From arvind.kamble at gmail.com  Wed May  2 12:04:59 2012
From: arvind.kamble at gmail.com (Aravind Kamble)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:34:59 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 109, Issue 26
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I was downloading .zip file not the exe installer file. It worked now.
Thanks for the help. But would be still interested to download the code and
experiment with it.




./Aravind


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> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:41:42 +0100
> From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <jnlfnl$pf9$1 at dough.gmane.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> > bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >
> > Python 2.7.3
>
> > MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
>
> The SDK isn't usually needed.
>
> > Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
>
> Hopefully in this case either pywin32-217.win-amd64-py2.7.exe or
> pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe as appropriate :)  See below.
>
> >
> >
> > When I run the setup.py as below
> > c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
>
> I've never needed to do this.  Usually you would download the
> appropriate version of pywin32 as given above and It Just Works when you
> install, automatically finding your version of Python from the registry.
>
> >
> > I am getting following error
> >
> > Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "setup.py", line 2428, in<module>
> >      ] +
> >    File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >      raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> > RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >
> > There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >
> > Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
>
> If my comments above don't help sorry, you'll have to wait until the
> smarter Windows guys pick this one up, doesn't normally take too long :)
>
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Aravind
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Lawrence.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:42:06 +0100
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E424E.5020600 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> > bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >
> > Python 2.7.3
> > MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
> > Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
> >
> >
> > When I run the setup.py as below
> > c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
> >
> > I am getting following error
> >
> > Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "setup.py", line 2428, in <module>
> >     ] +
> >   File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >     raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> > RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >
> > There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >
> > Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
>
> Do you have / want to build from source? If not, download one
> of the binaries from Sourceforge and use that. If you do need
> to build from source, you'll have to patch the setup.py in
> the pywin32 sourceball to add a parameter anchor=0 to the calls
> to include_pattern and exclude_pattern within the convert_data_files
> function.
>
> (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> earliest...)
>
> FWIW this is due to a recent-ish change to distutils which fixed a
> longstanding bugette. The effect was to tighten up the action of
> include|exclude_pattern calls so that they don't match against
> directory strings unless anchor is set to 0.
>
> Again, though, unless you *want* to build from source, you can just
> download a binary build.
>
>
> TJG
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:50:52 +1000
> From: Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>
> To: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E445C.1020307 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 30/04/2012 5:42 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> > On 30/04/2012 08:03, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am trying to install pywin32-217 for the first time on my Windows 7 64
> >> bit machine. I have following installed on my machine,
> >>
> >> Python 2.7.3
> >> MS Windows SDK for Windows 7 (7.1)
> >> Downloaded pywin32-217 from sourceforge
> >>
> >>
> >> When I run the setup.py as below
> >> c:\pywin32-217\python setup.py install
> >>
> >> I am getting following error
> >>
> >> Building pywin32 2.7.217.0
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>    File "setup.py", line 2428, in <module>
> >>      ] +
> >>    File "setup.py", line 2224, in convert_data_files
> >>      raise RuntimeError("No files match '%s'" % file)
> >> RuntimeError: No files match 'pythonwin\pywin\*.cfg'
> >>
> >> There are two .cfg files (default.cfg and IDLE.cfg) under
> pythonwin\pywin\.
> >>
> >> Please help how to get rid of this error and continue with installation.
> >
> > Do you have / want to build from source? If not, download one
> > of the binaries from Sourceforge and use that. If you do need
> > to build from source, you'll have to patch the setup.py in
> > the pywin32 sourceball to add a parameter anchor=0 to the calls
> > to include_pattern and exclude_pattern within the convert_data_files
> > function.
> >
> > (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> > I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> > earliest...)
>
> Thanks for the clue - I just updated Python 2.7 from hg, verified the
> bug and also verified your fix seems to work.  I've checked it in and
> pushed it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
> >
> > FWIW this is due to a recent-ish change to distutils which fixed a
> > longstanding bugette. The effect was to tighten up the action of
> > include|exclude_pattern calls so that they don't match against
> > directory strings unless anchor is set to 0.
> >
> > Again, though, unless you *want* to build from source, you can just
> > download a binary build.
> >
> >
> > TJG
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> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:56:22 +0100
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> To: mhammond at skippinet.com.au
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win32api install problem
> Message-ID: <4F9E45A6.2000906 at timgolden.me.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 30/04/2012 08:50, Mark Hammond wrote:
> > On 30/04/2012 5:42 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
> >> (I was just about to get in touch with Mark H and offer a patch but
> >> I won't have time to do the mechanics until this afternoon at the
> >> earliest...)
> >
> > Thanks for the clue - I just updated Python 2.7 from hg, verified the
> > bug and also verified your fix seems to work.  I've checked it in and
> > pushed it.
>
> Thanks for the quick turnaround. FWIW there appear to be other issues
> against Python trunk due to the *very* recent importlib changes. Before
> I dive in: are you able to build & install against Python's hg tip?
>
> I was getting an importlib error when trying to import pywintypes.
> I'll try to get a build environment up here (at work) to make sure
> I can reproduce.
>
>
> TJG
>
>
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From arvind.kamble at gmail.com  Wed May  2 14:25:34 2012
From: arvind.kamble at gmail.com (Aravind Kamble)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 17:55:34 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] File name and version as dictionary key value
Message-ID: <CACw8P-kOzCRW5qRMsbMm3X_ScaMdGH4nX1T39Kx1yYVp01zX9w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

Hope I am posting in correct mailing list. Am facing another problem now.
My logic is to get file versions of files inside two directories and
compare them. I am trying to get filename and version as key, value pairs
in a directory. I have a function written which will provide me the file
version. I have file names in a list. I am not able to populate my
directory with filename and version. Code snippet looks something like this,

Filename_Version_dir={}

from filename in filename_version_list:
            # I want to populate my directory here with filename and
version given by the function get_file_version(filename)
           # I want something like
Filename_Version_dir.append(filename:get_file_version)


What is the best thing I can do here?

