Win32/Console - subclass using Python ?

[Roger Upole]

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.
   hth
      Roger



"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