From shahmed at sfwmd.gov  Fri Mar  2 14:39:52 2007
From: shahmed at sfwmd.gov (Ahmed, Shakir)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:39:52 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] GIS Shape file upload FTP server
Message-ID: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D206F1ED3E@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>


HI Group,


As I am very new in python field so this question might be very silly
but if I get any help that is highly appreciated.


Problem: 

I wrote a python script which is working fine to upload files to the ftp
server but the problem it is reducing the actual size of the after
transferring. I need to upload a GIS Shape file to the ftp server but
want to keep the same size and format. Any idea or help is highly
appreciated.

 

Thanks
Shakir
Staff Geographer
Sfwmd.gov


The code is as follows: 
 
# Import system modules
import os
import sys 
import win32com.client
import zipfile
import os.path
import ftplib
from ftplib import FTP

 
ftp=ftplib.FTP("ftp.mysite.*","","")  
ftp.login('*****','*****')
#ftp.cwd("/export/pub/****")
ffile = open('c:\\test\\*.shp', 'r')
ftp.storbinary("stor *.shp", ffile)
ffile.close()
print "OK"
ftp.quit()

From theller at ctypes.org  Fri Mar  2 15:09:49 2007
From: theller at ctypes.org (Thomas Heller)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:09:49 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] GIS Shape file upload FTP server
In-Reply-To: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D206F1ED3E@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>
References: <14A2A120D369B6469BB154B2D2DC34D206F1ED3E@EXCHVS01.ad.sfwmd.gov>
Message-ID: <es9b7e$ab6$1@sea.gmane.org>

Ahmed, Shakir schrieb:
> HI Group,
> 
> 
> As I am very new in python field so this question might be very silly
> but if I get any help that is highly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Problem: 
> 
> I wrote a python script which is working fine to upload files to the ftp
> server but the problem it is reducing the actual size of the after
> transferring. I need to upload a GIS Shape file to the ftp server but
> want to keep the same size and format. Any idea or help is highly
> appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> Shakir
> Staff Geographer
> Sfwmd.gov
> 
> 
> The code is as follows: 
>  
> # Import system modules
> import os
> import sys 
> import win32com.client
> import zipfile
> import os.path
> import ftplib
> from ftplib import FTP
> 
>  
> ftp=ftplib.FTP("ftp.mysite.*","","")  
> ftp.login('*****','*****')
> #ftp.cwd("/export/pub/****")
> ffile = open('c:\\test\\*.shp', 'r')
> ftp.storbinary("stor *.shp", ffile)
> ffile.close()
> print "OK"
> ftp.quit()

On Windows, you have to open binary files in binary mode:

> ffile = open('c:\\test\\*.shp', 'rb')
                                   ^^
otherwise the file will be truncated at the first ^Z character.

Thomas


From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Sat Mar  3 07:51:20 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:51:20 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] win32gui.GetOpenFileName()
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703022251k198adf83r2d00801215c234d0@mail.gmail.com>

Hello

I'm using Python 2.5, and PythonWin build 210.


GetOpenFileName()
This function takes one argument, but there is no info in the help for this.
What is the argument and the type of the argument?

win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() takes several args, but there is lots of help
GetOpenFileNameW(hwndOwner, hInstance , Filter , CustomFilter ,
FilterIndex , File , MaxFile , InitialDir , Title , Flags , DefExt ,
TemplateName )


However, what I'd like to have is this same dialog, that allows me to
select multiple files.

I can do this with PyQt calling getOpenFileNames(), and I'd like to be
able to do it natively.


Is there a way I can select multiple files with either of the above
mentioned calls?
(pressing Control doesn't work)


thanks

From kf9150 at gmail.com  Sun Mar  4 12:56:18 2007
From: kf9150 at gmail.com (Kelie)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:56:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] win32gui.GetOpenFileName()
References: <8249c4ac0703022251k198adf83r2d00801215c234d0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <loom.20070304T125537-750@post.gmane.org>

Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> GetOpenFileName()
> This function takes one argument, but there is no info in the help for this.
> What is the argument and the type of the argument?

Tony, maybe this page is helpful
http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=show&file=faq21.013.htp


From rwupole at msn.com  Sun Mar  4 22:18:55 2007
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:18:55 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: win32gui.GetOpenFileName()
Message-ID: <000401c75ea2$b8a12570$0100a8c0@rupole>

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm using Python 2.5, and PythonWin build 210.
> 
> 
> GetOpenFileName()
> This function takes one argument, but there is no info in the help for this.
> What is the argument and the type of the argument?

This function expects a buffer containing  an OPENFILENAME structure,
created using the struct module or some other means.

> win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() takes several args, but there is lots of help
> GetOpenFileNameW(hwndOwner, hInstance , Filter , CustomFilter ,
> FilterIndex , File , MaxFile , InitialDir , Title , Flags , DefExt ,
> TemplateName )
> 
> 
> However, what I'd like to have is this same dialog, that allows me to
> select multiple files.
> 
> I can do this with PyQt calling getOpenFileNames(), and I'd like to be
> able to do it natively.
> 
> 
> Is there a way I can select multiple files with either of the above
> mentioned calls?
> (pressing Control doesn't work)

Pass win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER
 in the Flags to enable this.

    hth
          Roger


From beat.niederhauser at gmx.ch  Sun Mar  4 21:37:22 2007
From: beat.niederhauser at gmx.ch (Beat Niederhauser)
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:37:22 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM: change in Python object does not get registered
Message-ID: <45EB2E02.50407@gmx.ch>

Hallo

I am completely new to COM and have trouble getting changes
in python code be passed to the COM interface. When
I apply changes to a Python class which is exposed as a COM
object, these changes somehow don't get registered correctly -
meaning that I cannot see the changes when accessing the COM
object from Excel/VBA.

In detail, I did the following.

1) created a python class exposed as a COM server
following Hammond/Robinson (chapter 12) with a function foo and
registered it in the registry
	
2) foo is called from Excel/VBA. This works fine.

3) Now I unregister the class and apply a change, say implement a
function bar, and registered again. Calling bar from VBA gives
me an error 438 (object does not support method).

I assume that I must be doing some trivial error. Any help
or pointer to more information is much appreciated.

thanks,
Beat



From mc at mclaveau.com  Sun Mar  4 23:11:54 2007
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:11:54 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM: change in Python object does not get
	registered
References: <45EB2E02.50407@gmx.ch>
Message-ID: <000501c75eaa$2068aa50$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

You must exit Excel, to register COM serveur, run again Excel.
Change on COM server are not view by Excel, as long as Excel is not closed, 
and re-open.

@+

Michel Claveau



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun Mar  4 23:29:07 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:29:07 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM: change in Python object does not get
	registered
In-Reply-To: <45EB2E02.50407@gmx.ch>
Message-ID: <020201c75eac$866880d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>

> I am completely new to COM and have trouble getting changes
> in python code be passed to the COM interface. When
> I apply changes to a Python class which is exposed as a COM
> object, these changes somehow don't get registered correctly -
> meaning that I cannot see the changes when accessing the COM
> object from Excel/VBA.

You need to either restart excel, or arrange for your module to be
'reload'ed.  One way would be to add a 'reload' method to your object.  For
example, the .py code might have:

  def reload(self):
    import mymod
    reload(mymod)

And your VB code could then look like:

  ob.reload() ; reload the module using the 'old' object
  set ob = CreateObject("Your.ProgID") ; re-create ob with the new code

and from then on, 'ob' should have any changes you have made.

Mark


From beat.niederhauser at gmx.ch  Sun Mar  4 23:59:13 2007
From: beat.niederhauser at gmx.ch (Beat Niederhauser)
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:59:13 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] COM: change in Python object does not get
	registered
In-Reply-To: <020201c75eac$866880d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <020201c75eac$866880d0$0200a8c0@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <45EB4F41.1020900@gmx.ch>

Mark Hammond escreveu:

> 
> You need to either restart excel, or arrange for your module to be
> 'reload'ed.  One way would be to add a 'reload' method to your object.  For
> example, the .py code might have:
> 
>   def reload(self):
>     import mymod
>     reload(mymod)
> 
> And your VB code could then look like:
> 
>   ob.reload() ; reload the module using the 'old' object
>   set ob = CreateObject("Your.ProgID") ; re-create ob with the new code
> 
> and from then on, 'ob' should have any changes you have made.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

Thanks. Everything works fine now.

Beat

From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Mon Mar  5 08:13:08 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:13:08 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>

After fighting with my Hosting company to support and give me a shell.... I
got nowhere for a week! so i have installed TikiWiki and hope it works out
well... (if anyone has a better one with a simple installation please tell
me) Anyways here is the site www.wazoozle.com please take things away!

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From davidf at sjsoft.com  Mon Mar  5 16:10:57 2007
From: davidf at sjsoft.com (David Fraser)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:10:57 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Media Wiki
In-Reply-To: <45DED170.8060705@trihedral.com>
References: <8a6b8e350702222241w2919f02dw41517efddf429bf6@mail.gmail.com>	<45DEAE18.2010204@timgolden.me.uk>	<71b6302c0702230121j123c4a4ey8d382e43848f91b@mail.gmail.com>	<45DEB2E8.5000906@timgolden.me.uk>	<8a6b8e350702230156y3ec55b34occ0f6b4efdbc49ba@mail.gmail.com>	<71b6302c0702230202i726df2aev1f95ca7bafec841e@mail.gmail.com>	<45DEBE14.6020106@timgolden.me.uk>	<8a6b8e350702230227x2b40fed3k2079553aeba09979@mail.gmail.com>
	<45DED170.8060705@trihedral.com>
Message-ID: <45EC3301.9070109@sjsoft.com>

Graham Bloice wrote:
> James Matthews wrote:
>   
>> I will leave the final verdict to the great users of the python mailing
>> list! I will decide on later based on the majority!
>>
>>     
>
> +1 for MoinMoin
>
>   
+1 for MediaWiki

Despite despising PHP it always seems to look better and feel nicer than
MoinMoin :-)

David

From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Mon Mar  5 18:21:09 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:21:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Media Wiki
In-Reply-To: <45EC3301.9070109@sjsoft.com>
References: <8a6b8e350702222241w2919f02dw41517efddf429bf6@mail.gmail.com>
	<45DEAE18.2010204@timgolden.me.uk>
	<71b6302c0702230121j123c4a4ey8d382e43848f91b@mail.gmail.com>
	<45DEB2E8.5000906@timgolden.me.uk>
	<8a6b8e350702230156y3ec55b34occ0f6b4efdbc49ba@mail.gmail.com>
	<71b6302c0702230202i726df2aev1f95ca7bafec841e@mail.gmail.com>
	<45DEBE14.6020106@timgolden.me.uk>
	<8a6b8e350702230227x2b40fed3k2079553aeba09979@mail.gmail.com>
	<45DED170.8060705@trihedral.com> <45EC3301.9070109@sjsoft.com>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703050921w2d97a488lea70d502e851afec@mail.gmail.com>

I would agree however i do like the fedora core website which runs moin moin

On 3/5/07, David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Graham Bloice wrote:
> > James Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> I will leave the final verdict to the great users of the python mailing
> >> list! I will decide on later based on the majority!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > +1 for MoinMoin
> >
> >
> +1 for MediaWiki
>
> Despite despising PHP it always seems to look better and feel nicer than
> MoinMoin :-)
>
> David
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Mar  5 19:41:09 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:41:09 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Python-win32 Digest, Vol 48, Issue 2
In-Reply-To: <mailman.21.1173092406.29023.python-win32@python.org>
References: <mailman.21.1173092406.29023.python-win32@python.org>
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703051041t39896d36meb943e6dd14ec040@mail.gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:18:55 -0500
From: "Roger Upole" <rwupole at msn.com>
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: win32gui.GetOpenFileName()
To: <python-win32 at python.org>
Message-ID: <000401c75ea2$b8a12570$0100a8c0 at rupole>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
       reply-type=original
This function expects a buffer containing  an OPENFILENAME structure,
created using the struct module or some other means.

> Is there a way I can select multiple files with either of the above
> mentioned calls?
> (pressing Control doesn't work)

>>Pass win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER
>> in the Flags to enable this.

Thanks Roger, where did you find this information?

"From the Pythin Win help file"
win32gui (more).GetOpenFileName
int = GetOpenFileName()
Creates an Open dialog box that lets the user specify the drive,
directory, and the name of a file or set of files to open.
Return Value
If the user presses OK, the function returns TRUE. Otherwise, use
CommDlgExtendedError for error details.

From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Mon Mar  5 20:23:26 2007
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:23:26 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45EC6E2E.1090708@alum.rpi.edu>

James Matthews wrote:
> After fighting with my Hosting company to support and give me a 
> shell.... I got nowhere for a week! so i have installed TikiWiki and 
> hope it works out well... (if anyone has a better one with a simple 
> installation please tell me) Anyways here is the site www.wazoozle.com 
> <http://www.wazoozle.com> please take things away!
I just went there, registered, logged in. Now what? I see no way to add 
pages, and 5 minutes more than I wanted to spend looking at 
documentation contents I still have no clue!

And what in heck does this refer to:
"Click the :: options in the Menu for more options."

-- 
Bob Gailer
510-978-4454


From mc at mclaveau.com  Tue Mar  6 00:52:00 2007
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:52:00 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
	<45EC6E2E.1090708@alum.rpi.edu>
Message-ID: <000401c75f81$463ad870$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

>>>  I see no way to add pages

+1


Michel Claveau



From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Tue Mar  6 00:54:35 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:54:35 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <000401c75f81$463ad870$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
	<45EC6E2E.1090708@alum.rpi.edu>
	<000401c75f81$463ad870$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703051554i419dfe60mb291bb41e1da582c@mail.gmail.com>

Changed to MediaWiki sorry i only informed Bob

On 3/5/07, Michel Claveau <mc at mclaveau.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> >>>  I see no way to add pages
>
> +1
>
>
> Michel Claveau
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



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From bruce at brucewebber.us  Tue Mar  6 03:01:13 2007
From: bruce at brucewebber.us (Bruce Webber)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:01:13 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] PID of a process created by
	win32com.client.Dispatch()
Message-ID: <200703060201.l2621DcW026272@rs34.luxsci.com>


I've written a program which automates the running of Business Objects (a query generator and reporting tool). The command which creates the process (and the corresponding Python object) is:

boApp = win32com.client.Dispatch('BusinessObjects.Application')

This works fine, and I have successfully run the application. However, sometimes the Business Objects process hangs (perhaps because the query takes too long or perhaps due to some error in my code) and I would like to kill the process in Task Manager. If I am running this on my PC, it's easy to identify the process to kill. If, however, I'm running this on a server and there are other Business Objects processes running I cannot tell which process to end.