Thanks in advance,



./Aravind
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From kris at rhs.com  Wed May  2 14:30:54 2012
From: kris at rhs.com (Kris Hardy)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 08:30:54 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] File name and version as dictionary key value
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On 5/2/2012 8:25 AM, Aravind Kamble wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hope I am posting in correct mailing list. Am facing another problem 
> now. My logic is to get file versions of files inside two directories 
> and compare them. I am trying to get filename and version as key, 
> value pairs in a directory. I have a function written which will 
> provide me the file version. I have file names in a list. I am not 
> able to populate my directory with filename and version. Code snippet 
> looks something like this,
>
> Filename_Version_dir={}
>
> from filename in filename_version_list:
>             # I want to populate my directory here with filename and 
> version given by the function get_file_version(filename)
>            # I want something like 
> Filename_Version_dir.append(filename:get_file_version)
Filename_Version_dir[filename] = get_file_version(filename)
>
>
> What is the best thing I can do here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> ./Aravind
>
>
>
>
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From max at slimmersoft.com  Wed May  2 18:05:26 2012
From: max at slimmersoft.com (Max Slimmer)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:05:26 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] File name and version as dictionary key value
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Message-ID: <CADMpGLs5Uw21tb8uTW9c3hcXvwgDEDaE70y3KGd+TPqQJVFfRQ@mail.gmail.com>

Filename_version_dir = dir([(nam,filename:get_file_version(nam)) for
nam in filename_version_list])

This is a list comprehension which returns a list of (name,ver).  You
should look at http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html# and pay
attention to lists and mapping types (dict) and all the things you can
do with them. You should also go through the tutorial it doesn't take
much time and will give you a good foundation.

the append() method is for lists not dicts
the for construct is the primary looping tool, the reserved word from
is used in import statments.


On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Aravind Kamble <arvind.kamble at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Hope I am posting in correct mailing list.?Am facing another problem now. My
> logic is to get file versions of files inside two directories and compare
> them. I am trying to get filename and version as key, value pairs in a
> directory. I have a function written which will provide me the file version.
> I have file names in a list. I am not able to populate my directory with
> filename and version. Code snippet looks something like this,
>
> Filename_Version_dir={}
>
> from filename in filename_version_list:
> ? ? ? ? ? ? # I want to populate my directory here with filename and version
> given by the function get_file_version(filename)
> ? ? ? ? ? ?# I want something like
> Filename_Version_dir.append(filename:get_file_version)
>
>
> What is the best thing I can do here?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> ./Aravind
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>

From aellis02 at fs.fed.us  Thu May  3 17:27:26 2012
From: aellis02 at fs.fed.us (Ellis, Alexis -FS)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 15:27:26 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
	generated using py2exe
Message-ID: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>



Hi All,

I am trying to generate a DLL from a python script that can be accessed from a variety other programming platforms.

I am generating the python-based COM DLL using a distutils setup script that is called using py2exe.

The DLL is successfully generated and I can register it using regsvr32, but now I am not sure how to access the function within the dll.  This is a test scenario but ideally I will have multiple functions in my python script that will need to be called and to which I will need to pass arguments.

In order to test this process I created a simple python script:



testscript.py

/////////////////////////

class testscript:

    def tryit(a,b):
        alexis = a + b
        return alexis
/////////////////////////



I then ran the following setup script from command line>> setup.py py2exe

setup.py

/////////////////////////

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import sys
import comtypes
import comtypes.client

class Target:
    def __init__(self, **kw):
        self.__dict__.update(kw)
        # for the version info resources (Properties -- Version)
        self.version = "0.0.1"
        self.company_name = "my company"
        self.copyright = "(c) 2006, my company"
        self.name = "my com server name"

my_com_server_target = Target(
    description = "my com server",
    # use module name for ctypes.com dll server
    modules = ["testscript"],
    # we only want the inproc (dll) server
    create_exe = False

    create_dll = True
    )

setup(
    name="my_com_server",
    # the following two parameters embed support files within dll file
    options={"py2exe": {"bundle_files": 1, }},
    zipfile=None,
    version="0.0.1",
    description="my com server",
    # author, maintainer, contact go here:
    author="First Last",
    author_email="some_name at some_company.com<https://ch1prd0102.outlook.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=uQeS3p99F02hlyLkjgUCWD_IvKYh_M4Ifcon90VNuxNzuAci5VhvJPb0gg_hrvvyb-5jqALjBEM.&URL=mailto%3asome_name%40some_company.com>",
    ctypes_com_server=[my_com_server_target]
    )
//////////////////////////////////////



>From command line I run>> regsvr32 testscript.dll

The dll is successfully registered.

I am assuming that I now have a COM DLL that I can test in python using win32com, but I am not sure how to go about doing this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,

Alexis


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From biotech at gmail.com  Thu May  3 17:42:07 2012
From: biotech at gmail.com (Tim Keeler)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 08:42:07 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32evtlog - Event Log parsing issue
Message-ID: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I'm having a problem with win32evtlog and reading events from an event log
channel on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm using the following code and get the
following error (python.exe APPCRASH no exceptions):

#!/usr/bin/python

# Windows Event Log Viewer
import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed

hand = win32evtlog.EvtOpenLog('ForwardedEvents',1,None)
flags =
win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ

*events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0)*


The last line calling ReadEventLog() is what causes the crash. I had to
read through the source code to find the function EvtOpenLog() for channel
support, this isn't in the latest documentation. So I'm not sure if this is
still experimental or not.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Python 2.7.3

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: python.exe
  Application Version: 0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 4f84a6c8
  Fault Module Name: ADVAPI32.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
  Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bd97e
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 00019347
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From timr at probo.com  Thu May  3 19:19:48 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 10:19:48 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
 generated using py2exe
In-Reply-To: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>
References: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>
Message-ID: <4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>

Ellis, Alexis -FS wrote:
>
>  
>
> am trying to generate a DLL from a python script that can be accessed
> from a variety other programming platforms. 
>
> I am generating the python-based COM DLL using a distutils setup
> script that is called using py2exe. 
>
> The DLL is successfully generated and I can register it using
> regsvr32, but now I am not sure how to access the function within the dll.
>

Well, you have not actually created a COM server here.  What you have
registered is an empty COM server that defines no methods.  You haven't
actually used any methods from comtypes or comtypes.client at all.

You need to read the documentation for comtypes.server.  You have to
create an IDL file (Interface Description Language) that defines the
methods you expect to expose.  You compile that IDL to a type library
(TLB).  Then, you use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper
for that IDL.  Then, your "testscript" module must derive from that
class, and implement the methods you declared.

comtypes creates an "early binding" COM server.  Depending on the
languages you want to use, you might find it easier to create a "late
binding" server using Pythoncom, as described here:
    http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=2190050&fromSeriesID=219

No IDL is required with this method.

