From damienmoloney at gmail.com  Sun Jun  3 07:21:45 2012
From: damienmoloney at gmail.com (damien moloney)
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 15:21:45 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 110, Issue 30
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Win32 file properties

The code under the  https://github.com/tjguk/winshell was very helpful, I'm
able to retrieve the values.
You are correct delving into how it all works it is very complicated.

Thanks
Damien.

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> On 27/05/2012 11:54, damien moloney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have been unable to retrieve the windows file properties/attributes
> > under "Subject", and "Description". for .msi files on a Win XP c using
> > win32api. Have been able to get version type info,
> > but unable to get much more. I came across the following "fromwin32com
> > importstoragecon # constants related to storage functions." which looked
> > promising but fell over as the .msi files I was looking at are not
> > "storage files". Any ides on where next.
>
> This is a bit more complicated than you might like. I have
> a half-hearted example here:
>
>
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html
>
> and the in-dev version of my winshell module includes some more
> general-purpose code which you might at least want to look at
> even though it's not 100% at the moment:
>
>  https://github.com/tjguk/winshell
>
> Part of the difficulty is that Windows has switched between two
> approaches to this area which doesn't help when trying to get
> examples.
>
> TJG
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From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 09:53:28 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:53:28 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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Hello,

I?m trying to edit the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) using WMI in Python:

>>> import sys
>>> import win32com.client
>>>
>>> def call(object, name, *args):
...     method = object.Methods_(name)
...     params = method.InParameters
...     for param, arg in zip(params.Properties_, args):
...         param.Value = arg
...     result = object.ExecMethod_(name, params)
...     return [param.Value for param in result.Properties_]
...
>>> objBCD = win32com.client.GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=Impersonate,(Backup,Restore)}!root/wmi:BcdStore")
>>> success, objBcdStore = call(objBCD, "OpenStore", "")
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
...
>>> del objBCD
>>> objWBM, success = call(objBcdStore, "OpenObject", "{9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}")
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
...
>>> success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 0x25000004, 5)
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
...
>>> objElement, success = call(objWBM, "GetElement", 0x25000004)
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
...
>>> print(objElement.Properties_("Integer").Value)

This code has no effect (it does not change the value of element
"0x25000004"), although the equivalent in VB works as expected:

>>> dim objBCD
>>> dim objBCDStore
>>> dim objWBM
>>> dim objElement
>>>
>>> set objBCD = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationlevel=Impersonate,(Backup,Restore)}!root/wmi:BcdStore")
>>>
>>> if Err.number <> 0 then
...     WScript.Quit(1)
... end if
>>>
>>> if not objBCD.OpenStore( "", objBcdStore ) then
...     WScript.Quit(1)
... end if
>>>
>>> set objBCD = nothing
>>>
>>> if not objBcdStore.OpenObject( "{9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}", objWBM ) then
...     WScript.Quit(1)
... end if
>>>
>>> if not objWBM.SetIntegerElement( &h25000004, 10 ) then
...     WScript.Quit(1)
... end if
>>>
>>> if not objWBM.GetElement( &h25000004, objElement ) then
...     WScript.Quit(1)
... end if
>>>
>>> WScript.Echo objElement.Integer

I execute both scripts from elevated command line.

Can you please help?

Thank you
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 15 14:54:39 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:54:39 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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On 15/06/2012 08:53, Radek Hol? wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I?m trying to edit the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) using WMI in Python:

Hmmm. I'd love to help you, but I'd need to set up a VM first so I don't
screw up my Boot Configuration along the way!

I notice one small line in the docs for BcdIntegerElement:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa362650%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

which states:

"""
The value is passed as a string because Automation does not natively
support 64-bit integers
"""

Frankly if that *were* the issue, I'd expect the Set... call to fail
in the presence of integer but it's the only thing I can spot quickly.

BTW my wmi module does some of the heavy lifting, but it would need some
help here as the methods you're using are (unusually) returning further
WMI objects. I don't think it'll help the issue you're experiencing but
it might be worth a glance:

  http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html

TJG

From ferdinandsousa at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 18:20:26 2012
From: ferdinandsousa at gmail.com (Ferdinand Sousa)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:50:26 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Installing pywin32 for Python 2.7 AMD64
Message-ID: <CANZTH3SuiUAQr3BdUP5bMwnQvMCL+P84qL4V0Tv2hj=73CjHwQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi List,

First off, it's good to be back after 3 years!!

I was dusting off some old scripts I had written using pywin32. (Python 2.5
era I think). It uses the win32con and win32api modules.

Now I'm trying to use the same scripts with Python 2.7 AMD64 version.

I downloaded pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.exe from the sourceforge site and
installed it. At the end, I see the following message:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Postinstall script finished
Click the Finish button to exit the setup wizard

close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then, I tried importing win32con and it works. But, when I tried importing
win32api, win32gui I get the error message:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    import win32api, win32gui
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So I uninstalled pywin32 and tried installing it from source. But alas, I
again hit a roadblock:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py
install
Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 1944, in <module>
    """ % dirs).split(),
  File "setup.py", line 603, in __init__
    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(sdk_dir, "include", "activdbg.h")):
  File "c:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join
    assert len(path) > 0
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance,
Ferdi
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From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 19:57:39 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:57:39 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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2012/6/15 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> On 15/06/2012 08:53, Radek Hol? wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I?m trying to edit the BCD (Boot Configuration Data) using WMI in Python:
>
> Hmmm. I'd love to help you, but I'd need to set up a VM first so I don't
> screw up my Boot Configuration along the way!
>
> I notice one small line in the docs for BcdIntegerElement:
>
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa362650%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> which states:
>
> """
> The value is passed as a string because Automation does not natively
> support 64-bit integers
> """
>
> Frankly if that *were* the issue, I'd expect the Set... call to fail
> in the presence of integer but it's the only thing I can spot quickly.
>
> BTW my wmi module does some of the heavy lifting, but it would need some
> help here as the methods you're using are (unusually) returning further
> WMI objects. I don't think it'll help the issue you're experiencing but
> it might be worth a glance:
>
> ?http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/index.html
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32



I found a small discrepancy in my previously mentioned VBS. But still
the VBS works and the Python script does not work.
Instead of this:
>>> if not objWBM.SetIntegerElement( &h25000004, 10 ) then
there should be this:
>>> if not objWBM.SetIntegerElement( &h25000004, 5 ) then


I must confess that my script uses your WMI module. In fact, it looks like this:

>>> import wmi
>>> import sys
>>> class_ = wmi.WMI(computer=".", impersonation_level="Impersonate", privileges=("Backup", "Restore"), namespace="WMI", suffix="BcdStore")
>>> success, store_com = class_.OpenStore("")
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
>>>
>>> store = wmi._wmi_object(store_com)
>>> manager_com, success = store.OpenObject("{9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}")
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
>>>
>>> manager = wmi._wmi_object(manager_com)
>>> success, = manager.SetIntegerElement(0x25000004, "5")
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
>>>
>>> element_com, success = manager.GetElement(0x25000004)
>>> if not success:
...     sys.exit(1)
>>>
>>> element = wmi._wmi_object(element_com)
>>> print(element.Integer)

But because I am writing to this mail group, I rewrote it to use only
``win32com`` functions (wrapped by your module).


I read the notice about passing the value as a ``string``. I tried to
pass both ``string`` and ``integer`` and neither one worked.

BTW: The script only sets the timeout for the operating system
selection, so it should be safe.


--
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From rupole at hotmail.com  Fri Jun 15 22:14:04 2012
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:14:04 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
References: <CAJ9iWD=x6n=vMH13Fxt5FPczbjt7G5b3eUnpSKg-wzn6p3iDYw@mail.gmail.com><CAJ9iWDm6u8tqpOzLW=_mkYtbpcZ01OLqg3LQPSmyYysvgNCyqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <jrg52c$63h$1@dough.gmane.org>

Looks like the parameters to SetIntegerElement are reversed:

>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[0].Name
'Integer'
>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[1].Name
'Type'

If I switch the call to
success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 5, 0x25000004)
the expected value is printed.

  Roger





From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 15 23:02:54 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:02:54 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
In-Reply-To: <jrg52c$63h$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On 15/06/2012 21:14, Roger Upole wrote:
> Looks like the parameters to SetIntegerElement are reversed:
>
>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[0].Name
> 'Integer'
>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[1].Name
> 'Type'
>
> If I switch the call to
> success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 5, 0x25000004)
> the expected value is printed.

Good catch. To the OP: if you use named params on the wmi methods rather 
than positional this will avoid the issue.

TJG

From mattl at google.com  Fri Jun 15 23:43:43 2012
From: mattl at google.com (Matt LaPlante)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:43:43 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] win32com.adsi limits number of members returned
Message-ID: <CAOhyQRA=qzc--zSdQutucvcLXGtc8iqhWj80rUUp64-zgcd6Vw@mail.gmail.com>

Using the following code...

import win32com.adsi
DNC=win32com.adsi.ADsGetObject('LDAP://rootDSE').Get('DefaultNamingContext')
path = 'LDAP://cn=BIG_GROUP,ou=Groups,'+DNC
groupobj = win32com.adsi.ADsGetObject(path)
users = groupobj.member
print len(users)

The output is always a maximum 1500, even if BIG_GROUP contains
several thousand members. How can I execute this query in a way that
returns all members of BIG_GROUP?

From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Fri Jun 15 23:55:31 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:55:31 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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2012/6/15 Roger Upole <rupole at hotmail.com>:
> Looks like the parameters to SetIntegerElement are reversed:
>
>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[0].Name
> 'Integer'
>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[1].Name
> 'Type'
>
> If I switch the call to
> success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 5, 0x25000004)
> the expected value is printed.
>
> ?Roger
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


Wow, what a surprise. I did not expect that. I feel stupid that I did
not come out. :-[ I?m solving it for three days in a row... In the
Microsoft?s documentation (and in Visual Basic) it is reversed.

