Win32/Console - subclass using Python ?

[Richard Shea]

"Roger Upole" <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<413d31e3$1_2 at 127.0.0.1>...
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/console_functions.asp
> 
> There's a Console module for Windows at 
> http://www.effbot.org/zone/console-index.htm
> that might do what you need.

Thanks for that - I had looked for something like this but not found
it. It's not 100% what I was thinking of as I would (I believe) need
to run SQLPLUS 'behind' it. Never mind I appreciate it. Thanks also to
info I got via Email WRT to 'QUASI'
http://quasi-shell.sourceforge.net/ - that's a pretty amazing thing
which is worth checking out.

regards

richard.



> 
> "Richard Shea" <richardshea at fastmail.fm> wrote in message 
> news:282f826a.0409061626.16567378 at posting.google.com...
> > Hi - I wondered if anyone had done this before and could provide some
> > suggestions ? I'm interested in supplying extra functionality to a
> > Win32 Console (cmd.exe) - full description below for those interested.
> > I would do this using Python.
> >
> > I'm having difficulty finding anything about Console based programming
> > via MSDN - I just wondered if anyone had done anything like this or
> > alternatively knew where the part of the Win32 API which deals with
> > Console interaction is on MSDN ? I've found
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;104094 but
> > that's about it so far.
> >
> > FULL DESCRIPTION
> > ================
> > I use the Oracle client SQLPLUS a lot via a Win 32 console. There are
> > some aspect s of this experience which would bear improvement.
> >
> > I'm interested in producing a 'super' cmd.exe which would 'help'
> > SQLPLUS do its thing. I'm thinking for instance of auto-completion of
> > table names, smart help etc. That's a big topic but just for starters
> > I would like to be able to create my own 'super cmd.exe'
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Richard Shea