Upon calling Dispatch() I would like to log the PID of the process, so if I have to kill, I would know which one.

Is there a way to do this? (I have looked through the Python for Windows documentation and searched on the web, but have not found any answers.) Thanks.

--
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bruce at brucewebber.us
http://brucewebber.us


From davidf at sjsoft.com  Tue Mar  6 09:53:57 2007
From: davidf at sjsoft.com (David Fraser)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:53:57 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Media Wiki
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350703050921w2d97a488lea70d502e851afec@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350702222241w2919f02dw41517efddf429bf6@mail.gmail.com>	
	<45DEAE18.2010204@timgolden.me.uk>	
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	<45DEB2E8.5000906@timgolden.me.uk>	
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	<8a6b8e350702230227x2b40fed3k2079553aeba09979@mail.gmail.com>	
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James Matthews wrote:
> I would agree however i do like the fedora core website which runs
> moin moin
OK great - if it looks like that switch my +1 MediaWiki to +1 MoinMoin

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Mar  6 10:27:01 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:27:01 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>

James Matthews wrote:
> After fighting with my Hosting company to support and give me a shell.... I
> got nowhere for a week! so i have installed TikiWiki and hope it works out
> well... (if anyone has a better one with a simple installation please tell
> me) Anyways here is the site www.wazoozle.com please take things away!

Any chance of adding the OpenID extension[1], James? I
prefer to use my OpenID than to remember several different
logons.

TJG

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID

From gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar  Tue Mar  6 07:31:57 2007
From: gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:31:57 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] win32gui.GetOpenFileName()
References: <mailman.21.1173092406.29023.python-win32@python.org>
	<8249c4ac0703051041t39896d36meb943e6dd14ec040@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <op.toq8fjh6x6zn5v@gabriel2.softlabbsas.com.ar>

En Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:41:09 -0300, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>  
escribi?:

>> Is there a way I can select multiple files with either of the above
>> mentioned calls?
>> (pressing Control doesn't work)
>
>>> Pass win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER
>>> in the Flags to enable this.
>
> Thanks Roger, where did you find this information?

Look at the Microsoft site, MSDN, the primary source of information.
Many win32xxx modules are just a thin wrapper around the related Windows  
functions.
In this case, see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646839.aspx

-- 
Gabriel Genellina


From it at crummock.com  Tue Mar  6 13:51:20 2007
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:51:20 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Reusing a local com server object
Message-ID: <45ED63C8.2060003@crummock.com>

I am having trouble connecting to an already running python com server.

I have set CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER for my com object and I am using the 
"GetObject" function in my vbscripts which connect to the com server.

I have written a simple test server that behaves very similarly to my 
real server (except the thread will actually do some work)

------------------------------------------------------------
sleeper = threading.Thread(target=time.sleep,args=(20,))

class Test(object):
    _public_methods_ = ["go"]
    _reg_progid_ = "pythonutils.test"
    _reg_clsid_ = "{57E47876-69CB-4822-92F1-B8D2716F54A4}"
    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER

    def go(self):
        if sleeper.isAlive():
            return "Server is already running"
        else:
            sleeper.start() #start a thread that sleep for 20 seconds
            return "Server NOT running"
------------------------------------------------------------

Now, if I run two test clients it works fine if client #2 get's a 
reference to my com server before client #1 stops running (i.e. client#1 
sleeps for 10 seconds and I run client#2, in a seperate process before 
client#1 finishes).

However, if I run my test clients sequentially each one creates a new 
pythonw process. The old com server is definitely still running, 
GetObject just decides to return a new one and I am unsure how the 
change this behaviour.

After browsing Mark's win32 book I've tried playing with the 
_reg_threading_ but I'm not convinced it's relevant (I full admit I'm 
dont understand com threading 100%). I also thought I was onto something 
with the pythoncom.REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE variable until I discovered that 
this is used by default (in win32com.server.factory).

Any suggestions would be much appreciated - even just some key phrases 
that may help energise my search efforts...

Many thanks,

-ross


From mark.m.mcmahon at gmail.com  Tue Mar  6 14:05:20 2007
From: mark.m.mcmahon at gmail.com (Mark Mc Mahon)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 08:05:20 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
	<45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I just created an account, logged in, and I couldn't figure out how to
modify a page.

I added the topics that Tim and I mentioned from the earlier thread to
the "Discussion" page.

Mark

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Tue Mar  6 14:40:40 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:40:40 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>	<45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>
	<71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45ED6F58.4080000@timgolden.me.uk>

Mark Mc Mahon wrote:
> I just created an account, logged in, and I couldn't figure out how to
> modify a page.

Well, likewise. James, is there some switch you have to set
to allow logged-in users to edit main pages?

TJG

From ghankiewicz at rastertech.es  Tue Mar  6 17:06:36 2007
From: ghankiewicz at rastertech.es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:06:36 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an odbc
	driver
Message-ID: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es>

Hi.

I have an old application which uses Access, and possibly the reason why 
concurrent access wasn't designed is because transactions are not 
supported, so multiple writes could be trouble.

I was wondering if it would be possible to serialise all the read/write 
operations through a micro server with pywin32+twisted. I guess this is 
possible since the server just reads requests and deals them in a 
syncronous way. However, would it be possible to connect from the 
application to this serialisation server through odbc? Would this mean 
implementing a dummy odbc driver which just relays/gets the information 
and install it in the client?

The idea is implementing this behind the scenes without requiring to 
touch the original application. Is this possible at all?

-- 
Rastertech Espa?a S.A.
	Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
/Jefe de Producto TeraVial/

C/ Perfumer?a 21. Nave I. Pol?gono industrial La Mina
28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid (Espa?a)
Tel. +34 918 467 390 (Ext.18) 	  *?*   	Fax +34 918 457 889
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From timr at probo.com  Tue Mar  6 19:16:15 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:16:15 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an odbc
 driver
In-Reply-To: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es>
References: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es>
Message-ID: <45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>
> I have an old application which uses Access, and possibly the reason
> why concurrent access wasn't designed is because transactions are not
> supported, so multiple writes could be trouble.

Access is trouble any time you have more than about 2 people using a
single database.  It just wasn't designed for that environment.


> I was wondering if it would be possible to serialise all the
> read/write operations through a micro server with pywin32+twisted. I
> guess this is possible since the server just reads requests and deals
> them in a syncronous way. However, would it be possible to connect
> from the application to this serialisation server through odbc? Would
> this mean implementing a dummy odbc driver which just relays/gets the
> information and install it in the client?

Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres,
SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free.


> The idea is implementing this behind the scenes without requiring to
> touch the original application. Is this possible at all?

Is the original application in Access?  Or is it another language that
just happens to use the Jet database?  What API does it use to talk to
the database?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From timr at probo.com  Tue Mar  6 19:23:18 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:23:18 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] PID of a process created
	by	win32com.client.Dispatch()
In-Reply-To: <200703060201.l2621DcW026272@rs34.luxsci.com>
References: <200703060201.l2621DcW026272@rs34.luxsci.com>
Message-ID: <45EDB196.2000307@probo.com>

Bruce Webber wrote:
> I've written a program which automates the running of Business Objects (a query generator and reporting tool). The command which creates the process (and the corresponding Python object) is:
>
> boApp = win32com.client.Dispatch('BusinessObjects.Application')
>
> This works fine, and I have successfully run the application. However, sometimes the Business Objects process hangs (perhaps because the query takes too long or perhaps due to some error in my code) and I would like to kill the process in Task Manager. If I am running this on my PC, it's easy to identify the process to kill. If, however, I'm running this on a server and there are other Business Objects processes running I cannot tell which process to end.
>
> Upon calling Dispatch() I would like to log the PID of the process, so if I have to kill, I would know which one.
>
> Is there a way to do this? (I have looked through the Python for Windows documentation and searched on the web, but have not found any answers.)

This is tricky.  Remember that win32com.client.Dispatch doesn't actually
know whether the COM server is in-process (meaning a DLL within the
current process) or out-of-process (meaning a separate executable). 
That's all hidden by COM.  When you talk to the boApp object, you're
just calling into an object in your address space.  The fact that the
object is just a proxy that calls into another process is a COM detail
that is hidden from view.

Do you have the object model for BusinessObjects?  If you are lucky,
perhaps their object model includes a "get process ID" property.  If
not, I'm not convinced there is a way to map a COM object to a process
ID, and some Google searching did not come up with an answer.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From rwupole at msn.com  Tue Mar  6 19:28:23 2007
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:28:23 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: Reusing a local com server object
Message-ID: <001201c7601d$3ab35da0$0100a8c0@rupole>

Ross McKerchar wrote:
>I am having trouble connecting to an already running python com server.
> 
> I have set CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER for my com object and I am using the 
> "GetObject" function in my vbscripts which connect to the com server.
> 
> I have written a simple test server that behaves very similarly to my 
> real server (except the thread will actually do some work)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> sleeper = threading.Thread(target=time.sleep,args=(20,))
> 
> class Test(object):
>    _public_methods_ = ["go"]
>    _reg_progid_ = "pythonutils.test"
>    _reg_clsid_ = "{57E47876-69CB-4822-92F1-B8D2716F54A4}"
>    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
> 
>    def go(self):
>        if sleeper.isAlive():
>            return "Server is already running"
>        else:
>            sleeper.start() #start a thread that sleep for 20 seconds
>            return "Server NOT running"
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Now, if I run two test clients it works fine if client #2 get's a 
> reference to my com server before client #1 stops running (i.e. client#1 
> sleeps for 10 seconds and I run client#2, in a seperate process before 
> client#1 finishes).
> 
> However, if I run my test clients sequentially each one creates a new 
> pythonw process. The old com server is definitely still running, 
> GetObject just decides to return a new one and I am unsure how the 
> change this behaviour.
> 
> After browsing Mark's win32 book I've tried playing with the 
> _reg_threading_ but I'm not convinced it's relevant (I full admit I'm 
> dont understand com threading 100%). I also thought I was onto something 
> with the pythoncom.REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE variable until I discovered that 
> this is used by default (in win32com.server.factory).
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated - even just some key phrases 
> that may help energise my search efforts...


An object needs to be registered in the Running Object Table (ROT) for this to
work. See pythoncom.RegisterActiveObject.

       hth
          Roger


From ghankiewicz at rastertech.es  Tue Mar  6 19:48:40 2007
From: ghankiewicz at rastertech.es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:48:40 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an odbc
 driver
In-Reply-To: <45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>
References: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es> <45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>
Message-ID: <45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>

Tim Roberts wrote:
> Access is trouble any time you have more than about 2 people using a
> single database.  It just wasn't designed for that environment.
>   
I know, I know... just imagine that before accepting this job I didn't 
even know Access *could* be used *like* one, I always thought it was 
like a toy sqlite with fancy UI for single users.

> Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres,
> SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free.
>   
Indeed, which is what I'm going to do in the long term, rewrite the 
application.

> Is the original application in Access?  Or is it another language that
> just happens to use the Jet database?  What API does it use to talk to
> the database?
>   
It is just a VB without source code which talks to the database through 
a DNSless connection, which really means I can't do what I was 
proposing, since that would mean changing the original VB application to 
use a specific ODBC, and I can't. I'm just asking because I'm curious 
about this sort of serializing gateway "architecture".

In fact, does sqlite run on windows with multiple writers shared through 
SMB? I know sqlite works with multiple writers, but my experience so far 
is only under linux, so I would like to know if that works on windows 
the same way or there are problems like the horror stories I've heard 
about NFS locking.

Any weird suggestions appreciated, not doing anything real here, just 
toying with the idea of doing something perverse (if using Access wasn't 
enough!).

-- 
Rastertech Espa?a S.A.
	Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
/Jefe de Producto TeraVial/

C/ Perfumer?a 21. Nave I. Pol?gono industrial La Mina
28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid (Espa?a)
Tel. +34 918 467 390 (Ext.18) 	  *?*   	Fax +34 918 457 889
ghankiewicz at rastertech.es 	  *?*   	www.rastertech.es 
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From timr at probo.com  Tue Mar  6 20:17:41 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:17:41 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an odbc
 driver
In-Reply-To: <45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>
References: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es> <45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>
	<45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>
Message-ID: <45EDBE55.5020901@probo.com>

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> Tim Roberts wrote:
>> Access is trouble any time you have more than about 2 people using a
>> single database.  It just wasn't designed for that environment.
>>   
> I know, I know... just imagine that before accepting this job I didn't
> even know Access *could* be used *like* one, I always thought it was
> like a toy sqlite with fancy UI for single users.

That's not a bad description, actually.  However, I have encountered
many clients who have built large applications with Access.  As long as
they're all running on the same machine, it actually works OK for less
than a dozen users.  Once you try to share it across a network, things
get dicier.

>> Is the original application in Access?  Or is it another language that
>> just happens to use the Jet database?  What API does it use to talk to
>> the database?
>>   
> It is just a VB without source code which talks to the database
> through a DNSless connection, which really means I can't do what I was
> proposing, since that would mean changing the original VB application
> to use a specific ODBC, and I can't. I'm just asking because I'm
> curious about this sort of serializing gateway "architecture".

I've heard of other people who wanted to do what you asked --
essentially build a multi-user client/server front-end for an Access Jet
database.  In virtually every case, it was less work to switch to a real
database.  The advantage of SQL is that most database backends look
pretty much the same these days.  Sure, there are odd details, and the
APIs are spelled differently, but the concepts are the same.


