[python-win32] how to access SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems() by ctypes

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I want to build a cross-platform application ,I used a windows API called SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems(). Although I found example called it by pywin32,but pywin32 is not available on Linux , I don't want to call a Windows API on linux,just don't want to make another code version for Linux,so I wonder how to access it by ctypes? yes,this API cannot be called on Linux ,I just want to make it silent in the code so that I can freeze the Python scripts into executables by cx_Freeze without pywin32 module-missing error happend .

formatted code here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20565401/how-to-access-shopenfolderandselectitems-by-ctypes




from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

import os

def launch_file_explorer(path, files):

     '''

     Given a absolute base path and names of its children (no path), open

     up one File Explorer window with all the child files selected

     '''

     folder_pidl = shell.SHILCreateFromPath(path,0)[0]

     desktop = shell.SHGetDesktopFolder()

     shell_folder = desktop.BindToObject(folder_pidl, None,shell.IID_IShellFolder)

     name_to_item_mapping = dict([(desktop.GetDisplayNameOf(item, shellcon.SHGDN_FORPARSING|shellcon.SHGDN_INFOLDER), item) for item in shell_folder])

     print(name_to_item_mapping)

     to_show = []

     for file in files:

         if file in name_to_item_mapping:

             to_show.append(name_to_item_mapping[file])

         # else:

             # raise Exception('File: "%s" not found in "%s"' % (file, path))







     shell.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems(folder_pidl, to_show, 0)










p=r'E:\aa'

print(os.listdir(p))

launch_file_explorer(p, os.listdir(p))
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