from the system's administration account. Do I need to provide
> extra privileges in con = wmi.WMI()?
>
> Could anyone help me figure out what is happening, please?

Did you look at the documentation?
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394226.aspx
The very first paragraph says:

    An application must have SeSecurityPrivilege to receive events from
    the security event log, otherwise "Access Denied" is returned to the
    application.

-2147217405 is 0x80041003, which is WBEM_E_ACCESS_DENIED, just like it says.

It takes a surprising amount of code to acquire a privilege.  Here is
some Python code that shows how to do it:
   
http://windows-privesc-check.googlecode.com/svn-history/r10/trunk/windows-privesc-check.py
Check "get_extra_privs" about half-way through.  You can simplify it a
little bit, since you are looking for exactly one privilege.

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


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar 10 19:46:47 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:46:47 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Win32_NTLogEvent access denied exception
In-Reply-To: <4D791749.5050302@probo.com>
References: <2361.10.14.18.36.1299779969.squirrel@correo>
	<4D791749.5050302@probo.com>
Message-ID: <4D791C97.5000207@timgolden.me.uk>

On 10/03/2011 6:24 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> inf200640 at ucf.edu.cu wrote:
>> I'm having problems recieving local wmi events from Win32_NTLogEvent class. It turns
>> out that I want to know which user starts or stops services. I set a watcher for that
>> propose and it raises the following exception:
>>
>> x_access_denied:<x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147352567, 'Ocurri\xf3 una exce
>> pci\xf3n.', (0, u'SWbemServicesEx', u'Acceso denegado ', None, 0, -2147217405),
>> None)>
>>
>> I have done the same with other classes and everything works just fine.
>>
>> The script is running from the system's administration account. Do I need to provide
>> extra privileges in con = wmi.WMI()?
>>
>> Could anyone help me figure out what is happening, please?
>
> Did you look at the documentation?
>      http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394226.aspx
> The very first paragraph says:
>
>      An application must have SeSecurityPrivilege to receive events from
>      the security event log, otherwise "Access Denied" is returned to the
>      application.
>
> -2147217405 is 0x80041003, which is WBEM_E_ACCESS_DENIED, just like it says.
>
> It takes a surprising amount of code to acquire a privilege.  Here is
> some Python code that shows how to do it:

Well, I think I can help out on three fronts here:

1) For WMI purposes, acquiring a privilege is as simple as adding a clause
to the WMI moniker. Using the wmi module, it's even easier:

c = wmi.WMI (privileges=["security"])

2) On W7, at least, in a non-elevated command prompt, this wasn't enough
to let me capture eventlog events: I had to run it in an elevated command
prompt.

3) If you did want to apply the priv to the whole process you were in
(as per the code Tim R pointed to) you might do worse than use my
winsys package:

<code>
from winsys import security

with security.change_privileges (["security"]):
   # do stuff

</code>

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winsys/security.html#security.change_privileges


However, I don't believe that's necessary here...
TJG

From rupole at hotmail.com  Thu Mar 10 23:37:42 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:37:42 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
References: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com> <4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk>
	<4D78B66D.9080701@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <ilbjrn$f6k$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote in message news:4D78B66D.9080701 at timgolden.me.uk...
> On 10/03/2011 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
>> On 09/03/2011 16:40, Graham Bloice wrote:
>>> The dll adsi.pyd is missing from the 216 build for Python 3.2. I've
>>> checked both the 32 and 64 bit variants and it's missing from both.
>>
>> Roger Upole can obviously speak for himself, but in a email
>> conversation I had with him a while back, he said that they hadn't
>> been able to build it because of an issue with the version
>> of SWIG they were using (or something). IOW, even if you were
>> to build pywin32 yourself, it still won't be there: it's not just
>> a distribution issue.
>
> And, to clarify, I mean that it couldn't be built under Python 3.x;
> ie adsi should be present in all Python 2.x builds and won't be
> present in any python 3.x build.
>
> TJG

That sums it up pretty well.

Here's the longer version:
The SWIG in Pywin32 had been customised to accomodate
COM objects that inherit from another interface.  Somewhere
along the line, the source code has been lost, so when I ported
SWIG to Python 3, I had to start from a clean source tree.

It should be possible to reverse engineer the custom code from
the output generated for Python 2, but nobody's had time to
do so yet.

     Roger




From rupole at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 12 01:54:01 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:54:01 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Conversion to Mercurial is done
References: <4D732417.6010800@skippinet.com.au>
	<AANLkTingKzzUt4KPzJUqa5DRT2iJiyS50pQtc6WA6aPb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ileg78$8k1$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Vernon Cole" <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote in message news:AANLkTingKzzUt4KPzJUqa5DRT2iJiyS50pQtc6WA6aPb at mail.gmail.com...
> Working fine here.  Here's a sample for anyone who has not tried sourceforge
> hg before.
> I have PuTTY loaded on this machine, and already have my ssh keys set up on
> sourceforge -- just like with CVS.
> Mercurial is loaded using the binary installer.
> And, I actually remembered to load my sourceforge keys into Pagent before I
> started. ;-)
>
> In order to get read/write access, I used the ssh:// url as documented on
> the page Mark referenced.
> https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=hg&group_id=78018
>
> If your are reading a rich text (html) version of this, my input below
> is highlighted
> in yellow.
> Don't copy this exactly, you will need to use your own username where I have
> "kf7xm".
> I keep my mercurial trees in a C:\hg folder. YMMV
>
> I had the usual "The server's host key is not cached in the registry"
> problem.
> Solved by running a quick plink command to the server in question:
>
> <screen dump>
> C:\hg>plink kf7xm at pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net ls
> The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
> have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
> think it is.
> The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
> ssh-rsa 2048 86:7b:1b:12:85:35:8a:b7:98:b6:d2:97:5e:96:58:1d
> If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to
> PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.
> If you want to carry on connecting just once, without
> adding the key to the cache, enter "n".
> If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the
> connection.
> Store key in cache? (y/n) y
>
> Welcome to *.hg.sourceforge.net
> <snip>
> C:\hg>hg clone ssh://kf7xm at pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net/hgroot/pywin32/pywin32
> destination directory: pywin32
> requesting all changes
> adding changesets
> adding manifests
> adding file changes
> added 4100 changesets with 9863 changes to 1831 files (+1 heads)
> updating to branch default
> 1545 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> <snip>
> C:\hg>cd pywin32
> C:\hg>dir
> </screen dump>
> --
> Vernon
>
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
> wrote:
>> I've converted the CVS repository to a Mercurial (hg) and after a few
> tweaks [...]
>

Thanks for the tips.  I just got around to trying out the Mercurial
repository, and this was a big help.

While I was installing TortoiseHg so that I could pull down the
Pywin32 source, I discovered that it uses Pywin32 !

         Roger







From rupole at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 12 02:16:38 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:16:38 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
References: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com>
	<4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk><4D78B66D.9080701@timgolden.me.uk>
	<ilbjrn$f6k$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <ilehhl$do7$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ilbjrn$f6k$1 at dough.gmane.org...
>
> "Tim Golden" <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote in message news:4D78B66D.9080701 at timgolden.me.uk...
>> On 10/03/2011 11:29, Tim Golden wrote:
>>> On 09/03/2011 16:40, Graham Bloice wrote:
>>>> The dll adsi.pyd is missing from the 216 build for Python 3.2. I've
>>>> checked both the 32 and 64 bit variants and it's missing from both.
>>>
>>> Roger Upole can obviously speak for himself, but in a email
>>> conversation I had with him a while back, he said that they hadn't
>>> been able to build it because of an issue with the version
>>> of SWIG they were using (or something). IOW, even if you were
>>> to build pywin32 yourself, it still won't be there: it's not just
>>> a distribution issue.
>>
>> And, to clarify, I mean that it couldn't be built under Python 3.x;
>> ie adsi should be present in all Python 2.x builds and won't be
>> present in any python 3.x build.
>>
>> TJG
>
> That sums it up pretty well.
>
> Here's the longer version:
> The SWIG in Pywin32 had been customised to accomodate
> COM objects that inherit from another interface.  Somewhere
> along the line, the source code has been lost, so when I ported
> SWIG to Python 3, I had to start from a clean source tree.
>
> It should be possible to reverse engineer the custom code from
> the output generated for Python 2, but nobody's had time to
> do so yet.
>
>     Roger

I took a look at this some more, and was able to get adsi built
for python 3.1 using the module (adsi.cpp) as generated by the Py3k port
of swig, and the interfaces (PyIADs****.cpp) as generated by the
Python2 version of Swig, with just a few manual modifications.
If anybody needs adsi for Py3k really badly, we could "un-swig" it
temporarily.

On an ironic note, I was going to see how much work it would
take to duplicate the lost custom code in our Py3k port of swig,
but I seem to have lost the source code somehow ....

           Roger




From linjunhalida at gmail.com  Mon Mar 14 01:19:08 2011
From: linjunhalida at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?5py65qKw5ZSv54mp5Li75LmJIDogbGluanVuaGFsaWRh?=)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:19:08 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] [adodbapi]cannot query date type? any example please?
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=HK_7d569vsN0+eX1maYE+ENrivTW0PiCK4Dud@mail.gmail.com>

hello, is there any example for adodbapi? (more then testcase ship
with installer)
need to filter query result by time, but got error:

>>> adodbapi.version
'adodbapi v2.4.0'

Background.mdb has this table t:
create table t (data string, t date);

here is the code:

import adodbapi, win32com
import adodbapi.ado_consts as adc
import datetime, time

def main():
    filename = u"c:/workspace/Background.mdb"
    connect_string = u'DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver
(*.mdb)};DBQ=%s;' % filename

    conn = adodbapi.connect(connect_string)
    cursor = conn.cursor()

    v = datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 11, 40, 1)

    s = u'select t from t '
    cursor.execute(s)

    out = cursor.fetchall()
    for row in out: print row

    s = u'select t from t where t between ? and ?'
    cursor.execute(s, (v, v))

    out = cursor.fetchall()
    for row in out: print row


if __name__=="__main__":
    main()

here is the error:

adodbapi.adodbapi.DataError: Converting Parameter p0: adDBTimeStamp,
None <- datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 11, 40, 1)


thanks for your help!

From linjunhalida at gmail.com  Mon Mar 14 02:15:14 2011
From: linjunhalida at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?5py65qKw5ZSv54mp5Li75LmJIDogbGluanVuaGFsaWRh?=)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:15:14 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] [adodbapi]cannot query date type? any example
	please?
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=HK_7d569vsN0+eX1maYE+ENrivTW0PiCK4Dud@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=HK_7d569vsN0+eX1maYE+ENrivTW0PiCK4Dud@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinvem5rRw_0+STFQor2sD+Z9bb4ROS4YfAP075X@mail.gmail.com>

OK, got it.

use this method:
sql = 'select * from t where t between #%s# and #%s#' %
(t1.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p'), t1.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S
%p'))

ugly but works...

2011/3/14 ?????? : linjunhalida <linjunhalida at gmail.com>:
> hello, is there any example for adodbapi? (more then testcase ship
> with installer)
> need to filter query result by time, but got error:
>
>>>> adodbapi.version
> 'adodbapi v2.4.0'
>
> Background.mdb has this table t:
> create table t (data string, t date);
>
> here is the code:
>
> import adodbapi, win32com
> import adodbapi.ado_consts as adc
> import datetime, time
>
> def main():
> ? ?filename = u"c:/workspace/Background.mdb"
> ? ?connect_string = u'DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver
> (*.mdb)};DBQ=%s;' % filename
>
> ? ?conn = adodbapi.connect(connect_string)
> ? ?cursor = conn.cursor()
>
> ? ?v = datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 11, 40, 1)
>
> ? ?s = u'select t from t '
> ? ?cursor.execute(s)
>
> ? ?out = cursor.fetchall()
> ? ?for row in out: print row
>
> ? ?s = u'select t from t where t between ? and ?'
> ? ?cursor.execute(s, (v, v))
>
> ? ?out = cursor.fetchall()
> ? ?for row in out: print row
>
>
> if __name__=="__main__":
> ? ?main()
>
> here is the error:
>
> adodbapi.adodbapi.DataError: Converting Parameter p0: adDBTimeStamp,
> None <- datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 27, 11, 40, 1)
>
>
> thanks for your help!
>

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Mon Mar 14 07:27:48 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:27:48 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] GetScrollInfo and SetScrollInfo method signatures?
Message-ID: <4D7DB564.8090103@canterbury.ac.nz>

According to the pywin32 docs, PyCWnd.GetScrollInfo and
PyCWnd.SetScrollInfo have the following signatures:

    int = GetScrollInfo(nBar, mask)
    int = SetScrollInfo(nBar, redraw)

Surely these can't be right? Shouldn't there be a
SCROLLINFO struct involved there somewhere?

-- 
Greg

From rupole at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 14 09:19:39 2011
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:19:39 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] GetScrollInfo and SetScrollInfo method
	signatures?
References: <4D7DB564.8090103@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <ilkj2l$ui5$1@dough.gmane.org>


"Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote in message news:4D7DB564.8090103 at canterbury.ac.nz...
> According to the pywin32 docs, PyCWnd.GetScrollInfo and
> PyCWnd.SetScrollInfo have the following signatures:
>
>    int = GetScrollInfo(nBar, mask)
>    int = SetScrollInfo(nBar, redraw)
>
> Surely these can't be right? Shouldn't there be a
> SCROLLINFO struct involved there somewhere?
>
> -- 
> Greg

Yep, the docs are wrong for these.
The second arg to SetScrollInfo is a tuple to be parsed into
the struct, and redraw is 3rd.

The args are correct for GetScrollInfo, but the
return value is a SCROLLINFO tuple, not an int.