Thank you very much for your help!
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Jun 16 06:12:23 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:12:23 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] win32com.adsi limits number of members returned
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Message-ID: <4FDC07A7.2030104@timgolden.me.uk>

On 15/06/2012 22:43, Matt LaPlante wrote:
> Using the following code...
>
> import win32com.adsi
> DNC=win32com.adsi.ADsGetObject('LDAP://rootDSE').Get('DefaultNamingContext')
> path = 'LDAP://cn=BIG_GROUP,ou=Groups,'+DNC
> groupobj = win32com.adsi.ADsGetObject(path)
> users = groupobj.member
> print len(users)
>
> The output is always a maximum 1500, even if BIG_GROUP contains
> several thousand members. How can I execute this query in a way that
> returns all members of BIG_GROUP?

(Sorry, quick answer for now just to set on the right route.)

This is a built-in limitation. I can't get a web connection at the 
moment but if you search MSDN for "attribute range retrieval" you should 
find a description. In principle you could use GetInfoEx but at present 
it's not implemented in the pywin32 ADSI code. Instead you might craft 
your LDAP query with a range qualifier to see if that worked.

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Jun 16 06:17:53 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:17:53 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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On 15/06/2012 22:55, Radek Hol? wrote:
> 2012/6/15 Roger Upole<rupole at hotmail.com>:
>> Looks like the parameters to SetIntegerElement are reversed:
>>
>>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[0].Name
>> 'Integer'
>>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[1].Name
>> 'Type'
>>
>> If I switch the call to
>> success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 5, 0x25000004)
>> the expected value is printed.
>>
>>   Roger
>
> Wow, what a surprise. I did not expect that. I feel stupid that I did
> not come out. :-[ I?m solving it for three days in a row... In the
> Microsoft?s documentation (and in Visual Basic) it is reversed.
>
> Thank you very much for your help!


In fact, since you're already using the wmi module, you can see the 
correct order of parameters via the method's repr:

<code>
import wmi

print wmi.WMI (namespace="wmi").BCDObject.SetIntegerElement
# <function SetIntegerElement (Integer, Type) => (ReturnValue)>

</code>

TJG

From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Sat Jun 16 08:22:09 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:22:09 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] BCD WMI modification via pywin32 without effect
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2012/6/16 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> On 15/06/2012 22:55, Radek Hol? wrote:
>>
>> 2012/6/15 Roger Upole<rupole at hotmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Looks like the parameters to SetIntegerElement are reversed:
>>>
>>>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[0].Name
>>>
>>> 'Integer'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> objWBM.Methods_('SetIntegerElement').InParameters.Properties_[1].Name
>>>
>>> 'Type'
>>>
>>> If I switch the call to
>>> success, = call(objWBM, "SetIntegerElement", 5, 0x25000004)
>>> the expected value is printed.
>>>
>>> ?Roger
>>
>>
>> Wow, what a surprise. I did not expect that. I feel stupid that I did
>> not come out. :-[ I?m solving it for three days in a row... In the
>> Microsoft?s documentation (and in Visual Basic) it is reversed.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help!
>
>
>
> In fact, since you're already using the wmi module, you can see the correct
> order of parameters via the method's repr:
>
> <code>
> import wmi
>
> print wmi.WMI (namespace="wmi").BCDObject.SetIntegerElement
> # <function SetIntegerElement (Integer, Type) => (ReturnValue)>
>
> </code>
>
> TJG
>
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


Yes, I know, but I did not realize to doubt about Microsoft's
documentation and its validity in Python implementation. In the future
I will be more vigilant.

Thank you very much,
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Sun Jun 17 21:34:34 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:34:34 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for given
	Windows Registry key?
Message-ID: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I'm playing with pywin32 and wmi modules last week. During my
experiments I found some attribute/method of some object
(COMObject/_wmi_object) or its property which listed the Windows
Registry key path which is set by the object.
Don?t you know which object/attribute it was?

Don?t you know how to find corresponding WMI/COM object for given
Windows Registry key? Is there any useful table of this mapping on the
web?

Thank you very much
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun Jun 17 23:45:54 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:45:54 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>

On 17/06/2012 20:34, Radek Hol? wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm playing with pywin32 and wmi modules last week. During my
> experiments I found some attribute/method of some object
> (COMObject/_wmi_object) or its property which listed the Windows
> Registry key path which is set by the object.
> Don?t you know which object/attribute it was?
>
> Don?t you know how to find corresponding WMI/COM object for given
> Windows Registry key? Is there any useful table of this mapping on the
> web?
>
> Thank you very much

<code>
import wmi

reg = wmi.WMI (namespace="default").StdRegProv

reg.EnumKey (...) # etc.

</code>


BTW -- not that this answers your question -- did you see that
there's a mini-webapp which comes with the wmi distribution
called wmiweb.py?

It gives an easy way to browse the WMI namespaces? It has no
search capability to it wouldn't have helped much with this
question unless you could remember which namespace it was in
but in case you're experimenting elsewhere....

TJG

From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 01:58:02 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:58:02 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
In-Reply-To: <4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <CAJ9iWD=gVyLSN+bP=mUYy4Qh3gY9UJ837B9BTiaZSg05poDGCA@mail.gmail.com>

2012/6/17 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> On 17/06/2012 20:34, Radek Hol? wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm playing with pywin32 and wmi modules last week. During my
>> experiments I found some attribute/method of some object
>> (COMObject/_wmi_object) or its property which listed the Windows
>> Registry key path which is set by the object.
>> Don?t you know which object/attribute it was?
>>
>> Don?t you know how to find corresponding WMI/COM object for given
>> Windows Registry key? Is there any useful table of this mapping on the
>> web?
>>
>> Thank you very much
>
>
> <code>
> import wmi
>
> reg = wmi.WMI (namespace="default").StdRegProv
>
> reg.EnumKey (...) # etc.
>
> </code>
>
>
> BTW -- not that this answers your question -- did you see that
> there's a mini-webapp which comes with the wmi distribution
> called wmiweb.py?
>
> It gives an easy way to browse the WMI namespaces? It has no
> search capability to it wouldn't have helped much with this
> question unless you could remember which namespace it was in
> but in case you're experimenting elsewhere....
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32



My question is probably poorly formulated.
In fact -- as I discovered -- some WMI objects reflect their values in
the Windows Registry keys (for example there is mapping
?root\cimv2:Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration.AutoReboot? in
?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot?).
Is there some *common* attribute of WMI/COM/OLE objects giving the key path?
Is it possible to determine (by some manual/automatic iteration), for
example which WMI/COM object sets
?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\VerboseStatus??

I must say that wmiweb is a great application.

Thank you
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 06:12:27 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:12:27 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Installing pywin32 for Python 2.7 AMD64
In-Reply-To: <CANZTH3SuiUAQr3BdUP5bMwnQvMCL+P84qL4V0Tv2hj=73CjHwQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CANZTH3SuiUAQr3BdUP5bMwnQvMCL+P84qL4V0Tv2hj=73CjHwQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FDEAAAB.6090900@gmail.com>

On 16/06/2012 2:20 AM, Ferdinand Sousa wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> First off, it's good to be back after 3 years!!
>
> I was dusting off some old scripts I had written using pywin32. (Python
> 2.5 era I think). It uses the win32con and win32api modules.
>
> Now I'm trying to use the same scripts with Python 2.7 AMD64 version.
>
> I downloaded pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.exe from the sourceforge site
> and installed it. At the end, I see the following message:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Postinstall script finished
> Click the Finish button to exit the setup wizard
>
> close failed in file object destructor:
> sys.excepthook is missing
> lost sys.stderr
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This seems to happen if User Access Control (UAC) is disabled - is it 
disabled for you?

Either way, try running "python scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install" 
from the root of the install directory and things should finish 
registering - that should fix the next error you see.

>
> Then, I tried importing win32con and it works. But, when I tried
> importing win32api, win32gui I get the error message:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>      import win32api, win32gui
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I uninstalled pywin32 and tried installing it from source. But alas,
> I again hit a roadblock:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py
> install
> Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "setup.py", line 1944, in <module>
>      """ % dirs).split(),
>    File "setup.py", line 603, in __init__
>      if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(sdk_dir, "include", "activdbg.h")):
>    File "c:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join
>      assert len(path) > 0
> TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()

This will probably be due to the setup script not finding the platform SDK.

HTH,

Mark
>
> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\pywin32-217>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ferdi
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Jun 18 06:54:44 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:54:44 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9iWD=gVyLSN+bP=mUYy4Qh3gY9UJ837B9BTiaZSg05poDGCA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>
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Message-ID: <4FDEB494.10406@timgolden.me.uk>

On 18/06/2012 00:58, Radek Hol? wrote:
> My question is probably poorly formulated.
> In fact -- as I discovered -- some WMI objects reflect their values in
> the Windows Registry keys (for example there is mapping
> ?root\cimv2:Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration.AutoReboot? in
> ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot?).
> Is there some *common* attribute of WMI/COM/OLE objects giving the key path?

I don't believe so. The thing about WMI is that it provides a
uniform and accessible layer on top of quite a lot of lower-level
APIs. In some cases, that's a layer over registry entries; in other
cases it's a layer over an actual API call. It may even be the only
publicly-accessible means of achieving some result.

As it happens, for *methods* there is sometimes a clue as to the
underlying API. I have exposed this as (for want of a better name) the 
provenance attribute of a method class. So if you do this:

<code>
import wmi

print wmi.WMI().Win32_Process.Create.provenance

</code>

You'll see something like this:

Win32API|Process and Thread Functions|CreateProcess

I'm not aware of any such thing for attributes, although it wouldn't
surprise me utterly if there were.

>
> I must say that wmiweb is a great application.

Thanks; I rather like it myself :)

TJG

From mc at mclaveau.com  Mon Jun 18 07:37:05 2012
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:37:05 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Thanks to M Hammond for Pywin.217
In-Reply-To: <4FDEAAAB.6090900@gmail.com>
References: <CANZTH3SuiUAQr3BdUP5bMwnQvMCL+P84qL4V0Tv2hj=73CjHwQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDEAAAB.6090900@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6CAA1111FEBC4F319147479581902B89@M14>

Hi!