> In fact, does sqlite run on windows with multiple writers shared
> through SMB? I know sqlite works with multiple writers, but my
> experience so far is only under linux, so I would like to know if that
> works on windows the same way or there are problems like the horror
> stories I've heard about NFS locking.

On the NT systems (2000/XP/Vista), I believe this works just as well as
it does on Linux.  File locking on NTFS file systems is pretty solid. 
Now, if you're actually talking about involving Samba -- having a file
on a Windows file system shared by SQLite clients on both Windows and
Linux -- then I do not know.  My experiences with Samba have not been
universally good, so I'm afraid I've learned not to rely on it too heavily.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From torriem at chem.byu.edu  Tue Mar  6 23:58:17 2007
From: torriem at chem.byu.edu (Michael L Torrie)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:58:17 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an	odbc
	driver
In-Reply-To: <45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>
References: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es> <45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>
	<45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>
Message-ID: <1173221897.7322.5.camel@contra>

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:48 +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> > Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres,
> > SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free.
> >   
> Indeed, which is what I'm going to do in the long term, rewrite the
> application.

No need to rewrite the application. Access can happily interface with
any "real" database engine via ODBC.  I've used MS Access with MySQL
before, if I recall.

Michael



From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar  7 01:23:54 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:23:54 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a really odd feature to Access as an	odbc
 driver
In-Reply-To: <1173221897.7322.5.camel@contra>
References: <45ED918C.70607@rastertech.es>
	<45EDAFEF.1070406@probo.com>	<45EDB788.4070802@rastertech.es>
	<1173221897.7322.5.camel@contra>
Message-ID: <45EE061A.9020903@probo.com>

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:48 +0100, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
>   
>>> Surely it would be MUCH less trouble to move the backend to Postgres,
>>> SQLite, or even SQL Server Express, all of which are free.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Indeed, which is what I'm going to do in the long term, rewrite the
>> application.
>>     
>
> No need to rewrite the application. Access can happily interface with
> any "real" database engine via ODBC.  I've used MS Access with MySQL
> before, if I recall.
>   

Well, that's an interesting point.  Depending on how the application is
written, you may be able to replace the Access database by a shell
database that contains nothing but links to external tables in some
other database, and do it without touching the application itself.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Wed Mar  7 05:25:29 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 20:25:29 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <45ED6F58.4080000@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>
	<45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>
	<71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com>
	<45ED6F58.4080000@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703062025t693af6dw35c83b719e781894@mail.gmail.com>

Mark I added a section for editing pages! (the mark-up) and to create pages
all you need to do it search for the title and click create the page! Tim i
am working on the OpenID ext. It seems it doesn't support the version of
mediawiki that we have but i am working on it!

P.S Tomorrow i am making a major site overhaul AKA adding new
categories,Writing Wiki help docs etc... ( i am doing this off-peak hours
).. So if the site goes down a little don't worry i will have it up and
running by Friday morning!

If anyone has any suggestions,complaints,tips and/or would like to help
administer the wiki please email me!

Thanks
James

On 3/6/07, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Mark Mc Mahon wrote:
> > I just created an account, logged in, and I couldn't figure out how to
> > modify a page.
>
> Well, likewise. James, is there some switch you have to set
> to allow logged-in users to edit main pages?
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Mar  7 09:38:25 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:38:25 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Wiki
In-Reply-To: <8a6b8e350703062025t693af6dw35c83b719e781894@mail.gmail.com>
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com>	
	<45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk>	
	<71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com>	
	<45ED6F58.4080000@timgolden.me.uk>
	<8a6b8e350703062025t693af6dw35c83b719e781894@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45EE7A01.6080101@timgolden.me.uk>

James Matthews wrote:
> Mark I added a section for editing pages! (the mark-up) and to create pages
> all you need to do it search for the title and click create the page! Tim i
> am working on the OpenID ext. It seems it doesn't support the version of
> mediawiki that we have but i am working on it!
> 
> P.S Tomorrow i am making a major site overhaul AKA adding new
> categories,Writing Wiki help docs etc... ( i am doing this off-peak hours
> ).. So if the site goes down a little don't worry i will have it up and
> running by Friday morning!
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions,complaints,tips and/or would like to help
> administer the wiki please email me!

James,

I'm happy to help insofar as other commitments allow. Certainly there's
no rush from my point of view; it's good of you to get this started, so
take as long as you need to get things going, and feel free to request
help -- on the list, even -- to see if anyone can offer.

The OpenID thing is not a must, but it does seem to be the way to go
these days!

I'll wait for updates from you before going anywhere with it for
now.

TJG

From mc at mclaveau.com  Wed Mar  7 10:26:11 2007
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:26:11 +0100
Subject: [python-win32]  send function handler to COM/Jscript ?
References: <8a6b8e350703042313g3a238579l635aa5926b31648@mail.gmail.com><45ED33E5.2090003@timgolden.me.uk><71b6302c0703060505p5183de1el8bc1fba0f7c0c066@mail.gmail.com><45ED6F58.4080000@timgolden.me.uk>
	<8a6b8e350703062025t693af6dw35c83b719e781894@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <000801c7609a$a8508db0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

                    *** sorry for my bad english ***

I drive Internet-Explorer, with win32com.client.Dispatch

It's run very well.
Among other things,  I can "attach" (with =) jscript function (content in 
HTML page) to a Python object, callable, and I use it, in Python's script 
(like a Python function).

Now, I search ton send  a Python function to the Jscript script  (for do 
callback).

But I don't find how send a "handler" of the Python function. All me assays 
give me a "Objects of type 'function' can not be converted to a COM VARIANT"


However, when I use  JScript with ActiveScripting (from Python), I can mix 
Python & Jscript functions, without problem. Consequently, I suppose that my 
need is possible.


Somebody has a track of solution?


Thanks by advance.


Michel Claveau





From it at crummock.com  Wed Mar  7 11:05:04 2007
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:05:04 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Reusing a local com server object
In-Reply-To: <001201c7601d$3ab35da0$0100a8c0@rupole>
References: <001201c7601d$3ab35da0$0100a8c0@rupole>
Message-ID: <45EE8E50.50703@crummock.com>

Roger Upole wrote:
> Ross McKerchar wrote:
>   
>> Any suggestions would be much appreciated - even just some key phrases 
>> that may help energise my search efforts...
>>     
> An object needs to be registered in the Running Object Table (ROT) for this to
> work. See pythoncom.RegisterActiveObject.
>   
Ta very much - that's exactly the missing snippet I was looking for.

For posterity, here's my updated test solution:

-----------------------------------------------
class TestThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        pythoncom.CoInitialize()
        wrapped = win32com.server.util.wrap(self.comobj)
        handle = pythoncom.RegisterActiveObject(wrapped, 
self.comobj._reg_clsid_, 0)
        time.sleep(20)
        pythoncom.RevokeActiveObject(handle)

class FaxJob(object):
    _public_methods_ = ["go"]
    _reg_progid_ = "pythonutils.test"
    _reg_clsid_ = "{57E47876-69CB-4822-92F1-B8D2716F54A4}"
    _reg_clsctx_ = pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
    testthread = TestThread()
   
    def go(self):
        if self.testthread.isAlive():
            return "Server is already running"
        else:
            self.testthread.comobj = self
            self.testthread.start()
            return "Starting new server"
-----------------------------------------------

Many thanks.

-ross

From gregor at hostgis.com  Wed Mar  7 11:25:54 2007
From: gregor at hostgis.com (Gregor Mosheh)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 03:25:54 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [python-win32] How to build a Windows service using win32?
Message-ID: <3484.168.103.93.50.1173263154.squirrel@maps.hostgis.com>

I'm trying to write a Win32 service. The following is straight from Python
Programming on Win32 and it doesn't work. Is that book out of date; is
there a new way to do services? I searched Google for hours trying to find
any other method, and have been beating on this one for 5 more hours.

The present error is:

C:\Tester>python tester.py debug
Debugging service Tester - press Ctrl+C to stop.
Error 0xC0000004 - Python could not import the service's module

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named service


The code is:

import win32serviceutil, win32service, win32event

class Service(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
    _svc_name_         = "EDMS-to-CG"
    _svc_display_name_ = "EDMS-to-CG Syncer"
    _svc_description_  = "Uploaded the EDMS database to Cartograph"

    def __init__(self, args):
        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
        self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)

    def SvcStop(self):
        self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
        win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)

    def SvcDoRun(self):
        pausetime = 60 * 1000
        while True:
            stopsignal = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop,
pausetime)
            if stopsignal == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0: break
            self.runOneLoop()

    def runOneLoop(self):
        import servicemanager
        servicemanager.LogInfoMsg('Running')

win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(Service)



From rwupole at msn.com  Wed Mar  7 13:20:26 2007
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 07:20:26 -0500
Subject: [python-win32]  Re: How to build a Windows service using win32?
Message-ID: <002401c760b2$fe6b2b70$0100a8c0@rupole>

Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> I'm trying to write a Win32 service. The following is straight from Python
> Programming on Win32 and it doesn't work. Is that book out of date; is
> there a new way to do services? I searched Google for hours trying to find
> any other method, and have been beating on this one for 5 more hours.
> 
> The present error is:
> 
> C:\Tester>python tester.py debug
> Debugging service Tester - press Ctrl+C to stop.
> Error 0xC0000004 - Python could not import the service's module
> 
> <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named service
> 
> 
> The code is:
> 
> import win32serviceutil, win32service, win32event
> 
> class Service(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework):
>    _svc_name_         = "EDMS-to-CG"
>    _svc_display_name_ = "EDMS-to-CG Syncer"
>    _svc_description_  = "Uploaded the EDMS database to Cartograph"
> 
>    def __init__(self, args):
>        win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args)
>        self.hWaitStop = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None)
> 
>    def SvcStop(self):
>        self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING)
>        win32event.SetEvent(self.hWaitStop)
> 
>    def SvcDoRun(self):
>        pausetime = 60 * 1000
>        while True:
>            stopsignal = win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.hWaitStop,
> pausetime)
>            if stopsignal == win32event.WAIT_OBJECT_0: break
>            self.runOneLoop()
> 
>    def runOneLoop(self):
>        import servicemanager
>        servicemanager.LogInfoMsg('Running')
> 
> win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(Service)

The HandleCommandLine is getting executed within the service itself,
but it should only get executed when configuring the service.
Try this instead:

if __name__=='__main__':
    win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(Service)

          hth
                Roger


From bruce at brucewebber.us  Wed Mar  7 21:59:35 2007
From: bruce at brucewebber.us (Bruce Webber)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:59:35 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] PID of a process created by
 win32com.client.Dispatch()
In-Reply-To: <45EDB196.2000307@probo.com>
References: <200703060201.l2621DcW026272@rs34.luxsci.com>
	<45EDB196.2000307@probo.com>
Message-ID: <89888FD2BADAB4F2D143E7D4@[10.9.30.130]>

--Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Bruce Webber wrote:
>> I've written a program which automates the running of Business Objects
>> (a query generator and reporting tool). The command which creates the
>> process (and the corresponding Python object) is:
>>
>> boApp = win32com.client.Dispatch('BusinessObjects.Application')
>>
>> This works fine, and I have successfully run the application. However,
>> sometimes the Business Objects process hangs (perhaps because the query
>> takes too long or perhaps due to some error in my code) and I would like
>> to kill the process in Task Manager. If I am running this on my PC, it's
>> easy to identify the process to kill. If, however, I'm running this on a
>> server and there are other Business Objects processes running I cannot
>> tell which process to end.
>>
>> Upon calling Dispatch() I would like to log the PID of the process, so
>> if I have to kill, I would know which one.
>>
>> Is there a way to do this? (I have looked through the Python for Windows
>> documentation and searched on the web, but have not found any answers.)
>
> This is tricky.  Remember that win32com.client.Dispatch doesn't actually
> know whether the COM server is in-process (meaning a DLL within the
> current process) or out-of-process (meaning a separate executable).
> That's all hidden by COM.  When you talk to the boApp object, you're
> just calling into an object in your address space.  The fact that the
> object is just a proxy that calls into another process is a COM detail
> that is hidden from view.
>
> Do you have the object model for BusinessObjects?  If you are lucky,
> perhaps their object model includes a "get process ID" property.  If
> not, I'm not convinced there is a way to map a COM object to a process
> ID, and some Google searching did not come up with an answer.

Tim,

Thanks for the response.

I do have the object model for BusinessObjects but there is no property or 
method that provides the process ID. Since my company has a support 
contract with them, and since they do provide the object model as part of 
their SDK, I will contact them and ask if there is some undocumented way of 
doing it.

-- 
Bruce Webber
bruce at brucewebber.us
http://brucewebber.us

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar  7 23:12:22 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:12:22 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] send function handler to COM/Jscript ?
In-Reply-To: <000801c7609a$a8508db0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>
Message-ID: <03ad01c76105$ae60aad0$070a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I drive Internet-Explorer, with win32com.client.Dispatch
>
> It's run very well.
> Among other things,  I can "attach" (with =) jscript function
> (content in
> HTML page) to a Python object, callable, and I use it, in
> Python's script
> (like a Python function).
...
> Somebody has a track of solution?

You need to pass a pythoncom object that handled DISPID_VALUE.
Theoretically, you should just be able to implement a 'normal' pythoncom
object, but include a method called '_value_' - this should be called by JS.
You may need to register your object for debugging so you can track exactly
what JS is doing to your object, and when.

Sorry this remains vague, but I hope it helps anyway.

Mark


From trentm at activestate.com  Fri Mar  9 02:50:56 2007
From: trentm at activestate.com (Trent Mick)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:50:56 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] suggested change to pywintypes.py for non-admin
	install
Message-ID: <45F0BD80.8050304@activestate.com>

Mark and others,

For a non-admin install pywintypesXY.dll and pythoncomXY.dll cannot be put in
the system directory. The typical alternative is to put them in the install
dir, next to python.exe. "pywintypes.py" is setup to know how to find it when
doing either of:

     import pywintypes
     import pythoncom

However, doing any of (and similar):

     import win32api
     from win32com.shell import shell

fails. You have to do one of the former first.