        Roger




From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Mar 14 10:07:49 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:07:49 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Missing adsi.pyd, pwin32-216
In-Reply-To: <ilehhl$do7$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <4D77AD62.8000208@trihedral.com>	<4D78B609.5080501@timgolden.me.uk><4D78B66D.9080701@timgolden.me.uk>	<ilbjrn$f6k$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<ilehhl$do7$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4D7DDAE5.3080407@timgolden.me.uk>

On 12/03/2011 01:16, Roger Upole wrote:
> I took a look at this some more, and was able to get adsi built
> for python 3.1 using the module (adsi.cpp) as generated by the Py3k port
> of swig, and the interfaces (PyIADs****.cpp) as generated by the
> Python2 version of Swig, with just a few manual modifications.
> If anybody needs adsi for Py3k really badly, we could "un-swig" it
> temporarily.

Well, I don't know about "really badly" but at the moment a
Py3K port of my active_directory module is basically stalled
as I have to decide whether to: revert to IDispatch-only objects;
roll my own interface to the IADs objects; or try to fix the
pywin32 adsi module. None of them is trivial so a leg-up in the
shape of a working adsi would help move that forward.

Thanks

TJG

From bwillmarth at gmail.com  Fri Mar 18 01:13:28 2011
From: bwillmarth at gmail.com (Blake Willmarth)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:13:28 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Clicking an li tag in Internet Explorer
Message-ID: <AANLkTin8Xshb38v22mVKo=e8HYiJc7bn2Ue=dBk3bfKR@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am having trouble navigating the MS documentation to find out how to click
an <li> element. I only have the class attribute name as the identifying
feature: <li class="NextEnabled" onclick="..."/>

The one hope I had was ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("li") but this seems
to be only getting <a> tags.

Any pointers would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Blake
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From bwillmarth at gmail.com  Fri Mar 18 01:39:22 2011
From: bwillmarth at gmail.com (Blake Willmarth)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:39:22 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Clicking an li tag in Internet Explorer
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8Xshb38v22mVKo=e8HYiJc7bn2Ue=dBk3bfKR@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTin8Xshb38v22mVKo=e8HYiJc7bn2Ue=dBk3bfKR@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikw744uGPHRtMt5Ftp23FcHAww=U8QuD4=3-rwO@mail.gmail.com>

I was wrong about them being links, the method does work as intended and I
was able to click the correct one using the className attribute:

    liTags = ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("li")
    for i in range(liTags.Length):
        if liTags[i].className == "NextEnabled":
            liTags[i].Click()

Sorry.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Blake Willmarth <bwillmarth at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble navigating the MS documentation to find out how to
> click an <li> element. I only have the class attribute name as the
> identifying feature: <li class="NextEnabled" onclick="..."/>
>
> The one hope I had was ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("li") but this
> seems to be only getting <a> tags.
>
> Any pointers would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
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From python-win32 at recluse.demon.co.uk  Fri Mar 18 19:47:38 2011
From: python-win32 at recluse.demon.co.uk (nobody)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:47:38 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Event problems in Excel 2007/Windows 7/Python 2.6
Message-ID: <4D83A8CA.6060804@recluse.demon.co.uk>

I have Excel 2007 on Windows7 on a twin CPU machine and am trying to get
events to fire from the COM objects in win32com examples.

Specifically, when I load the excelAddin.py example, all looks good and
the Python menu item appears on the menubar (ribbon) but clicking on it
does nothing.

Trying the excelRTDserver.py example has similar problem - the time
comes up when I enter the formula in Excel and a bit of judicious
logging shows the Update function called like clockwork (;-) but the
SignalExcel() function has no effect - the time in Excel does not tick
and RefreshData is never called. I messed about with trying to capture
the Excel callback object thread and using CoInitialise and
CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream to get a reference to it on the Excel
original (COM) thread but this all had no effect (either through my
incompetence or failure of the approach to fix the problem). If I change
the formula in Excel to have a different timer period then it updates
the time once when I hit Enter then sits there unchanging again. The
Heartbeats are called (by Excel) and responded to as usual.

I tried to use the win32 timer example in place of the python Thread
timers but this just caused Excel to call ServerTerminate() on me so I
have obviously done something it finds offensive - I just get NA in
Excel after that.

I added the C:\Python26 directory and subdirs to the Trusted Locations
in Excel, and also the parent directory where I have my examples stored,
but to no avail.

Is anyone aware of some extra security or policy setting I need enabled
for these events to start working ?

Was I barking up the wrong tree with trying to get back to the calling
thread or is this at the heart of the problem and I just failed to
implement it properly ? There are examples of using the calling thread
in other examples but they are on the client side - the one that uses
internet explorer seems to work fine for me.

My ultimate goal is to link Excel to remote python processes using STOMP
on ActiveMQ. I can send STOMP messages from Excel via Python into my
ActiveMQ pipe with ease, and do 'synchronous' receives, using win32com
magic, and I can make the Excel async receives work after a fashion by
polling in a loop which includes DoEvents but this is not very
satisfactory - I really want to generate events from a Python COM object
on a message receive and use the RTD mechanism or something WithEvents
of my own devising, but I cannot make this work.

Any idea what has become broken in Excel/Windows/Python 2.6 ?

Thanks
Rick




From rsyring at inteli-com.com  Fri Mar 18 22:28:35 2011
From: rsyring at inteli-com.com (Randy Syring)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:28:35 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
Message-ID: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>

I'm working on a backup solution using the ZFS file system.  The idea is 
somewhat like rdiff-backup, except that the backup tool doesn't need to 
worry about versioning, compressiong, or deduplicating the files.  ZFS 
will handle compression and deduplication.  rsnapshot will handle 
versioning.

The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from 
windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs.  I am thinking about building a 
client for windows machines in python that would be responsible for 
copying the files to the backup server's "staging" area.  It would need 
to A) use an rsync like protocal so only deltas get sent over the 
network B) use VSS for hot-backups and C) preserve ACL info on the 
backed up files.  I have good leads on A & B, but not sure about C, 
hence this email.

Obviously, it would be ideal if something like this already existed, but 
I am not aware of anything.  rdiff-backup is close, but I just don't 
need all the extra versioning stuff it does.

Thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

-- 
--------------------------------------
Randy Syring
Intelicom
Direct: 502-276-0459
Office: 502-212-9913

For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23)


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar 18 22:34:49 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:34:49 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
Message-ID: <4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>

On 18/03/2011 9:28 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
> The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from
> windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs.

I assume that you only want to preserve them as metadata, not
to map them somehow to whatever security model obtains on the
Linux disk?

The only kind of thing I can come up with (hand-wavingly) is to
convert the SD of each file to its equivalent SDDL and then to
track that along with the file. I was going to suggest stuffing
it in an ADS but presumably that wouldn't survive the journey
to Linux either. No doubt you could contrive some kind of
parallel metadata/database which could hold the info...

The additional complication with ACLs (especially when it comes
to restoring them) is coping with the levels of inheritance and
override.

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar 18 23:21:03 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:21:03 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
	<4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D83DACF.3070207@timgolden.me.uk>

On 18/03/2011 9:34 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 9:28 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
>> The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from
>> windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs.
>
> I assume that you only want to preserve them as metadata, not
> to map them somehow to whatever security model obtains on the
> Linux disk?
>
> The only kind of thing I can come up with (hand-wavingly) is to
> convert the SD of each file to its equivalent SDDL and then to
> track that along with the file. I was going to suggest stuffing
> it in an ADS but presumably that wouldn't survive the journey
> to Linux either. No doubt you could contrive some kind of
> parallel metadata/database which could hold the info...

... or even (slightly wild-eyed thought) including the SDDL as
a segment in the backed-up filename, suitably escaped. Semi-tested
proof of concept:

<code>
import os, sys
import win32security
import win32file

if not os.path.exists ("c:/temp/sddl"):
   os.mkdir ("c:/temp/sddl")

for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk ("c:/temp"):
   for filename in filenames:
     print filename
     sd = win32security.GetFileSecurity (
       os.path.join (dirpath, filename),
       win32security.DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION
     )
     sddl = win32security.ConvertSecurityDescriptorToStringSecurityDescriptor (
       sd,
       win32security.SDDL_REVISION_1,
       win32security.DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION
     )
     print sddl
     base, ext = os.path.splitext (filename)
     win32file.CopyFile (
       os.path.join (dirpath, filename),
       os.path.join ("c:/temp/sddl", base + "." + sddl.replace (":", "#") + ext),
       1
     )

   break

</code>

TJG

From rsyring at inteli-com.com  Fri Mar 18 23:33:41 2011
From: rsyring at inteli-com.com (Randy Syring)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:33:41 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
	<4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D83DDC5.90603@inteli-com.com>


On 03/18/2011 05:34 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 9:28 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
>> The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from
>> windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs.
>
> I assume that you only want to preserve them as metadata, not
> to map them somehow to whatever security model obtains on the
> Linux disk?
Correct.
>
> The only kind of thing I can come up with (hand-wavingly) is to
> convert the SD of each file to its equivalent SDDL and then to
> track that along with the file. I was going to suggest stuffing
> it in an ADS but presumably that wouldn't survive the journey
> to Linux either. No doubt you could contrive some kind of
> parallel metadata/database which could hold the info...
Ok, I read up on my accronyms.  Is there anything in the windows python 
landscape that implements SD <=> SDDL or would be a building block to 
doing so?  Looks like the following might fit the bill:

http://code.google.com/p/pysddl/source/browse/trunk/sddl.py/sddl.py

I'm also wondering what the best method would be for creating this 
information and sending it to the backup server.  Should I create a temp 
file every time I do backups, send the file to the server, then delete 
the file.  Or should I cache the info somewhere.  Any suggestions?
>
> The additional complication with ACLs (especially when it comes
> to restoring them) is coping with the levels of inheritance and
> override.
>
Dully noted.  Any advice or code examples that might help with this?

--------------------------------------
Randy Syring
Intelicom
Direct: 502-276-0459
Office: 502-212-9913

For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23)


From btimby at gmail.com  Sat Mar 19 01:21:11 2011
From: btimby at gmail.com (Ben Timby)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:21:11 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikY3irz6LrsCyxSvTfWxRFgYe2sD5gbShgZf4+d@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Randy Syring <rsyring at inteli-com.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a backup solution using the ZFS file system. ?The idea is
> somewhat like rdiff-backup, except that the backup tool doesn't need to
> worry about versioning, compressiong, or deduplicating the files. ?ZFS will
> handle compression and deduplication. ?rsnapshot will handle versioning.
>
> The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from
> windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs. ?I am thinking about building a
> client for windows machines in python that would be responsible for copying
> the files to the backup server's "staging" area. ?It would need to A) use an
> rsync like protocal so only deltas get sent over the network B) use VSS for
> hot-backups and C) preserve ACL info on the backed up files. ?I have good
> leads on A & B, but not sure about C, hence this email.
>
> Obviously, it would be ideal if something like this already existed, but I
> am not aware of anything. ?rdiff-backup is close, but I just don't need all
> the extra versioning stuff it does.

I would suggest looking at Samba. This would help you solve two problems.

1. Transporting files to the Linux server.
2. The ACL issue, you can use extended ACL support, which, when
integrated with a Windows domain, can map UID/GID to objects in the
domain. Winbind allows this by mapping Windows objects to UID/GID on
the Linux machine through the magic of nsswitch.

Extended acls are then managed Linux-side using setfacl and getfacl. I
have set this up using the ext3 file system, so I am not sure about
ZFS support. I know that samba supports extended ACLs on Solaris ZFS,
but could not find a definitive answer either way when using ZFS on
Linux. Worth a look though.

Another possiblity is to look for an archive format that supports the
meta data you want. For example on Linux tar contains all the modes
and other file meta data needed to restore the files. If there is not
an existing similar archive format you can use on Windows, then you
can "extend" one by appending a .catalog file that contains the
pickled file meta data. Then a simple python module can create the
.catalog file and then create the archive using the regular tool
appending the .catalog to it. Restoring would be equally simple by
extracting the files and then restoring the meta data (and deleting
the .catalog file).

From rsyring at inteli-com.com  Sat Mar 19 02:31:07 2011
From: rsyring at inteli-com.com (Randy Syring)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:31:07 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83DACF.3070207@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>	<4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk>
	<4D83DACF.3070207@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D84075B.4000506@inteli-com.com>


On 03/18/2011 06:21 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> ... or even (slightly wild-eyed thought) including the SDDL as
> a segment in the backed-up filename, suitably escaped. Semi-tested
> proof of concept: 

I don't think I would head that route.  Using an rsync like protocol, 
every time permissions changed, the file would be re-sent b/c the file 
name would be different.  Better, I think, to include it some other way.

--------------------------------------
Randy Syring
Intelicom
Direct: 502-276-0459
Office: 502-212-9913

For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23)



From rsyring at inteli-com.com  Sat Mar 19 02:40:17 2011
From: rsyring at inteli-com.com (Randy Syring)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:40:17 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikY3irz6LrsCyxSvTfWxRFgYe2sD5gbShgZf4+d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
	<AANLkTikY3irz6LrsCyxSvTfWxRFgYe2sD5gbShgZf4+d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D840981.5000900@inteli-com.com>


On 03/18/2011 08:21 PM, Ben Timby wrote:
> I would suggest looking at Samba. This would help you solve two problems.
>
> 1. Transporting files to the Linux server.
> 2. The ACL issue, you can use extended ACL support, which, when
> integrated with a Windows domain, can map UID/GID to objects in the
> domain. Winbind allows this by mapping Windows objects to UID/GID on
> the Linux machine through the magic of nsswitch.
It might help w/ the ACL issue.  It looks like posix ACLs lose some 
fidelity, but with ZFS and NFS v4 ACLs, there is a much greater 
precision.  However, this would defeat some of what I am looking for b/c 
I want to transfer files w/ rsync.  Just doing a copy to network share 
might feasibly keep the ACLs, but, I think, would send all files over 
the network.
> Another possiblity is to look for an archive format that supports the
> meta data you want. For example on Linux tar contains all the modes
> and other file meta data needed to restore the files. If there is not
> an existing similar archive format you can use on Windows, then you
> can "extend" one by appending a .catalog file that contains the
> pickled file meta data. Then a simple python module can create the
> .catalog file and then create the archive using the regular tool
> appending the .catalog to it. Restoring would be equally simple by
> extracting the files and then restoring the meta data (and deleting
> the .catalog file).
A possibility, but I want to only send deltas over the network.  So I 
won't be packaging/zipping files.