Sorry for delay, but since several months, I can't post via the python-win32 
mailing list.
I am very happy with Pywin32 217 ; all my old problems are solved with this 
release.

M. Hammond, thanks very much!!!

-- 
Michel Claveau
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From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 09:12:17 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:12:17 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
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2012/6/18 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> On 18/06/2012 00:58, Radek Hol? wrote:
>>
>> My question is probably poorly formulated.
>> In fact -- as I discovered -- some WMI objects reflect their values in
>> the Windows Registry keys (for example there is mapping
>> ?root\cimv2:Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration.AutoReboot? in
>>
>> ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot?).
>> Is there some *common* attribute of WMI/COM/OLE objects giving the key
>> path?
>
>
> I don't believe so. The thing about WMI is that it provides a
> uniform and accessible layer on top of quite a lot of lower-level
> APIs. In some cases, that's a layer over registry entries; in other
> cases it's a layer over an actual API call. It may even be the only
> publicly-accessible means of achieving some result.
>
> As it happens, for *methods* there is sometimes a clue as to the
> underlying API. I have exposed this as (for want of a better name) the
> provenance attribute of a method class. So if you do this:
>
> <code>
> import wmi
>
> print wmi.WMI().Win32_Process.Create.provenance
>
> </code>
>
> You'll see something like this:
>
> Win32API|Process and Thread Functions|CreateProcess
>
> I'm not aware of any such thing for attributes, although it wouldn't
> surprise me utterly if there were.

I know that the dependence WMI <-> WinReg is not frequent. Saying
?common attribute? I thought common to this (reflecting) type of
objects. So it seems that it was an exception that I managed to print
this thing.
Or is it possible that the attribute belongs to underlaying COM or OLE
object? (In the pywin32 implementation!)

I wonder which object it was... :-/ What a pity that interactive shell
does not remember the history of commands after rebooting the
computer? :-D
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From sv1jsb at gmail.com  Mon Jun 18 21:35:32 2012
From: sv1jsb at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-7?B?we3k8d3h8iDQ7/Hl9fzw7/Xr7/I=?=)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:35:32 +0300
Subject: [python-win32] Connecting to a running COM server
Message-ID: <CAJmx_p5HROXcTwVr=N41mibtT7n3e5Fss6Eq=6=aiEqpW5v3Kw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
I am new to windows programming and I am trying to connect to a local erp
application server which has a registered com interface and provides
methods for an external program to communicate with it.
With Delphi one can do following and have access to the erp:
...
user ComObj
...

FSoftOne := CreateOleObject('SoXplorer.SoConnection');
...
FSoftOne.Login('user',''pass');
etc...

I am trying to do the same with python but with no success.
s1 = win32com.client.GetObject(Class='SoXplorer.SoConnection')
I get:
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221021, 'Operation unavailable', None, None)

s1 = pythoncom.Connect('SoXplorer.SoConnection')
I get:
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221021, 'Operation unavailable', None, None)

When there is no server running I do:
s1 = win32com.client.Dispatch('SoXplorer.SoConnection')
this starts the server but this is not an option because the server will be
up all the time.

What am I doing wrong?

Best regards,
Andreas
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From mvcisback at gmail.com  Tue Jun 19 20:24:59 2012
From: mvcisback at gmail.com (Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:24:59 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
Message-ID: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,
Does anyone here know about python implementations for windows on Arm. I
don't know where exactly where to look and this might be the wrong place
but I am willing to help test/port it if necessary.

Thanks,
-Marcell V.C
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From chris at kateandchris.net  Tue Jun 19 20:49:57 2012
From: chris at kateandchris.net (Chris Lambacher)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:49:57 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
In-Reply-To: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAAXXHg+OcatFcy0Z4YupJzZbCVCRq=Byep9RU43YWRS=Wy4RvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Microsoft has stated that only . NET apps will run on Windows on ARM so you
will likely need to use IronPython if you want to use Python on Windows on
Arm.

-Chris

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte wrote:

> Hey,
> Does anyone here know about python implementations for windows on Arm. I
> don't know where exactly where to look and this might be the wrong place
> but I am willing to help test/port it if necessary.
>
> Thanks,
> -Marcell V.C
>


-- 
Christopher Lambacher
chris at kateandchris.net
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From prashantpadaganur at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 07:14:02 2012
From: prashantpadaganur at gmail.com (prashant padaganur)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:44:02 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] accessing Win32_Tpm()
Message-ID: <CAFypNu9QzuOg_=O5XbQ=gpfSbDaASvmHZg_B6k=_1XU87CPLpw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I am new to WMI.

I have installed WMI for python and pywin32 extensions to be able to use
win32 apis from my python scripts. While I can get all the info from other
clasees like Win32_Battery, Win32_Processor I am having tough time with
Win32_Tpm class.

I want to use Win32_Tpm module in python to play around with various tpm
features, but all my references to win32_tpm are returning null.

Has anybody been able to use the same without any problems. Any help would
be appreciated very much.

My code is simple:

import wmi,sys,os

c = wmi.WMI()

for tpm in c.Win32_Tpm():
    pass

if tpm.IsActivated():
    print 'Version %s' %(tpm.SpecVersion)
    print 'Physical presence %s' %(tpm.PhysicalPresenceVersionInfo)


-- 
Cheers,
Prashant G.P
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 08:04:24 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:04:24 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Connecting to a running COM server
In-Reply-To: <CAJmx_p5HROXcTwVr=N41mibtT7n3e5Fss6Eq=6=aiEqpW5v3Kw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJmx_p5HROXcTwVr=N41mibtT7n3e5Fss6Eq=6=aiEqpW5v3Kw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE167E8.9040506@gmail.com>

On 19/06/2012 5:35 AM, ??????? ???????????? wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new to windows programming and I am trying to connect to a local erp
> application server which has a registered com interface and provides
> methods for an external program to communicate with it.
> With Delphi one can do following and have access to the erp:
> ...
> user ComObj
> ...
>
> FSoftOne := CreateOleObject('SoXplorer.SoConnection');
> ...
> FSoftOne.Login('user',''pass');
> etc...
>
> I am trying to do the same with python but with no success.
> s1 = win32com.client.GetObject(Class='SoXplorer.SoConnection')
> I get:
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221021, 'Operation unavailable', None, None)
>
> s1 = pythoncom.Connect('SoXplorer.SoConnection')
> I get:
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221021, 'Operation unavailable', None, None)
>
> When there is no server running I do:
> s1 = win32com.client.Dispatch('SoXplorer.SoConnection')
> this starts the server but this is not an option because the server will
> be up all the time.

What happens here is the server is already running?

Apart from that, I'm afraid I have no other ideas other than to talk to 
the provider of the object (or their support forums etc)

Cheers,

Mark

>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jun 20 10:12:30 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:12:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] accessing Win32_Tpm()
In-Reply-To: <CAFypNu9QzuOg_=O5XbQ=gpfSbDaASvmHZg_B6k=_1XU87CPLpw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFypNu9QzuOg_=O5XbQ=gpfSbDaASvmHZg_B6k=_1XU87CPLpw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE185EE.9040804@timgolden.me.uk>

On 20/06/2012 06:14, prashant padaganur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to WMI. 
> 
> I have installed WMI for python and pywin32 extensions to be able to use
> win32 apis from my python scripts. While I can get all the info from
> other clasees like Win32_Battery, Win32_Processor I am having tough time
> with Win32_Tpm class.
> 
> I want to use Win32_Tpm module in python to play around with various tpm
> features, but all my references to win32_tpm are returning null.

What do you get if you do?

<code>
import wmi
print wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm

</code>

On my Win7 machine, it's not even present. I know nothing about the
technology it's proxying so it may well be that the underlying
stuff isn't there to be represented.

TJG

From prashantpadaganur at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 14:01:12 2012
From: prashantpadaganur at gmail.com (prashant padaganur)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:31:12 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] accessing Win32_Tpm()
Message-ID: <CAFypNu-zGS8OYxjVs04v1352D0=se4jwgVB70GPaE0ti=5g59A@mail.gmail.com>

>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to WMI.
>>
>> I have installed WMI for python and pywin32 extensions to be able to use
>> win32 apis from my python scripts. While I can get all the info from
>> other clasees like Win32_Battery, Win32_Processor I am having tough time
>> with Win32_Tpm class.
>>
>> I want to use Win32_Tpm module in python to play around with various tpm
>> features, but all my references to win32_tpm are returning null.