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


From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Fri May  4 01:35:26 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:35:26 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] win32evtlog - Event Log parsing issue
In-Reply-To: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA3163E.6010206@gmail.com>

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that API, but the crash is because 
EvtOpenLog is returning a handle with a value of 1 and ReadEventLog is 
crashing with that handle.  A quick google doesn't find anyone trying to 
use ReadEventLog with a handle returned by EvtOpenLog but instead uses 
EvtGetLogInfo.

Roger Upole added support for these functions so hopefully he is reading 
this and has more experience with the API (and the fact they aren't in 
the generated docs should indeed be treated as a bug!)

Mark

On 4/05/2012 1:42 AM, Tim Keeler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem with win32evtlog and reading events from an event
> log channel on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm using the following code and
> get the following error (python.exe APPCRASH no exceptions):
>
>     #!/usr/bin/python
>
>     # Windows Event Log Viewer
>     import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
>
>     hand = win32evtlog.EvtOpenLog('ForwardedEvents',1,None)
>     flags =
>     win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
>
>     *events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0)*
>
>
> The last line calling ReadEventLog() is what causes the crash. I had to
> read through the source code to find the function EvtOpenLog() for
> channel support, this isn't in the latest documentation. So I'm not sure
> if this is still experimental or not.
>
> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Python 2.7.3
>
>     Problem signature:
>        Problem Event Name:APPCRASH
>        Application Name:python.exe
>        Application Version:0.0.0.0
>        Application Timestamp:4f84a6c8
>        Fault Module Name:ADVAPI32.dll
>        Fault Module Version:6.1.7600.16385
>        Fault Module Timestamp:4a5bd97e
>        Exception Code:c0000005
>        Exception Offset:00019347
>        OS Version:6.1.7600.2.0.0.274.10
>        Locale ID:1033
>        Additional Information 1:0a9e
>        Additional Information 2:0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>        Additional Information 3:0a9e
>        Additional Information 4:0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>
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From biotech at gmail.com  Fri May  4 02:09:03 2012
From: biotech at gmail.com (Tim Keeler)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 17:09:03 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32evtlog - Event Log parsing issue
In-Reply-To: <4FA3163E.6010206@gmail.com>
References: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA3163E.6010206@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAJpmmnW0T1SZVkYqcvsGsnritencuQYszD0KGNx8sKPnD+Rwbg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the reply, Mark!

I took a look and didn't see the EvtGetLogInfo() implemented anywhere in
the source. Hopefully Roger will be able to figure out what's going on here.

-Tim

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that API, but the crash is because
> EvtOpenLog is returning a handle with a value of 1 and ReadEventLog is
> crashing with that handle.  A quick google doesn't find anyone trying to
> use ReadEventLog with a handle returned by EvtOpenLog but instead uses
> EvtGetLogInfo.
>
> Roger Upole added support for these functions so hopefully he is reading
> this and has more experience with the API (and the fact they aren't in the
> generated docs should indeed be treated as a bug!)
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 4/05/2012 1:42 AM, Tim Keeler wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm having a problem with win32evtlog and reading events from an event
>> log channel on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm using the following code and
>> get the following error (python.exe APPCRASH no exceptions):
>>
>>    #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>>    # Windows Event Log Viewer
>>    import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
>>
>>    hand = win32evtlog.EvtOpenLog('**ForwardedEvents',1,None)
>>    flags =
>>    win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_**BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.**
>> EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
>>
>>    *events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0)*
>>
>>
>>
>> The last line calling ReadEventLog() is what causes the crash. I had to
>> read through the source code to find the function EvtOpenLog() for
>> channel support, this isn't in the latest documentation. So I'm not sure
>> if this is still experimental or not.
>>
>> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Python 2.7.3
>>
>>    Problem signature:
>>       Problem Event Name:APPCRASH
>>       Application Name:python.exe
>>       Application Version:0.0.0.0
>>       Application Timestamp:4f84a6c8
>>       Fault Module Name:ADVAPI32.dll
>>       Fault Module Version:6.1.7600.16385
>>       Fault Module Timestamp:4a5bd97e
>>       Exception Code:c0000005
>>       Exception Offset:00019347
>>       OS Version:6.1.7600.2.0.0.274.10
>>       Locale ID:1033
>>       Additional Information 1:0a9e
>>       Additional Information 2:**0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e7**89
>>       Additional Information 3:0a9e
>>       Additional Information 4:**0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e7**89
>>
>>    Read our privacy statement online:
>>    http://go.microsoft.com/**fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=**0x0409<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409>
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From rupole at hotmail.com  Fri May  4 05:47:09 2012
From: rupole at hotmail.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 23:47:09 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] win32evtlog - Event Log parsing issue
References: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com><4FA3163E.6010206@gmail.com>
	<CAJpmmnW0T1SZVkYqcvsGsnritencuQYszD0KGNx8sKPnD+Rwbg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <jnvjft$h98$1@dough.gmane.org>

Mark is right, the handles are not interchangable between the older event
log functions and the newer Evt* functions.  You can still use the older
APIs on Vista and later, though.  OpenEventLog returns a handle
compatible with ReadEventLog.
To use the newer functions, try EvtQuery->EvtNext->EvtRender.

Regarding the docs, the Evt* functions appear in the latest .chm help file.
Which documentation are you looking at ?