I guess, I could keep a data store of flat files of some kind with ACL 
information.  Each backup operation would go through directories, 
re-create the flat file with ACL info, then backup the actual files in 
that directory, backup the file with ACL info, then repeat.

--------------------------------------
Randy Syring
Intelicom
Direct: 502-276-0459
Office: 502-212-9913

For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life in
Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom 6:23)



From btimby at gmail.com  Sat Mar 19 02:50:50 2011
From: btimby at gmail.com (Ben Timby)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:50:50 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D840981.5000900@inteli-com.com>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
	<AANLkTikY3irz6LrsCyxSvTfWxRFgYe2sD5gbShgZf4+d@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D840981.5000900@inteli-com.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimc1igDaHAHiDWiUqo__Hpf14LZkeBH89MzAwEC@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Randy Syring <rsyring at inteli-com.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/18/2011 08:21 PM, Ben Timby wrote:
>>
>> I would suggest looking at Samba. This would help you solve two problems.
>>
>> 1. Transporting files to the Linux server.
>> 2. The ACL issue, you can use extended ACL support, which, when
>> integrated with a Windows domain, can map UID/GID to objects in the
>> domain. Winbind allows this by mapping Windows objects to UID/GID on
>> the Linux machine through the magic of nsswitch.
>
> It might help w/ the ACL issue. ?It looks like posix ACLs lose some
> fidelity, but with ZFS and NFS v4 ACLs, there is a much greater precision.
> ?However, this would defeat some of what I am looking for b/c I want to
> transfer files w/ rsync. ?Just doing a copy to network share might feasibly
> keep the ACLs, but, I think, would send all files over the network.

rsync syncs to a directory as well as it syncs to a remote server.
Just use rsync to sync to the network drive, and samba will transfer
only the diff. You will see some reads as rsync calculates the
checksums of each file to calculate the diff though. Of course it only
does this if the file's date changed, so most compares will be fast
timestamp compares only. In the case where a file actually changes, a
network read (via samba) will happen so that rsync can calculate each
block's checksum for the comparison.

>> Another possiblity is to look for an archive format that supports the
>> meta data you want. For example on Linux tar contains all the modes
>> and other file meta data needed to restore the files. If there is not
>> an existing similar archive format you can use on Windows, then you
>> can "extend" one by appending a .catalog file that contains the
>> pickled file meta data. Then a simple python module can create the
>> .catalog file and then create the archive using the regular tool
>> appending the .catalog to it. Restoring would be equally simple by
>> extracting the files and then restoring the meta data (and deleting
>> the .catalog file).
>
> A possibility, but I want to only send deltas over the network. ?So I won't
> be packaging/zipping files.
>
> I guess, I could keep a data store of flat files of some kind with ACL
> information. ?Each backup operation would go through directories, re-create
> the flat file with ACL info, then backup the actual files in that directory,
> backup the file with ACL info, then repeat.

Archive does not necessarily mean compress. Also, one big file deltas
just as easily as a bunch of small ones. The storage will be more
compact as you don't waste block sized chunks on small files.

The flip side, with the rsync approach, just create the ACL file and
let rsync sync it. For a restore, sync back and then apply the ACLs.

Either option has it's merits, I think you have quite a few possibilities now.

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Sat Mar 19 06:31:03 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:31:03 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] ANN: PyGUI 2.4
Message-ID: <4D843F97.1010008@canterbury.ac.nz>

PyGUI 2.4 is available:

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

Highlights of this release:

* Python 3 Compatible on MacOSX and Windows.

* ScrollableView has been overhauled on Windows and should now
   work with all builds of pywin32 as far as I know.


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 mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Mar 19 08:13:58 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:13:58 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Backup up Windows ACLs
In-Reply-To: <4D83DDC5.90603@inteli-com.com>
References: <4D83CE83.6050409@inteli-com.com>
	<4D83CFF9.5010303@timgolden.me.uk> <4D83DDC5.90603@inteli-com.com>
Message-ID: <4D8457B6.8060509@timgolden.me.uk>

On 18/03/2011 10:33 PM, Randy Syring wrote:
> Ok, I read up on my accronyms.  Is there anything in the windows python
> landscape that implements SD<=>  SDDL or would be a building block to
> doing so?

See my slightly later post for an example.

[Tim Golden]
>> The additional complication with ACLs (especially when it comes
>> to restoring them) is coping with the levels of inheritance and
>> override.
>>
> Dully noted.  Any advice or code examples that might help with this?

Not much:

* Use Backup (for reading) and Restore (for writing) privileges
   to get/set the permissions. They're intended for your very
   use case.

* The standard SetSecurityInfo handles the inheritance for you IIRC
   but also -- helpfully -- ignores it when you try to set a permission
   which is already inherited. I haven't looked at this recently but
   I'm fairly sure that's what I remember. This means that you might
   just be able to run down the tree restoring files and applying
   security willy-nilly and get away with it.

One obvious issue is mapping SIDs, if you're restoring onto a system
which wasn't the originator, or if accounts have been removed since
then...

TJG

From jjmmma at gmail.com  Sat Mar 19 15:01:17 2011
From: jjmmma at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?6aas5ZCJ6LuN?=)
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:01:17 +0800
Subject: [python-win32] [pygtk] ANN: PyGUI 2.4
In-Reply-To: <4D843F97.1010008@canterbury.ac.nz>
References: <4D843F97.1010008@canterbury.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <AANLkTik_rHvOshRSwnE2r2aeRBajhdtB7vv5271a+oeF@mail.gmail.com>

excellent work.
that's what i'm seeking for.

BRs,
Kimi
????
<http://www.chachafille.com>


On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:

> PyGUI 2.4 is available:
>
>  http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/
>
> Highlights of this release:
>
> * Python 3 Compatible on MacOSX and Windows.
>
> * ScrollableView has been overhauled on Windows and should now
>  work with all builds of pywin32 as far as I know.
>
>
> 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/
> _______________________________________________
> pygtk mailing list   pygtk at daa.com.au
> http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk
> Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
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From barton at bcdesignswell.com  Sun Mar 20 21:04:43 2011
From: barton at bcdesignswell.com (Barton)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:04:43 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32
Message-ID: <4D865DDB.7010701@bcdesignswell.com>

Ok, I'm in.
(I am a win32 guy, but am beginning to like the platform less and less)
I now successfully mix and match freely on GTK and Windows using wxPython + PythonDotNet + Mono or .NET in full GUI apps.
It sound like this discussion is not necessarily 100% win32, or is it?

Some comments on GUI performance:
     The ONLY time that I've seen .NET react noticeably slowly was under Ipy.

I got into the .Net connector project because I wanted to learn C# on an interesting project.
I find Tim's use of the technology to be spot on.
I don't plan on switching from python + wx to .NET/Mono, but it sure is nice to be able to pull components from where ever they live!

On 02/27/2011 08:08 AM, Benjamin Aranguren wrote:On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Tim Golden<mail at timgolden.me.uk  <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32>>  wrote:
>/  On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote:
/>>/
/>>/  Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by "barton_c", and Python27
/>>/  "support" (ie switches") were added 2 months ago. Looks like "Barton_C"
/>>/  needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can contact him/her through
/>>/  sf.
/>/
/>/  Got this reply from Barton, who's not subscribed to this list:
/
since when is being subscribed a prerequisite to commenting?

>/
/>/  """
/>/  Using the current state of the art, I freely mix wxPython, MS Framework 2.0
/>/  (others are hooking to .NET 4.0) and ctypes in full GUI apps and drivers.
/>/  The current challenge for me is getting the whole thing working (together)
/>/  on Ubuntu Maverick (10.10).
/>/  I have brought the PythonDotNet project up to python27 compatibility, but
/>/  have not published the binaries yet.
/>/
/>/  """
/


From agn82kv at gmail.com  Mon Mar 21 10:32:02 2011
From: agn82kv at gmail.com (agnel varghese)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:02:02 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] ImportError: No module named win32com.shell
Message-ID: <AANLkTim_0ED73qLTGnoPF-CM1TartJG9VF5JbGz+2SM0@mail.gmail.com>

Hi ,

I am trying to control a GUI based application through one python script
.Getting below error while running it.Any ideas how to resolve it
ImportError: No module named win32com.shell

Thanks,
Agnel.

$ pythonw ssc.py scanlist -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ssc.py", line 52, in <module>
import SSCConfig
File "c:\ssc_auto\lib\SSCConfig.py", line 103, in <module>
import PathFinder
File "c:\ssc_auto\lib\PathFinder.py", line 11, in <module>
from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
ImportError: No module named win32com.shell
ngwc-aaa at cavium-wireless /cygdrive/c/ssc_auto
$
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From agn82kv at gmail.com  Mon Mar 21 11:16:27 2011
From: agn82kv at gmail.com (agnel varghese)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:46:27 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] ImportError: No module named win32com.shell
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_0ED73qLTGnoPF-CM1TartJG9VF5JbGz+2SM0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTim_0ED73qLTGnoPF-CM1TartJG9VF5JbGz+2SM0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimopuPBc=nxh5daB3Sgom43QNNkFiDJ8iQRmoZf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi ,

I am trying to control a GUI based application through one python script
.Getting below error while running it.Any ideas how to resolve it
ImportError: No module named win32com.shell

Thanks,
Agnel.

$ pythonw ssc.py scanlist -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ssc.py", line 52, in <module>
import SSCConfig
File "c:\ssc_auto\lib\SSCConfig.py"
>
> , line 103, in <module>
> import PathFinder
> File "c:\ssc_auto\lib\PathFinder.py", line 11, in <module>
> from win32com.shell import shellcon, shell
> ImportError: No module named win32com.shell
>
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From nabil.servais at gmail.com  Mon Mar 21 12:05:28 2011
From: nabil.servais at gmail.com (Nabil Servais)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:05:28 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] DLL load failed
Message-ID: <AANLkTinwgJXBK517bJM1Z4Y6g4JQU7wVhbQUaE6MDKv8@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I packaged an application for windows with py2exe, and when I launch
the executable I have some this errors :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logon.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "eole\option.pyo", line 4, in <module>
  File "eole\reg.pyo", line 9, in <module>
  File "eole\os_type.pyo", line 4, in <module>
  File "win32api.pyo", line 12, in <module>
  File "win32api.pyo", line 10, in __load

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.

I use python 2.6 and pywin32-216 on Windows XP SP3, the application
was coded first with python 2.5.

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Mar 21 15:07:12 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:07:12 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] ImportError: No module named win32com.shell
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimopuPBc=nxh5daB3Sgom43QNNkFiDJ8iQRmoZf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTim_0ED73qLTGnoPF-CM1TartJG9VF5JbGz+2SM0@mail.gmail.com>
	<AANLkTimopuPBc=nxh5daB3Sgom43QNNkFiDJ8iQRmoZf@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D875B90.30602@timgolden.me.uk>

On 21/03/2011 10:16, agnel varghese wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I am trying to control a GUI based application through one python script
> .Getting below error while running it.Any ideas how to resolve it
> ImportError: No module named win32com.shell

You want to install the pywin32 extensions:

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

TJG

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Tue Mar 22 16:54:09 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:54:09 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
Message-ID: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us>

Hi,

Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in 
Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail 
somehow. I'm going to need to do that with the right-click context menu 
that appears when people right-click a file too. Any ideas would be 
great. Even if I have to use VBA (ugh) instead of Python.

Thanks a lot! I'm on Windows XP with Office 2003 using Python 2.5 or 2.6

- Mike

From timr at probo.com  Tue Mar 22 17:44:54 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:44:54 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <4D88D206.3010407@probo.com>

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in 
> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail 
> somehow.

Well, let's brainstorm for a moment.  That link fires up the "default
mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry. 
Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
the same thing.  Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.

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


From tony at tony.gen.nz  Wed Mar 23 03:02:02 2011
From: tony at tony.gen.nz (Tony Wallace)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:02:02 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started
Message-ID: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone

I am trying to develop a python application for the windows platform.  As
such occasionally I do need to interact with the operating system.  I am
using windows XP.

I have in the past tried to use python tools with windows, but for some
reason that escapes me, they all seem to require ancient versions of
Microsofts C compiler, which I don't have.

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there somewhere I can get this?  When I was
programming in foxpro I could "DECLARE" an external reference to the
operating system and then "CALL" the required functions.  Does Python
support simply calling Win32 functions?

I have spent a bit of time trying to do something that should be relatively
simple and I am getting frustrated at my lack of progress.


Tony
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From Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au  Wed Mar 23 04:13:18 2011
From: Andrew.MacIntyre at acma.gov.au (Andrew MacIntyre)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:13:18 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started [SEC=PERSONAL]
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A09DCE99D720C841A141B0311AEFE51202F6EC@act01exc01.internal.govt>

PythonWin (http://starship.python.net/~skippy/win32/) wraps a lot of the
Windows API.

 

ctypes (http://python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/), included with Python
2.5 and later (http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html), provides
foreign function support.

 

comtypes (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/comtypes/) builds on
ctypes to access COM.

 

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From: python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov.au at python.org] On
Behalf Of Tony Wallace
Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 1:02 PM
To: python-win32 at python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started

 

Hi everyone

 

I am trying to develop a python application for the windows platform.
As such occasionally I do need to interact with the operating system.  I
am using windows XP.

 

I have in the past tried to use python tools with windows, but for some
reason that escapes me, they all seem to require ancient versions of
Microsofts C compiler, which I don't have.  

 

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there somewhere I can get this?  When I
was programming in foxpro I could "DECLARE" an external reference to the
operating system and then "CALL" the required functions.  Does Python
support simply calling Win32 functions?

 

I have spent a bit of time trying to do something that should be
relatively simple and I am getting frustrated at my lack of progress.