>What do you get if you do?
>
><code>
>import wmi
>print wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm
>
></code>
>
>On my Win7 machine, it's not even present. I know nothing about the
>technology it's proxying so it may well be that the underlying
>stuff isn't there to be represented.
>
>TJG

Thanks to your tutorial on WMI I had tried this yesterday. I get the
following error when I try printing wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm.
---------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/ppadagax/Documents/Scripts/freshTpm.py", line 14, in
<module>
    print wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 1147, in __getattr__
    return getattr (self._namespace, attribute)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
516, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError("%s.%s" % (self._username_, attr))
AttributeError: winmgmts:.Win32_Tpm
----------

More info about Win32_Tpm class here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376484(v=vs.85).aspx

I have this Tpm chip in my machine which runs on Windows 7 and when I run
tpm.msc from the windows run tab, I get all the info from GUI. I need to
access the same information programatically through python. I saw few code
samples on the internet which implement the same using VB or C#. What I
essentially need is the python version of this link which shows how to
access Win32_Tpm info using .Net.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytools/archive/2009/07/29/wmi-programming-using-c-net.aspx


Br
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Jun 20 14:18:12 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:18:12 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] accessing Win32_Tpm()
In-Reply-To: <CAFypNu-zGS8OYxjVs04v1352D0=se4jwgVB70GPaE0ti=5g59A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFypNu-zGS8OYxjVs04v1352D0=se4jwgVB70GPaE0ti=5g59A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE1BF84.4010301@timgolden.me.uk>

On 20/06/2012 13:01, prashant padaganur wrote:
> Thanks to your tutorial on WMI I had tried this yesterday. I get the
> following error when I try printing wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm. 
> ---------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:/Users/ppadagax/Documents/Scripts/freshTpm.py", line 14, in
> <module>
>     print wmi.WMI ().Win32_Tpm
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 1147, in __getattr__
>     return getattr (self._namespace, attribute)
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 516, in __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError("%s.%s" % (self._username_, attr))
> AttributeError: winmgmts:.Win32_Tpm
> ----------
> 
> More info about Win32_Tpm class
> here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376484(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> I have this Tpm chip in my machine which runs on Windows 7 and when I
> run tpm.msc from the windows run tab, I get all the info from GUI. I
> need to access the same information programatically through python. I
> saw few code samples on the internet which implement the same using VB
> or C#. What I essentially need is the python version of this link which
> shows how to access Win32_Tpm info using .Net.
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytools/archive/2009/07/29/wmi-programming-using-c-net.aspx

According to:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376484%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

the Win32_Tpm class is in its own namespace. So try this:

<code>
import wmi

c = wmi.WMI(namespace="root/cimv2/security/microsofttpm")
for whatever in c.Win32_Tpm():
  # do whatever

</code>

TJG

From prashantpadaganur at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 15:45:09 2012
From: prashantpadaganur at gmail.com (prashant padaganur)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:15:09 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] accessing Win32_Tpm()
Message-ID: <CAFypNu-Cjj6qv6CFn=_qRuSa2zH-EtApVuZ+KdqMsdojAu4frg@mail.gmail.com>

>>* More info about Win32_Tpm class*>>* here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376484(v=vs.85).aspx*>>* *>>* I have this Tpm chip in my machine which runs on Windows 7 and when I*>>* run tpm.msc from the windows run tab, I get all the info from GUI. I*>>* need to access the same information programatically through python. I*>>* saw few code samples on the internet which implement the same using VB*>>* or C#. What I essentially need is the python version of this link which*>>* shows how to access Win32_Tpm info using .Net.*>>* *>>* http://blogs.msdn.com/b/securitytools/archive/2009/07/29/wmi-programming-using-c-net.aspx*
>According to:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376484%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
>the Win32_Tpm class is in its own namespace. So try this:
>
><code>
>import wmi
>
>c = wmi.WMI(namespace="root/cimv2/security/microsofttpm")
>for whatever in c.Win32_Tpm():
> # do whatever
>
></code>
>
>TJG

Thanks Tim, it worked. You put and end to my one and half day efforts :-).

Between ho can I reply to thread on this mailing list. I don't see any
option for that.

Cheers,

Prashant Padaganur
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From mmanfre at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 16:50:17 2012
From: mmanfre at gmail.com (Michael Manfre)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:50:17 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Getting output parameters from stored procedures
Message-ID: <CAGdCwBuo-4dQZ45csWu3Kx8ZPQfQb9RkMb-r6T_D6ESdjW=zAA@mail.gmail.com>

I'm the maintainer of django-mssql and I've run in to an odd behavior when
trying to retrieve a stored procedure's output parameters. The parameters
(including return value) appear to only get fetched when the last recordset
for the stored procedure is loaded. This last recordset appears as if the
underlying layer is doing a select, and adding this extra recordset, for
the parameters.

The observed behavior is equivalent to this bit of SQL.

DECLARE @retval int, @someOut int
> exec @retval = uspReturnsAResultSetOrTwo @someOut OUTPUT
> SELECT @retval, @someOut
>

I haven't been able to find any documentation stating that this is the
intended behavior and this doesn't match my experience of using stored
procedures with ADO.NET. Is this expected behavior? Is there some
combination of cursor types or attributes to get the output parameter
values without fetching/skipping all the recordsets?

Regards,
Michael Manfre
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Wed Jun 20 17:43:25 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:43:25 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Getting output parameters from stored procedures
In-Reply-To: <CAGdCwBuo-4dQZ45csWu3Kx8ZPQfQb9RkMb-r6T_D6ESdjW=zAA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGdCwBuo-4dQZ45csWu3Kx8ZPQfQb9RkMb-r6T_D6ESdjW=zAA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAH-ZgAd0o_vL36UD8g6=njfxvabwhCqJ_mEw+9VXhCmK8PgZSg@mail.gmail.com>

Michael:
Last time I looked at the code of django-mssql it was using a fork of
adodbapi, not the code I maintain, which is included with pywin32.
Nevertheless, I don't think there are any changes in the return parameter
handling between the two forks.

I just ran across a related page on the AS/400 Python site (of all places)
which led me to thinking that I don't really understand how return
parameters are supposed to work. I have just blindly kept the code that
Ekelund wrote. The test in adodbapi is probably too simple to pick up any
edge cases, and the AS/400 version is interesting enough to make me say
"Huh?"

I think I'll run a version of your question into the python database group,
and see what they say.  It's definitely weird and should either be made
more obvious or documented, or both.  Let's keep this discussion running.
--
Vernon

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Michael Manfre <mmanfre at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm the maintainer of django-mssql and I've run in to an odd behavior when
> trying to retrieve a stored procedure's output parameters. The parameters
> (including return value) appear to only get fetched when the last recordset
> for the stored procedure is loaded. This last recordset appears as if the
> underlying layer is doing a select, and adding this extra recordset, for
> the parameters.
>
> The observed behavior is equivalent to this bit of SQL.
>
> DECLARE @retval int, @someOut int
>> exec @retval = uspReturnsAResultSetOrTwo @someOut OUTPUT
>> SELECT @retval, @someOut
>>
>
> I haven't been able to find any documentation stating that this is the
> intended behavior and this doesn't match my experience of using stored
> procedures with ADO.NET. Is this expected behavior? Is there some
> combination of cursor types or attributes to get the output parameter
> values without fetching/skipping all the recordsets?
>
> Regards,
> Michael Manfre
>
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
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From timr at probo.com  Wed Jun 20 18:37:02 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:37:02 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
In-Reply-To: <CAAXXHg+OcatFcy0Z4YupJzZbCVCRq=Byep9RU43YWRS=Wy4RvQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAAXXHg+OcatFcy0Z4YupJzZbCVCRq=Byep9RU43YWRS=Wy4RvQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE1FC2E.1030608@probo.com>

Chris Lambacher wrote:
> Microsoft has stated that only . NET apps will run on Windows on ARM
> so you will likely need to use IronPython if you want to use Python on
> Windows on Arm.

That's not correct.  The .NET Framework will NOT be ported on Windows
ARM, so .NET applications will not run.  Only Metro applications (using
WinRT) will work on Windows ARM.  You will not be using Python on
Windows ARM, nor will you be able to distribute Python applications.

Windows RT (which is what they're calling the version of Windows 8 that
runs on ARM) is to Windows 8 what Android is to Linux.  It's a very
restricted, tightly controlled environment.  It's Windows for Phones,
not just another port of Windows desktop.

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


From Matt.funke at vishaypg.com  Thu Jun 21 22:25:25 2012
From: Matt.funke at vishaypg.com (Funke, Matt)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:25:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows service?
Message-ID: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>

I'm relatively new to the world of Windows programming, but I have a Python program I'd like to run every once in a while from a Windows service.  I've gotten the service itself to run as it's supposed to, but attempts to run the program with a DOS command (using ProcessStartInfo) are unsuccessful.  Does anyone have any advice?

(This program, written in Python 2.7.3, depends heavily on other libraries - reportlab, SQLAlchemy, and a bunch of others.  It works now, and I'd rather not rewrite it if I don't have to.)

Matt Funke
Programmer/Analyst
Vishay Precision Group, Inc.
951 Wendell Blvd
Wendell, NC 27591 USA
Office: 919-374-5553
Mobile: 919-628-9261
Fax: 919-374-5248

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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Fri Jun 22 03:41:08 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:41:08 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
	service?
In-Reply-To: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
Message-ID: <4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>

On 22/06/2012 6:25 AM, Funke, Matt wrote:
> I?m relatively new to the world of Windows programming, but I have a
> Python program I?d like to run every once in a while from a Windows
> service.  I?ve gotten the service itself to run as it?s supposed to, but
> attempts to run the program with a DOS command (using ProcessStartInfo)
> are unsuccessful.  Does anyone have any advice?

Note you can write the service directly in Python using pywin32.  If you 
want to write the service using some other technology and just spawn 
Python, then I'd suggest using just CreateProcess.  But with both 
CreateProcess and ProcessStartInfo, you need a way to redirect output 
from the Python process so you can get diagnostics from the output - 
just telling us it is "unsuccessful" doesn't help us tell you what 
problem you have.

Mark

>
> (This program, written in Python 2.7.3, depends heavily on other
> libraries ? reportlab, SQLAlchemy, and a bunch of others.  It works now,
> and I?d rather not rewrite it if I don?t have to.)
>
> *Matt Funke***
>
> Programmer/Analyst
>
> Vishay Precision Group, Inc.
>
> 951 Wendell Blvd
>
> Wendell, NC 27591 USA
>
> Office: 919-374-5553
>
> Mobile: 919-628-9261
>
> Fax: 919-374-5248
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>


From ferdinandsousa at gmail.com  Fri Jun 22 08:10:56 2012
From: ferdinandsousa at gmail.com (Ferdinand Sousa)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:40:56 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Installing pywin32 for Python 2.7 AMD64
In-Reply-To: <4FDEAAAB.6090900@gmail.com>
References: <CANZTH3SuiUAQr3BdUP5bMwnQvMCL+P84qL4V0Tv2hj=73CjHwQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDEAAAB.6090900@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CANZTH3Sz_8B02BJcrreXCznySCF8EKArUd875gAkkJsrdrRYYw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mark,

I'm guessing User Access Control is not disabled for me. I have an
administrator account on Win 7 Professional.
While installing stuff, very often at the last step of the install wizard,
I get the install button with the chequered shield symbol, indicating admin
credentials required.
Since my account is an admin, I get a modal dialog asking whether I want to
continue or not. This did NOT happen for the pywin32 installer mentioned
below.