    Roger

"Tim Keeler" <biotech at gmail.com> wrote in message news:CAJpmmnW0T1SZVkYqcvsGsnritencuQYszD0KGNx8sKPnD+Rwbg at mail.gmail.com...
> Thanks for the reply, Mark!
>
> I took a look and didn't see the EvtGetLogInfo() implemented anywhere in
> the source. Hopefully Roger will be able to figure out what's going on here.
>
> -Tim
>
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that API, but the crash is because
>> EvtOpenLog is returning a handle with a value of 1 and ReadEventLog is
>> crashing with that handle.  A quick google doesn't find anyone trying to
>> use ReadEventLog with a handle returned by EvtOpenLog but instead uses
>> EvtGetLogInfo.
>>
>> Roger Upole added support for these functions so hopefully he is reading
>> this and has more experience with the API (and the fact they aren't in the
>> generated docs should indeed be treated as a bug!)
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On 4/05/2012 1:42 AM, Tim Keeler wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem with win32evtlog and reading events from an event
>>> log channel on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm using the following code and
>>> get the following error (python.exe APPCRASH no exceptions):
>>>
>>>    #!/usr/bin/python
>>>
>>>    # Windows Event Log Viewer
>>>    import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
>>>
>>>    hand = win32evtlog.EvtOpenLog('**ForwardedEvents',1,None)
>>>    flags =
>>>    win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_**BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.**
>>> EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
>>>
>>>    *events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0)*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The last line calling ReadEventLog() is what causes the crash. I had to
>>> read through the source code to find the function EvtOpenLog() for
>>> channel support, this isn't in the latest documentation. So I'm not sure
>>> if this is still experimental or not.
>>>
>>> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Python 2.7.3
>>>
>>>    Problem signature:
>>>       Problem Event Name:APPCRASH
>>>       Application Name:python.exe
>>>       Application Version:0.0.0.0
>>>       Application Timestamp:4f84a6c8
>>>       Fault Module Name:ADVAPI32.dll
>>>       Fault Module Version:6.1.7600.16385
>>>       Fault Module Timestamp:4a5bd97e
>>>       Exception Code:c0000005
>>>       Exception Offset:00019347
>>>       OS Version:6.1.7600.2.0.0.274.10
>>>       Locale ID:1033
>>>       Additional Information 1:0a9e
>>>       Additional Information 2:**0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e7**89
>>>       Additional Information 3:0a9e
>>>       Additional Information 4:**0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e7**89
>>>
>>>    Read our privacy statement online:
>>>    http://go.microsoft.com/**fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=**0x0409<http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409>
>>>
>>>    If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our
>>>    privacy statement offline:
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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From aellis02 at syr.edu  Fri May  4 17:07:13 2012
From: aellis02 at syr.edu (Alexis Ellis)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:07:13 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
 generated using py2exe
In-Reply-To: <4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>
References: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>,
	<4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>
Message-ID: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>

Tim, 
Thank you for your help.  I was obviously headed down the wrong path.
As per your suggestion, I am now using comtypes to create a com server.  
I have generated a tlb and am trying to use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper and register the COM (see myserver.py below).  
However, when I try do to this using the following command:
>>python myserver.py /regserver

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myserver.py", line 23, in <module>
    import win32com.server.register
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", l
ine 13, in <module>
    import winerror
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\winerror.py", line 3, in <module>
    from nterror import *
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\nterror.py", line 4, in <module>
    import windll
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\windll.py", line 20, in <module>
    import calldll
ImportError: No module named calldll

I do not have a module named calldll and can not find one online (other than for python2.4 - I am using 2.6.5).
Not sure how to address this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alexis

The following is my wrapper/registration code:
myserver.py
/////////////////////////////////
import comtypes
import comtypes.server.localserver
from comtypes.client import GetModule
# generate wrapper code for the type library, this needs
# to be done only once (but also each time the IDL file changes)
GetModule("comcreate.tlb")
from comtypes.gen.MyTypeLib import MyObject
class MyObjectImpl(MyObject):
    # registry entries
    _reg_threading_ = "Both"
    _reg_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject.1"
    _reg_novers_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject"
    _reg_desc_ = "Simple COM server for testing"
    _reg_clsctx_ = comtypes.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER | comtypes.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
    _regcls_ = comtypes.server.localserver.REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE
#register is a module-level function
def register():
    import win32com.server.register
    win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(MyObjectImpl)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    register()
//////////////////////////////////////////////

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Tim Roberts [timr at probo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

Ellis, Alexis -FS wrote:
>
>
>
> am trying to generate a DLL from a python script that can be accessed
> from a variety other programming platforms.
>
> I am generating the python-based COM DLL using a distutils setup
> script that is called using py2exe.
>
> The DLL is successfully generated and I can register it using
> regsvr32, but now I am not sure how to access the function within the dll.
>

Well, you have not actually created a COM server here.  What you have
registered is an empty COM server that defines no methods.  You haven't
actually used any methods from comtypes or comtypes.client at all.

You need to read the documentation for comtypes.server.  You have to
create an IDL file (Interface Description Language) that defines the
methods you expect to expose.  You compile that IDL to a type library
(TLB).  Then, you use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper
for that IDL.  Then, your "testscript" module must derive from that
class, and implement the methods you declared.

comtypes creates an "early binding" COM server.  Depending on the
languages you want to use, you might find it easier to create a "late
binding" server using Pythoncom, as described here:
    http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=2190050&fromSeriesID=219

No IDL is required with this method.

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

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From aellis02 at syr.edu  Fri May  4 17:13:00 2012
From: aellis02 at syr.edu (Alexis Ellis)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:13:00 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
 generated using py2exe
In-Reply-To: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
References: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>,
	<4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>,
	<D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
Message-ID: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D88@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>

As a note, I have read that I should be using ctypes instead of calldll, but am not sure how to implement that change.

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Alexis Ellis [aellis02 at syr.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:07 AM
To: Tim Roberts; Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

Tim,
Thank you for your help.  I was obviously headed down the wrong path.
As per your suggestion, I am now using comtypes to create a com server.
I have generated a tlb and am trying to use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper and register the COM (see myserver.py below).
However, when I try do to this using the following command:
>>python myserver.py /regserver

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myserver.py", line 23, in <module>
    import win32com.server.register
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", l
ine 13, in <module>
    import winerror
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\winerror.py", line 3, in <module>
    from nterror import *
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\nterror.py", line 4, in <module>
    import windll
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\windll.py", line 20, in <module>
    import calldll
ImportError: No module named calldll

I do not have a module named calldll and can not find one online (other than for python2.4 - I am using 2.6.5).
Not sure how to address this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alexis

The following is my wrapper/registration code:
myserver.py
/////////////////////////////////
import comtypes
import comtypes.server.localserver
from comtypes.client import GetModule
# generate wrapper code for the type library, this needs
# to be done only once (but also each time the IDL file changes)
GetModule("comcreate.tlb")
from comtypes.gen.MyTypeLib import MyObject
class MyObjectImpl(MyObject):
    # registry entries
    _reg_threading_ = "Both"
    _reg_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject.1"
    _reg_novers_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject"
    _reg_desc_ = "Simple COM server for testing"
    _reg_clsctx_ = comtypes.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER | comtypes.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
    _regcls_ = comtypes.server.localserver.REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE
#register is a module-level function
def register():
    import win32com.server.register
    win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(MyObjectImpl)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    register()
//////////////////////////////////////////////

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Tim Roberts [timr at probo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

Ellis, Alexis -FS wrote:
>
>
>
> am trying to generate a DLL from a python script that can be accessed
> from a variety other programming platforms.
>
> I am generating the python-based COM DLL using a distutils setup
> script that is called using py2exe.
>
> The DLL is successfully generated and I can register it using
> regsvr32, but now I am not sure how to access the function within the dll.
>

Well, you have not actually created a COM server here.  What you have
registered is an empty COM server that defines no methods.  You haven't
actually used any methods from comtypes or comtypes.client at all.