 

 

Tony


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From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Wed Mar 23 14:59:52 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:59:52 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <4D88D206.3010407@probo.com>
References: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us> <4D88D206.3010407@probo.com>
Message-ID: <4D89FCD8.5090802@co.marshall.ia.us>

On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in
>> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail
>> somehow.
> Well, let's brainstorm for a moment.  That link fires up the "default
> mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry.
> Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
> command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
> the same thing.  Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
> HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.
>

Well, on my PC  "HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail" is set to MS Outlook, but 
"HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail" is set to Thunderbird. If I right-click a 
file on my file system and send to to "Mail Recipient", it goes to 
Thunderbird. The Registry just has the name of the program in the keys, 
but nothing else.

If I try to use the Send To inside MS Word, I get an error dialog that 
says the following:

"Word could not load the e-mail envelope. This could be caused by a 
network connection problem or a problem with your Office installation."

- Mike


From luca at vulcanoweb.it  Wed Mar 23 15:51:03 2011
From: luca at vulcanoweb.it (Luca)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:51:03 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Set html in outlook mail
Message-ID: <014601cbe969$bb9e9040$32dbb0c0$@vulcanoweb.it>

Hi everybody, I?m trying to send an email via outlook and everything works
fine with the following code:

 

        obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

        for mail in Lmail:            

            newMail = obj.CreateItem(0)

            newMail.To = mail

            newMail.Subject = "Title"

            newMail.Body = "CIAO"

            newMail.Send()

 

Now I have to send an htm mail instead than normal plain text but I can?t
find anything to do that.

I tried something as

newMail.Html = "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>CIAO</BODY></HTML>"

but Html is not a property of COM object.

How can I do that? thanks

 

 

	
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Wed Mar 23 16:53:11 2011
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:53:11 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <4D89FCD8.5090802@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us> <4D88D206.3010407@probo.com>
	<4D89FCD8.5090802@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <AANLkTik6KFdWyWhK3-kcrhrCb3zJ__ytrzSrhJ1D=OEH@mail.gmail.com>

One of the executives where I used to work actually made use of the
?send to" feature in Word.  The resulting bloat that appeared was
appalling, and IIRC the recipient had to have Word installed to read
the mail, when she finally imported it. Perhaps later versions of Word
do a better job.  Our answer was to teach the user to send e-mail
using a mail agent, not his word processor. YMMV.
--
Vernon


On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Mike Driscoll
<mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
> On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>>
>> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in
>>> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail
>>> somehow.
>>
>> Well, let's brainstorm for a moment. ?That link fires up the "default
>> mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry.
>> Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
>> command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
>> the same thing. ?Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
>> HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.
>>
>
> Well, on my PC ?"HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail" is set to MS Outlook, but
> "HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail" is set to Thunderbird. If I right-click a file
> on my file system and send to to "Mail Recipient", it goes to Thunderbird.
> The Registry just has the name of the program in the keys, but nothing else.
>
> If I try to use the Send To inside MS Word, I get an error dialog that says
> the following:
>
> "Word could not load the e-mail envelope. This could be caused by a network
> connection problem or a problem with your Office installation."
>
> - Mike
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Wed Mar 23 16:55:55 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:55:55 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik6KFdWyWhK3-kcrhrCb3zJ__ytrzSrhJ1D=OEH@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4D88C621.3070306@co.marshall.ia.us> <4D88D206.3010407@probo.com>
	<4D89FCD8.5090802@co.marshall.ia.us>
	<AANLkTik6KFdWyWhK3-kcrhrCb3zJ__ytrzSrhJ1D=OEH@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8A180B.9000709@co.marshall.ia.us>

Hi Vernon,

On 3/23/2011 10:53 AM, Vernon Cole wrote:
> One of the executives where I used to work actually made use of the
> ?send to" feature in Word.  The resulting bloat that appeared was
> appalling, and IIRC the recipient had to have Word installed to read
> the mail, when she finally imported it. Perhaps later versions of Word
> do a better job.  Our answer was to teach the user to send e-mail
> using a mail agent, not his word processor. YMMV.
> --
> Vernon


Yeah, we've tried to do that for several years. They've been using 
Zimbra Web mail for at least 3 years, but we still have users that claim 
they can't live without this ability. So I'm supposed to look into it.

- Mike


From luca at vulcanoweb.it  Wed Mar 23 15:42:03 2011
From: luca at vulcanoweb.it (Luca)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:42:03 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Set html in outlook mail
Message-ID: <012f01cbe968$79826390$6c872ab0$@vulcanoweb.it>

 

Hi everybody, I?m trying to send an email via outlook and everything works
fine with the following code:

 

        obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

        for mail in Lmail:            

            newMail = obj.CreateItem(0)

            newMail.To = mail

            newMail.Subject = "Title"

            newMail.Body = "CIAO"

            newMail.Send()

 

Now I have to send an htm mail instead than normal plain text but I can?t
find anything to do that.

I tried something as

newMail.Html = "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>CIAO</BODY></HTML>"

but Html is not a property of COM object.

How can I do that? thanks

 

 

	
LUCA ZACCHETTI 


Corso Dante, 61  23801 Calolziocorte LC 
0341 631058 348 3042711
luca at vulcanoweb.it www.vulcanos.it 

		

Avvertenze ai sensi del D.Lgs. n.196/2003 
Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o files
allegati, sono da considerarsi strettamente riservati ed il loro utilizzo ?
consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalit?
indicate nello stesso. Costituisce violazione ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs.
196/2003: trattenere il messaggio stesso oltre il tempo necessario,
divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo od
utilizzarlo per finalit? diverse. Ricordiamo che in ogni momento potrete
richiederci la sospensione da parte nostra dell'impiego dei vostri dati, ad
esclusione delle comunicazioni effettuate in esecuzione di obblighi di
legge. Chi dovesse ricevere questo messaggio per errore ? tenuto ad
informare il mittente ed a rimuoverlo definitivamente da ogni supporto
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 23 17:26:43 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:26:43 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Set html in outlook mail
In-Reply-To: <014601cbe969$bb9e9040$32dbb0c0$@vulcanoweb.it>
References: <014601cbe969$bb9e9040$32dbb0c0$@vulcanoweb.it>
Message-ID: <4D8A1F43.7080703@probo.com>

Luca wrote:
>
> Hi everybody, I?m trying to send an email via outlook and everything
> works fine with the following code:
>
>  
>
>         obj = win32com.client.Dispatch(/"Outlook.Application"/)
>
>         formail inLmail:           
>
>             newMail = obj.CreateItem(0)
>
>             newMail.To = mail
>
>             newMail.Subject = /"_Title_"/
>
>             newMail.Body = /"_CIAO_"/
>
>             newMail.Send()
>
>  
>
> Now I have to send an htm mail instead than normal plain text but I
> can?t find anything to do that.
>

Add:

    import win32con
    newMail.BodyFormat = win32con.olFormatHTML
    newMail.HTMLBody = "<html><body>CIAO!</body></html>"

All I did was go to the MSDN page on the CreateItem method of the
Outlook.Application object.

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


From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 23 17:28:19 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:28:19 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8A1FA3.9010904@probo.com>

Tony Wallace wrote:
>
> I am trying to develop a python application for the windows platform.
>  As such occasionally I do need to interact with the operating system.
>  I am using windows XP.
>
> I have in the past tried to use python tools with windows, but for
> some reason that escapes me, they all seem to require ancient versions
> of Microsofts C compiler, which I don't have.  
>
> Am I doing something wrong?  Is there somewhere I can get this?  When
> I was programming in foxpro I could "DECLARE" an external reference to
> the operating system and then "CALL" the required functions.  Does
> Python support simply calling Win32 functions?
>
> I have spent a bit of time trying to do something that should be
> relatively simple and I am getting frustrated at my lack of progress.

I'm curious to know what you've tried.  The fact that you posted to the
[python-win32] list suggests that you already know about the PyWin32
package, which adds virtually complete access to the Win32 API.  Are
there APIs you need that weren't present?

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


From anthony.seward at ieee.org  Wed Mar 23 17:38:09 2011
From: anthony.seward at ieee.org (Tony Seward)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:38:09 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] can't import dde module after importing win32ui
Message-ID: <1300898289.2808.8.camel@florete.mza.com>

I'm having problems importing the dde module.

I get the following results when I'm in the python interpreter

        Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 27 2010, 17:20:37) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
        Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
        >>> import win32ui
        >>> import dde
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
        ImportError: This must be an MFC application - try loading win32ui first
        >>>

I'm on Windows 7 64-bit, using 64-bit pywin32 release 216.  I have tried
Python 3.1, Python 2.7 and Python 2.6.

What am I missing?

Tony

        


From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 23 23:08:29 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:08:29 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=Mhs-qO5FKc-1h30E06h_A0cTa9sq3xYc8AbWb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D8A1FA3.9010904@probo.com>
	<AANLkTi=Mhs-qO5FKc-1h30E06h_A0cTa9sq3xYc8AbWb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8A6F5D.9070306@probo.com>

Tony Wallace wrote:
>
> This is what happens when I try and install pywin32:
> ...
> error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003;
> extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible
> binaries.
> Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin
> installed,
> you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Is there a specific reason you need to build it from source?  I've been
using Python on Windows for at least a dozen years, and I've never used
anything other than the installer.  It's much more convenient, less
error-prone, plus I get the added benefit of an uninstaller.

Any time I have the choice in a Python module, I fetch a pre-built
installer.

If you do need to build from source, then you either need to upgrade to
a more recent Python (version 2.6 is now built with Visual Studio 2008)
or go find VS2003.

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


From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 23 23:48:49 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:48:49 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Getting Started
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTiknnvD2KqDESLeBC340ndbz6jsNfprSpwQeuU3N@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTikdywQsOz8M5OyCNfaK08qdWbyjzde55X-Xc4b1@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D8A1FA3.9010904@probo.com>
	<AANLkTi=Mhs-qO5FKc-1h30E06h_A0cTa9sq3xYc8AbWb@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D8A6F5D.9070306@probo.com>
	<AANLkTiknnvD2KqDESLeBC340ndbz6jsNfprSpwQeuU3N@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8A78D1.6040904@probo.com>

Tony Wallace wrote:
> I have no reason to build from source.  Where do I get this
> precompiled installation?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/

If I read your messages right, you are running Python 2.5, so you want
pywin32-216.win32-py2.5.exe.

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


From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Thu Mar 24 01:46:53 2011
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:46:53 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=xX-nsG+zQPxNCv+0jjHed274qJPrwx6M6brAN@mail.gmail.com>

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:59:52 -0500
From: Mike Driscoll <mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>
Cc: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
Message-ID: <4D89FCD8.5090802 at co.marshall.ia.us>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Mike Driscoll wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in
>> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail
>> somehow.
> Well, let's brainstorm for a moment.  That link fires up the "default
> mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry.
> Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
> command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
> the same thing.  Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
> HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.
>

Mike,

If I've understood you correctly ...
Why not just create a new sendto shortcut which points to your application,
and copy it to the SendTo directory?

I've created custom sendtos before, and it's quite convenient to make
sendtos for other systems.
You then just right click and send entire directories across the network
like this.
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Mar 24 07:48:39 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:48:39 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] can't import dde module after importing win32ui
In-Reply-To: <1300898289.2808.8.camel@florete.mza.com>
References: <1300898289.2808.8.camel@florete.mza.com>
Message-ID: <FFCA87366F2B44758BF86B57FEC7E033@MCI1330>

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
-- 
Michel Claveau



From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Thu Mar 24 14:04:16 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:04:16 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=xX-nsG+zQPxNCv+0jjHed274qJPrwx6M6brAN@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=xX-nsG+zQPxNCv+0jjHed274qJPrwx6M6brAN@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8B4150.9010407@co.marshall.ia.us>

Hi Tony,

On 1:59 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
>
> On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> > Mike Driscoll wrote:
> >> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in
> >> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail
> >> somehow.
> > Well, let's brainstorm for a moment.  That link fires up the "default
> > mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry.
> > Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
> > command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
> > the same thing.  Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
> > HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.
> >
>
> Mike,
>
> If I've understood you correctly ...
> Why not just create a new sendto shortcut which points to your 
> application,
> and copy it to the SendTo directory?
>
> I've created custom sendtos before, and it's quite convenient to make 
> sendtos for other systems.
> You then just right click and send entire directories across the 
> network like this.
>
>
>
>

I think I know how to do the Send To right-click stuff now (thanks to 
the guys on this list and on wxPython IRC), the problem is catching the 
Send To inside MS Word, Excel, etc. They are not using the same process. 
Maybe I need to create my own VBA junk in them that does it for me. I'm 
going to try using procmon to try to see what Word is doing. If anyone 
has any ideas, that would be great. Thanks!

- Mike


From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Thu Mar 24 15:14:21 2011
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:14:21 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <4D8B4150.9010407@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <AANLkTi=xX-nsG+zQPxNCv+0jjHed274qJPrwx6M6brAN@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D8B4150.9010407@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=j8kJPnV3C+Jp7rBjWOashWDoCo+GOF4fzt3NL@mail.gmail.com>

When you launch Word and Excel, you can manipulate them via COM and try to
intercept, which is a pain but at least you can
control them from Python. You may be able to intercept SendTo this way.

If you launch Word with your own template file (.dot) it may be possible to
embed a Word macro in the template that helps you to intercept sendTo.


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Mike Driscoll
<mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
>
> On 1:59 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 1:59 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> > Mike Driscoll wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know of a way to catch the "Send To Mail Recipient" in
>> >> Microsoft Word or Excel? I want to redirect that to our web mail
>> >> somehow.
>> > Well, let's brainstorm for a moment.  That link fires up the "default
>> > mail provider" for your computer, which in found in the registry.
>> > Theoretically, you ought to be able to rewrite that key to a browser
>> > command that brings up your webmail page, or to an application that does
>> > the same thing.  Check HKCU\Software\Clients\Mail or
>> > HKLM\Software\Clients\Mail.
>> >
>>
>> Mike,
>>
>> If I've understood you correctly ...
>> Why not just create a new sendto shortcut which points to your
>> application,
>> and copy it to the SendTo directory?
>>
>> I've created custom sendtos before, and it's quite convenient to make
>> sendtos for other systems.
>> You then just right click and send entire directories across the network
>> like this.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I think I know how to do the Send To right-click stuff now (thanks to the
> guys on this list and on wxPython IRC), the problem is catching the Send To
> inside MS Word, Excel, etc. They are not using the same process. Maybe I
> need to create my own VBA junk in them that does it for me. I'm going to try
> using procmon to try to see what Word is doing. If anyone has any ideas,
> that would be great. Thanks!
>
> - Mike
>
>
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From mc at mclaveau.com  Thu Mar 24 15:20:11 2011
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:20:11 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Catching Send To in Office
In-Reply-To: <4D8B4150.9010407@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <AANLkTi=xX-nsG+zQPxNCv+0jjHed274qJPrwx6M6brAN@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D8B4150.9010407@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <D5237835C14F4D0F984EB01D771A002F@MCI1330>

Hi!