However since you made the suggestion I explicitly chose to run the
installer as admin and it works fine now (I am able to import win32api,
win32gui etc), even though I still get the same error at the finish stage
of the install wizard mentioned earlier:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Postinstall script finished
Click the Finish button to exit the setup wizard

close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the tip. Best regards,
Ferdi




On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 16/06/2012 2:20 AM, Ferdinand Sousa wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> First off, it's good to be back after 3 years!!
>>
>> I was dusting off some old scripts I had written using pywin32. (Python
>> 2.5 era I think). It uses the win32con and win32api modules.
>>
>> Now I'm trying to use the same scripts with Python 2.7 AMD64 version.
>>
>> I downloaded pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.**exe from the sourceforge site
>> and installed it. At the end, I see the following message:
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>> Postinstall script finished
>> Click the Finish button to exit the setup wizard
>>
>> close failed in file object destructor:
>> sys.excepthook is missing
>> lost sys.stderr
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>>
>
> This seems to happen if User Access Control (UAC) is disabled - is it
> disabled for you?
>
> Either way, try running "python scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py -install"
> from the root of the install directory and things should finish registering
> - that should fix the next error you see.
>
>
>
>> Then, I tried importing win32con and it works. But, when I tried
>> importing win32api, win32gui I get the error message:
>>
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>>     import win32api, win32gui
>> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>>
>> So I uninstalled pywin32 and tried installing it from source. But alas,
>> I again hit a roadblock:
>>
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\**pywin32-217>c:\Python27\**python.exe
>> setup.py
>> install
>> Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "setup.py", line 1944, in <module>
>>     """ % dirs).split(),
>>   File "setup.py", line 603, in __init__
>>     if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(**sdk_dir, "include", "activdbg.h")):
>>   File "c:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join
>>     assert len(path) > 0
>> TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
>>
>
> This will probably be due to the setup script not finding the platform SDK.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark
>
>>
>> C:\Users\ferdinand\Downloads\**pywin32-217>
>> ------------------------------**------------------------------**
>> ------------------------------**----
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ferdi
>>
>>
>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
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>> python-win32 at python.org
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>>
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From Matt.funke at vishaypg.com  Fri Jun 22 13:19:21 2012
From: Matt.funke at vishaypg.com (Funke, Matt)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:19:21 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
 service?
In-Reply-To: <4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
	<4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>

> Note you can write the service directly in Python using pywin32.  If
> you want to write the service using some other technology and just
> spawn Python, then I'd suggest using just CreateProcess.  But with
> both CreateProcess and ProcessStartInfo, you need a way to
> redirect output from the Python process so you can get diagnostics
> from the output - just telling us it is "unsuccessful" doesn't help us
> tell you what problem you have.

Yeah, that was exactly my problem; I had no way to diagnose what was going on, and needed a springboard to tell me what I needed to know in order to figure out what was happening (or not).  I could verify that the script *worked*, since I could run it from a DOS prompt without errors.  But when I ran it using CreateProcess (and ProcessStartInfo), I didn't see it execute (since it would have created a file in its directory).

However, your answer that I can write it directly with pywin32 intrigues me, especially since I'd rather develop in Python anyway.  I'll go see what's involved in doing that.  Thanks for the pointer!

From haraldarminmassa at gmail.com  Fri Jun 22 13:39:00 2012
From: haraldarminmassa at gmail.com (Harald Armin Massa[legacy])
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:39:00 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
	service?
In-Reply-To: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
	<4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
	<2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
Message-ID: <CAMSP2L6ymw871JFzYFyN60c3v9aB6MZi8-=i-F4cNChPm5tjRg@mail.gmail.com>

Matt,

>
> Yeah, that was exactly my problem; I had no way to diagnose what was going on, and >needed a springboard to tell me what I needed to know in order to figure out what was >happening (or not). ?I could verify that the script *worked*, since I could run it from a DOS >prompt without errors. ?But when I ran it using CreateProcess (and ProcessStartInfo), I >didn't see it execute (since it would have created a file in its directory).
>
> However, your answer that I can write it directly with pywin32 intrigues me, especially since >I'd rather develop in Python anyway. ?I'll go see what's involved in doing that. ?Thanks for the >pointer!

>From my experiences with Python windows services some things to lookout for:

 - the "working directory" of the service is usually where the service
control programm resides; especially NOT your Python directory

- the path is usually the system path. It is not uncommon that Python
resides in a different path

- network drives are often not mapped for services, so make sure to
use UNC-paths

- some windows-system-dlls may have the same name as some of your
python-programm files (or, even worse, as some of the Python files of
any one of standard library or your used libraries). Windows usually
looks first into the current directory ... which may have unexpected
results when "import xxxx" loads xxxx.dll from windows, instead of
your xxxx.py

Best wishes,

Harald


-- 
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Jun 22 14:17:08 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:17:08 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
	service?
In-Reply-To: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
	<4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
	<2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
Message-ID: <4FE46244.4050808@timgolden.me.uk>

> Yeah, that was exactly my problem; I had no way to diagnose what was
> going on, and needed a springboard to tell me what I needed to know
> in order to figure out what was happening (or not).  I could verify
> that the script *worked*, since I could run it from a DOS prompt
> without errors.  But when I ran it using CreateProcess (and
> ProcessStartInfo), I didn't see it execute (since it would have
> created a file in its directory).
> 
> However, your answer that I can write it directly with pywin32
> intrigues me, especially since I'd rather develop in Python anyway.
> I'll go see what's involved in doing that.  Thanks for the pointer! 

For reference, this is the kind of pattern I use when writing
Windows Services in Python:

<my_module.py>
class Engine(object):

  def __init__(self):
    self._stop_event = threading.Event()

  def start(self):
    # do stuff until self._stop_event is set

  def stop(self):
    # set self._stop_event

if __name__ == '__main__':
  Engine().start()

</my_module.py>

<my_service.py>

import win32event
import win32service
import win32serviceutil

import my_module

class Service (win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):

  _svc_name_ = "MyService"
  _svc_display_name_ = "A Service of Mine"

  def __init__ (self, args):
    win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__ (self, args)
    self.stop_event = win32event.CreateEvent (None, 0, 0, None)
    self.engine = my_module.Engine ()

  def SvcDoRun (self):
    self.engine.start (True)
    win32event.WaitForSingleObject (self.stop_event, win32event.INFINITE)

  def SvcStop (self):
    self.ReportServiceStatus (win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
    self.engine.stop ()
    win32event.SetEvent (self.stop_event)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine (Service)


</code>

To install the service you run the my_service.py module with
the parameter "install". (The reverse is done by passing "remove").

HTH

TJG

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri Jun 22 14:57:53 2012
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:57:53 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
	service?
In-Reply-To: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
	<4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
	<2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
Message-ID: <4FE46BD1.6030007@skippinet.com.au>

Services are pretty tricky - you might be better off arranging for the 
Python script to write sys.stderr somewhere useful and seeing what the 
traceback says - you'll almost certainly strike the same problem after 
you get a pywin32 based one close to working.

Mark

On 22/06/2012 9:19 PM, Funke, Matt wrote:
>> Note you can write the service directly in Python using pywin32.  If
>> you want to write the service using some other technology and just
>> spawn Python, then I'd suggest using just CreateProcess.  But with
>> both CreateProcess and ProcessStartInfo, you need a way to
>> redirect output from the Python process so you can get diagnostics
>> from the output - just telling us it is "unsuccessful" doesn't help us
>> tell you what problem you have.
>
> Yeah, that was exactly my problem; I had no way to diagnose what was going on, and needed a springboard to tell me what I needed to know in order to figure out what was happening (or not).  I could verify that the script *worked*, since I could run it from a DOS prompt without errors.  But when I ran it using CreateProcess (and ProcessStartInfo), I didn't see it execute (since it would have created a file in its directory).
>
> However, your answer that I can write it directly with pywin32 intrigues me, especially since I'd rather develop in Python anyway.  I'll go see what's involved in doing that.  Thanks for the pointer!
>


From Matt.funke at vishaypg.com  Fri Jun 22 14:59:35 2012
From: Matt.funke at vishaypg.com (Funke, Matt)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:59:35 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from Windows
 service?
In-Reply-To: <CAMSP2L6ymw871JFzYFyN60c3v9aB6MZi8-=i-F4cNChPm5tjRg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
	<4FE3CD34.2000207@gmail.com>
	<2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D487325@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
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> From my experiences with Python windows services some things to lookout for:
> 
>  - the "working directory" of the service is usually where the service control
> programm resides; especially NOT your Python directory
> 
> - the path is usually the system path. It is not uncommon that Python resides
> in a different path
> 
> - network drives are often not mapped for services, so make sure to use
> UNC-paths
> 
> - some windows-system-dlls may have the same name as some of your
> python-programm files (or, even worse, as some of the Python files of any
> one of standard library or your used libraries). Windows usually looks first
> into the current directory ... which may have unexpected results when
> "import xxxx" loads xxxx.dll from windows, instead of your xxxx.py

Thanks for the heads-up.  If I run into some "unexpected results", I'll be sure to try these things first.

From matteo.boscolo at boscolini.eu  Fri Jun 22 15:13:01 2012
From: matteo.boscolo at boscolini.eu (Matteo Boscolo)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:13:01 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to create a empty com object
In-Reply-To: <4D619485.609@skippinet.com.au>
References: <LGTFTB$2ECF651C94123CC1C264BF1F4CAE0F6F@aruba.it>
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Hi all ,

Today I weak up and just came back to my code ..

I finally got a good solution for this problem :))))
and here it is ...

