Create/Edit Win32 Shortcuts?

[Gerhard Häring]

Don Tuttle wrote:
> 
> [Don Tuttle]
> > >
> > > I can't believe that Python doesn't have the ability to create/edit
> > > Win32 shortcuts (.lnk files). But after an hour of searching the
> > > archives and my books I can't find anything at all.  Would someone
> > > point me in the right direction?

[...]

> Sorry for the slow reply.  I'd love to see your code!  Even better, I'd love
> to see you polish it and then submit it for inclusion in the core Windows
> distribution.  Shortcuts are so ubiquitous in Windows that a simple way to
> work with them really should be a part of the OS module.  I suspect the lack
> of demand for this feature is simply the respective lack of NT admins
> currently using Python.  I'm also expecting this to change dramatically over
> the next few years.  (I was doing remote admin work via telnet when I posted
> my question.)

I'll think about polishing it, but for now I have only had a quick
glance over it and put some comments here and there. You can download it
here (source and binary prebuilt for Python 2.1):
http://home.t-online.de/home/err666/VitaminP/index.html

You can use it like this:

import WinSetupUtil

shortcut = WinSetupUtil.Shortcut()
shortcut.setShortcutName( "c:/tmp/TestShortcut.lnk" )
shortcut.setLinkSource( "c:/WINNT/Notepad.exe" )
shortcut.setIconFileName( "c:/WINNT/Explorer.exe" )
shortcut.setIconNumber( 0 )
shortcut.save()

Gerhard

PS: I really don't think it belongs in the library's os module. A
separate module like _winshortcut would perhaps have a chance to get in,
like the _winreg we already have.
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