Sorry, I do not really undestand english. But if you want initiate  "Send to 
mail"  in MS-Word, you can use some thing like:
    w=win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
    ...
    w.ActiveDocument.SendMail()

If you want tha sevral fields (Object, Destinataire...) are filled, you must 
go by another way (MAPI ou CDO).
See also :  http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;fr;238114

@-salutations
-- 
Michel Claveau

And sorry for my bad english


From chris at kateandchris.net  Thu Mar 24 14:49:45 2011
From: chris at kateandchris.net (Chris Lambacher)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:49:45 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveX Script & Classic ASP bug with args passed
	from VBScript
Message-ID: <AANLkTimvhbYBfraf2yrnBJ3+w+S=BkR5fgZ_+-H62uG4@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am trying to port a classic ASP application to Python with a
mid-point step where we use the Python in ASP. As part of this, we are
calling into Python from VBScript and finding that some parameters end
up becoming Null after a function call.

Some digging turned up an old bug against Python the language:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1156179 which was closed as invalid since
the issue is really a pywin32 bug, but as far as I can tell it was
never forwarded on to the pywin32 bug tracker. I have created a bug on
the pywin32 bug tracker (
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3238774&group_id=78018&atid=551954
) and am willing to look into fixing it, but I need some guidance
about how to go about solving this bug.

Any assistance someone can provide would be very welcome.

-Chris

-- 
Christopher Lambacher
chris at kateandchris.net

From adrienlina at gmail.com  Thu Mar 24 17:57:58 2011
From: adrienlina at gmail.com (Adrien LINA)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:57:58 +0100
Subject: [python-win32]  iTunes COM using Python win32
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=fzozyF8rmMbsqp1pC=On2UxhCRTd4OiwdZnYx@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, I came across the same problem as you.

I googled my problem and i found the answer, when you create a playlist, it
is 'only' an IITPlaylist.
In opposition with the IITUserPlaylist, you are unable to use the method
"Addtrack(the_track)".
This is why you need to 'populate' it, using the instance
"win32com.client.CastTo(the_playlist, 'IITUserPlaylist')"

Here is my test code, in case I was unclear ^^

import win32com.client
iTunes = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("iTunes.Application")


library = iTunes.LibraryPlaylist
tracks = library.Tracks
nouvelle_playlist = iTunes.CreatePlaylist('test')
nouvelle_playlist = iTunes.CreatePlaylist('Deselected Albums')
nouvelle_playlist = win32com.client.CastTo(nouvelle_playlist,
'IITUserPlaylist')
third_track=tracks[100]
nouvelle_playlist.AddTrack(third_track)
nouvelle_playlist.PlayFirstTrack()



Glad I helped.
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From chris at kateandchris.net  Thu Mar 24 20:21:06 2011
From: chris at kateandchris.net (Chris Lambacher)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:21:06 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] ActiveX Script & Classic ASP bug with args
	passed from VBScript
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimvhbYBfraf2yrnBJ3+w+S=BkR5fgZ_+-H62uG4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTimvhbYBfraf2yrnBJ3+w+S=BkR5fgZ_+-H62uG4@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimxc45E=wT0+8S+aqQzWwzXn_sEzbJEdTp=FGwr@mail.gmail.com>

Further information:

It looks like this is a general COM issue, not just an ActiveX Script
issue. If I do the test with a registered Python COM object, I get the
same results from VBScript. The bug has been updated with this new
information.

-Chris

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Chris Lambacher <chris at kateandchris.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to port a classic ASP application to Python with a
> mid-point step where we use the Python in ASP. As part of this, we are
> calling into Python from VBScript and finding that some parameters end
> up becoming Null after a function call.
>
> Some digging turned up an old bug against Python the language:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1156179 which was closed as invalid since
> the issue is really a pywin32 bug, but as far as I can tell it was
> never forwarded on to the pywin32 bug tracker. I have created a bug on
> the pywin32 bug tracker (
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3238774&group_id=78018&atid=551954
> ) and am willing to look into fixing it, but I need some guidance
> about how to go about solving this bug.
>
> Any assistance someone can provide would be very welcome.
>
> -Chris
>
> --
> Christopher Lambacher
> chris at kateandchris.net
>



-- 
Christopher Lambacher
chris at kateandchris.net

From breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk  Fri Mar 25 15:28:54 2011
From: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk (Blockheads Oi Oi)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:28:54 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Clear the interactive screen
Message-ID: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org>

Hi all,

my take on a way to achieve this, and apologies if someone has posted a 
better method that I don't know about:-

from SendKeys import SendKeys
def cls():
     SendKeys("^a{BS}~~", 0) # adjust to your needs

I've tried to setup my own config file using ALT-R to call this and have 
failed dismally, managing to clear my code window(s) amongst other 
things.  How do I correctly go about this?

I've also changed interact.py in accordance with 
http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/168244/.  Is there any 
reason why this couldn't be part of the standard file?

Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.


From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Fri Mar 25 19:19:48 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:19:48 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] WMI and Terminal Services
Message-ID: <4D8CDCC4.3030506@co.marshall.ia.us>

Hi,

I am looking for a way to query the client name parameter from Terminal 
Services. I have been testing several scripts I've found that use either 
win32com.client or win32ts, but they are giving me weird errors on 
Windows 7 64-bit.

I get this traceback:

<traceback>

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "\\server\loginscript$\getTSInfo.py", line 10, in ?
     for objItem in colItems:
   File 
"\\server\loginscript$\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\util.
py", line 84, in next
     return _get_good_object_(self._iter_.next(), resultCLSID = 
self.resultCLSID)

pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217392, 'OLE error 0x80041010', None, None)
</traceback>

When I run this:

<code>
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_TSClientSetting")
for objItem in colItems:   # this is line 10
     # code snipped
</code>

If I try running this code instead:

<code>
server = win32ts.WTSOpenServer(".")
print "server info >> ",
print server
print "-" * 80

for s in win32ts.WTSEnumerateSessions(server, 1):
       if s['State'] == win32ts.WTSActive:
           print s
           session = s
</code>

I get this:

<traceback>

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "\\debianis\loginscript$\getTSInfo.py", line 34, in ?
     for s in win32ts.WTSEnumerateSessions(server, 1):
pywintypes.error: (5, 'WTSEnumerateSessions', 'Access is denied.')

</traceback>

I'm assuming that this must be an incorrect way of accessing Telnet 
information on 64-bit Windows since it works on 32-bit. I never did 
figure out how to return the client name though except via the "os" 
module, like this: os.getenv("CLIENTNAME")

Is there a way to get it and other Terminal Services session information 
via these methods or WMI? Thanks!

-- 
Mike Driscoll
Applications Specialist


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar 25 22:46:07 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:46:07 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] WMI and Terminal Services
In-Reply-To: <4D8CDCC4.3030506@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <4D8CDCC4.3030506@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <4D8D0D1F.3030706@timgolden.me.uk>

On 25/03/2011 6:19 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to query the client name parameter from Terminal
> Services. I have been testing several scripts I've found that use either
> win32com.client or win32ts, but they are giving me weird errors on
> Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> I get this traceback:
>
> <traceback>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "\\server\loginscript$\getTSInfo.py", line 10, in ?
>       for objItem in colItems:
>     File
> "\\server\loginscript$\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\util.
> py", line 84, in next
>       return _get_good_object_(self._iter_.next(), resultCLSID =
> self.resultCLSID)
>
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217392, 'OLE error 0x80041010', None, None)
> </traceback>

Try this instead (using my wmi module 'cos I'm lazy):

<code>
import wmi

#
# Note the namespace
#
c = wmi.wmi (namespace="cimv2/TerminalServices")
for i in c.Win32_TSClientSetting ():
   print i

</code>

TJG

From Marc-Andre.Belzile at autodesk.com  Fri Mar 25 23:51:25 2011
From: Marc-Andre.Belzile at autodesk.com (Marc-Andre Belzile)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:51:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] GetRefTypeOfImplType problem
Message-ID: <E8D50FCB61C1BC468D6A2492EB8CD28F1EB70A71@005-TK5MPN1-001.MGDADSK.autodesk.com>

Hi,

I'm trying to get the base interface typeinfo with pythoncom.GetRefTypeOfImplType but it's always returning the typeinfo of  the IDispatch interface.

Does the code below seem wrong ?

Thank you for your help.
-mab

def log_base_interface( tlb ):
    n = tlb.GetTypeInfoCount()
    for i in range(n):
        iface_ti = tlb.GetTypeInfo( i )
        iface_attr = iface_ti.GetTypeAttr()

        if iface_attr[5] == pythoncom.TKIND_DISPATCH:
                print '>>>>> Base interfaces for %s' % (iface_ti.GetDocumentation(-1)[0])
                for i in range(iface_attr[8]):
                    flags = iface_ti.GetImplTypeFlags(i)
                    refType = iface_ti.GetRefTypeInfo(iface_ti.GetRefTypeOfImplType(i))
                    refAttr = refType.GetTypeAttr()
                    print refType.GetDocumentation(-1)[0]

output:
>>>>> Base interfaces for SIObject
IDispatch
>>>>> Base interfaces for Application
IDispatch
>>>>> Base interfaces for SIObjectCollection
IDispatch
>>>>> Base interfaces for LightRig
IDispatch
etc...

My interfaces are all defined like this:

[
      uuid(231B4BC1-4F8E-11d4-ACDC-0090275802BF),
      helpstring("LightRig interface"),
      object,           // specifies a COM interface (default is RPC interface)
      local,            // interface to define is not remote
      dual,             // identifies an IDispatch interface that exposes directly through the VTBL
      pointer_default(unique) // this option is only instructing midl that we may have functions with embedded pointers-pointers. Otherwise it is ignored by idl.
]
interface LightRig : Null
{
      // properties
      [propget, id(1), helpstring("property Light")]
      HRESULT Light([out, retval] Light** );
};

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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sun Mar 27 08:46:08 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:46:08 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] DLL load failed
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinwgJXBK517bJM1Z4Y6g4JQU7wVhbQUaE6MDKv8@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTinwgJXBK517bJM1Z4Y6g4JQU7wVhbQUaE6MDKv8@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D8EDD30.1030907@gmail.com>

If the py2exe app was created on a later OS (eg, vista, 7), look for any 
DLLs py2exe has packaged up with should not be there.

HTH,

Mark

On 21/03/2011 10:05 PM, Nabil Servais wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I packaged an application for windows with py2exe, and when I launch
> the executable I have some this errors :
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "logon.py", line 5, in<module>
>    File "eole\option.pyo", line 4, in<module>
>    File "eole\reg.pyo", line 9, in<module>
>    File "eole\os_type.pyo", line 4, in<module>
>    File "win32api.pyo", line 12, in<module>
>    File "win32api.pyo", line 10, in __load
>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
>
> I use python 2.6 and pywin32-216 on Windows XP SP3, the application
> was coded first with python 2.5.
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sun Mar 27 08:53:04 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:53:04 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Clear the interactive screen
In-Reply-To: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4D8EDED0.5090502@gmail.com>

Try something like:

from pywin.framework import interact
interact.edit.currentView.SetSel(0, -1)
interact.edit.currentView.Clear()

HTH,

Mark

On 26/03/2011 1:28 AM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my take on a way to achieve this, and apologies if someone has posted a
> better method that I don't know about:-
>
> from SendKeys import SendKeys
> def cls():
> SendKeys("^a{BS}~~", 0) # adjust to your needs
>
> I've tried to setup my own config file using ALT-R to call this and have
> failed dismally, managing to clear my code window(s) amongst other
> things. How do I correctly go about this?
>
> I've also changed interact.py in accordance with
> http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/168244/. Is there any
> reason why this couldn't be part of the standard file?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Lawrence.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From amauryfa at gmail.com  Mon Mar 28 11:49:13 2011
From: amauryfa at gmail.com (Amaury Forgeot d'Arc)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:49:13 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] pywin32-specific version of SWIG
Message-ID: <AANLkTinFSwi9vJGJUM+=tJ7JsRsRRNnmnnneehdECBN-@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

pywin32 comes with a modified version of SWIG, but only in a binary form.
To adapt pywin32 for PyPy, I need to so some modifications in swig.exe.
(around the MAKE_PYCOM_CTOR macro)
How is swig.exe built? Is the source code available somewhere?

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

From mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us  Mon Mar 28 16:16:54 2011
From: mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us (Mike Driscoll)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:16:54 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] WMI and Terminal Services
In-Reply-To: <4D8D0D1F.3030706@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D8CDCC4.3030506@co.marshall.ia.us>
	<4D8D0D1F.3030706@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D909856.7070109@co.marshall.ia.us>

On 1:59 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 25/03/2011 6:19 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for a way to query the client name parameter from Terminal
>> Services. I have been testing several scripts I've found that use either
>> win32com.client or win32ts, but they are giving me weird errors on
>> Windows 7 64-bit.
>>
>> I get this traceback:
>>
>> <traceback>
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File "\\server\loginscript$\getTSInfo.py", line 10, in ?
>>       for objItem in colItems:
>>     File
>> "\\server\loginscript$\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\util.
>> py", line 84, in next
>>       return _get_good_object_(self._iter_.next(), resultCLSID =
>> self.resultCLSID)
>>
>> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217392, 'OLE error 0x80041010', None, None)
>> </traceback>
>
> Try this instead (using my wmi module 'cos I'm lazy):
>
> <code>
> import wmi
>
> #
> # Note the namespace
> #
> c = wmi.wmi (namespace="cimv2/TerminalServices")
> for i in c.Win32_TSClientSetting ():
>   print i
>
> </code>
>
> TJG
>

That codes run just fine. I don't know if that's the info my colleague 
needs or not, but thanks a lot!