You need to read the documentation for comtypes.server.  You have to
create an IDL file (Interface Description Language) that defines the
methods you expect to expose.  You compile that IDL to a type library
(TLB).  Then, you use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper
for that IDL.  Then, your "testscript" module must derive from that
class, and implement the methods you declared.

comtypes creates an "early binding" COM server.  Depending on the
languages you want to use, you might find it easier to create a "late
binding" server using Pythoncom, as described here:
    http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=2190050&fromSeriesID=219

No IDL is required with this method.

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

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From aellis02 at syr.edu  Fri May  4 17:52:29 2012
From: aellis02 at syr.edu (Alexis Ellis)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 15:52:29 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
 generated using py2exe
In-Reply-To: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D88@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
References: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>,
	<4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>,
	<D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>,
	<D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D88@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
Message-ID: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D9D@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>

Ignore my previous question.  I replaced calldll with ctypes in the windll.py and everything now seems to be working. 

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Alexis Ellis [aellis02 at syr.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:13 AM
To: Tim Roberts; Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

As a note, I have read that I should be using ctypes instead of calldll, but am not sure how to implement that change.

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Alexis Ellis [aellis02 at syr.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:07 AM
To: Tim Roberts; Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

Tim,
Thank you for your help.  I was obviously headed down the wrong path.
As per your suggestion, I am now using comtypes to create a com server.
I have generated a tlb and am trying to use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper and register the COM (see myserver.py below).
However, when I try do to this using the following command:
>>python myserver.py /regserver

I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myserver.py", line 23, in <module>
    import win32com.server.register
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", l
ine 13, in <module>
    import winerror
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\winerror.py", line 3, in <module>
    from nterror import *
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\nterror.py", line 4, in <module>
    import windll
  File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\windll.py", line 20, in <module>
    import calldll
ImportError: No module named calldll

I do not have a module named calldll and can not find one online (other than for python2.4 - I am using 2.6.5).
Not sure how to address this.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alexis

The following is my wrapper/registration code:
myserver.py
/////////////////////////////////
import comtypes
import comtypes.server.localserver
from comtypes.client import GetModule
# generate wrapper code for the type library, this needs
# to be done only once (but also each time the IDL file changes)
GetModule("comcreate.tlb")
from comtypes.gen.MyTypeLib import MyObject
class MyObjectImpl(MyObject):
    # registry entries
    _reg_threading_ = "Both"
    _reg_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject.1"
    _reg_novers_progid_ = "MyTypeLib.MyObject"
    _reg_desc_ = "Simple COM server for testing"
    _reg_clsctx_ = comtypes.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER | comtypes.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
    _regcls_ = comtypes.server.localserver.REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE
#register is a module-level function
def register():
    import win32com.server.register
    win32com.server.register.UseCommandLine(MyObjectImpl)
if __name__ == "__main__":
    register()
//////////////////////////////////////////////

________________________________________
From: python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org [python-win32-bounces+aellis02=syr.edu at python.org] on behalf of Tim Roberts [timr at probo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Python-Win32 List
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL generated using py2exe

Ellis, Alexis -FS wrote:
>
>
>
> am trying to generate a DLL from a python script that can be accessed
> from a variety other programming platforms.
>
> I am generating the python-based COM DLL using a distutils setup
> script that is called using py2exe.
>
> The DLL is successfully generated and I can register it using
> regsvr32, but now I am not sure how to access the function within the dll.
>

Well, you have not actually created a COM server here.  What you have
registered is an empty COM server that defines no methods.  You haven't
actually used any methods from comtypes or comtypes.client at all.

You need to read the documentation for comtypes.server.  You have to
create an IDL file (Interface Description Language) that defines the
methods you expect to expose.  You compile that IDL to a type library
(TLB).  Then, you use comtypes.client.GetModule to generate a wrapper
for that IDL.  Then, your "testscript" module must derive from that
class, and implement the methods you declared.

comtypes creates an "early binding" COM server.  Depending on the
languages you want to use, you might find it easier to create a "late
binding" server using Pythoncom, as described here:
    http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=2190050&fromSeriesID=219

No IDL is required with this method.

--
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From biotech at gmail.com  Fri May  4 18:29:14 2012
From: biotech at gmail.com (Tim Keeler)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 09:29:14 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] win32evtlog - Event Log parsing issue
In-Reply-To: <jnvjft$h98$1@dough.gmane.org>
References: <CAJpmmnVDOovf2Y0oXLVUCF6xkZO8hZWfOMTn=WkTWH=eiumjjA@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA3163E.6010206@gmail.com>
	<CAJpmmnW0T1SZVkYqcvsGsnritencuQYszD0KGNx8sKPnD+Rwbg@mail.gmail.com>
	<jnvjft$h98$1@dough.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <CAJpmmnU1QixWLfMQ72bt6y04UjgtdHK9ZiLP6v8n6K1ypG=1qg@mail.gmail.com>

Oh Geesh - I didn't even think about looking at the .chm help file. I was
looking at the docs located here -
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/pywin32/win32evtlog.html. This
is my first time using Python on Windows, so I apologize for the n00b
mistake.

I'll check out EvtQuery->EvtNext->EvtRender, I think this is exactly what I
need!

Thank you for all of your help.