If however we put the system DLLs next to win32api.pyd et al (and update 
pywintypes.py to look there) then those imports work. The win32comext imports 
seems to work too because "win32api" will have been imported by then.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Trent


--- pywin32/win32/Lib/pywintypes.py.original	Tue Mar 06 09:34:49 2007
+++ pywin32/win32/Lib/pywintypes.py	Thu Mar 08 17:26:44 2007
@@ -85,9 +85,17 @@
              # This is most likely to happen for "non-admin" installs, where
              # we can't put the files anywhere else on the global path.

-            # If there is a version in our Python directory, use that
-            if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(sys.prefix, filename)):
-                found = os.path.join(sys.prefix, filename)
+            # If there is a version in our Python directory or next to
+            # win32api.pyd, use that
+            candidates = [
+                os.path.join(sys.prefix, filename),
+                os.path.join(sys.prefix, "Lib", "site-packages", "win32",
+                             filename),
+            ]
+            for candidate in candidates:
+                if os.path.isfile(candidate):
+                    found = candidate
+                    break
          if found is None:
              # give up in disgust.
              raise ImportError, \


-- 
Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri Mar  9 04:53:47 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:53:47 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] suggested change to pywintypes.py for
	non-admininstall
In-Reply-To: <45F0BD80.8050304@activestate.com>
Message-ID: <014301c761fe$8ad76d70$070a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Mark and others,
>
> For a non-admin install pywintypesXY.dll and pythoncomXY.dll
> cannot be put in
> the system directory. The typical alternative is to put them
> in the install
> dir, next to python.exe. "pywintypes.py" is setup to know how
> to find it when
> doing either of:
>
>      import pywintypes
>      import pythoncom
>
> However, doing any of (and similar):
>
>      import win32api
>      from win32com.shell import shell
>
> fails. You have to do one of the former first.

Yeah - that sucks.  I actually wasn't aware it did it for a normal Python
non-admin install (although if I thought more about when I had seen it, I
should have worked it out!)

> If however we put the system DLLs next to win32api.pyd et al
> (and update
> pywintypes.py to look there) then those imports work. The
> win32comext imports
> seems to work too because "win32api" will have been imported by then.

That sounds OK I guess - not actually *good*, but sounds like it will be an
improvement (and I can't see the "good" answer).  It will not help someone
who does 'import customwin32' (ie, their own module linked against
pywintypes), but OTOH, the change would not make it *more* broken for them
than it already is.

We'd need a change to win32_postinstall.py to remove an existing copy from
the old location too I guess, just to be safe.  Now might not be a bad time
either - build 210 has proven to be stable and a large number of changes
have been checked into CVS since then (notably Roger's 64bit work).  This
means I'll probably declare build 211 as 'beta quality' and recommend people
do not update critical systems, so a change like this could also bake there
to see if it has legs.

I welcome all other comments though.

Cheers,

Mark


From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Mar  9 06:53:44 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 00:53:44 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] The Wiki is Ready
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703082153m5626b764xa8e3f22ea83c238a@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Everyone!

The Wiki is ready!
(Had to get to the point!) =)
If anyone has any questions,comments,complaints,suggestions  please email
them to me!

Thanks

James

-- 
http://www.goldwatches.com/watches.asp?Brand=39
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From trentm at activestate.com  Fri Mar  9 18:28:57 2007
From: trentm at activestate.com (Trent Mick)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:28:57 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] suggested change to pywintypes.py for
	non-admininstall
In-Reply-To: <014301c761fe$8ad76d70$070a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <014301c761fe$8ad76d70$070a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <45F19959.20906@activestate.com>

Mark Hammond wrote:
>> Mark and others,
>>
>> For a non-admin install pywintypesXY.dll and pythoncomXY.dll
>> cannot be put in
>> the system directory. The typical alternative is to put them
>> in the install
>> dir, next to python.exe. "pywintypes.py" is setup to know how
>> to find it when
>> doing either of:
>>
>>      import pywintypes
>>      import pythoncom
>>
>> However, doing any of (and similar):
>>
>>      import win32api
>>      from win32com.shell import shell
>>
>> fails. You have to do one of the former first.
> 
> Yeah - that sucks.  I actually wasn't aware it did it for a normal Python
> non-admin install (although if I thought more about when I had seen it, I
> should have worked it out!)
> 
>> If however we put the system DLLs next to win32api.pyd et al
>> (and update
>> pywintypes.py to look there) then those imports work. The
>> win32comext imports
>> seems to work too because "win32api" will have been imported by then.
> 
> That sounds OK I guess - not actually *good*, but sounds like it will be an
> improvement (and I can't see the "good" answer).  It will not help someone
> who does 'import customwin32' (ie, their own module linked against
> pywintypes), but OTOH, the change would not make it *more* broken for them
> than it already is.

Now I'm not sure. I've tried this (in an ActivePython build) and having 
pywintypes25.dll and pythoncom25.dll next to win32api.pyd causes Pythonwin.exe 
startup to fail because a simple:
	import win32ui
fails with the system DLLs is *either* location unless you do:
(a) "import pythoncom" (or any of the others that work) first; and/or
(b) put the dir with the system DLLs on your PATH:

> C:\>C:\Python25\python.exe -c "import win32ui"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
> 
> C:\>set PATH=C:\Python25;%PATH%
> 
> C:\>C:\Python25\python.exe -c "import win32ui"


So... I'm not longer sure my suggestion is a good one. If the system DLLs are 
left in the install dir then telling the user to "put the Python install dir 
on your PATH" would be a sufficient solution to getting *all* the PyWin32 
imports to just work.

Given that my suggestion is no panacea, perhaps it is better to just leave it 
at status quo and tell the user about the requirement to update their PATH.

Thoughts?

Trent

-- 
Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com

From oboingo at gmail.com  Fri Mar  9 19:08:57 2007
From: oboingo at gmail.com (Boingo)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:08:57 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Works in VB, not in Python?
Message-ID: <cabf7a7a0703091008u967d4bdvcdf651b1e2133e41@mail.gmail.com>

Hello there,

I am a bit new to PyWin32, but not new to Python.  I am new to the COM
object I am trying to work with though.  I have code that works in VB
to access a COM object, but similar code in Python is not working.  I
am pretty sure I am doing something wrong.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.  The VB code is:

----------------------------------------------------
Set oScript = CreateObject ("ProvideX.Script")
oScript.Init("C:\\Program Files\\Sage Software\\MAS 90\\Version4\\MAS90\\Home")

' Set the user for the Session
Set oSS = oScript.NewObject("SY_Session")
r = oSS.nLogon()
If r=0 Then
    ' Please remember to replace the usercode, password with valid info
    r = oss.nSetUser("xxx","xxx")
End If
-----------------------------------------------------

There is more code then that, but I can't even get that far in the
Python code.  The Python so far is:

-----------------------------------------------------
>>> import win32com.client
>>> oScript = win32com.client.Dispatch("ProvideX.Script")
>>> oScript
<win32com.gen_py.ProvideX OLE Server Library.IScript instance at 0x18439184>
>>> oScript.Init("C:\\Program Files\\Sage Software\\MAS
90\\Version4\\MAS90\\Home")
>>> dir(oScript)
['AddNamedObject', 'CLSID', 'DeleteNamedObject', 'Evaluate',
'Execute', 'Init', 'NewObject', 'Parameter', 'Reset', 'Run',
'SetParameter', '_ApplyTypes_', '__cmp__', '__doc__', '__getattr__',
'__init__', '__module__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',
'_get_good_object_', '_get_good_single_object_', '_oleobj_',
'_prop_map_get_', '_prop_map_put_', 'coclass_clsid']
>>> oSS = oScript.NewObject("SY_Session")
>>> oSS
<win32com.gen_py.ProvideX OLE Server Library.IPvxDispatch instance at
0x18581224>
>>> dir(oSS)
['CLSID', 'DropObject', '_ApplyTypes_', '__cmp__', '__doc__',
'__getattr__', '__init__', '__module__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',
'_get_good_object_', '_get_good_single_object_', '_oleobj_',
'_prop_map_get_', '_prop_map_put_', 'coclass_clsid']
>>> login = oSS.nLogon()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 454, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
(repr(self), attr)
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.ProvideX OLE Server
Library.IPvxDispatch instance at 0x18581224>' object has no attribute
'nLogon'
>>> l = oSS.SetUser("xxx","xxx")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
line 454, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError, "'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
(repr(self), attr)
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.ProvideX OLE Server
Library.IPvxDispatch instance at 0x18581224>' object has no attribute
'SetUser'
---------------------------------------

Even though the dir(oSS) command shows that list, when I type oSS. in
the interactive window, the popup of options lists more options, as
does the COM browser.  When I try these options in the interactive
window, I get the same as above... "object has no attribute".  What is
VB doing that Python isnt?  Any help that anyone could give would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

From timr at probo.com  Fri Mar  9 20:32:04 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:32:04 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] Works in VB, not in Python?
In-Reply-To: <cabf7a7a0703091008u967d4bdvcdf651b1e2133e41@mail.gmail.com>
References: <cabf7a7a0703091008u967d4bdvcdf651b1e2133e41@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45F1B634.70208@probo.com>

Boingo wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I am a bit new to PyWin32, but not new to Python.  I am new to the COM
> object I am trying to work with though.  I have code that works in VB
> to access a COM object, but similar code in Python is not working.  I
> am pretty sure I am doing something wrong.

Not necessarily...

Success depends on how the object itself is implemented.  COM objects
can be implemented as "early bound", where the types and methods are
known at compile time, or "late bound", where the types and methods can
all be determined at run-time, or both.  PythonCom only works with
object that support late binding.

Have you tried running "makepy" on the ProvideX type library?  If you're
running Pythonwin, makepy is on the tools menu.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  The VB code is:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Set oScript = CreateObject ("ProvideX.Script")
> oScript.Init("C:\\Program Files\\Sage Software\\MAS 90\\Version4\\MAS90\\Home")
>
> ' Set the user for the Session
> Set oSS = oScript.NewObject("SY_Session")
> r = oSS.nLogon()
> If r=0 Then
>     ' Please remember to replace the usercode, password with valid info
>     r = oss.nSetUser("xxx","xxx")
> End If
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> There is more code then that, but I can't even get that far in the
> Python code.

You don't show how the objects are declared.  If you have
    Dim oSS as Object
then it's probably using late binding, and you should be able to make it
work in Python.  If it says:
    Dim oSS As ProvideX.IPvxDispatch
or something similarly specific, then it may be using early binding.


> Even though the dir(oSS) command shows that list, when I type oSS. in
> the interactive window, the popup of options lists more options, as
> does the COM browser.

Well, the interactive browser learns gets its list of suggestions
partially from the code you have previously executed.  When you type
oSS.nLogon, it's going to remember that as a suggestion for later.

There also may be a method/property confusion, but I don't remember how
to deal with that, but I'm sure Mark will reply.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon Mar 12 15:10:40 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:10:40 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] uAnn: active directory module
Message-ID: <45F55F60.3050606@timgolden.me.uk>

After a hiatus of about 18 months, I've finally done a bit of work on my 
active_directory module. There's nothing too radical, but I hope I've 
made things a bit easier for some people. Treat this release as a bit 
experimental, but it is functioning ok for me.

One area I'm very weak in is multiple domains / trees / forests, 
basically because we don't use them, so it's hard to test things.

http://timgolden.me.uk/python/active_directory.html

Principal Changes:

+ I've added a load more text on the web page

+ There are module and object-level convenience functions
for finding a user, group, computer, ou and public folder. I hope this 
will meet a lot of simple needs which people have. Suggestions for 
further convenience functions will be favourably received!

+ Many of the AD object properties are wrapped, making reading them 
easier. I intend to do something to make writing back easier, but 
haven't yet. (You can already set properties if you know what you're doing).

+ There's an experimental .walk method on the _AD_group object, which 
mimics the os.walk interface, returning group, groups, users for each 
group in the list. This was inspired by some code which Dirk Hagemann 
sent me absolutely ages ago. (Sorry!)

+ The AD_object call is now a factory function, doing intelligent
things with either a path string ("LDAP://...") or an existing
AD COM object.

As it happens, I don't have all that much use for this module myself, so 
I'm very grateful to everyone who comes up with use-cases and "Is it 
possible to...?" questions which spur me on to better understanding.

TJG

From jose at cybergalvez.com  Mon Mar 12 21:50:12 2007
From: jose at cybergalvez.com (jose at cybergalvez.com)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:50:12 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] eggs and pythonservices
Message-ID: <20070312135012.793903d9610815a5b69d8e8c16c4233d.42f3454acf.wbe@email.secureserver.net>

Dear win32 experts

I am trying to write a win32 service for a paste/pylons application
which works well from the command line, however if I try to make it
into a service the application can no longer find "eggs" that it needs.
 I'm including the command line program (which works) and the winservice
(which noes not work) hopping that someone can point me the right
direction.  One that that I'm doing to complicate things is the eggs it
needs to find are not installed in the usual place, which for the
command line program simply means manipulating sys.path, however doing
the same thing for the windows service does not have the same result.

Any and all help is appreciated

Jose
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From njp at njp.us  Mon Mar 12 22:31:31 2007
From: njp at njp.us (Norm Petterson)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:31:31 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] eggs and pythonservices
In-Reply-To: <20070312135012.793903d9610815a5b69d8e8c16c4233d.42f3454acf.wbe@email.secureserver.net>
References: <20070312135012.793903d9610815a5b69d8e8c16c4233d.42f3454acf.wbe@email.secureserver.net>
Message-ID: <9670a730703121431r3a6fc275s8373e63efad1618d@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/12/07, jose at cybergalvez.com <jose at cybergalvez.com> wrote:
>
> Dear win32 experts
>
> I am trying to write a win32 service for a paste/pylons application
> which works well from the command line, however if I try to make it
> into a service the application can no longer find "eggs" that it needs.
> I'm including the command line program (which works) and the winservice
> (which noes not work) hopping that someone can point me the right
> direction.  One that that I'm doing to complicate things is the eggs it
> needs to find are not installed in the usual place, which for the
> command line program simply means manipulating sys.path, however doing
> the same thing for the windows service does not have the same result.
>
> Any and all help is appreciated



I usually put something like:

os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))

in the initialization of my service and reference other files (like config
files and log files) by relative directory locations:

opts = LoadConfig('../conf/server.cfg')       # Fetch server options

This works on any platform I use (win32 service or linux daemon).

