[PythonCE] Windows Mobile 5.0 Now Has a Console!

[Bandung]

It is strange that I can use the Cmd console to launch other programs such as
Vim.exe and hand these apps a file to open when they startup.  For example,
the following works when I type "vim sample.txt" at the command prompt...

Pocket CDM v 4.20
\>  vim sample.txt

This starts up Vim with the file sample.txt loaded.

I can just as easily launch pocket word in the same manner.

      \> pword sample.doc

Yet when I try to launch python with a py module, it borks.

       \> python sample.py

Traceback (innermost last):
<NULL>: <NULL>

If I just type python, then it launches ok.

       \> python

Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Oct 11 2006 ......
>>>

There are a number of os functions not implemented within pythonce such as
os.system or os.exec or os.spawn  but I fail to see why this should stop the
cmd console's shell from starting python and handing it a module as an
argument.

Any thoughts?




Bandung wrote:
> 
> It is now possible to load and run Microsoft's console as well as
> Simbolic's PocketConsole.  Here are the steps.
> 
> 1. Get the Pocket Console and install it
>  http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/index.htm Pocket Console 
> 
> 2. Get the Pocket CMD file and install it
> 
> http://www.symbolictools.de/public/pocketconsole/applications/cmd/index.htm
> Pocket Cmd 
> 
> 3. You can also install Microsoft's cmd program in parallel with the Open
> Source one.  There is a pocket cmd console buried within PowerToys 2003. 
> I tried to install it but it didn't work properly.  If you can extract the
> following three files from the CAB then you can get it working.  All you
> need is the cmd.exe and shell.exe files placed anywhere in one directory. 
> Then use the console.dll that symbolic installs within the Windows
> directory rather than the Microsoft console.dll and you will be able to
> run Microsoft's cmd dos utility.
> I have a stand alone install for Microsoft's Cmd utility version 4.2 as
> well as the older one called 3.0  These work quite well.  I just don't
> know where to find them on the web anymore.  If you would like to try the
> stand alone installer, I will post them on a free downloading file site.
> 
> 4. The most important step!  Change the following registry entry.
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\Console\OutputTo
> 
> set this value to 0
> 
> What is beautiful about this set of programs is that I can now launch
> other apps from a dos console.  I am able to launch the pocket ssh port
> created by Rainer (it supports tunneling) and other apps that have command
> line arguments and switches. Example.  ssh mysite.com  -l bandung -L
> 25:127.0.0.1:25   
> 
> So to the point.  I want to be able to launch python with the command line
> prompts/arguments.  Things such as python.exe my_module.py -i  and the
> like.  But these features seemed to have been removed from the python ce
> port.  If they are put back, then we should be able to  test our modules
> by running them within an interactive python session.
> 
> 
> 

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