-Tim

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Roger Upole <rupole at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mark is right, the handles are not interchangable between the older event
> log functions and the newer Evt* functions.  You can still use the older
> APIs on Vista and later, though.  OpenEventLog returns a handle
> compatible with ReadEventLog.
> To use the newer functions, try EvtQuery->EvtNext->EvtRender.
>
> Regarding the docs, the Evt* functions appear in the latest .chm help file.
> Which documentation are you looking at ?
>
>    Roger
>
> "Tim Keeler" <biotech at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:CAJpmmnW0T1SZVkYqcvsGsnritencuQYszD0KGNx8sKPnD+Rwbg at mail.gmail.com...
> > Thanks for the reply, Mark!
> >
> > I took a look and didn't see the EvtGetLogInfo() implemented anywhere in
> > the source. Hopefully Roger will be able to figure out what's going on
> here.
> >
> > -Tim
> >
> > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that API, but the crash is because
> >> EvtOpenLog is returning a handle with a value of 1 and ReadEventLog is
> >> crashing with that handle.  A quick google doesn't find anyone trying to
> >> use ReadEventLog with a handle returned by EvtOpenLog but instead uses
> >> EvtGetLogInfo.
> >>
> >> Roger Upole added support for these functions so hopefully he is reading
> >> this and has more experience with the API (and the fact they aren't in
> the
> >> generated docs should indeed be treated as a bug!)
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> On 4/05/2012 1:42 AM, Tim Keeler wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I'm having a problem with win32evtlog and reading events from an event
> >>> log channel on Windows Server 2008 R2. I'm using the following code and
> >>> get the following error (python.exe APPCRASH no exceptions):
> >>>
> >>>    #!/usr/bin/python
> >>>
> >>>    # Windows Event Log Viewer
> >>>    import win32evtlog # requires pywin32 pre-installed
> >>>
> >>>    hand = win32evtlog.EvtOpenLog('**ForwardedEvents',1,None)
> >>>    flags =
> >>>    win32evtlog.EVENTLOG_**BACKWARDS_READ|win32evtlog.**
> >>> EVENTLOG_SEQUENTIAL_READ
> >>>
> >>>    *events = win32evtlog.ReadEventLog(hand, flags, 0)*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The last line calling ReadEventLog() is what causes the crash. I had to
> >>> read through the source code to find the function EvtOpenLog() for
> >>> channel support, this isn't in the latest documentation. So I'm not
> sure
> >>> if this is still experimental or not.
> >>>
> >>> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Python
> 2.7.3
> >>>
> >>>    Problem signature:
> >>>       Problem Event Name:APPCRASH
> >>>       Application Name:python.exe
> >>>       Application Version:0.0.0.0
> >>>       Application Timestamp:4f84a6c8
> >>>       Fault Module Name:ADVAPI32.dll
> >>>       Fault Module Version:6.1.7600.16385
> >>>       Fault Module Timestamp:4a5bd97e
> >>>       Exception Code:c0000005
> >>>       Exception Offset:00019347
> >>>       OS Version:6.1.7600.2.0.0.274.10
> >>>       Locale ID:1033
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From timr at probo.com  Fri May  4 20:33:05 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:33:05 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing methods from python-based COM DLL
 generated using py2exe
In-Reply-To: <D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
References: <5E6F13034AEF334F9D175E1F28BCDAFF060E427D@001FSN2MPN1-015.001f.mgd2.msft.net>,
	<4FA2BE34.80000@probo.com>
	<D3BD057E5DB8CD4E8904740FDF01EE0919569D67@CH1PRD0102MB114.prod.exchangelabs.com>
Message-ID: <4FA420E1.6020206@probo.com>

Alexis Ellis wrote:
> Thank you for your help.  I was obviously headed down the wrong path.
> As per your suggestion, I am now using comtypes to create a com server.

You mean Pythoncom, right?

>> python myserver.py /regserver
> I get the following error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "myserver.py", line 23, in <module>
>     import win32com.server.register
>   File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\lib\site-packages\win32com\server\register.py", l
> ine 13, in <module>
>     import winerror
>   File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\winerror.py", line 3, in <module>
>     from nterror import *
>   File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\nterror.py", line 4, in <module>
>     import windll
>   File "c:\python26\arcgis10.0\windll.py", line 20, in <module>
>     import calldll
> ImportError: No module named calldll

I don't understand your paths at all.  What is "arcgis10.0" doing in
there?  How did you install Python?  Your standard library is living in
a subdirectory of that, instead of in \python2.6, where it would
ordinarily live.

win32com\server\register.py is trying to include "winerror.py", which is
part of the normal PyWin32 distribution, in win32\lib.  However, for
some reason, it is finding winerror.py from \python26\arcgis.10.0
instead.  That can't be healthy.  register.py is expecting the one in
win32\lib.

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


From alan.jump at gmail.com  Sun May  6 03:24:54 2012
From: alan.jump at gmail.com (Alan Jump)
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 18:24:54 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
Message-ID: <4FA5D2E6.5020800@gmail.com>

Trying to massage an older package (not written by me) into functioning
order. The issue I'm having is getting printing functionality to work.
The code snippet in question:

        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
            try:
                import win32api
            except:
                print('* FAILED TO LOAD WINDOWS EXTENSION')
                return
            try:
                win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", filename, None, ".", 0)
            except:
                print('* FAILED TO SEND PRINT TO WINDOWS PRINTER')
                return

The output file is generated in a separate code section and the filename
being passed has been verified, but I invariably get the message in the
second exception. That tells me the win32api is being properly imported,
but for some reason, it's throwing an exception when trying to write to
the print device. I commented out the "try - except" statements, and got
an error message that the device could not be opened. I'm wondering if
there's a UAC or permissions issue I'm running up against.

Specifics: Windows Vista Home Basic, fully patched. Python 3.2,
PyWindows build 217.

73 de N5ILN/6
Alan

From vernondcole at gmail.com  Sun May  6 05:44:22 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 21:44:22 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA5D2E6.5020800@gmail.com>
References: <4FA5D2E6.5020800@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAH-ZgAcYKw2OUexnBLcVkAqxSNUhRUz8yD4_1QhVT03xaj+Rog@mail.gmail.com>

First, make sure that you can type "print somefile.txt" on a console
command line and get it to work. Often the old DOS style print command -
which is what you are trying here - will not work on new Windows printers.
You may very likely have to use a much more complex method involving the
Windows print spooler.
On May 5, 2012 7:25 PM, "Alan Jump" <alan.jump at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to massage an older package (not written by me) into functioning
> order. The issue I'm having is getting printing functionality to work.
> The code snippet in question:
>
>        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>            try:
>                import win32api
>            except:
>                print('* FAILED TO LOAD WINDOWS EXTENSION')
>                return
>            try:
>                win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", filename, None, ".", 0)
>            except:
>                print('* FAILED TO SEND PRINT TO WINDOWS PRINTER')
>                return
>
> The output file is generated in a separate code section and the filename
> being passed has been verified, but I invariably get the message in the
> second exception. That tells me the win32api is being properly imported,
> but for some reason, it's throwing an exception when trying to write to
> the print device. I commented out the "try - except" statements, and got
> an error message that the device could not be opened. I'm wondering if
> there's a UAC or permissions issue I'm running up against.
>
> Specifics: Windows Vista Home Basic, fully patched. Python 3.2,
> PyWindows build 217.
>
> 73 de N5ILN/6
> Alan
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun May  6 10:50:50 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 09:50:50 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA5D2E6.5020800@gmail.com>
References: <4FA5D2E6.5020800@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA63B6A.5050408@timgolden.me.uk>

On 06/05/2012 02:24, Alan Jump wrote:
> Trying to massage an older package (not written by me) into functioning
> order. The issue I'm having is getting printing functionality to work.
> The code snippet in question:
>
>          if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>              try:
>                  import win32api
>              except:
>                  print('* FAILED TO LOAD WINDOWS EXTENSION')
>                  return
>              try:
>                  win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", filename, None, ".", 0)
>              except:
>                  print('* FAILED TO SEND PRINT TO WINDOWS PRINTER')
>                  return
>
> The output file is generated in a separate code section and the filename
> being passed has been verified, but I invariably get the message in the
> second exception. That tells me the win32api is being properly imported,
> but for some reason, it's throwing an exception when trying to write to
> the print device.