HTH,

Norm

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From jose at cybergalvez.com  Mon Mar 12 23:08:16 2007
From: jose at cybergalvez.com (jose at cybergalvez.com)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:08:16 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] eggs and pythonservices
Message-ID: <20070312150816.793903d9610815a5b69d8e8c16c4233d.2f58729fcc.wbe@email.secureserver.net>

can sites be manipulated within a service? I tried to use
site.addsitedir to add the correct eggs to my project but that failed
Jose


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] eggs and pythonservices
> From: "Norm Petterson" <njp at njp.us>
> Date: Mon, March 12, 2007 2:31 pm
> To: "jose at cybergalvez.com" <jose at cybergalvez.com>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/12/07, jose at cybergalvez.com <jose at cybergalvez.com> wrote: Dear win32 experts
> 
> I am trying to write a win32 service for a paste/pylons application 
> which works well from the command line, however if I try to make it
> into a service the application can no longer find "eggs" that it needs.
>  I'm including the command line program (which works) and the winservice 
> (which noes not work) hopping that someone can point me the right
> direction.  One that that I'm doing to complicate things is the eggs it
> needs to find are not installed in the usual place, which for the
>  command line program simply means manipulating sys.path, however doing
> the same thing for the windows service does not have the same result.
> 
> Any and all help is appreciated
> 
> I usually put something like: 
> 
> os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
> 
> in the initialization of my service and reference other files (like config files and log files) by relative directory locations:
> 
> opts = LoadConfig('../conf/server.cfg')       # Fetch server options 
> 
> This works on any platform I use (win32 service or linux daemon).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Norm
>  
> _______________________________________________
>  Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>  
> 
> 
>  


From rwupole at msn.com  Tue Mar 13 04:48:40 2007
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:48:40 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Dependencies returned from
	win32service.QueryServiceConfig
Message-ID: <000801c76522$7e85f470$0100a8c0@rupole>

There's currently a bug in win32service.QueryServiceConfig.
Dependencies are returned as a single string containing only
the first dependency.  I'm planning on changing it to return the
dependencies as a list of unicode strings.

Unfortunately, this will break code that's using that one dependency.
Apologies in advance.   At least the breakage can serve an an indicator
where code wasn't getting complete results previously.

        Roger




From andrea.gavana at gmail.com  Tue Mar 13 12:15:47 2007
From: andrea.gavana at gmail.com (Andrea Gavana)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:15:47 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Drag and Drop from Outlook
Message-ID: <d5ff27200703130415j4c5868d5ucefce43053d3410c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

    I am trying to make my application accepting drag and drop emails
from Outlook. I was told on the wxPython mailing list to try to use
win32com, but actually I have no idea which clipboard data format an
Outlook email has. I have tried to set up a custom drop target for
that:

class MyDropTarget(wx.PyDropTarget):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.PyDropTarget.__init__(self)

        self.data = wx.CustomDataObject("Outlook Express Messages")
        self.SetDataObject(self.data)

But my app doesn't recongnize it with the identifier "Outlook Express
Messages". I don't know almost anything about win32com, so I am
asking: is there a way to do what I am trying to do with win32com?
Does anyone know which is the clipboard data format for a dragged
Outlook message?

Thank you for your suggestions.

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/

From wedgeandlever at gmail.com  Tue Mar 13 12:31:25 2007
From: wedgeandlever at gmail.com (Wedge & Lever)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:31:25 -0800
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe all of it
Message-ID: <18c037f80703130431t4d623ee8u4435f890fe222dcd@mail.gmail.com>

Update in case anybody else wants the info:

** Caveat - I've only tried this on XP Professional

If you copy the files from your python installation (i.e. C:\Python24), and
try to run python.exe on a machine where python is not installed, you get
errors for a few .dll files not found.  Copy them into the same folder as
python.exe, and you're in business (I think this is specific to how XP
handles .dll's)

PyWin32 also has at least 1 .dll which must be copied in as well to work.

Having done this, I was up and running with everything under \Lib, including
site-packages.  Copying the wxpython docs and demos, however, only mostly
worked.  Some of the 'deeper' modules wouldn't import (like the Flash window
as an ActiveX control).  At that point I did a lot of reading about how the
import statement works 'under the hood', how windows associates file
extensions to programs, environment variables, etc...

I don't think I can summarize all of that stuff very well.  It's very
interesting if you find such things interesting.

I have gone into windows explorer, chose Tools->Folder Options -> (don't
remember exactly from here and this definately depends on Windows version),
set .py files to go to pythonw.exe, and that has everything working with a
double click, even the funky wxpython demo stuff.

Long story short (and these are educated guesses until I do some more
tinkering) - I believe:

1. A windows user without admin authority cannot run an installer, or edit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

2. A windows user without admin authority can edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER.  (When
you pick what program should open .mp3 files, that's writing here)

3. Whenever Windows cares about anything that would be in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is checked first (I'm not very sure
how universal this is, but it is definately true sometimes at least)

4. Installers typically write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, the Python installers
choice between install for all users or install just for me is really
letting you choose between HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT _USER.

5. Through regedit, you can export any piece of the registry, or the whole
thing.  The output is essentially text.

6.  By comparing snapshots of the registry before and after an install, you
can find all keys an installer added / deleted / edited

7. IF (and it's a big if) my set of assumptions are correct, I can write a
utility to 'watch' an install, translating the local machine keys to current
user keys.  I can also write a utility to use that output to make any
installed program 'portable'.  It would check for the appropriate keys
first, and add them if needed, mapping the paths based on it's own
location. There's probably even a way to have these keys removed with the
next system shutdown.  At that point, anything could live on a CD or USB
drive, waiting for you to pop it into any arbitrary windows machine and run
it.

I'm pretty happy with results so far.  I have Python on a shared network
drive living on a file and print server, but I can run scripts from machines
where I'm not an admin without installing after 10 - 20 seconds of setup.  I
will keep tinkering (and reporting results) though.  At this point it's
worth it as a learning exercise.  I've learned as much about Windows and
Python internals in the past few weeks as I had in the past few years.

Hope somebody finds this helpful, and input is appreciated as always!
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From python at kareta.de  Tue Mar 13 12:48:43 2007
From: python at kareta.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Kareta?=)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:48:43 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Drag and Drop from Outlook
In-Reply-To: <d5ff27200703130415j4c5868d5ucefce43053d3410c@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d5ff27200703130415j4c5868d5ucefce43053d3410c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45F68F9B.3070905@kareta.de>

Andrea Gavana schrieb:

>Hi All,
>
>    I am trying to make my application accepting drag and drop emails
>from Outlook. I was told on the wxPython mailing list to try to use
>win32com, but actually I have no idea which clipboard data format an
>Outlook email has. I have tried to set up a custom drop target for
>that:
>
>class MyDropTarget(wx.PyDropTarget):
>    def __init__(self):
>        wx.PyDropTarget.__init__(self)
>
>        self.data = wx.CustomDataObject("Outlook Express Messages")
>        self.SetDataObject(self.data)
>
>But my app doesn't recongnize it with the identifier "Outlook Express
>Messages". I don't know almost anything about win32com, so I am
>asking: is there a way to do what I am trying to do with win32com?
>Does anyone know which is the clipboard data format for a dragged
>Outlook message?
>
>Thank you for your suggestions.
>
>Andrea.
>
>"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
>http://xoomer.virgilio.it/infinity77/
>_______________________________________________
>Python-win32 mailing list
>Python-win32 at python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
>  
>
Hi Andrea,

again as I told you on the wxpython ml I think it is not that easy. You 
have to use Extended Mapi to do that. At least Dmitry Streblechenko, the 
developer of OutlookSpy(really nice tool which uses a lot of mapi 
functions) confirms that. See:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1854594.php

Regards,
J?rgen
 

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue Mar 13 14:28:02 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:28:02 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Drag and Drop from Outlook
In-Reply-To: <45F68F9B.3070905@kareta.de>
Message-ID: <05cf01c76573$6dc17d70$070a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> >    I am trying to make my application accepting drag and drop emails
> >from Outlook. I was told on the wxPython mailing list to try to use
> >win32com, but actually I have no idea which clipboard data format an
> >Outlook email has. I have tried to set up a custom drop target for
> >that:
> >
> >class MyDropTarget(wx.PyDropTarget):
> >    def __init__(self):
> >        wx.PyDropTarget.__init__(self)
> >
> >        self.data = wx.CustomDataObject("Outlook Express Messages")
> >        self.SetDataObject(self.data)
> >
> >But my app doesn't recongnize it with the identifier "Outlook Express
> >Messages".
...

> again as I told you on the wxpython ml I think it is not that
> easy. You
> have to use Extended Mapi to do that. At least Dmitry
> Streblechenko, the
> developer of OutlookSpy(really nice tool which uses a lot of mapi
> functions) confirms that. See:
> http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1854594.php

There also appears to be some confusion re 'Outlook' and 'Outlook Express',
which are quite different beasts.  If it really is 'Outlook Express', then
I'm afraid neither win32com nor the OutlookSpy reference above are going to
be any help.  I'm not aware of any Python tools that will help with Outlook
express (or indeed any free tools at all!)

FWIW, the win32clipboard module should let you get the clipboard data as a
binary blob (and win32com.mapi does wrap extended mapi), but I'm not sure
that will help you either.

Good luck,

Mark


From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 14 01:51:15 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:15 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Can't post to the list- who is the admin?
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703131751x49dec844jecb62eff38996c80@mail.gmail.com>

I've been trying to post messages for a few days now- I keep getting
replies telling me my messages are being held.

I've verified that I am subscribed with this address, and I did not
post the messages to the sub/ubsub  address.

Who is the admin?

thanks

From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 14 02:10:39 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:10:39 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32con
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703131810t4f53930dh5137692c13f1553f@mail.gmail.com>

Is it an oversight that the win32con module is not listed in the
PythonWin help- even as of 2.5 ?

From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 14 02:14:34 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:14:34 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] How to detect User pressing escape,
	or clicking cancel in call to win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW()
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703131814w7d9dc76fqd6ab47ccb98238ff@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to understand how to detect a user pressing Escape, or
clicking on Cancel when win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() is called.

When I press escape when the FileOpen dialogue is present, I see the
following error with Python2.5/PWin32 Build 210

error: (0, 'GetOpenFileNameW', 'No error message is available')

Would someone explain what this means, or how to detect the above situations?

My call looks like this


filter='Patches'
        customfilter='All Files'
        unicodeFilenames=None
        unicodeFilenames, customfilter, flags =
win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW(Filter=filter,
        CustomFilter=customfilter,
        FilterIndex=1,
        File='*.pch',
        InitialDir=os.getcwd(),
        Title='Select Input Files',
        Flags=win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER,
        DefExt='.pch')

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 14 02:16:24 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:16:24 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Can't post to the list- who is the admin?
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0703131751x49dec844jecb62eff38996c80@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <000701c765d6$629afe40$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I've been trying to post messages for a few days now- I keep getting
> replies telling me my messages are being held.
>
> I've verified that I am subscribed with this address, and I did not
> post the messages to the sub/ubsub  address.
>
> Who is the admin?

I believe the admin is Itamar Shtull-Trauring (CCd), who initially set the
list up many years ago after chatting to me at a pycon.  I haven't seen
Itamar around for a while, so maybe this has dropped off his priorities.

Itamar - if you are no longer active here, would you be willing to pass the
admin on to someone else?  Any volunteers on the pywin32 list for the admin
role?  I've plenty enough to manage as it is :)

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 14 02:17:49 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:17:49 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] win32con
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0703131810t4f53930dh5137692c13f1553f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <000801c765d6$963aef80$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Is it an oversight that the win32con module is not listed in the
> PythonWin help- even as of 2.5 ?

Yes.  It is also a side-effect of the doc building process - as win32con has
no autoduck markup it is skipped.  It should be possible to generate docs
for this module using the same technique we use to build the ISAPI docs, by
introspecting the module contents - but as yet this hasn't been done.  As
always, contributions welcome.

Cheers,

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 14 02:37:30 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:37:30 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] How to detect User pressing escape,
	or clicking cancel in call to win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW()
In-Reply-To: <8249c4ac0703131814w7d9dc76fqd6ab47ccb98238ff@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <001a01c765d9$55029650$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> I'm trying to understand how to detect a user pressing Escape, or
> clicking on Cancel when win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() is called.
>
> When I press escape when the FileOpen dialogue is present, I see the
> following error with Python2.5/PWin32 Build 210
>
> error: (0, 'GetOpenFileNameW', 'No error message is available')
>
> Would someone explain what this means, or how to detect the
> above situations?
>
> My call looks like this
>
>
> filter='Patches'
>         customfilter='All Files'
>         unicodeFilenames=None
>         unicodeFilenames, customfilter, flags =
> win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW(Filter=filter,
>         CustomFilter=customfilter,
>         FilterIndex=1,
>         File='*.pch',
>         InitialDir=os.getcwd(),
>         Title='Select Input Files',
>         Flags=win32con.OFN_ALLOWMULTISELECT|win32con.OFN_EXPLORER,
>         DefExt='.pch')

As currently implemented, you must detect cancel by trapping win32gui.error,
and checking the hresult is zero.  While this is slightly ugly, it is more
convenient than returning None, as in the usual case there are 3 return
values.  Returning (None, None, None) might have been possible, but was not
implemented, and I'm reluctant to change the semantics of the return value
in this case.  I'll document this.

