Using Python scripts in Windows Explorer

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Friday 20/10/2006 12:20, Ben Sizer wrote:

>I'd like to be able to drag a file onto a Python script in Windows
>Explorer, or send that file to the script via the Send To context-menu
>option, so I can then process that file via sys.argc.
>
>Unfortunately, I can't drag items onto the Python script, because
>Windows doesn't recognise that the script is executable (unless I
>double-click it, upon which it runs as usual, without the command line
>parameter of course)

Create a shortcut and drop the file over it.

>and won't set it as a drop target. And it won't
>even appear in the Send To menu after the usual steps are taken to get
>it there.

Same here: put a shortcut to the script on your SendTo folder 
(wherever it resides)


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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