Some general advice for a start: you almost *never* want to
use a general except: clause (ie without a specific exception
class): it catches *everything* - including Ctrl-C. So, in
the try-except around "import win32api" you just want to
catch ImportErrors -- at least, I assume so.

However, you've circumvented that particular issue by removing
the except clause from your ShellExecute command. Contrary to
Vernon's suggestion, that won't actually be using the DOS
"print" command but rather passing the "print" verb along to
the application which is registered against the filename in
question via the Shell verb handling mechanism.

It would be interesting to see the exact error message you
get but permissions or UAC is definitely a possibility. Also,
and this is where it gets messier, the "print" verb will, in
most cases, go to the *default* printer on the machine you're
on -- and with the default settings. It's possible that this
isn't the printer you think it is. Some applications keep their
own track of which printer you last used, so you might fail to
realise which one is actually the default.

If that is the case you might want to look at this:

   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html#shellexecute

for a possible way to specify a printer.


TJG

From alan.jump at gmail.com  Sun May  6 19:07:14 2012
From: alan.jump at gmail.com (Alan Jump)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 10:07:14 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA6A6D1.2070302@gmail.com>
References: <4FA6A6D1.2070302@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA6AFC2.5080003@gmail.com>

(Originally sent just to Tim...serves me right for trying to think
before I've had my second cuppa.)

Much obliged to both you and Vernon. I'm going to be adding quite a few
code snippets to these emails, just to let the various search engines
work their magic in case anyone besides me is running into the same problem.

I tried a couple of the extended commands on the web page, and still got
the same exception message. The altered section is as follows:

        if platform.system() == 'Windows':
            try:
                import win32api
                import win32print # new import to allow for direction to
default printer
            except:
                print('* FAILED TO LOAD WINDOWS EXTENSION')
                return
            try:
                win32api.ShellExecute (0, "printto", filename,
                                       '"%s"' %
win32print.GetDefaultPrinter (),
                                       ".", 0) # altered ShellExecute()
parameter
            except:
                print('* FAILED TO SEND PRINT TO WINDOWS PRINTER')
                return

I ran a code evaluation in my IDE (Wing IDE, for those keeping score).
The error message:

    pywintypes.error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached to the
system is not functioning.')

I double-checked that the interpreter was seeing the printer:

>>> win32print.GetDefaultPrinter()
'Canon iP4800 series'

Taking Vernon's hint, I was also not able to print a file using the
command-line "print" statement. So although the
win32print.GetDefaultPrinter() function is seeing the default printer
correctly, and the printer operates correctly in any actual WinXX
program, it's not being recognized outside WinXX. The problem with using
the "print" command, though, is that it wants to see either the default
PRN device, or a specific output port (USB7:, LPT0:, etc.)

The next troubleshooting step is to see if there are driver updates,
since it's not printing from the command line.

Thanks again.

73 de N5ILN/6
Alan

On 5/6/2012 1:50 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 02:24, Alan Jump wrote:
>> Trying to massage an older package (not written by me) into functioning
>> order. The issue I'm having is getting printing functionality to work.
>> The code snippet in question:
>>
>>          if platform.system() == 'Windows':
>>              try:
>>                  import win32api
>>              except:
>>                  print('* FAILED TO LOAD WINDOWS EXTENSION')
>>                  return
>>              try:
>>                  win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", filename, None,
>> ".", 0)
>>              except:
>>                  print('* FAILED TO SEND PRINT TO WINDOWS PRINTER')
>>                  return
>>
>> The output file is generated in a separate code section and the filename
>> being passed has been verified, but I invariably get the message in the
>> second exception. That tells me the win32api is being properly imported,
>> but for some reason, it's throwing an exception when trying to write to
>> the print device.
>
> Some general advice for a start: you almost *never* want to
> use a general except: clause (ie without a specific exception
> class): it catches *everything* - including Ctrl-C. So, in
> the try-except around "import win32api" you just want to
> catch ImportErrors -- at least, I assume so.
>
> However, you've circumvented that particular issue by removing
> the except clause from your ShellExecute command. Contrary to
> Vernon's suggestion, that won't actually be using the DOS
> "print" command but rather passing the "print" verb along to
> the application which is registered against the filename in
> question via the Shell verb handling mechanism.
>
> It would be interesting to see the exact error message you
> get but permissions or UAC is definitely a possibility. Also,
> and this is where it gets messier, the "print" verb will, in
> most cases, go to the *default* printer on the machine you're
> on -- and with the default settings. It's possible that this
> isn't the printer you think it is. Some applications keep their
> own track of which printer you last used, so you might fail to
> realise which one is actually the default.
>
> If that is the case you might want to look at this:
>
>   http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html#shellexecute
>
> for a possible way to specify a printer.
>
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32



From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun May  6 19:20:41 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 18:20:41 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA6AFC2.5080003@gmail.com>
References: <4FA6A6D1.2070302@gmail.com> <4FA6AFC2.5080003@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA6B2E9.1010607@timgolden.me.uk>

On 06/05/2012 18:07, Alan Jump wrote:
> Much obliged to both you and Vernon. I'm going to be adding quite a few
> code snippets to these emails, just to let the various search engines
> work their magic in case anyone besides me is running into the same problem.
>
> I tried a couple of the extended commands on the web page, and still got
> the same exception message.

At the risk of asking you to do the obvious, what happens
if you do this:

<code>
import win32api

open ("test.txt", "w").write ("TESTING")
win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", "test.txt", None, ".", 0)

</code>

In other words, is there a problem sending *anything*
to print via a Shell Execute? Or is there something
specific to your app?