Mark


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Wed Mar 14 09:37:20 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:37:20 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Can't post to the list- who is the admin?
In-Reply-To: <000701c765d6$629afe40$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <000701c765d6$629afe40$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <45F7B440.4020200@timgolden.me.uk>

Mark Hammond wrote:
>> I've been trying to post messages for a few days now- I keep getting
>> replies telling me my messages are being held.
>>
>> I've verified that I am subscribed with this address, and I did not
>> post the messages to the sub/ubsub  address.
>>
>> Who is the admin?
> 
> I believe the admin is Itamar Shtull-Trauring (CCd), who initially set the
> list up many years ago after chatting to me at a pycon.  I haven't seen
> Itamar around for a while, so maybe this has dropped off his priorities.
> 
> Itamar - if you are no longer active here, would you be willing to pass the
> admin on to someone else?  Any volunteers on the pywin32 list for the admin
> role?  I've plenty enough to manage as it is :)
> 
> Mark

I'm willing to help out on this. Although I don't really
know what degree of time/effort is required, I guess it's
not a lot. Ideally not alone: like most people I have
commitments of my own. I'm in the UK timezone so I suppose
that someone in another timezone would be helpful, too.

Let me know if I can be of use and how.

TJG

From nawalkg at esi-india.com  Wed Mar 14 11:16:37 2007
From: nawalkg at esi-india.com (Nawal)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:46:37 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Scintilla Code Folding
In-Reply-To: <eovgs0$48u$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <eoucgo$jka$1@sea.gmane.org>	<7.0.1.0.0.20070120231148.03e47cf8@yahoo.com.ar>
	<eovgs0$48u$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <45F7CB85.1070501@esi-india.com>

Hi all,

How is the code folding implemented in Python Win IDE? It uses the 
custom lexer for colorize but I can't see any code where the code 
folding logic is implemented.

Is ii using the inbuilt SCILex_PYTHON for code folding?

Regards,

Nawal



From python_nabble at fah-consulting.co.uk  Mon Mar  5 10:21:59 2007
From: python_nabble at fah-consulting.co.uk (new2com)
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 01:21:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [python-win32] COM works from IDLE but not when file executed from
 Windows Explorer
Message-ID: <9308083.post@talk.nabble.com>


Installed: Python25, pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe
Being new to COM, I have a simple question. When I execute the following
code from within IDLE, I hear the mp3 file played out but when I run the
file from Windows Explorer I get no sound (and no errors) ?

I'm sure the answer is very simple !

( http://www.nabble.com/file/6954/playFile.py playFile.py ):

from win32com.client import Dispatch

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
    tune = mp.newMedia('my_file.mp3')
    mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune)
    mp.controls.play()
    raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing")
    mp.controls.stop()

-- 
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/COM-works-from-IDLE-but-not-when-file-executed-from-Windows-Explorer-tf3347619.html#a9308083
Sent from the Python - python-win32 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


From Muthu_T at Dell.com  Tue Mar  6 17:16:21 2007
From: Muthu_T at Dell.com (Muthu_T at Dell.com)
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:46:21 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Microsoft VDS Interface in Python
Message-ID: <9924ACE3FD56024BAC2FC5E99B3CB6F75E5954@blrx3m02.blr.amer.dell.com>

Hi,
 
    Does python-win32 has API calls to VDS (Virtual Disk Service)
Service?
If not, how to implement one? 
 
Thanks & Regards,
T. Muthu Mohan
 
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From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Mar 12 07:06:59 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:06:59 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] How to detect User presseing escape,
	or clicking cancel in call to win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW()
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703112306q48a08c59u71f59df7b5eece52@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to understand how to detect a user pressing Escape, or
clicking on Cancel when
win32gui.GetOpenFileNameW() is called.

When I press escape when the FileOpen dialogue is present, I see the
following error with Python2.5/PWin32 Build 210

error: (0, 'GetOpenFileNameW', 'No error message is available')

Would someone explain what this means, or how to detect the above situatiions?

From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Mar 12 07:08:17 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:08:17 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32con
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703112308x681ab830ofa9df61464073bb9@mail.gmail.com>

Is it an oversight that the win32con constants are not listed in the
PythonWin help?

From sven.wikstrom at scania.com  Tue Mar 13 14:31:58 2007
From: sven.wikstrom at scania.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Wikstr=F6m_Sven?=)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:31:58 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing a COM-objects type name
Message-ID: <DC0819305D79164E8930AE64CFB9E9DD1EFB63@SeSoExMB05.scania.se>

Hi!

What is the most appropriate way to access a COM-objects type name in Python like Vbscript's "TypeName" function?

The concerned COM-objects are developed using .NET interop.
I have previously solved it, with .NET 1.1 COM-objects, by calling the COM exposed derived "System.Object.GetType()" method from Python. This is not possible after moving to .NET 2.0, as the "Type" only seem to have IUnknown (not Idispatch). Still works in Vbscript though with "TypeName"...!

>> dotNet11 = win32com.client.Dispatch("DotNet11.ComObject")
>> print dotNet11.GetType()
DotNet11.ComObject
>>
>> otherDotNet11 = dotNet11.CreateOther()
>> print otherDotNet11.GetType()
DotNet11.OtherComObject

>> dotNet20 = win32com.client.Dispatch("DotNet20.ComObject")
>> print dotNet20.GetType()
<COMObject DotNet20.ComObject>
>>
>> otherDotNet20 = dotNet20.CreateOther()
>> print otherDotNet20.GetType()
<COMObject CreateOther>

Thanks and best regards.

/Sven

From itamar at itamarst.org  Wed Mar 14 13:22:22 2007
From: itamar at itamarst.org (Itamar Shtull-Trauring)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:22:22 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] List moderation
Message-ID: <1173874943.9197.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

Apparently I broke moderation when I changed some of my spam settings.
Hopefully it's fixed now. I approved some emails from March, and
discarded pending messages from before that on the theory that posters
will have subscribed and re-posted.

My apologies, I am investigating ways to make this not happen in the
future

-- 
Itamar Shtull-Trauring
http://itamarst.org



From mark.m.mcmahon at gmail.com  Wed Mar 14 17:31:22 2007
From: mark.m.mcmahon at gmail.com (Mark Mc Mahon)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:31:22 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Microsoft VDS Interface in Python
In-Reply-To: <9924ACE3FD56024BAC2FC5E99B3CB6F75E5954@blrx3m02.blr.amer.dell.com>
References: <9924ACE3FD56024BAC2FC5E99B3CB6F75E5954@blrx3m02.blr.amer.dell.com>
Message-ID: <71b6302c0703140931y1d623ad1re41d44df3f0d9da2@mail.gmail.com>

Hi

On 3/6/07, Muthu_T at dell.com <Muthu_T at dell.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
>     Does python-win32 has API calls to VDS (Virtual Disk Service) Service?
> If not, how to implement one?
>

I don' t know the answer to this one (and I guess you have searched -
so no point in me doing it).

For the 2nd I would suggest looking at ctypes if the VDS API is made
up of functions exported from DLL's and if it is a COM API - then look
at win32com (part of pywin32).

Thanks
   MarkM

> Thanks & Regards,
> T. Muthu Mohan
>

From timr at probo.com  Wed Mar 14 17:41:17 2007
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:41:17 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] COM works from IDLE but not when file executed
 from Windows Explorer
In-Reply-To: <9308083.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <9308083.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <45F825AD.1090908@probo.com>

new2com wrote:
> Installed: Python25, pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe
> Being new to COM, I have a simple question. When I execute the following
> code from within IDLE, I hear the mp3 file played out but when I run the
> file from Windows Explorer I get no sound (and no errors) ?
>   

By "run the file from Windows Explorer", do you mean you double-click on
the icon?

> I'm sure the answer is very simple !
>
> ( http://www.nabble.com/file/6954/playFile.py playFile.py ):
>
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
>     tune = mp.newMedia('my_file.mp3')
>     mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune)
>     mp.controls.play()
>     raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing")
>     mp.controls.stop()

My guess is that you aren't in the same directory, so that "my_file.mp3"
is not found.  Explorer might be setting the starting directory to the
directory that contains python.exe (since that's what it is really
executing) instead of the directory with your script.

You might try providing the full path to the file, instead of just a
relative path.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


From 3dbernard at gmail.com  Wed Mar 14 18:21:50 2007
From: 3dbernard at gmail.com (Bernard Lebel)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:21:50 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] List moderation
In-Reply-To: <1173874943.9197.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1173874943.9197.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <61d0e2b40703141021p7688808buef551fbf8e8e1ad6@mail.gmail.com>

My announcement of pywin32 for x64, provided by Softimage, as a free
download, was refused with "no reason given". Could that be it?


Bernard




On 3/14/07, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apparently I broke moderation when I changed some of my spam settings.
> Hopefully it's fixed now. I approved some emails from March, and
> discarded pending messages from before that on the theory that posters
> will have subscribed and re-posted.
>
> My apologies, I am investigating ways to make this not happen in the
> future
>
> --
> Itamar Shtull-Trauring
> http://itamarst.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 14 23:19:56 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:19:56 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] COM works from IDLE but not when file executed
	from Windows Explorer
In-Reply-To: <9308083.post@talk.nabble.com>
Message-ID: <015701c76686$e61c65a0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Installed: Python25, pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe
> Being new to COM, I have a simple question. When I execute
> the following
> code from within IDLE, I hear the mp3 file played out but
> when I run the
> file from Windows Explorer I get no sound (and no errors) ?
>
> I'm sure the answer is very simple !
>
> ( http://www.nabble.com/file/6954/playFile.py playFile.py ):
>
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
>     tune = mp.newMedia('my_file.mp3')
>     mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune)
>     mp.controls.play()
>     raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing")
>     mp.controls.stop()

In addition to Tim's suggestion, try replacing the last 2 lines with:

    import pythoncom
    pythoncom.PumpMessages()

You will need to press Ctrl+C to terminate the script, but if the sound
plays, it means your original code does not have a message loop (while IDLE
does).  google for python and message loop and you should find lots of
messages with more detail.

Mark


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed Mar 14 23:20:45 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:20:45 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Scintilla Code Folding
In-Reply-To: <45F7CB85.1070501@esi-india.com>
Message-ID: <015801c76687$03348460$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> Hi all,
> 
> How is the code folding implemented in Python Win IDE? It uses the 
> custom lexer for colorize but I can't see any code where the code 
> folding logic is implemented.
> 
> Is ii using the inbuilt SCILex_PYTHON for code folding?

IIRC, the folding code is in C++ in the scintilla widget itself.

Mark


From gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar  Thu Mar 15 00:43:17 2007
From: gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar (Gabriel Genellina)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:43:17 -0300
Subject: [python-win32] COM works from IDLE but not when file executed
	from Windows Explorer
References: <9308083.post@talk.nabble.com> <45F825AD.1090908@probo.com>
Message-ID: <op.to7difv3x6zn5v@gabriel2.softlabbsas.com.ar>

En Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:41:17 -0300, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> escribi?:

>> if __name__ == "__main__":
>>     mp = Dispatch("WMPlayer.OCX")
>>     tune = mp.newMedia('my_file.mp3')
>>     mp.currentPlaylist.appendItem(tune)
>>     mp.controls.play()
>>     raw_input("Press Enter to stop playing")
>>     mp.controls.stop()
>
> My guess is that you aren't in the same directory, so that "my_file.mp3"
> is not found.  Explorer might be setting the starting directory to the
> directory that contains python.exe (since that's what it is really
> executing) instead of the directory with your script.
>
> You might try providing the full path to the file, instead of just a
> relative path.

In addition, you may obtain the directory where your script resides using:

import os
print os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

(I suggest computing that early on your program, because if the current  
directory changes, abspath will give a wrong result)

-- 
Gabriel Genellina


From sallas at tpg.com.au  Thu Mar 15 05:34:21 2007
From: sallas at tpg.com.au (sallas at tpg.com.au)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:34:21 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] LDAPS issues
Message-ID: <1173933261.45f8cccdcd7e9@postoffice.tpg.com.au>


I am trying to connect from a Windows machine to a Windows Active
Directory over LDAPS using Python and am getting what seems certificate
issues. I can connect fine over LDAP, but in submitting the following:

[CODE]
import sys
import ldap


def main():
    who = "username"
    cred = "password"
    try:
        ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR, "ldapsInt.pem")
        ld = ldap.initialize("ldaps://ldap.server:636")
        ld.simple_bind_s(who,cred)
        print "Successfully bound to server.\n"
        print "Searching..\n"
    except ldap.LDAPError, error_message:
        print "Couldn't Connect. %s " % error_message
if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()
[/CODE]
('ldap.server' is a dummy server name for display purposes)

I get the following error message:
Couldn't Connect. {'info': 'error:14090086:SSL
routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed', 'desc':
"Can't contact LDAP server"}

I have tried adding
'ldap.set_option(ldap.OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT,ldap.OPT_X_TLS_NEVER)', but
still get the same error. Port 636 has been verified as being opened. I
am using Python 2.4 as latest version isn't compatible with the ldap
library. No other libraries are installed.
The only thing I am dubious about is how to get the '.pem' file. As I
created the file from the ldap server certificate on a unix machine
using some openssl command (as the code will need to be finally
initiated from a Unix client), how do you do this on a Windows machine?
TIA.

From nawalkg at esi-india.com  Thu Mar 15 06:22:32 2007
From: nawalkg at esi-india.com (Nawal)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:52:32 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Scintilla Code Folding
In-Reply-To: <015801c76687$03348460$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
References: <015801c76687$03348460$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <45F8D818.2070909@esi-india.com>

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Mar 15 07:46:14 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:46:14 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] Scintilla Code Folding
In-Reply-To: <45F8D818.2070909@esi-india.com>
Message-ID: <01cc01c766cd$a0a427f0$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

I believe it is linked with the Python lexer, along with most others.  It
does use a custom formatter, but if I recall correctly, the folding is still
magically done by the C++ code.  I'm afraid it has been many years, so you
probably need to check out the scintilla source code for a better answer.

Mark
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-bounces at python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces at python.org]On Behalf Of Nawal
  Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 4:23 PM
  To: Mark Hammond
  Cc: Python-win32 at python.org
  Subject: Re: [python-win32] Scintilla Code Folding


  Dear Mark,

  Thank you  for the reply.

  Is Pyhone win editor is linked with SCILex_PYTHON? Is it using
  "FoldPyDoc" in LexPython.cxx

  As far I can understand from the code is  Python win is using
SCILex_CUSTOM
  so that in python level colorise code is implemented.

  But how is it enabled the fold logic which has been done in c++?