......activeComponent=VARIANT(pythoncom.VT_VARIANT | pythoncom.VT_NULL,None)


regards,
Matteo

Il 20/02/2011 23:24, Mark Hammond ha scritto:
> On 21/02/2011 7:42 AM, Matteo Boscolo wrote:
>>
>> I did some other search I try to pass a object() to the activeComponent
>> but the active component need a COM VARIANT..
>>
>> there is any way to create a null COM VARIANT ?
>> or to pass a c++ NULL equivalent object ?
>
> win32com automatically creates a variant - if you pass None, it will 
> create a variant with VT_NULL, and if you pass pythoncom.Empty, it 
> will pass a variant with VT_EMPTY.  If Empty also doesn't work, I'm 
> afraid I'm out of ideas...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
> -----
> Nessun virus nel messaggio.
> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com
> Versione: 10.0.1204 / Database dei virus: 1435/3455 -  Data di 
> rilascio: 20/02/2011
>
>



From matteo.boscolo at boscolini.eu  Fri Jun 22 15:13:52 2012
From: matteo.boscolo at boscolini.eu (Matteo Boscolo)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:13:52 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to create a empty com object
In-Reply-To: <4D619485.609@skippinet.com.au>
References: <LGTFTB$2ECF651C94123CC1C264BF1F4CAE0F6F@aruba.it>
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Message-ID: <4FE46F90.3030806@boscolini.eu>

Hi all ,

Today I weak up and just came back to my code ..

I finally got a good solution for this problem :))))
and here it is ...

......activeComponent=VARIANT(pythoncom.VT_VARIANT | 
pythoncom.VT_NULL,None)


regards,
Matteo
Il 20/02/2011 23:24, Mark Hammond ha scritto:
> On 21/02/2011 7:42 AM, Matteo Boscolo wrote:
>>
>> I did some other search I try to pass a object() to the activeComponent
>> but the active component need a COM VARIANT..
>>
>> there is any way to create a null COM VARIANT ?
>> or to pass a c++ NULL equivalent object ?
>
> win32com automatically creates a variant - if you pass None, it will 
> create a variant with VT_NULL, and if you pass pythoncom.Empty, it 
> will pass a variant with VT_EMPTY.  If Empty also doesn't work, I'm 
> afraid I'm out of ideas...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
> -----
> Nessun virus nel messaggio.
> Controllato da AVG - www.avg.com
> Versione: 10.0.1204 / Database dei virus: 1435/3455 -  Data di 
> rilascio: 20/02/2011
>
>



From Matt.funke at vishaypg.com  Fri Jun 22 15:00:27 2012
From: Matt.funke at vishaypg.com (Funke, Matt)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:00:27 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to invoke Python program from
	Windows	service?
In-Reply-To: <4FE46244.4050808@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <2C5C90D76B65DC47A65001FD937014B22D4871B5@WSWD43.vishaypg.com>
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> For reference, this is the kind of pattern I use when writing Windows Services in Python:

This is incredibly useful.  Thank you.

Matt Funke
Programmer/Analyst
Vishay Precision Group, Inc.
951 Wendell Blvd
Wendell, NC 27591 USA
Office: 919-374-5553
Mobile: 919-628-9261
Fax: 919-374-5248

From python at bdurham.com  Fri Jun 22 15:59:08 2012
From: python at bdurham.com (python at bdurham.com)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:59:08 -0400
Subject: [python-win32]
 =?iso-8859-1?q?How_to_invoke_Python_program_from?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?=09Windows=09service=3F?=
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>> For reference, this is the kind of pattern I use when writing Windows Services in Python:

> This is incredibly useful. Thank you.

+1

Malcolm

From chris at kateandchris.net  Sat Jun 23 03:32:41 2012
From: chris at kateandchris.net (Chris Lambacher)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:32:41 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Chris Lambacher wrote:
> > Microsoft has stated that only . NET apps will run on Windows on ARM
> > so you will likely need to use IronPython if you want to use Python on
> > Windows on Arm.
>
> That's not correct.  The .NET Framework will NOT be ported on Windows
> ARM, so .NET applications will not run.  Only Metro applications (using
> WinRT) will work on Windows ARM.  You will not be using Python on
> Windows ARM, nor will you be able to distribute Python applications.
>
Metro apps can be written in so called managed (i.e. .net code) (see:
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/15/winrt-and-net-in-windows-8.aspx
and
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-531T )

 so theoretically IronPython would be embeddable in an app targeting Metro
and could be made to run on Windows RT (the O.S. Formerly know as Windows
on ARM). Here is an IronPython mailing list thread on just that:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail//ironpython-users/2011-November/015409.html

Further investigation also shows that (at least on x86) it might be
possible to have a version of Python for Metro Apps that is based on
CPython:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115426.html



> Windows RT (which is what they're calling the version of Windows 8 that
> runs on ARM) is to Windows 8 what Android is to Linux.  It's a very
> restricted, tightly controlled environment.  It's Windows for Phones,
> not just another port of Windows desktop.
>
Just to be clear I referred to Windows RT the OS as Windows on ARM to be
less confusing with Windows Runtime the programming API for Metro Style
Apps.

-Chris

-- 
Christopher Lambacher
chris at kateandchris.net
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From chris at kateandchris.net  Sat Jun 23 05:38:42 2012
From: chris at kateandchris.net (Chris Lambacher)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:38:42 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Getting output parameters from stored procedures
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Manfre <mmanfre at gmail.com> wrote:

> The observed behavior is equivalent to this bit of SQL.
>
> DECLARE @retval int, @someOut int
>> exec @retval = uspReturnsAResultSetOrTwo @someOut OUTPUT
>> SELECT @retval, @someOut
>>
>
> I haven't been able to find any documentation stating that this is the
> intended behavior and this doesn't match my experience of using stored
> procedures with ADO.NET. Is this expected behavior? Is there some
> combination of cursor types or attributes to get the output parameter
> values without fetching/skipping all the recordsets?
>

This is the behaviour of the Microsoft's ADO library which is the
underlying api that adodbapi works against. It is pretty hard to find docs
for ADO because ADO.NET sucks up all the hits and Microsoft's own MSDN docs
for ADO are pretty weak. Also, that is fundamentally the pattern you would
use with ODBC too which does not have any particular notion of Stored
Proceedures. ADO is based on ODBC connections so that may be the source of
this particular behind the scenes idiom.

-Chris

-- 
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From mmanfre at gmail.com  Sat Jun 23 06:01:12 2012
From: mmanfre at gmail.com (Michael Manfre)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:01:12 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Getting output parameters from stored procedures
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I was approaching the conclusion that this is expected behavior. Glad to
have it confirmed with a reasonable explanation why. I guess the fix will
be to document the behavior.

Thanks,
Michael Manfre

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Chris Lambacher <chris at kateandchris.net>wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Michael Manfre <mmanfre at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The observed behavior is equivalent to this bit of SQL.
>>
>> DECLARE @retval int, @someOut int
>>> exec @retval = uspReturnsAResultSetOrTwo @someOut OUTPUT
>>> SELECT @retval, @someOut
>>>
>>
>> I haven't been able to find any documentation stating that this is the
>> intended behavior and this doesn't match my experience of using stored
>> procedures with ADO.NET. Is this expected behavior? Is there some
>> combination of cursor types or attributes to get the output parameter
>> values without fetching/skipping all the recordsets?
>>
>
> This is the behaviour of the Microsoft's ADO library which is the
> underlying api that adodbapi works against. It is pretty hard to find docs
> for ADO because ADO.NET sucks up all the hits and Microsoft's own MSDN
> docs for ADO are pretty weak. Also, that is fundamentally the pattern you
> would use with ODBC too which does not have any particular notion of Stored
> Proceedures. ADO is based on ODBC connections so that may be the source of
> this particular behind the scenes idiom.
>
> -Chris
>
> --
> Christopher Lambacher
> chris at kateandchris.net
>
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From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Sat Jun 23 15:03:01 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:03:01 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
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2012/6/18 Radek Hol? <radekholypublic at gmail.com>:
> 2012/6/18 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
>> On 18/06/2012 00:58, Radek Hol? wrote:
>>>
>>> My question is probably poorly formulated.
>>> In fact -- as I discovered -- some WMI objects reflect their values in
>>> the Windows Registry keys (for example there is mapping
>>> ?root\cimv2:Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration.AutoReboot? in
>>>
>>> ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot?).
>>> Is there some *common* attribute of WMI/COM/OLE objects giving the key
>>> path?
>>
>>
>> I don't believe so. The thing about WMI is that it provides a
>> uniform and accessible layer on top of quite a lot of lower-level
>> APIs. In some cases, that's a layer over registry entries; in other
>> cases it's a layer over an actual API call. It may even be the only
>> publicly-accessible means of achieving some result.
>>
>> As it happens, for *methods* there is sometimes a clue as to the
>> underlying API. I have exposed this as (for want of a better name) the
>> provenance attribute of a method class. So if you do this:
>>
>> <code>
>> import wmi
>>
>> print wmi.WMI().Win32_Process.Create.provenance
>>
>> </code>
>>
>> You'll see something like this:
>>
>> Win32API|Process and Thread Functions|CreateProcess
>>
>> I'm not aware of any such thing for attributes, although it wouldn't
>> surprise me utterly if there were.
>
> I know that the dependence WMI <-> WinReg is not frequent. Saying
> ?common attribute? I thought common to this (reflecting) type of
> objects. So it seems that it was an exception that I managed to print
> this thing.
> Or is it possible that the attribute belongs to underlaying COM or OLE
> object? (In the pywin32 implementation!)
>
> I wonder which object it was... :-/ What a pity that interactive shell
> does not remember the history of commands after rebooting the
> computer? :-D
> --
> Radek Hol?
> Czech republic


Hello,

I was advised to look at the ``MappingStrings`` qualifier. So far it
seems that the only way is to list ``MappingStrings`` qualifiers of
all properties.
Something like this:

>>> import wmi
>>> import pywintypes
>>>
>>> def walk_namespace(namespace_path):
...     namespace = wmi.WMI(computer=".", namespace=namespace_path,
find_classes=True)
...
...     subclasses_names = namespace.classes
...     for subclass_name in subclasses_names:
...         subclass = getattr(namespace, subclass_name)
...
...         subclass_path = str(subclass.path())
...         subclass_mapping = get_mapping(subclass)
...         save_mapping(subclass_path, subclass_mapping)
...
...         for property in subclass.Properties_:
...             property_path = ".".join((subclass_path, property.Name))
...             property_mapping = get_mapping(property)
...             save_mapping(property_path, property_mapping)
...
...     subnamespaces = namespace.__Namespace()
...     for subnamespace in subnamespaces:
...         subnamespace_path = "/".join((namespace_path, subnamespace.Name))
...         walk_namespace(subnamespace_path)
...
>>> def get_mapping(object_):
...     try:
...         mapping = object_.Qualifiers_("MappingStrings")
...     except pywintypes.com_error as err:
...         if err.excepinfo[5] == -2147217406:
...             return ()
...         else:
...             raise
...     else:
...         return mapping.Value
...
>>> def save_mapping(path, mapping):
...     if mapping:
...         print(path, mapping)
...
>>> walk_namespace("root")

I hope that this code passes through all the classes and their
properties. And in this case, I hope that this code prints all
available "dependencies".