- Mike


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Mar 28 16:19:16 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:19:16 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] WMI and Terminal Services
In-Reply-To: <4D909856.7070109@co.marshall.ia.us>
References: <4D8CDCC4.3030506@co.marshall.ia.us>	<4D8D0D1F.3030706@timgolden.me.uk>
	<4D909856.7070109@co.marshall.ia.us>
Message-ID: <4D9098E4.2090309@timgolden.me.uk>

On 28/03/2011 15:16, Mike Driscoll wrote:
> On 1:59 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
>> On 25/03/2011 6:19 PM, Mike Driscoll wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am looking for a way to query the client name parameter from Terminal
>>> Services. I have been testing several scripts I've found that use either
>>> win32com.client or win32ts, but they are giving me weird errors on
>>> Windows 7 64-bit.
>>>
>>> I get this traceback:
>>>
>>> <traceback>
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File "\\server\loginscript$\getTSInfo.py", line 10, in ?
>>> for objItem in colItems:
>>> File
>>> "\\server\loginscript$\Python24\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\util.
>>> py", line 84, in next
>>> return _get_good_object_(self._iter_.next(), resultCLSID =
>>> self.resultCLSID)
>>>
>>> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147217392, 'OLE error 0x80041010', None, None)
>>> </traceback>
>>
>> Try this instead (using my wmi module 'cos I'm lazy):
>>
>> <code>
>> import wmi
>>
>> #
>> # Note the namespace
>> #
>> c = wmi.wmi (namespace="cimv2/TerminalServices")
>> for i in c.Win32_TSClientSetting ():
>> print i
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> TJG
>>
>
> That codes run just fine. I don't know if that's the info my colleague
> needs or not, but thanks a lot!

Well there, I'm afraid, I'm unable to help :)

TJG

From greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz  Mon Mar 28 23:03:25 2011
From: greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:03:25 +1300
Subject: [python-win32] PyGUI Window Always Starts Behind Others
Message-ID: <4D90F79D.6090405@canterbury.ac.nz>

A PyGUI user has reported a problem on Windows XP whereby an
application's window is not on top when it starts up.

Apparently launching it with with pythonw doesn't entirely
fix the problem, but making it a py2exe application does.

Anyone here have any idea what might be causing this? Is there
something I should do when creating a window to make sure it
appears on top?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Pygui] Window Always Starts Behind Others
Date: 	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:17:10 -0400
From: 	Mark Melvin <mark.melvin at gmail.com>
To: 	Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>
CC: 	pygui at python.org
References:
<AANLkTikrV8QcjKzWzSoieMrtrdmicUeJkdDhjDwCh=ib at mail.gmail.com>
<4D8CDE4A.9080001 at inteli-com.com>
<AANLkTimz1re_yY5y0_Vrtp9aPvrCP1ZfHxCMsghR_knz at mail.gmail.com>
<4D8D331D.4080103 at canterbury.ac.nz>



On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
<mailto:greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>> wrote:

     Mark Melvin wrote:

         I'm on Windows XP - 32-bit using the latest PyGUI.


     How are you launching the app?

     If you're not doing so already, try running it with pythonw.exe
     rather than python.exe, or give it a .pyw extension and double
     click.

     --
     Greg


Hi Greg,

I was indeed launching as a console app, and I even had "console" in my
py2exe setup.  I've changed to using the 'windows' version of the
launcher and it seems to have fixed the issue of the GUI launching
behind almost every other window and being hidden from view entirely.
  However, it still pops up behind the console window I launch it from,
and the py2exe'd executable version of the application pops up behind
the Windows Explorer window from which I launched it.

I checked a py2exe'd app I wrote that uses wxPython, and it always pops
up on top when launched.  Could there be a small issue on Windows with
this in PyGUI?

Regards,
Mark.

From anthony.atkins at gmail.com  Tue Mar 29 14:40:43 2011
From: anthony.atkins at gmail.com (Anthony Atkins)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:40:43 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Connection to Oracle DB via TNSNames file
Message-ID: <AANLkTim2zMu4UEdCb2rQJUkqKTyS+7YM0rtdVHRfQ--5@mail.gmail.com>

I'm using Python 2.6 and would like to be able to connect to an oracle
database that utilizes TNSNames file. I can't seem to get the connection
script correct.  Would someone please help me.  I'd really like to not have
to load additional libraries since I'm developing a tool within another
piece of software and I doubt if other individuals will be able to download
additional libraries.

thanks,
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From amauryfa at gmail.com  Tue Mar 29 14:54:17 2011
From: amauryfa at gmail.com (Amaury Forgeot d'Arc)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:54:17 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Connection to Oracle DB via TNSNames file
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2zMu4UEdCb2rQJUkqKTyS+7YM0rtdVHRfQ--5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTim2zMu4UEdCb2rQJUkqKTyS+7YM0rtdVHRfQ--5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimX7nP73_fKY8Ai5fagHH_nS2zQRXuS+A5EcE_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

2011/3/29 Anthony Atkins <anthony.atkins at gmail.com>:
> I'm using Python 2.6 and would like to be able to connect to an oracle
> database that utilizes TNSNames file. I can't seem to get the connection
> script correct. ?Would someone please help me. ?I'd really like to not have
> to load additional libraries since I'm developing a tool within another
> piece of software and I doubt if other individuals will be able to download
> additional?libraries.

What did you try so far? Did you use odbc to connect to Oracle?

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

From wolfgang at rohdewald.de  Wed Mar 30 01:51:08 2011
From: wolfgang at rohdewald.de (Wolfgang Rohdewald)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:51:08 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
Message-ID: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>

compiling pykde on windows with msvc2010 on a 32bit Windows 7:

sipdnssdpart0.cpp
R:\include\msvc\sys/types.h(52) : error C2371: 'ssize_t' : redefinition; different basic types
        c:\python27\include\pyconfig.h(201) : see declaration of 'ssize_t'

I can fix this by defining ssize_t as long in pyconfig.h or 
as int in kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h

the original files from windows define SSIZE_T as long so to
me this seems like a bug in pyconfig.h, it should say
typedef _W64 long ssize_t


Python27\include\pyconfig.h says (same in Python32):

#ifdef MS_WIN64
typedef __int64 ssize_t;
#else
typedef _W64 int ssize_t;
#endif

while kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h says:

typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t;

SSIZE_T is defined in Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0A/Include/BaseTsd.h:

typedef LONG_PTR SSIZE_T, *PSSIZE_T;

and LONG_PTR from same directory, intsafe.h:
#if (__midl > 501)
typedef [public]          __int3264 LONG_PTR;
#else
#ifdef _WIN64
typedef __int64             LONG_PTR;
#else
typedef _W64 long           LONG_PTR;
#endif // WIN64
#endif // (__midl > 501)

for __midl see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367301(v=vs.85).aspx

-- 
Wolfgang

From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 30 02:01:25 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:01:25 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
In-Reply-To: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
References: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
Message-ID: <4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>

Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> compiling pykde on windows with msvc2010 on a 32bit Windows 7:
>
> sipdnssdpart0.cpp
> R:\include\msvc\sys/types.h(52) : error C2371: 'ssize_t' : redefinition; different basic types
>         c:\python27\include\pyconfig.h(201) : see declaration of 'ssize_t'
>
> I can fix this by defining ssize_t as long in pyconfig.h or 
> as int in kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h
>
> the original files from windows define SSIZE_T as long so to
> me this seems like a bug in pyconfig.h, it should say
> typedef _W64 long ssize_t
>
>
> Python27\include\pyconfig.h says (same in Python32):
>
> #ifdef MS_WIN64
> typedef __int64 ssize_t;
> #else
> typedef _W64 int ssize_t;
> #endif
>
> while kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h says:
>
> typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t;

I agree with your conclusion.  However, this isn't a Python-Win32
issue.  You need to file a bug report against Python itself.

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


From wolfgang at rohdewald.de  Wed Mar 30 02:14:11 2011
From: wolfgang at rohdewald.de (Wolfgang Rohdewald)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:14:11 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
In-Reply-To: <4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>
References: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
	<4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>
Message-ID: <201103300214.12083.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>

On Mittwoch 30 M?rz 2011, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> > compiling pykde on windows with msvc2010 on a 32bit Windows
> > 7:
> > 
> > sipdnssdpart0.cpp
> > R:\include\msvc\sys/types.h(52) : error C2371: 'ssize_t' :
> > redefinition; different basic types
> > 
> >         c:\python27\include\pyconfig.h(201) : see
> >         declaration of 'ssize_t'
> > 
> > I can fix this by defining ssize_t as long in pyconfig.h or
> > as int in kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h
> > 
> > the original files from windows define SSIZE_T as long so to
> > me this seems like a bug in pyconfig.h, it should say
> > typedef _W64 long ssize_t
> > 
> > 
> > Python27\include\pyconfig.h says (same in Python32):
> > 
> > #ifdef MS_WIN64
> > typedef __int64 ssize_t;
> > #else
> > typedef _W64 int ssize_t;
> > #endif
> > 
> > while kdewin/include/msvc/sys/types.h says:
> > 
> > typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t;
> 
> I agree with your conclusion.  However, this isn't a
> Python-Win32 issue.  You need to file a bug report against
> Python itself.

done: http://bugs.python.org/issue11717

-- 
Wolfgang

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 30 14:03:40 2011
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:03:40 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
In-Reply-To: <4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>
References: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
	<4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>
Message-ID: <4D931C1C.5090204@skippinet.com.au>

On 30/03/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> I agree with your conclusion.  However, this isn't a Python-Win32
> issue.  You need to file a bug report against Python itself.

it would be good to know exactly what vs2008 says about this - if it 
uses 'int' we will need to take more care - but yeah - please report 
this at bugs.python.org, add mhammond to the "nosy" list and I'll help 
ensure it gets fixed...

Cheers,

Mark


From wolfgang at rohdewald.de  Wed Mar 30 14:53:05 2011
From: wolfgang at rohdewald.de (Wolfgang Rohdewald)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:53:05 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
In-Reply-To: <4D931C1C.5090204@skippinet.com.au>
References: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
	<4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com> <4D931C1C.5090204@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <201103301453.05368.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>

On Mittwoch 30 M?rz 2011, Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 30/03/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> > Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> > I agree with your conclusion.  However, this isn't a
> > Python-Win32 issue.  You need to file a bug report against
> > Python itself.
> 
> it would be good to know exactly what vs2008 says about this -

I am afraid I don't have vs2008 and I don't really want to 
put it on a machine where vs2010 is already running.

> if it uses 'int' we will need to take more care - but yeah -
> please report this at bugs.python.org

http://bugs.python.org/issue11717
there are already a few comments

> add mhammond to the "nosy" list

done

> and I'll help ensure it gets fixed...

that would be great!

-- 
Wolfgang

From breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk  Wed Mar 30 17:41:21 2011
From: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk (Blockheads Oi Oi)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:41:21 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Clear the interactive screen
In-Reply-To: <4D8EDED0.5090502@gmail.com>
References: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org> <4D8EDED0.5090502@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <imvito$iu6$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 27/03/2011 07:53, Mark Hammond wrote:
> Try something like:
>
> from pywin.framework import interact
> interact.edit.currentView.SetSel(0, -1)
> interact.edit.currentView.Clear()

Try the above three lines from the interactive prompt and nothing that I 
can see happens.  Try the last two lines on a single line with the ; 
separator and the screen is cleared, I'm sorry but I don't understand this.

>
> HTH,
>
> Mark
>
> On 26/03/2011 1:28 AM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> my take on a way to achieve this, and apologies if someone has posted a
>> better method that I don't know about:-
>>
>> from SendKeys import SendKeys
>> def cls():
>> SendKeys("^a{BS}~~", 0) # adjust to your needs
>>
>> I've tried to setup my own config file using ALT-R to call this and have
>> failed dismally, managing to clear my code window(s) amongst other
>> things. How do I correctly go about this?

I've tried wrapping the interact lines from above into a cls function in 
my own bare bones config file based on the data in the pywin32 help 
Keyboard Bindings section.  Screws everything.  What steps are needed to 
get what I and others have asked for in the past, i.e. clear the 
interactive screen, run the program/module under test, resort to normal? 
  I observe that the Ctrl-R and Shift-Ctrl-R key combinations are not 
available in the default config file (presumably to keep bozos like 
myself away from them? :).  So do we have to resort to (shock, horror, 
probe) doing things manually?

>>
>> I've also changed interact.py in accordance with
>> http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/168244/. Is there any
>> reason why this couldn't be part of the standard file?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32



From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 30 18:43:40 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:43:40 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] pyconfig.h: conflicting definitions for ssize_t
In-Reply-To: <4D931C1C.5090204@skippinet.com.au>
References: <201103300151.08942.wolfgang@rohdewald.de>	<4D9272D5.7020805@probo.com>
	<4D931C1C.5090204@skippinet.com.au>
Message-ID: <4D935DBC.1010502@probo.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 30/03/2011 11:01 AM, Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
>> I agree with your conclusion.  However, this isn't a Python-Win32
>> issue.  You need to file a bug report against Python itself.
> it would be good to know exactly what vs2008 says about this - if it 
> uses 'int' we will need to take more care - but yeah - please report 
> this at bugs.python.org, add mhammond to the "nosy" list and I'll help 
> ensure it gets fixed...

Actually, on closer examination, it may be a bit difficult to sell
this.  The Microsoft compilers do not define this symbol at all.  The
SDK defines SSIZE_T (as a long).  Nothing defines ssize_t.  So, the
conflict only occurs because the KDE include files do this:
    typedef SSIZE_T ssize_t;

We (and KDE) are more or less assuming that Microsoft intended their
SSIZE_T to be the same as the relatively common ssize_t.  Python defined
their symbol independently of the SDK, which is also reasonable.

