Windows Services

Roger Upole rupole at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 19 10:17:24 EST 2005


Active State's help file is missing parameters from some modules built using Swig.
The .chm included with the SourceForge releases has complete parameter info.

     hth
        Roger


"Mondal" <msmondal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every one please accept my thanks.
>
> I have stopped using Python IDLE. Know I am using Pythonwin IDE from
> Active State. They have the same core modules. But the Pywin32
> extensions are a plus from Active State.
>
> The problem is that the Pywin32 Documentation is incomplete/incorrect.
> The modules by Mark Hammond are in .pyd and not in .py. The
> documentayion on Active's web site is also incorrect. Here is a code
> snippet from the IDE
>
> import win32service
>>>> ws=win32service
>>>> ws.CreateDesktop()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: CreateDesktop() takes exactly 4 arguments (0 given)
>>>>
>
> And here is the prototype from the documentation
>
> win32service.CreateDesktop
> PyHDESK = CreateDesktop()
>
> Creates a new desktop in calling process's current window station
>
> The documentation does not mention any arguments, yet there is a
> TypeError.
>
> The source code in C at Pywin32 extensions homepage are of not much
> help.
>
> So, how do i use win32 extensions?
>
> Regards
> 



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