-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sat Jun 23 17:17:39 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:17:39 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
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On 23/06/2012 14:03, Radek Hol? wrote:
> 2012/6/18 Radek Hol? <radekholypublic at gmail.com>:
>> 2012/6/18 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
>>> On 18/06/2012 00:58, Radek Hol? wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My question is probably poorly formulated.
>>>> In fact -- as I discovered -- some WMI objects reflect their values in
>>>> the Windows Registry keys (for example there is mapping
>>>> ?root\cimv2:Win32_OSRecoveryConfiguration.AutoReboot? in
>>>>
>>>> ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\AutoReboot?).
>>>> Is there some *common* attribute of WMI/COM/OLE objects giving the key
>>>> path?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't believe so. The thing about WMI is that it provides a
>>> uniform and accessible layer on top of quite a lot of lower-level
>>> APIs. In some cases, that's a layer over registry entries; in other
>>> cases it's a layer over an actual API call. It may even be the only
>>> publicly-accessible means of achieving some result.
>>>
>>> As it happens, for *methods* there is sometimes a clue as to the
>>> underlying API. I have exposed this as (for want of a better name) the
>>> provenance attribute of a method class. So if you do this:
>>>
>>> <code>
>>> import wmi
>>>
>>> print wmi.WMI().Win32_Process.Create.provenance
>>>
>>> </code>
>>>
>>> You'll see something like this:
>>>
>>> Win32API|Process and Thread Functions|CreateProcess
>>>
>>> I'm not aware of any such thing for attributes, although it wouldn't
>>> surprise me utterly if there were.
>>
>> I know that the dependence WMI <-> WinReg is not frequent. Saying
>> ?common attribute? I thought common to this (reflecting) type of
>> objects. So it seems that it was an exception that I managed to print
>> this thing.
>> Or is it possible that the attribute belongs to underlaying COM or OLE
>> object? (In the pywin32 implementation!)
>>
>> I wonder which object it was... :-/ What a pity that interactive shell
>> does not remember the history of commands after rebooting the
>> computer? :-D
>> --
>> Radek Hol?
>> Czech republic
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was advised to look at the ``MappingStrings`` qualifier. So far it
> seems that the only way is to list ``MappingStrings`` qualifiers of
> all properties.

[... snip code ...]

Thanks for the hint. I'll take a look at that myself with a view
to fitting it into the wmi module

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Jun 25 10:16:55 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:16:55 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9iWDnDpjMoHAt=yr9xKbJdWMbw8qQ4jXX7Dsy2AGrm8TW4kw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>
	<CAJ9iWD=gVyLSN+bP=mUYy4Qh3gY9UJ837B9BTiaZSg05poDGCA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDEB494.10406@timgolden.me.uk>
	<CAJ9iWD=X+kM9UkCxdrujLPUqim--9Pdg7t408SRr4MvVg0NwHg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAJ9iWDnDpjMoHAt=yr9xKbJdWMbw8qQ4jXX7Dsy2AGrm8TW4kw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE81E77.1000707@timgolden.me.uk>

On 23/06/2012 14:03, Radek Hol? wrote:
> I was advised to look at the ``MappingStrings`` qualifier. So far it
> seems that the only way is to list ``MappingStrings`` qualifiers of
> all properties.

Ahem. That was embarrassing. It appears that I already knew about the
MappingStrings qualifier, because that's the attribute behind the
.provenance attribute I already mentioned for methods. For some reason
I'd never thought of looking for it on properties.

So in the svn trunk I've added it to properties and enhanced the
wmiweb app so that, where this is a mapping string, it shows up
as a tooltip (visually hinted by a dotted underline).
Note to self: do a release at some point soonish.

  http://svn.timgolden.me.uk/wmi/trunk

Thanks for the tip, Radek.

TJG

From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Mon Jun 25 12:21:45 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:21:45 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] How to find corresponding WMI/COM object for
 given Windows Registry key?
In-Reply-To: <4FE81E77.1000707@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <CAJ9iWDms6kwc5vcUWSEZh-BJq2LSFwK63Q0LMVDNPLTxpS4nuA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDE5012.8090801@timgolden.me.uk>
	<CAJ9iWD=gVyLSN+bP=mUYy4Qh3gY9UJ837B9BTiaZSg05poDGCA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FDEB494.10406@timgolden.me.uk>
	<CAJ9iWD=X+kM9UkCxdrujLPUqim--9Pdg7t408SRr4MvVg0NwHg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAJ9iWDnDpjMoHAt=yr9xKbJdWMbw8qQ4jXX7Dsy2AGrm8TW4kw@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FE81E77.1000707@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <CAJ9iWDnnba2=T+YPqd=+B1qa2_WDC2xeCb=HeFp2v3XQ5KXoqQ@mail.gmail.com>

2012/6/25 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> On 23/06/2012 14:03, Radek Hol? wrote:
>> I was advised to look at the ``MappingStrings`` qualifier. So far it
>> seems that the only way is to list ``MappingStrings`` qualifiers of
>> all properties.
>
> Ahem. That was embarrassing. It appears that I already knew about the
> MappingStrings qualifier, because that's the attribute behind the
> .provenance attribute I already mentioned for methods. For some reason
> I'd never thought of looking for it on properties.
>
> So in the svn trunk I've added it to properties and enhanced the
> wmiweb app so that, where this is a mapping string, it shows up
> as a tooltip (visually hinted by a dotted underline).
> Note to self: do a release at some point soonish.
>
> ?http://svn.timgolden.me.uk/wmi/trunk
>
> Thanks for the tip, Radek.
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32



Glad to help, even though I only forwarded the method which was
recommended to me.

-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From crossrocker at gmail.com  Mon Jun 25 19:19:25 2012
From: crossrocker at gmail.com (Ryan Hanson)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:19:25 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Trouble With Events in Inventor
Message-ID: <CAGHrRC6smMB-PpSOFRQPR55cd6SvqkXXHmbpa=_SmzR-_wuMUg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi everyone. I am trying to write a small addin for Autodesk Inventor using
COM but I am having trouble getting events to work with my script. I can
type my code out in PythonWin and everything works as expected but when I
save it out to .py file it just runs though and exits. The same thing seems
to happen when I register it on my system as an inventor addin. Here is a
small piece of sample code I have been using to try to sort this out.

[code]
import win32com.client
from win32com.client import gencache

mod=gencache.EnsureModule('{D98A091D-3A0F-4C3E-B36E-61F62068D488}', 0, 1, 0)
oApp=win32com.client.Dispatch("Inventor.Application")
oApp.Visible=True
oApp_m=mod.Application(oApp)

button=oApp_m.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.AddButtonDefinition("Dxf
Update", "dxf", 4)
button.AutoAddToGUI()

class BEvent():
    def OnExecute(self, Context):
        oPartDoc=oApp_m.Documents.Open("C:\\inventor\\2415 TRUNKING.ipt")

win32com.client.DispatchWithEvents(button, BEvent)
[/code]

All the code works expect for BEvent isn't called when button is pressed. I
am not sure where to go from here.
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From timr at probo.com  Mon Jun 25 19:56:50 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:56:50 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
In-Reply-To: <CAAXXHgJN3d52ZomGt6iHirfYwS9a4=zvjppGFFq0+RUWSk-9bw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAAXXHg+OcatFcy0Z4YupJzZbCVCRq=Byep9RU43YWRS=Wy4RvQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FE1FC2E.1030608@probo.com>
	<CAAXXHgJN3d52ZomGt6iHirfYwS9a4=zvjppGFFq0+RUWSk-9bw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FE8A662.1010502@probo.com>

Chris Lambacher wrote:
>
> Metro apps can be written in so called managed (i.e. .net code)... so
> theoretically IronPython would be embeddable in an app targeting Metro
> and could be made to run on Windows RT (the O.S. Formerly know as
> Windows on ARM).

The fact that there is so much confusion about this topic shows what a
terribly job Microsoft is doing of marketing all of this.  I'm
relatively well connected, Microsoft-wise, but you presented several
tidbits I had not seen before.


>     Windows RT (which is what they're calling the version of Windows 8
>     that runs on ARM) is to Windows 8 what Android is to Linux.  It's
>     a very restricted, tightly controlled environment.  It's Windows
>     for Phones, not just another port of Windows desktop.
>
>
> Just to be clear I referred to Windows RT the OS as Windows on ARM to
> be less confusing with Windows Runtime the programming API for Metro
> Style Apps.

Yes, me, too.

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


From rupole at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 26 04:55:13 2012
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:55:13 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Trouble With Events in Inventor
References: <CAGHrRC6smMB-PpSOFRQPR55cd6SvqkXXHmbpa=_SmzR-_wuMUg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <jsb8ah$j52$1@dough.gmane.org>

If you're running the script from python.exe, you'll need to run
a message loop (pythoncom.PumpMessages()) to receive events.
You don't need that in Pythonwin since it runs its own message loop.