  Nawal



  Mark Hammond wrote:

Hi all,

How is the code folding implemented in Python Win IDE? It uses the
custom lexer for colorize but I can't see any code where the code
folding logic is implemented.

Is ii using the inbuilt SCILex_PYTHON for code folding?

IIRC, the folding code is in C++ in the scintilla widget itself.

Mark

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From johan.lindvall at gmail.com  Thu Mar 15 08:51:56 2007
From: johan.lindvall at gmail.com (Johan Lindvall)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:51:56 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] List moderation
In-Reply-To: <61d0e2b40703141021p7688808buef551fbf8e8e1ad6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1173874943.9197.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	<61d0e2b40703141021p7688808buef551fbf8e8e1ad6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <bab5abcd0703150051x5f72c7f2n91514fb0c522d7b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On 3/14/07, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard at gmail.com> wrote:
> My announcement of pywin32 for x64, provided by Softimage, as a free
> download, was refused with "no reason given". Could that be it?

Please resend the announcement. I have been looking for an x64-version
for quite some time.

-- 
/Johan.

From gregpinero at gmail.com  Fri Mar 16 16:28:30 2007
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:28:30 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] How to Tell Windows that a file Changed
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0703160828y3dcbc93ctc1759caad6cca909@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

Here's the situation, I'm hoping Python-win32 can help.

I have a program that puts files to be OCR'd into a directory where
Omnipage sees them and then performs OCR on them.  Everything was
working great, until yesterday when Omnipage stopped "seeing" files
added to the folder.

What's odd though is that if I manually place a file in the folder
Omnipage sees it.  So I'm wondering if I can use Python and (the
windows API) to tell the OS that I've placed a file in the folder?
(I'm on Windows 2000 professional if that matters)

Thanks in advance for any help or tips.

-Greg

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar 16 16:41:08 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:41:08 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] How to Tell Windows that a file Changed
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0703160828y3dcbc93ctc1759caad6cca909@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0703160828y3dcbc93ctc1759caad6cca909@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45FABA94.8040600@timgolden.me.uk>

Gregory Pi?ero wrote:

> I have a program that puts files to be OCR'd into a directory where
> Omnipage sees them and then performs OCR on them.  Everything was
> working great, until yesterday when Omnipage stopped "seeing" files
> added to the folder.
> 
> What's odd though is that if I manually place a file in the folder
> Omnipage sees it.  So I'm wondering if I can use Python and (the
> windows API) to tell the OS that I've placed a file in the folder?
> (I'm on Windows 2000 professional if that matters)

Well, it's bizarre behaviour for sure, but in case it helps you
might try the SHChangeNotify routine exposed in the pywin32
modules. It's one of those does-everything functions MS seems
to love. The docs, such as they are, are here:

http://tinyurl.com/f5olb
(msdn link)

but I suspect you'll have to poke around the web to find
examples of the parameters.

TJG


From gregpinero at gmail.com  Fri Mar 16 16:45:48 2007
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:45:48 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] How to Tell Windows that a file Changed
In-Reply-To: <45FABA94.8040600@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <312cfe2b0703160828y3dcbc93ctc1759caad6cca909@mail.gmail.com>
	<45FABA94.8040600@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0703160845j1427dce6g149e986fd69ce6fd@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/16/07, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Well, it's bizarre behaviour for sure, but in case it helps you
> might try the SHChangeNotify routine exposed in the pywin32
> modules. It's one of those does-everything functions MS seems
> to love. The docs, such as they are, are here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/f5olb
> (msdn link)
>
> but I suspect you'll have to poke around the web to find
> examples of the parameters.
>
Thanks for the advice Tim.  I'm looking at the docs now.  I'll send an
update on my progress.

-Greg

From nebpro at gmail.com  Fri Mar 16 16:54:23 2007
From: nebpro at gmail.com (Ben)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:54:23 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] looking for pythonwin gui tutorials
Message-ID: <e5f41cb30703160854q2a33f6fbgb2ad4a99ef893a8e@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I have been using Python just for two weeks, and I feel very comfortable
with it. The only stumbling blocks is on learning to build gui with pywin
(pythonwin). Is there any good tutorials or good documentations out there ?
(I can not find any good one on the internet). I really appreciate for any
pointer where I can find a good tutorial about gui development with python.
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From ghankiewicz at rastertech.es  Fri Mar 16 17:46:10 2007
From: ghankiewicz at rastertech.es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:46:10 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] looking for pythonwin gui tutorials
In-Reply-To: <e5f41cb30703160854q2a33f6fbgb2ad4a99ef893a8e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e5f41cb30703160854q2a33f6fbgb2ad4a99ef893a8e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45FAC9D2.5020802@rastertech.es>

Ben wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Python just for two weeks, and I feel very 
> comfortable with it. The only stumbling blocks is on learning to build 
> gui with pywin (pythonwin). Is there any good tutorials or good 
> documentations out there ? (I can not find any good one on the 
> internet). I really appreciate for any pointer where I can find a good 
> tutorial about gui development with python.

I'm not sure if people tend to build GUIs just with pywin32. Usually 
they play with TK (comes with Python), wxPython (http://wxpython.org/), 
pyQT (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/), and other specialised 
GUI toolkits. Each of these comes with a good amount of documentation.

-- 
Rastertech Espa?a S.A.
	Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
/Jefe de Producto TeraVial/

C/ Perfumer?a 21. Nave I. Pol?gono industrial La Mina
28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid (Espa?a)
Tel. +34 918 467 390 (Ext.18) 	  *?*   	Fax +34 918 457 889
ghankiewicz at rastertech.es 	  *?*   	www.rastertech.es 
<http://www.rastertech.es/>

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From nytrokiss at gmail.com  Fri Mar 16 20:29:38 2007
From: nytrokiss at gmail.com (James Matthews)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:29:38 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] looking for pythonwin gui tutorials
In-Reply-To: <45FAC9D2.5020802@rastertech.es>
References: <e5f41cb30703160854q2a33f6fbgb2ad4a99ef893a8e@mail.gmail.com>
	<45FAC9D2.5020802@rastertech.es>
Message-ID: <8a6b8e350703161229q10b343c5j513c15c37920ef64@mail.gmail.com>

I use wxPython and really like it! There are some books for it and they
should have some info on there site

On 3/16/07, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <ghankiewicz at rastertech.es> wrote:
>
>  Ben wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Python just for two weeks, and I feel very comfortable
> with it. The only stumbling blocks is on learning to build gui with pywin
> (pythonwin). Is there any good tutorials or good documentations out there ?
> (I can not find any good one on the internet). I really appreciate for any
> pointer where I can find a good tutorial about gui development with python.
>
>
> I'm not sure if people tend to build GUIs just with pywin32. Usually they
> play with TK (comes with Python), wxPython (http://wxpython.org/), pyQT (
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/), and other specialised GUI
> toolkits. Each of these comes with a good amount of documentation.
>
> --
>   [image: Rastertech Espa?a S.A.]
>   Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
> *Jefe de Producto TeraVial*
>
> C/ Perfumer?a 21. Nave I. Pol?gono industrial La Mina
> 28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid (Espa?a)
>   Tel. +34 918 467 390 (Ext.18)   *?*   Fax +34 918 457 889
> ghankiewicz at rastertech.es   *?*   www.rastertech.es
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
>


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From gregpinero at gmail.com  Fri Mar 16 23:04:53 2007
From: gregpinero at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gregory_Pi=F1ero?=)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:04:53 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] How to Tell Windows that a file Changed
In-Reply-To: <312cfe2b0703160845j1427dce6g149e986fd69ce6fd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <312cfe2b0703160828y3dcbc93ctc1759caad6cca909@mail.gmail.com>
	<45FABA94.8040600@timgolden.me.uk>
	<312cfe2b0703160845j1427dce6g149e986fd69ce6fd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <312cfe2b0703161504t7153ed10u2d24be016e85d5fd@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/16/07, Gregory Pi?ero <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice Tim.  I'm looking at the docs now.  I'll send an
> update on my progress.
>

Ok, turns out it was easier just to have Omnipage running before I
moved the file, then it sees it.  But I'm sure I'll need this approach
one day anyway.

Thanks again for the help.

-Greg

From kf9150 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 17 08:30:02 2007
From: kf9150 at gmail.com (Kelie)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:30:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] odd problem with Microsoft Word
Message-ID: <loom.20070317T081955-537@post.gmane.org>

Hello,

The simple code shown below runs fine. It adds a custom document property to the
active word document. But as soon as i use makepy on the "Microsoft Office 11.0
Object Library (2.3)", i get an AttributeError when run the same code:
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Office 11.0 Object
Library.DocumentProperties instance at 0x28416160>' object has no attribute 'Add'

I tested a few times and the behavior is consistent. Btw, the code also runs
fine after i use makepy on the "Microsoft Word 11.0 Object Library (8.3)".
Because i wanted to access some constants which are common to Microsoft Office
applications, i tried use makepy on the office11 object library which seems to
be causing the problem. 

Btw, i'm using Office 2003 on WinXP pro. Thanks for you help.

kelie

import win32com.client
wdApp = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Word.Application")
doc = wdApp.ActiveDocument
doc.CustomDocumentProperties.Add("VarName", False, 4, "VarValue")
print "Done."


From jjjanse at home.nl  Sun Mar 18 10:16:20 2007
From: jjjanse at home.nl (JJJanse)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:16:20 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Vista's win32
Message-ID: <308C9A4F822E4CF38AED4866F400BD1D@pc2janj>

On WinXP I used to 

 

import win32api

import win32con

import win32event

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon

 

in order to call

exResult=shell.ShellExecuteEx(

 
lpFile=r"C:\Program Files\MLDownloader\MLDownloader.exe",

 
lpParameters="-MLD_daily",

 
nShow=win32con.SW_NORMAL,

 
fMask=shellcon.SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS

 
)

 

Now, I installed Vista 

Python 2.5 and Python2.5 pywin32-210

 

and get the exception: ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module
could not be found.

 

Is there a solution to this problem?

 

w.k.regards

Joost Janse

 

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From mc at mclaveau.com  Sun Mar 18 11:59:52 2007
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:59:52 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Vista's win32
References: <308C9A4F822E4CF38AED4866F400BD1D@pc2janj>
Message-ID: <000b01c7694c$8fadc6f0$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!

This is no a PyWin32 problem. It's a Vista resctriction.
You must configure your software, for give to rights of launch.

Your code run OK, for execute a(nother) software, in another directory (I 
had try).


@-salutations

Michel Claveau



From it at crummock.com  Sun Mar 18 12:20:45 2007
From: it at crummock.com (Ross McKerchar)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:20:45 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] odd problem with Microsoft Word
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070317T081955-537@post.gmane.org>
References: <loom.20070317T081955-537@post.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <45FD208D.2060606@crummock.com>

Kelie wrote:
> The simple code shown below runs fine. It adds a custom document property to the
> active word document. But as soon as i use makepy on the "Microsoft Office 11.0
> Object Library (2.3)", i get an AttributeError when run the same code:
> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.Microsoft Office 11.0 Object
> Library.DocumentProperties instance at 0x28416160>' object has no attribute 'Add'
>   
When you use early bound code everything becomes case sensitive when it 
wasn't before. Admmitedly, however 'Add' with an uppercase A does seem 
right for office.

Another less well documented difference I've found when using early 
binding is that keyword arguments work when they didn't before. I doubt 
it's relevant but worth bearing in mind.

HTH.

-ross




From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun Mar 18 21:03:21 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:03:21 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] screen size/resolution in win32 in python
In-Reply-To: <b32f02d10703181155h550e455esd6178df9a1309964@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1174225888.752421.56410@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com>	<45FD67B8.1040705@timgolden.me.uk>
	<b32f02d10703181155h550e455esd6178df9a1309964@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <45FD9B09.8000507@timgolden.me.uk>

[copying back to the list in case it's of more
general interest]

adrian villanustre wrote:
> Tim:
> 
> Tank you very much, that solve my problem (just one of them)
> BTW can you give me a good link related to python-win32 reference and use

The best reference, I'm afraid, is the .chm file which
comes with the pywin32 extensions. That and a lot of
experience. We're trying to put together some sort of
Wiki (only very recently begun) where this kind of
information could be dumped, but often searching
the archives of the mailing lists is the best
starting point:

   http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Amail.python.org

I do have a small series of pages:

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i.html

which tries to address some common problems, but
they are pitifully few compared to the questions
which get asked. I'll try to add your question on
so at least that one's covered.

The book written several years ago by Mark Hammond
and Andy Robinson called (something like) Python
for Win32 is still published by O'Reilly I think
and is still recommended:

   http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonwin32/

Also, bear in mind that many "How do I..." questions
for Python on Windows are near enough identical to
"How do I..." questions for any language on Windows.
So if you can find a VB or Delphi or a C# solution,
the chances are it can be fairly easily translated
into Python. That's all I did to give you your
answer: I looked around the net a bit and then
back-fitted the answer into Python. (Of course
I may have the advantage of know the kind of search
terms which would bite and remembering one or two
API calls which were not right but which came close!)

TJG

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun Mar 18 21:15:14 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:15:14 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] screen size/resolution in win32 in python
In-Reply-To: <45FD9B09.8000507@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <1174225888.752421.56410@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com>	<45FD67B8.1040705@timgolden.me.uk>	<b32f02d10703181155h550e455esd6178df9a1309964@mail.gmail.com>
	<45FD9B09.8000507@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <45FD9DD2.5010600@timgolden.me.uk>

Tim Golden wrote:
> I do have a small series of pages:
> 
>    http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i.html
> 
> which tries to address some common problems, but
> they are pitifully few compared to the questions
> which get asked. I'll try to add your question on
> so at least that one's covered.