In the end, I'm not sure you can point to either KDE or Python as being
"at fault" here.  The warning can be fixed by changing one or the other,
but I don't know how one would establish which one was "right".

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


From jmelloy at gmail.com  Wed Mar 30 19:49:24 2011
From: jmelloy at gmail.com (Jeffrey Melloy)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:49:24 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdhutil failing on counters with a "/"
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=XSW2aOyPYeNnVD-1iYgtjBZR5egL9DBer1arR@mail.gmail.com>

My script to parse perfmon data is working correctly, however, when I
have a counter name with "/" in it, it seems to throw an error in
GetFormattedData.

Has anyone seen this before?

import win32pdhutil

machine = "\\\\seaweb001p"
object = "Memory"

counters, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None, machine, object, 500)

if instances == []:
    instances = [None]

for cnt in counters:
    for inst in instances:
        try:
            x = win32pdhutil.GetPerformanceAttributes(object = object,
counter = cnt, instance = inst, machine=machine,
format=win32pdh.PDH_FMT_DOUBLE)
            print cnt, inst, x
        except Exception, e:
                print cnt, inst, e


Page Faults/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Available Bytes None 1669623808.0
Committed Bytes None 2364002304.0
Commit Limit None 8408195072.0
Write Copies/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Transition Faults/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue',
'The data is not valid.')
Cache Faults/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Demand Zero Faults/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue',
'The data is not valid.')
Pages/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The data is
not valid.')
Pages Input/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Page Reads/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Pages Output/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Pool Paged Bytes None 81498112.0
Pool Nonpaged Bytes None 55918592.0
Page Writes/sec None (-1073738810, 'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The
data is not valid.')
Pool Paged Allocs None 184892.0
Pool Nonpaged Allocs None 197360.0
Free System Page Table Entries None 75581.0
Cache Bytes None 134574080.0
Cache Bytes Peak None 201498624.0
Pool Paged Resident Bytes None 80728064.0
System Code Total Bytes None 1404928.0
System Code Resident Bytes None 229376.0
System Driver Total Bytes None 2408448.0
System Driver Resident Bytes None 2473984.0
System Cache Resident Bytes None 51142656.0
% Committed Bytes In Use None 28.1006458552
Available KBytes None 1632276.0
Available MBytes None 1594.0
Transition Pages RePurposed/sec None (-1073738810,
'GetFormattedCounterValue', 'The data is not valid.')

From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 30 20:02:45 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:02:45 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdhutil failing on counters with a "/"
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=XSW2aOyPYeNnVD-1iYgtjBZR5egL9DBer1arR@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=XSW2aOyPYeNnVD-1iYgtjBZR5egL9DBer1arR@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D937045.9030104@probo.com>

Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
> My script to parse perfmon data is working correctly, however, when I
> have a counter name with "/" in it, it seems to throw an error in
> GetFormattedData.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?

Do you get this every time, or only the first time you run it?  There
was one message that theorized that the "per second" values don't work
until it has two samples to compute a delta, although that person's own
reply seemed to refute that theory.

What versions?  Your script worked perfectly for me (after I imported
win32pdh).  XP SP3, Python 2.6, Python-Win32 214.  Is this a local
machine, or are you reading remotely?

C:\tmp>x.py
Page Faults/sec None 637.858235343
Available Bytes None 295763968.0
Committed Bytes None 798822400.0
Commit Limit None 2579103744.0
Write Copies/sec None 4.93029575603
Transition Faults/sec None 222.822945424
Cache Faults/sec None 163.402800234
Demand Zero Faults/sec None 325.280604849
Pages/sec None 29.7574040842
Pages Input/sec None 28.8193516955
Page Reads/sec None 4.76493920886
Pages Output/sec None 0.9380523089
Pool Paged Bytes None 91000832.0
Pool Nonpaged Bytes None 37187584.0
Page Writes/sec None 0.058643184963
Pool Paged Allocs None 94845.0
Pool Nonpaged Allocs None 71529.0
Free System Page Table Entries None 210438.0
Cache Bytes None 177729536.0
Cache Bytes Peak None 255340544.0
Pool Paged Resident Bytes None 73687040.0
System Code Total Bytes None 933888.0
System Code Resident Bytes None 307200.0
System Driver Total Bytes None 9097216.0
System Driver Resident Bytes None 1380352.0
System Cache Resident Bytes None 102354944.0
% Committed Bytes In Use None 30.9728680693
Available KBytes None 288832.0
Available MBytes None 282.0

C:\tmp>

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


From jmelloy at gmail.com  Wed Mar 30 20:07:52 2011
From: jmelloy at gmail.com (Jeffrey Melloy)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:07:52 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdhutil failing on counters with a "/"
In-Reply-To: <4D937045.9030104@probo.com>
References: <AANLkTi=XSW2aOyPYeNnVD-1iYgtjBZR5egL9DBer1arR@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D937045.9030104@probo.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinr0LN9Kt_MJ8P9-s4dM10i2Gdf-iu6QO__0xOZ@mail.gmail.com>

It gives that error every time.  My script runs through these in a loop.

I'm using Windows 7, Python 2.6, and I updated to build 216 of
py-win32 this morning.  (Though is there a good way to get what
version you're using from Python? __version__ isn't there.)

I get that if I'm working remotely or locally.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
>> My script to parse perfmon data is working correctly, however, when I
>> have a counter name with "/" in it, it seems to throw an error in
>> GetFormattedData.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Do you get this every time, or only the first time you run it? ?There
> was one message that theorized that the "per second" values don't work
> until it has two samples to compute a delta, although that person's own
> reply seemed to refute that theory.
>
> What versions? ?Your script worked perfectly for me (after I imported
> win32pdh). ?XP SP3, Python 2.6, Python-Win32 214. ?Is this a local
> machine, or are you reading remotely?
>
> C:\tmp>x.py
> Page Faults/sec None 637.858235343
> Available Bytes None 295763968.0
> Committed Bytes None 798822400.0
> Commit Limit None 2579103744.0
> Write Copies/sec None 4.93029575603
> Transition Faults/sec None 222.822945424
> Cache Faults/sec None 163.402800234
> Demand Zero Faults/sec None 325.280604849
> Pages/sec None 29.7574040842
> Pages Input/sec None 28.8193516955
> Page Reads/sec None 4.76493920886
> Pages Output/sec None 0.9380523089
> Pool Paged Bytes None 91000832.0
> Pool Nonpaged Bytes None 37187584.0
> Page Writes/sec None 0.058643184963
> Pool Paged Allocs None 94845.0
> Pool Nonpaged Allocs None 71529.0
> Free System Page Table Entries None 210438.0
> Cache Bytes None 177729536.0
> Cache Bytes Peak None 255340544.0
> Pool Paged Resident Bytes None 73687040.0
> System Code Total Bytes None 933888.0
> System Code Resident Bytes None 307200.0
> System Driver Total Bytes None 9097216.0
> System Driver Resident Bytes None 1380352.0
> System Cache Resident Bytes None 102354944.0
> % Committed Bytes In Use None 30.9728680693
> Available KBytes None 288832.0
> Available MBytes None 282.0
>
> C:\tmp>
>
> --
> 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
>

From jmelloy at gmail.com  Wed Mar 30 20:29:52 2011
From: jmelloy at gmail.com (Jeffrey Melloy)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:29:52 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32pdhutil failing on counters with a "/"
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinr0LN9Kt_MJ8P9-s4dM10i2Gdf-iu6QO__0xOZ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=XSW2aOyPYeNnVD-1iYgtjBZR5egL9DBer1arR@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D937045.9030104@probo.com>
	<AANLkTinr0LN9Kt_MJ8P9-s4dM10i2Gdf-iu6QO__0xOZ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTinF5esUP03P9y_-FagHF-beWyDJ2TGwXo5jq01F@mail.gmail.com>

Duplicating the function and calling CollectQueryData seems to fix it.
 XP must interpolate the time-series data differently than Windows 7.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jeffrey Melloy <jmelloy at gmail.com> wrote:
> It gives that error every time. ?My script runs through these in a loop.
>
> I'm using Windows 7, Python 2.6, and I updated to build 216 of
> py-win32 this morning. ?(Though is there a good way to get what
> version you're using from Python? __version__ isn't there.)
>
> I get that if I'm working remotely or locally.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>> Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
>>> My script to parse perfmon data is working correctly, however, when I
>>> have a counter name with "/" in it, it seems to throw an error in
>>> GetFormattedData.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen this before?
>>
>> Do you get this every time, or only the first time you run it? ?There
>> was one message that theorized that the "per second" values don't work
>> until it has two samples to compute a delta, although that person's own
>> reply seemed to refute that theory.
>>
>> What versions? ?Your script worked perfectly for me (after I imported
>> win32pdh). ?XP SP3, Python 2.6, Python-Win32 214. ?Is this a local
>> machine, or are you reading remotely?
>>
>> C:\tmp>x.py
>> Page Faults/sec None 637.858235343
>> Available Bytes None 295763968.0
>> Committed Bytes None 798822400.0
>> Commit Limit None 2579103744.0
>> Write Copies/sec None 4.93029575603
>> Transition Faults/sec None 222.822945424
>> Cache Faults/sec None 163.402800234
>> Demand Zero Faults/sec None 325.280604849
>> Pages/sec None 29.7574040842
>> Pages Input/sec None 28.8193516955
>> Page Reads/sec None 4.76493920886
>> Pages Output/sec None 0.9380523089
>> Pool Paged Bytes None 91000832.0
>> Pool Nonpaged Bytes None 37187584.0
>> Page Writes/sec None 0.058643184963
>> Pool Paged Allocs None 94845.0
>> Pool Nonpaged Allocs None 71529.0
>> Free System Page Table Entries None 210438.0
>> Cache Bytes None 177729536.0
>> Cache Bytes Peak None 255340544.0
>> Pool Paged Resident Bytes None 73687040.0
>> System Code Total Bytes None 933888.0
>> System Code Resident Bytes None 307200.0
>> System Driver Total Bytes None 9097216.0
>> System Driver Resident Bytes None 1380352.0
>> System Cache Resident Bytes None 102354944.0
>> % Committed Bytes In Use None 30.9728680693
>> Available KBytes None 288832.0
>> Available MBytes None 282.0
>>
>> C:\tmp>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>

From reckoner at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 01:05:54 2011
From: reckoner at gmail.com (reckoner)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:05:54 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor window
 open/close for all application?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.254.1301508474.2989.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.254.1301508474.2989.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <4D93B752.3090200@gmail.com>

Hi,

I have been looking at the following recipe:

Recipe 82236: Flexible Win32 message pump using 
MsgWaitForMultipleObjects (Python)
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/82236-flexible-win32-message-pump-using-msgwaitformultip

Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible 
to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I 
would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when 
that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with 
that? Any ideas on getting started with this?

Thanks!



From timr at probo.com  Thu Mar 31 01:17:01 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:17:01 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor
 window open/close for all application?
In-Reply-To: <4D93B752.3090200@gmail.com>
References: <mailman.254.1301508474.2989.python-win32@python.org>
	<4D93B752.3090200@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D93B9ED.9010402@probo.com>

reckoner wrote:
> Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible 
> to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I 
> would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when 
> that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with 
> that? Any ideas on getting started with this?

Do you mean a window in another application?  That requires installing a
Windows hook, and a Windows hook callback must reside in a DLL (so that
DLL can be injected into the other process), which cannot be done in
Python.  There is the pyHook package, but I don't know if it is still
being developed.

http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml

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


From jiawei.h.li at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 07:04:07 2011
From: jiawei.h.li at gmail.com (Jiawei Li)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:04:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>

I am running the following line of code:

iTunes = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('iTunes.Application')

This results in this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Helper.py", line 154, in <module>
  File "win32com\client\gencache.pyo", line 529, in
EnsureDispatch
  File "win32com\client\__init__.pyo", line 95, in Dispatch
  File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 104, in
_GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
  File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 84, in
_GetGoodDispatch
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string',
None, None)

This is being run on a Windows 7 64-bit machine with Python 2.6,
py2exe-0.6.9, and pywin32-214.

Does anyone know the meaning of this cryptic error?
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar 31 09:31:41 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:31:41 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>

On 31/03/2011 06:04, Jiawei Li wrote:
> I am running the following line of code:
>
> iTunes = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('iTunes.Application')
>
> This results in this error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "Helper.py", line 154, in <module>
>    File "win32com\client\gencache.pyo", line 529, in
> EnsureDispatch
>    File "win32com\client\__init__.pyo", line 95, in Dispatch
>    File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 104, in
> _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>    File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 84, in
> _GetGoodDispatch
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string',
> None, None)
>
> This is being run on a Windows 7 64-bit machine with Python 2.6,
> py2exe-0.6.9, and pywin32-214.
>
> Does anyone know the meaning of this cryptic error?

Well it's surely not that cryptic, is it?

"Invalid class string" suggests that the class string you're
using ("iTunes.Application") is invalid. Is the iTunes s/w
installed on this machine?

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu Mar 31 10:24:00 2011
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:24:00 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] py3k branch on pywin32 hg repo
Message-ID: <4D943A20.6010201@timgolden.me.uk>

I note that the pywin32 hg repo has a py3k branch. AFAICT, this
is an artefact leftover from CVS days and not a current focus
of work?

If I'm right, it might be worth marking it as closed
(hg commit --close-branch) to avoid confusion.