Also, are you sure the event class should be attached to the button
itself ?  I'm not familiar with this application, but normally the top
level COM object receives the events.

   Roger




From radekholypublic at gmail.com  Wed Jun 27 20:01:26 2012
From: radekholypublic at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Radek_Hol=FD?=)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:01:26 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Constants for scripting short names of WMI privileges
Message-ID: <CAJ9iWDn7p6qeXEEbbH8qxJXDS6T4jZ5AVo6R5mfcSw21qACkvQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I would like to ask you whether I can use any combination of
pywin32/`wmi`_ constants and functions to get "scripting short names"
of WMI privileges [1]_. I found the ``win32security.SE_*_NAME``
constants, but I?m not able to use them to achieve the goal.
I would like to use these names in construction of WMI monikers.

.. _wmi: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi/
.. [1] See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa392758%28VS.85%29.aspx

Thank you very much
-- 
Radek Hol?
Czech republic

From mvcisback at gmail.com  Thu Jun 28 19:55:19 2012
From: mvcisback at gmail.com (Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:55:19 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Python implementations on Windows 8rt
In-Reply-To: <4FE8A662.1010502@probo.com>
References: <CA+Vxtp4uWcWK_c6vK=SRxup3qOjq7WqogQSf0Z8oYOBxDG1EzQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAAXXHg+OcatFcy0Z4YupJzZbCVCRq=Byep9RU43YWRS=Wy4RvQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FE1FC2E.1030608@probo.com>
	<CAAXXHgJN3d52ZomGt6iHirfYwS9a4=zvjppGFFq0+RUWSk-9bw@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FE8A662.1010502@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CA+Vxtp5HMAXGfy50jnTMi9ozYbR9be_s8E6sCkc+qMBHj9Ot9w@mail.gmail.com>

So I've been trying to compile the ARM build for internal testing (aka have
access to the win32 API) I'm having trouble actually setting up the project
to accept the new platform. I'm new to visual studio but does anyone have
any suggestions?

Getting :  fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'ARM' conflicts with
target machine type 'X86'
1>

I'm pretty sure there is an error in the config file but I'm not sure.

-Marcell V.C

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Chris Lambacher wrote:
> >
> > Metro apps can be written in so called managed (i.e. .net code)... so
> > theoretically IronPython would be embeddable in an app targeting Metro
> > and could be made to run on Windows RT (the O.S. Formerly know as
> > Windows on ARM).
>
> The fact that there is so much confusion about this topic shows what a
> terribly job Microsoft is doing of marketing all of this.  I'm
> relatively well connected, Microsoft-wise, but you presented several
> tidbits I had not seen before.
>
>
> >     Windows RT (which is what they're calling the version of Windows 8
> >     that runs on ARM) is to Windows 8 what Android is to Linux.  It's
> >     a very restricted, tightly controlled environment.  It's Windows
> >     for Phones, not just another port of Windows desktop.
> >
> >
> > Just to be clear I referred to Windows RT the OS as Windows on ARM to
> > be less confusing with Windows Runtime the programming API for Metro
> > Style Apps.
>
> Yes, me, too.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From jim at maplesong.com  Thu Jun 28 21:28:28 2012
From: jim at maplesong.com (Jim Carroll)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:28:28 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] =?utf-8?q?pywintypes_assert_sys=2Emodules=5Bmodnam?=
	=?utf-8?q?e=5D_is_old=5Fmod?=
Message-ID: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org>

I'm running django1.2.4 against mssql, using sqlserver_ado,and pywin32 v214
and it runs for a few hours, then starts failing with:


File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django_mssql-1.0.0.dev_unknown-
py2.7.egg\\sqlserver_ado\\dbapi.py", line 41, in <module>   import pythoncom
File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pythoncom.py", line 2, in <module>
import pywintypes File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-
packages\\win32\\lib\\pywintypes.py", line 124, in <module>
__import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals()) File
"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib\\pywintypes.py", line 114, in
__import_pywin32_system_module__   assert sys.modules[modname] is old_mod



>From what I've read, going back to version 212 solves the problem,  so 
I'm trying that now.   I was using 214 

It seems like there must be two similar dlls loading, and the 
second to load is failing.  Can anyone tell me which dll in 
particular I can look for duplicates of, maybe I can blindly
 find all version on the machine, and replace older versions
 with the latest.

Thanks!



From rupole at hotmail.com  Thu Jun 28 22:28:10 2012
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:28:10 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] pywintypes assert sys.modules[modname] is old_mod
References: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <jsieoq$dm3$1@dough.gmane.org>

Jim Carroll wrote:
> I'm running django1.2.4 against mssql, using sqlserver_ado,and pywin32 v214
> and it runs for a few hours, then starts failing with:
>
>
> File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\django_mssql-1.0.0.dev_unknown-
> py2.7.egg\\sqlserver_ado\\dbapi.py", line 41, in <module>   import pythoncom
> File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pythoncom.py", line 2, in <module>
> import pywintypes File "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-
> packages\\win32\\lib\\pywintypes.py", line 124, in <module>
> __import_pywin32_system_module__("pywintypes", globals()) File
> "C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib\\pywintypes.py", line 114, in
> __import_pywin32_system_module__   assert sys.modules[modname] is old_mod
>
>
>
>>From what I've read, going back to version 212 solves the problem,  so
> I'm trying that now.   I was using 214
>
> It seems like there must be two similar dlls loading, and the
> second to load is failing.  Can anyone tell me which dll in
> particular I can look for duplicates of, maybe I can blindly
> find all version on the machine, and replace older versions
> with the latest.
>
> Thanks!

Look for duplicate versions of pywintypes27.dll or pythoncom27.dll,
most likely in the python installation and your System32 directory.

      Roger




From jim at maplesong.com  Fri Jun 29 04:19:26 2012
From: jim at maplesong.com (Jim Carroll)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:19:26 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32]
	=?utf-8?q?pywintypes_assert_sys=2Emodules=5Bmodnam?=
	=?utf-8?q?e=5D_is_old=5Fmod?=
References: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org>
	<jsieoq$dm3$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <loom.20120629T041757-353@post.gmane.org>

> Look for duplicate versions of pywintypes27.dll or pythoncom27.dll,
> most likely in the python installation and your System32 directory.

Could pywintypes27.dll be colliding with pywintypes26.dll?  
I just tried moving everything to Python 2.7, 
and disabling python 2.6, and I seem to be getting somewhere.




From rupole at hotmail.com  Fri Jun 29 23:03:06 2012
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:03:06 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] pywintypes assert sys.modules[modname] is old_mod
References: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org><jsieoq$dm3$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<loom.20120629T041757-353@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <jsl56a$2tv$1@dough.gmane.org>

Jim Carroll wrote:
>> Look for duplicate versions of pywintypes27.dll or pythoncom27.dll,
>> most likely in the python installation and your System32 directory.
>
> Could pywintypes27.dll be colliding with pywintypes26.dll?
> I just tried moving everything to Python 2.7,
> and disabling python 2.6, and I seem to be getting somewhere.

It's highly unlikely that the 2.6 dll's are involved, unless python itself
was somehow mislinked.

Did you actually have multiple copies of the 2.7 dll's ?

     Roger




From mmanfre at gmail.com  Fri Jun 29 23:20:53 2012
From: mmanfre at gmail.com (Michael Manfre)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:20:53 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] pywintypes assert sys.modules[modname] is old_mod
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120629T041757-353@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org>
	<jsieoq$dm3$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<loom.20120629T041757-353@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <CAGdCwBvn6++cDnbgfrncoce5rsWpP4vhyXYt-RiZmUzJfjs69Q@mail.gmail.com>

I also ran in to pywin32 issues when I was migrating from Python 2.6 to
Python 2.7. The stack trace you showed looks familiar, but I don't remember
the exact error because this was many months ago. The problem occurred
while I had both version of Python on the same system and it went away
after I uninstalled Python 2.6 (and all of its extra packages).

--
Michael Manfre

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Jim Carroll <jim at maplesong.com> wrote:

> > Look for duplicate versions of pywintypes27.dll or pythoncom27.dll,
> > most likely in the python installation and your System32 directory.
>
> Could pywintypes27.dll be colliding with pywintypes26.dll?
> I just tried moving everything to Python 2.7,
> and disabling python 2.6, and I seem to be getting somewhere.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
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From belsuzie at worldline.ca  Sat Jun 30 04:02:26 2012
From: belsuzie at worldline.ca (lucienne roussin)
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:02:26 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] (no subject)
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From jim at maplesong.com  Sat Jun 30 15:57:42 2012
From: jim at maplesong.com (Jim Carroll)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:57:42 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32]
	=?utf-8?q?pywintypes_assert_sys=2Emodules=5Bmodnam?=
	=?utf-8?q?e=5D_is_old=5Fmod?=
References: <loom.20120628T212136-589@post.gmane.org><jsieoq$dm3$1@dough.gmane.org>
	<loom.20120629T041757-353@post.gmane.org>
	<jsl56a$2tv$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <loom.20120630T154505-624@post.gmane.org>


> Did you actually have multiple copies of the 2.7 dll's ?

Not really...  Just in the usual places:

>>> find = ['pywintypes.py', 'pywintypes27.dll', 'pythoncom27.dll']
>>> for (path,dirs,files)in os.walk('\\'):
...    for f in find:
...       if f in files: print "%s in %s" % (f, path)
...
pywintypes.py in \Documents and Settings\aldev\Desktop\pywin32-214\win32\lib
pywintypes27.dll in \Python27\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32
pythoncom27.dll in \Python27\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32
pywintypes.py in \Python27\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib
pywintypes27.dll in \WINDOWS\system32
pythoncom27.dll in \WINDOWS\system32
>>>

I am trying to uninstall al of Python26 though.

For a while I was getting the error despite commenting out the asserts
at the bottom of pywintypes.py,  even after a reboot and deleting 
the pyc and pyos!  So something is getting cached.