And in fact it's now there:

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/find-the-screen-resolution.html

TJG

From kf9150 at gmail.com  Mon Mar 19 01:18:35 2007
From: kf9150 at gmail.com (Kelie)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [python-win32] odd problem with Microsoft Word
References: <loom.20070317T081955-537@post.gmane.org>
	<45FD208D.2060606@crummock.com>
Message-ID: <loom.20070319T011240-796@post.gmane.org>

Ross McKerchar <it <at> crummock.com> writes:

> When you use early bound code everything becomes case sensitive when it 
> wasn't before. Admmitedly, however 'Add' with an uppercase A does seem 
> right for office.
> 

Thanks for your reply Ross. But it seems to me early-binding is not the cause of
problem, at least not from Microsoft Word. As i mentioned the code runs fine
after i ran makepy on Word 2003's object library "Microsoft Word 11.0 Object
Library (8.3)". But after i used makepy on Microsoft Office 2003's object
library "Microsoft Office 11.0 Object Library (2.3)", the code stopped working.
Seems there is something conflicting between these two object libraries. i'm
totally guessing.





From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Mar 19 20:12:50 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:12:50 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703191212x29916dc6ib7b22d0d1ddef6e5@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to find the release notes (bug fixes plus new features) for
Build 210.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018

but don't see these in the PyWin32 project in sourceforge.

Are these available online, or does one have to download and install
Build 210 to get the release notes?

From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Mon Mar 19 20:28:18 2007
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:28:18 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
Message-ID: <ca567ca572.ca572ca567@noaa.gov>

Hmmmm.  They are visible for me.  What do you see when you click on 
the "Notes" icon adjacent to the "Monitor" icon?

-- jv

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:12 pm
Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210

> I'm trying to find the release notes (bug fixes plus new features) 
for
> Build 210.
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018
> 
> but don't see these in the PyWin32 project in sourceforge.
> 
> Are these available online, or does one have to download and install
> Build 210 to get the release notes?
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 

From cappy2112 at gmail.com  Mon Mar 19 23:12:50 2007
From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:12:50 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
In-Reply-To: <ca567ca572.ca572ca567@noaa.gov>
References: <ca567ca572.ca572ca567@noaa.gov>
Message-ID: <8249c4ac0703191512y7da8576qedc126c49dd32a5f@mail.gmail.com>

For some reason my notes icon is not clickable.
It's likely to be another problem with FireFox (on my end) though.

On 3/19/07, Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov <Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Hmmmm.  They are visible for me.  What do you see when you click on
> the "Notes" icon adjacent to the "Monitor" icon?
>
> -- jv
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:12 pm
> Subject: [python-win32] Release notes for Build 210
>
> > I'm trying to find the release notes (bug fixes plus new features)
> for
> > Build 210.
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018
> >
> > but don't see these in the PyWin32 project in sourceforge.
> >
> > Are these available online, or does one have to download and install
> > Build 210 to get the release notes?
> > _______________________________________________
> > Python-win32 mailing list
> > Python-win32 at python.org
> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>

From emlynj at gmail.com  Thu Mar 22 19:20:42 2007
From: emlynj at gmail.com (Emlyn Jones)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:20:42 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Debugging Advice
Message-ID: <f4b5a9620703221120s9bdfcfdp3650437de63984ee@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,
I'm running a web application using a set of Windows services written
in Python and a front end using ASP/Python. For historical reasons the
interface between the ASP and the services uses the SoapPy package
(using the built in threaded server with a little 'hack' to use
HTTPConnection rather than HTTP). Every now and then the http
connection between the services and the ASP breaks, I'll get a bad set
of headers or an empty response. I can paper over this by retrying the
call when the error happens but I'd like to get to the bottom of the
problem.
Has anybody come across socket/httplib problem like this on a Windows machine?
Does anybody have any advice on a good way to debug this threaded
client/server interaction?
I'm guessing it's load related but I've not seen any significant
resource usage, is there something specific I should keep and eye on?
Any pointers greatfully received (expect for "don't use SOAPpy",
unfortunately that's not an option at the moment).

Regards,
Emlyn.

From fumanchu at amor.org  Thu Mar 22 22:41:37 2007
From: fumanchu at amor.org (Robert Brewer)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:41:37 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] MS Access: silent overflow failure
Message-ID: <435DF58A933BA74397B42CDEB8145A860A56B3D7@ex9.hostedexchange.local>

Hi all,

The small demo script below makes ADO calls to a Microsoft Access (Jet)
database via win32com. But it fails in a potentially dangerous way;
"SELECT int * int;" can return None with no warning if the result is
large enough. This can also occur if one or both of the operands is a
column reference.

The same SQL run as a Query inside the Access GUI works as expected.
Manually changing one of the ints to a Single by appending ".0" works as
expected.

Any ideas about where I need to look next to find the cause of, and then
fix, this behavior?
 

Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org



# demo_access_overflow.py

import os
import win32com.client

adOpenForwardOnly = 0
adLockReadOnly = 1

dbname = "test.mdb"

def create_db():
    cat = win32com.client.Dispatch(r'ADOX.Catalog')
    cat.Create("PROVIDER=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=%s;" %
dbname)
    cat.ActiveConnection.Close()

def fetch(query, conn):
    try:
        # Call conn.Open(query) directly, skipping win32com overhead.
        res = win32com.client.Dispatch(r'ADODB.Recordset')
        res.Open(query, conn, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly)
        data = res.GetRows()
    finally:
        res.Close()
    
    return data


if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        create_db()
        conn = win32com.client.Dispatch(r'ADODB.Connection')
        try:
            conn.Open("PROVIDER=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=%s;"
% dbname)
            
            # This works fine.
            assert fetch("SELECT 86400;", conn) == ((86400,),)
            
            # This fails because data is ((None,),)
            data = fetch("SELECT 62647 * 86400;", conn)
            assert (data == ((62647 * 86400,),)), data
            
        finally:
            conn.Close()
    finally:
        if os.path.exists(dbname):
            os.remove(dbname)

From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu Mar 22 23:53:09 2007
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:53:09 +1100
Subject: [python-win32] MS Access: silent overflow failure
In-Reply-To: <435DF58A933BA74397B42CDEB8145A860A56B3D7@ex9.hostedexchange.local>
Message-ID: <099801c76cd4$dd347e60$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>

> The small demo script below makes ADO calls to a Microsoft 
> Access (Jet)
> database via win32com. But it fails in a potentially dangerous way;
> "SELECT int * int;" can return None with no warning if the result is
> large enough. This can also occur if one or both of the operands is a
> column reference.
> 
> The same SQL run as a Query inside the Access GUI works as expected.
> Manually changing one of the ints to a Single by appending 
> ".0" works as
> expected.
> 
> Any ideas about where I need to look next to find the cause 
> of, and then
> fix, this behavior?

I'd suggest using VB to see if the behaviour is different than with Python.
If it is and we can narrow a test case to a very small snippet, then we can
probably sort out why.  If VB works the same, it is likely to be a "feature"
of ADO as implemented, and not much we can do.

Cheers,

Mark
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From fumanchu at amor.org  Tue Mar 27 22:55:39 2007
From: fumanchu at amor.org (Robert Brewer)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:55:39 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] MS Access: silent overflow failure
In-Reply-To: <099801c76cd4$dd347e60$0f0a0a0a@enfoldsystems.local>
Message-ID: <435DF58A933BA74397B42CDEB8145A860A787181@ex9.hostedexchange.local>

Mark Hammond wrote:
> Robert Brewer wrote:
> > The small demo script below makes ADO calls to a Microsoft 
> > Access (Jet)
> > database via win32com. But it fails in a potentially dangerous way;
> > "SELECT int * int;" can return None with no warning if the result is
> > large enough. This can also occur if one or both of the 
> > operands is a column reference.
> > 
> > The same SQL run as a Query inside the Access GUI works as expected.
> > Manually changing one of the ints to a Single by appending 
> > ".0" works as expected.
> > 
> > Any ideas about where I need to look next to find the cause 
> > of, and then fix, this behavior?
> 
> I'd suggest using VB to see if the behaviour is different 
> than with Python.  If it is and we can narrow a test case to 
> a very small snippet, then we can probably sort out why.  If 
> VB works the same, it is likely to be a "feature" of ADO as 
> implemented, and not much we can do.

Below is a VB 4 demo (wow, that takes me back! :).
The return value on overflow is a zero-length string.


Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org


' demo_access_overflow.bas

Attribute VB_Name = "Module1"
Option Explicit

Const adOpenForwardOnly = 0
Const adLockReadOnly = 1
Const dbname = "test.mdb"

Sub create_db()
    Dim cat As New ADOX.Catalog
    cat.Create "PROVIDER=MICROSOFT.JET.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=" & dbname
    cat.ActiveConnection.Close
End Sub

Function fetch(query, conn) As String
    Dim res As New ADODB.Recordset
    res.Open query, conn, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly, -1
    Dim Data As Variant
    Data = res.GetRows(1, 0)
    fetch = Data(0, 0)
    res.Close
End Function

Sub Main()
    create_db
    
    Dim conn As New ADODB.Connection
    conn.Open "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source='" & dbname
& "'", "", "", -1
    
    ' This works fine.
    Dim Data As String
    Data = fetch("SELECT 86400;", conn)
    If Data <> 86400 Then MsgBox (Data)
    
    ' This fails because data is ""
    Data = fetch("SELECT 62647 * 86400;", conn)
    If Data <> CStr(CSng(62647) * CSng(86400)) Then
        MsgBox (Data & " (len " & Len(Data) & ")")
    End If
    conn.Close
    Kill dbname
End Sub

From vernon.cole at wirelessbeehive.com  Fri Mar 30 02:27:23 2007
From: vernon.cole at wirelessbeehive.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:27:23 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi update - where to post?
Message-ID: <460C596B.1050109@wirelessbeehive.com>

I am presently working on an update to Henrik Ekelund's adodbapi package.

For those who don't know, adodbapi is a python DB API 2.0 interface 
using Microsoft ADO. It is an alternative to the ODBC module which ships 
with python-win32 and is better in some ways, particularly in that it 
does not require defining a DSN in order to access data.  I have used it 
now with MS-SQL, Access, MySQL, and AS-400 DB2. 

I have applied all of the patches I can find, and am altering it to use 
decimal data (pythoncom.__future_currency__ = True) and updating the 
unit test. I am also tracking down a new bug which seems to have arrived 
with Python 2.5 which causes it to store only the first character of a 
string into a database field. (Most annoying... I have had to leave all 
my users running older versions of Python.)

  Henrik seems to have disappeared from the Internet and no maintenance 
of the adodbapi site on soureceforge has happened in several years. 
Question for this group:
  Should I attempt to take over the project on sourceforge, or should 
adodbapi be added to python-win as part of its library?
---
Vernon Cole
Old programmer and young Python hacker.


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Fri Mar 30 10:07:32 2007
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:07:32 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi update - where to post?
In-Reply-To: <460C596B.1050109@wirelessbeehive.com>
References: <460C596B.1050109@wirelessbeehive.com>
Message-ID: <460CC544.7020907@timgolden.me.uk>

Vernon Cole wrote:
> I am presently working on an update to Henrik Ekelund's 
> adodbapi package.

Good news. Can I suggest -- in case the relevant people
don't track this list -- that you post also to the
sqlalchemy list. There's a fair bit of activity over
there at the moment concerning the use of different
MSSQL dialects. The recent pyodbc module seems to be
the favoured contender at present, but adodbapi is
still supported and I think they'd be interested in
the news.

FWIW, I'd be inclined to announce publicly as you've
done, and then to take over the sf project if that's
straightforward. If not, start a new one with a distinct
name but with an obvious indication of its provenance.

TJG

From ghankiewicz at rastertech.es  Fri Mar 30 10:21:38 2007
From: ghankiewicz at rastertech.es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:21:38 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi update - where to post?
In-Reply-To: <460CC544.7020907@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <460C596B.1050109@wirelessbeehive.com>
	<460CC544.7020907@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <460CC892.30207@rastertech.es>

Tim Golden wrote:
> Vernon Cole wrote:
>> I am presently working on an update to Henrik Ekelund's 
>> adodbapi package.
> 
> Good news. Can I suggest -- in case the relevant people
> don't track this list -- that you post also to the
> sqlalchemy list.

Well, the db-sig list could also be ok, especially since I asked about 
these patches there and got no answer. I don't know about taking over SF 
projects, but most likely the author still reads emails, so he could add 
somebody else to maintain the project.

-- 
     Rastertech Espa?a S.A.
	Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz
/Jefe de Producto TeraVial/

C/ Perfumer?a 21. Nave I. Pol?gono industrial La Mina
28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid (Espa?a)
Tel. +34 918 467 390 (Ext.18) 	  *?*   	Fax +34 918 457 889
ghankiewicz at rastertech.es 	  *?*   	www.rastertech.es
<http://www.rastertech.es/>


From mc at mclaveau.com  Sat Mar 31 10:17:34 2007
From: mc at mclaveau.com (Michel Claveau)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:17:34 +0200
Subject: [python-win32]  access to attribute non-(full)-Ascii
References: <460C596B.1050109@wirelessbeehive.com>
Message-ID: <000701c7736d$0ea96340$0701a8c0@PORTABLES>

Hi!


>From Python+PyWin32, when I want access to properties (attributes) 
containing some characters no-Ascii (e.g. letters with accents, or unicode 
characters), Python screech!

I need this in bridges Python-Javascript (via ActiveScripting or via drive 
InternetExplorer.Application).
When I control the Javascript side, I make a little function who return (a 
pointer on) the object ; if the attribute is an object.

But, if you know a way for access to these kind of attributes, I will read 
your answer, with mental thanks.


@-salutations

Michel Claveau


(sorry for my bad english)





From tomer.ha at gmail.com  Sat Mar 31 16:59:32 2007
From: tomer.ha at gmail.com (Tomer Haimovich)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:59:32 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Using Simple MAPI with MS Outlook 2007
Message-ID: <3ec6a7b90703310759h514e28c1m65b78a12269aa1be@mail.gmail.com>

Hi there,

I'd like to send emails from a Python program using Simple MAPI. I've tried
this code:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-December/298066.html and
it works well with Outlook Express 6 and Thunderbird 1.5, but it doens't
work at all with Microsoft Outlook 2007. I keep getting this message:
"WindowsError: MAPI error 2".

I don't want to use Extended MAPI because it doesn't support thunderbird not
OE. Therefore, Simple MAPI is the only option for me.

So, what did I miss here?
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