TJG

From jiawei.h.li at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 12:29:04 2011
From: jiawei.h.li at gmail.com (Jiawei Li)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:29:04 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
In-Reply-To: <4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <AANLkTik1fyrapEJexARH3dQvw7TzmahkN0ZSS7yk26Vy@mail.gmail.com>

iTunes is installed.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 31/03/2011 06:04, Jiawei Li wrote:
>
>> I am running the following line of code:
>>
>> iTunes = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('iTunes.Application')
>>
>> This results in this error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "Helper.py", line 154, in <module>
>>   File "win32com\client\gencache.pyo", line 529, in
>> EnsureDispatch
>>   File "win32com\client\__init__.pyo", line 95, in Dispatch
>>   File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 104, in
>> _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>>   File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyo", line 84, in
>> _GetGoodDispatch
>> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string',
>> None, None)
>>
>> This is being run on a Windows 7 64-bit machine with Python 2.6,
>> py2exe-0.6.9, and pywin32-214.
>>
>> Does anyone know the meaning of this cryptic error?
>>
>
> Well it's surely not that cryptic, is it?
>
> "Invalid class string" suggests that the class string you're
> using ("iTunes.Application") is invalid. Is the iTunes s/w
> installed on this machine?
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 12:53:46 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:53:46 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Clear the interactive screen
In-Reply-To: <imvito$iu6$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org> <4D8EDED0.5090502@gmail.com>
	<imvito$iu6$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <4D945D3A.6000301@gmail.com>

On 31/03/2011 2:41 AM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote:
> On 27/03/2011 07:53, Mark Hammond wrote:
>> Try something like:
>>
>> from pywin.framework import interact
>> interact.edit.currentView.SetSel(0, -1)
>> interact.edit.currentView.Clear()
>
> Try the above three lines from the interactive prompt and nothing that I
> can see happens.

That is because line 2 selects all text in the window - but doing this 
interactively resets this.  The last line clears the selection - and 
interactively there is no selection to remove.

> Try the last two lines on a single line with the ;
> separator and the screen is cleared, I'm sorry but I don't understand this.

Hope that explains it.
>
> I've tried wrapping the interact lines from above into a cls function

I'm not sure what a cls function is.

> in
> my own bare bones config file based on the data in the pywin32 help
> Keyboard Bindings section. Screws everything.

Screws what?

> What steps are needed to
> get what I and others have asked for in the past, i.e. clear the
> interactive screen, run the program/module under test, resort to normal?

What exactly did you try?  How exactly did it not work?

> I observe that the Ctrl-R and Shift-Ctrl-R key combinations are not
> available in the default config file (presumably to keep bozos like
> myself away from them? :). So do we have to resort to (shock, horror,
> probe) doing things manually?

They should be - I use the default config and Ctrl+R works fine for me.

>>> I've also changed interact.py in accordance with
>>> http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/168244/. Is there any
>>> reason why this couldn't be part of the standard file?

I don't follow that list - was it ever posted to sourceforge?

Cheers,

Mark

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 13:06:44 2011
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:06:44 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] py3k branch on pywin32 hg repo
In-Reply-To: <4D943A20.6010201@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4D943A20.6010201@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4D946044.6000206@gmail.com>

On 31/03/2011 7:24 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> I note that the pywin32 hg repo has a py3k branch. AFAICT, this
> is an artefact leftover from CVS days and not a current focus
> of work?
>
> If I'm right, it might be worth marking it as closed
> (hg commit --close-branch) to avoid confusion.

Done, thanks!  (That was the only branch I bothered to migrate from CVS 
and I forgot to close it after the migration...)

Thanks,

Mark

From palla74 at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 14:41:42 2011
From: palla74 at gmail.com (Palla)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:41:42 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] EuroPython 2011: call for paper is ending - Please
	spread the word!
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=sm9_sHSS=ccV_AyHSfO5vn2Oz48ODDA_fn6_d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all members,
I'm Francesco and I am writing on behalf of "Python Italia APS", a no-profit
association promoting EuroPython conference. (www.europython.eu)

Europython End of Call for Presentations is April 6th. I'd like to ask to
you to forward this mail to anyone that you feel may be interested.

We're looking for proposals on every aspects of Python: programming from
novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been
involved in introducing Python into your organisation.

**First-time speakers are especially welcome**; EuroPython is a community
conference and we are eager to hear about your experience.

If you have friends or colleagues who have something valuable to contribute,
twist their arms to tell us about it!


Presenting at EuroPython
------------------------
We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and
commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the
presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community,
it will be considered for inclusion in the programme.

Can you show the conference-goers something new and useful? Can you show
attendees how to: use a module? Explore a Python language feature? Package
an application? If so, consider submitting a talk.


Talks and hands-on trainings
----------------------------
There are two different kind of presentations that you can give as a speaker
at EuroPython:

 * **Regular talk**. These are standard "talk with slides", allocated in
slots of 45, 60 or 90 minutes, depending on your preference and scheduling
constraints. A Q&A session is held at the end of the talk.
 * **Hands-on training**. These are advanced training sessions for a smaller
audience (10-20 people), to dive into the subject with all details. These
sessions are 4-hours long, and audience will be strongly encouraged to bring
a laptop to experiment. They should be prepared with less slides and more
source code. If possible, trainers will also give a short "teaser talk" of
30 minutes the day before the training, to tease delegates into attending
the training.

In the talk submission form, we assume that you intend to give a regular
talk on the subject, but you will be asked if you are available for also
doing a hands-on training on the very same subject.

Speakers that will give a hands-on training are rewarded with a **free
entrance** to EuroPython to compensate for the longer preparation required,
and might also be eligible for a speaking fee (which we cannot confirm at
the moment).

Topics and goals
----------------
Specific topics for EuroPython presentations include, but are not limited
to:

- Core Python
- Other implementations: Jython, IronPython, PyPy, and Stackless
- Python libraries and extensions
- Python 3.x migration
- Databases
- Documentation
- GUI Programming
- Game Programming
- Network Programming
- Open Source Python projects
- Packaging Issues
- Programming Tools
- Project Best Practices
- Embedding and Extending
- Science and Math
- Web-based Systems

Presentation goals usually are some of the following:

- Introduce audience to a new topic they are unaware of
- Introduce audience to new developments on a well-known topic
- Show audience real-world usage scenarios for a specific topic (case study)
- Dig into advanced and relatively-unknown details on a topic
- Compare different options in the market on a topic


Community-based talk voting
---------------------------
This year, for the first time in EuroPython history, the talk voting process
is fully public. Every partecipant gains the right to vote for talks
submitted during the Call For Papers, as soon as they commit to their
presence at the conference by buying a ticket. See all the details in the
talk voting[1] page.

Contacts
--------
For any further question, feel free to contact the organizers at
info at pycon.it. Thank you!

[1]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/talk-voting


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From reckoner at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 15:14:34 2011
From: reckoner at gmail.com (reckoner)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:14:34 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to monitor
 window open/close for all application?
In-Reply-To: <mailman.51.1301565602.333.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.51.1301565602.333.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <4D947E3A.1080109@gmail.com>



> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:17:01 -0700
> From: Tim Roberts<timr at probo.com>
> To: Python-Win32 List<python-win32 at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Using Flexible Win32 message pump to
> 	monitor window open/close for all application?
> Message-ID:<4D93B9ED.9010402 at probo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
>
> reckoner wrote:
>> Which is listed in the Python cookbook, second edition. Is it possible
>> to use this to monitor the open/close of different windows? Basically, I
>> would like to trigger an action for a specific window or handle when
>> that window class or handle opens/closes. Can this recipe help with
>> that? Any ideas on getting started with this?
>
> Do you mean a window in another application?  That requires installing a
> Windows hook, and a Windows hook callback must reside in a DLL (so that
> DLL can be injected into the other process), which cannot be done in
> Python.  There is the pyHook package, but I don't know if it is still
> being developed.
>
> http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml
>

Thanks your reply.

I'm guessing from your response that the cookbook recipe can only deal 
with open/close events that it throws itself. So far, the only way I 
have found to monitor window open/close events is the Active 
Accessibility (AA) layer via pyAA. The problem is that AA is really 
dated and is theoretically supposed to be superseded by the UI 
automation layer, but there are no similar Python bindings for that (and 
it relies on the .NET framework ).

Here is the link for a description of pyAA:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080510165211/mindtrove.info/articles/gui-automation-with-pyaa/


Thanks!




From breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk  Thu Mar 31 16:24:39 2011
From: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk (Blockheads Oi Oi)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:24:39 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Clear the interactive screen
In-Reply-To: <4D945D3A.6000301@gmail.com>
References: <imi8ph$9ut$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<4D8EDED0.5090502@gmail.com>	<imvito$iu6$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<4D945D3A.6000301@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <in22p1$uet$1@dough.gmane.org>

On 31/03/2011 11:53, Mark Hammond wrote:
> On 31/03/2011 2:41 AM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote:
>> On 27/03/2011 07:53, Mark Hammond wrote:
>>> Try something like:
>>>
>>> from pywin.framework import interact
>>> interact.edit.currentView.SetSel(0, -1)
>>> interact.edit.currentView.Clear()
>>
>> Try the above three lines from the interactive prompt and nothing that I
>> can see happens.
>
> That is because line 2 selects all text in the window - but doing this
> interactively resets this. The last line clears the selection - and
> interactively there is no selection to remove.
>
>> Try the last two lines on a single line with the ;
>> separator and the screen is cleared, I'm sorry but I don't understand
>> this.
>
> Hope that explains it.
>>
>> I've tried wrapping the interact lines from above into a cls function
>
> I'm not sure what a cls function is.

My function to clear the screen, sorry I should have been explicit, it's 
given below.

>
>> in
>> my own bare bones config file based on the data in the pywin32 help
>> Keyboard Bindings section. Screws everything.
>
> Screws what?
>
>> What steps are needed to
>> get what I and others have asked for in the past, i.e. clear the
>> interactive screen, run the program/module under test, resort to normal?
>
> What exactly did you try? How exactly did it not work?

This is what I set up.
c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin>type mine.cfg
[General]
BasedOn = Default

[Keys:Interactive]
Alt+C = cls

[Extensions]
def cls(editor_window, event):
     from  pywin.framework import interact
     interact.edit.currentView.SetSel(0, -1)
     interact.edit.currentView.Clear()
<EOF>

This will clear the screen but there's no interactive prompt.  Then type 
any command you like and nothing happens,no errors, no output, zilch. 
But you can select what you've typed with Ctrl-A and copy it with 
Ctrl-C, which is exactly what I've done with the following three lines.

help(set)
a = 1.0
this is junk

>
>> I observe that the Ctrl-R and Shift-Ctrl-R key combinations are not
>> available in the default config file (presumably to keep bozos like
>> myself away from them? :). So do we have to resort to (shock, horror,
>> probe) doing things manually?
>
> They should be - I use the default config and Ctrl+R works fine for me.
>

Ctrl-R or Ctrl-Shift-R work fine for me but they're not in the default 
config *FILE* as per:-
c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin>grep -i Ctrl default.cfg
Ctrl+W            = ViewWhitespace
Ctrl+Shift+8      = ViewWhitespace # The MSVC default key def.
Ctrl+Shift+F      = ViewFixedFont
Ctrl+Space   = <<expand-word>>
Ctrl+F3           = AutoFindNext
Ctrl+F2           = ToggleBookmark
Ctrl+G            = GotoLine
Ctrl+T            = <<toggle-tabs>>
Ctrl+Up           = <<history-previous>>
Ctrl+Down         = <<history-next>>
Ctrl+Enter        = ProcessEnter
# When docked, the Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab keys dont work as expected.
Ctrl+Tab          = MDINext
Ctrl+Shift+Tab    = MDIPrev

>>>> I've also changed interact.py in accordance with
>>>> http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/168244/. Is there any
>>>> reason why this couldn't be part of the standard file?
>
> I don't follow that list - was it ever posted to sourceforge?

The above URL refers to 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2813056&group_id=78018&atid=551956). 
  You checked in the changes at 2010-08-27 07:37:51 UTC :)

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark

Regards.

Mark L.



From timr at probo.com  Thu Mar 31 19:18:09 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:18:09 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik1fyrapEJexARH3dQvw7TzmahkN0ZSS7yk26Vy@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>	<4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>
	<AANLkTik1fyrapEJexARH3dQvw7TzmahkN0ZSS7yk26Vy@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D94B751.1020700@probo.com>

Jiawei Li wrote:
> iTunes is installed.

iTunes is a 64-bit application.  Unless they also registered a 32-bit
proxy, a 64-bit COM object cannot be used in a 32-bit process.

If you need this, it may be time to consider loading a 64-bit Python.

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


From jiawei.h.li at gmail.com  Thu Mar 31 20:08:55 2011
From: jiawei.h.li at gmail.com (Jiawei Li)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:08:55 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
In-Reply-To: <4D94B751.1020700@probo.com>
References: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>
	<AANLkTik1fyrapEJexARH3dQvw7TzmahkN0ZSS7yk26Vy@mail.gmail.com>
	<4D94B751.1020700@probo.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=P6Zd=rQR_RULaGnyWueBXeMQGFK=Zw5qnNCFD@mail.gmail.com>

Ah, I see.
So likewise, I just need to run a 64-bit version of py2exe?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Jiawei Li wrote:
> > iTunes is installed.
>
> iTunes is a 64-bit application.  Unless they also registered a 32-bit
> proxy, a 64-bit COM object cannot be used in a 32-bit process.
>
> If you need this, it may be time to consider loading a 64-bit Python.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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From timr at probo.com  Thu Mar 31 20:18:10 2011
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:18:10 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] EnsureDispatch throwing fatal error
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=P6Zd=rQR_RULaGnyWueBXeMQGFK=Zw5qnNCFD@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTi=o8X=XR6sKJZ2qffbKr11oDxPeh-dA-QSLoF3-@mail.gmail.com>	<4D942DDD.8070300@timgolden.me.uk>	<AANLkTik1fyrapEJexARH3dQvw7TzmahkN0ZSS7yk26Vy@mail.gmail.com>	<4D94B751.1020700@probo.com>
	<AANLkTi=P6Zd=rQR_RULaGnyWueBXeMQGFK=Zw5qnNCFD@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4D94C562.7050800@probo.com>

Jiawei Li wrote:
> Ah, I see.
> So likewise, I just need to run a 64-bit version of py2exe?

Since I have not personally tried running iTunes on a 64-bit system, I
can't give you 100% confidence, but based on the error message, I am
guessing that will solve your problem, yes.

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