TJG

From alan.jump at gmail.com  Sun May  6 19:37:36 2012
From: alan.jump at gmail.com (Alan Jump)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 10:37:36 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA6B2E9.1010607@timgolden.me.uk>
References: <4FA6A6D1.2070302@gmail.com> <4FA6AFC2.5080003@gmail.com>
	<4FA6B2E9.1010607@timgolden.me.uk>
Message-ID: <4FA6B6E0.5070105@gmail.com>

I entered it in the shell, being too lazy to write a separate script
file. The response is the same:

<code>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
pywintypes.error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached to the system
is not functioning.')
</code>

So it's apparently an issue with my system, rather than the script. I've
tried changing print processors and updating drivers, but to no avail.
So I'm thinking this is not a Python problem, but a Windows problem,
which means I dig elsewhere for the gem that fixes the problem.

Thanks again.

73 de N5ILN/6
Alan

On 5/6/2012 10:20 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 18:07, Alan Jump wrote:
>> Much obliged to both you and Vernon. I'm going to be adding quite a few
>> code snippets to these emails, just to let the various search engines
>> work their magic in case anyone besides me is running into the same
>> problem.
>>
>> I tried a couple of the extended commands on the web page, and still got
>> the same exception message.
>
> At the risk of asking you to do the obvious, what happens
> if you do this:
>
> <code>
> import win32api
>
> open ("test.txt", "w").write ("TESTING")
> win32api.ShellExecute (0, "print", "test.txt", None, ".", 0)
>
> </code>
>
> In other words, is there a problem sending *anything*
> to print via a Shell Execute? Or is there something
> specific to your app?
>
> TJG
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Sun May  6 20:40:30 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 19:40:30 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] A little help for a n00b, please
In-Reply-To: <4FA6B6E0.5070105@gmail.com>
References: <4FA6A6D1.2070302@gmail.com> <4FA6AFC2.5080003@gmail.com>
	<4FA6B2E9.1010607@timgolden.me.uk> <4FA6B6E0.5070105@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA6C59E.5000309@timgolden.me.uk>

On 06/05/2012 18:37, Alan Jump wrote:
> I entered it in the shell, being too lazy to write a separate script
> file. The response is the same:
>
> <code>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 1, in<fragment>
> pywintypes.error: (31, 'ShellExecute', 'A device attached to the system
> is not functioning.')
> </code>
>
> So it's apparently an issue with my system, rather than the script. I've
> tried changing print processors and updating drivers, but to no avail.
> So I'm thinking this is not a Python problem, but a Windows problem,
> which means I dig elsewhere for the gem that fixes the problem.

Most of the pywin32 functionality exposes
the underlying win32 api more or less raw. (Doing only
what's necessary to map Python objects to and from their
Windows counterparts). So it's fairly unusual for Python
to introduce any complexity into this kind of situation.


BTW, the custom on this list is to bottom-post or inter-post
rather than top-posting. Just so you know...

TJG

From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Tue May  8 00:26:44 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 00:26:44 +0200
Subject: [python-win32]  speed up win32com.client
Message-ID: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32. When
I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is faster to use
vba than python.
Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster with
AutoCAD elements?
For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:

import win32com.client

import time

t1=time.clock()

acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

doc = acad.ActiveDocument

seleccion=doc.SelectionSets.Add('selection6')

seleccion.SelectOnScreen()

t2=time.clock()

M=[]

for objeto in seleccion:

if objeto.ObjectName=='AcDbBlockReference':

M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)

t3=time.clock()

print 'M_dimension=',len(M)

R=[]

for m in M:

for x in M:

R.append(max(m)+max(x))

print 'R_dimension=',len(R)

t4=time.clock()

t_block1=t2-t1

t_block2=t3-t2

t_block3=t4-t3

print 't_block1=',t_block1

print 't_block2=',t_block2

print 't_block3=',t_block3


The output for the code is the following:

M_dimension= 512
R_dimension= 262144
t_block1= 4.25343304805
t_block2= 3.88635510938
t_block3= 0.487477319045


Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.

Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?


Best Regards,

Daniel Pose.
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From timr at probo.com  Tue May  8 18:45:13 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 09:45:13 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>

DANIEL POSE wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32.
> When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
> faster to use vba than python.
> Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
> with AutoCAD elements?
> For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
> ...
>
> The output for the code is the following:
>
> M_dimension= 512
> R_dimension= 262144
> t_block1= 4.25343304805
> t_block2= 3.88635510938
> t_block3= 0.487477319045
>
>
> Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>

I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
Python.

> Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>

There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.

However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
    acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

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


From tom at pentest.7safe.com  Wed May  9 16:33:57 2012
From: tom at pentest.7safe.com (Tom)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 15:33:57 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
References: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CA+MSYVov9UJQPPLzCnGLsg8jQwEkg4i9ih9Pq69tUX=5W+0J0w@mail.gmail.com>

Sorry to interject here but I have a question along the same vein:
If I have a script (in this case that interacts with Word through
win32com.client) with statements like this:
doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.BoldRun()
doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.TypeText(_type)
doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.BoldRun()

Does each line require 3 COM calls, one for ActiveWindow, one for Selection
and one for the method being called, or is the Selection object cached
somewhere?
The question really is the code below more efficient than the code above in
terms of COM calls, or is the difference minimal?
selec = doc.ActiveWindow.Selection
selec.BoldRun()
selec.TypeText(_type)
selec.BoldRun()

Its something I have always wondered. Thanks!

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> DANIEL POSE wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32.
> > When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
> > faster to use vba than python.
> > Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
> > with AutoCAD elements?
> > For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
> > ...
> >
> > The output for the code is the following:
> >
> > M_dimension= 512
> > R_dimension= 262144
> > t_block1= 4.25343304805
> > t_block2= 3.88635510938
> > t_block3= 0.487477319045
> >
> >
> > Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
> >
>
> I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
> two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
> loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
> Python.
>
> > Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
> >
>
> There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
> work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
> believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.
>
> However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
>    acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
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> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Wed May  9 22:38:17 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 22:38:17 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
References: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
Message-ID: <CAOV229myB2SL=mN1YZDvKqnLSAcWoAFak2N0cBFQfua=8zb++w@mail.gmail.com>

I have read about Early Binding but I hadn't tested the line that you
reference:
acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

For my surprise, if I replace line:

acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

for the line:

acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

I have an error about a missing attribute in the line:

M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)

The problem here is that if now I go back to use the line:

acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

Now pywin32 brokes and I have always the same error in line:
M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)

I need to reinstall pywin32 in order to repair the problem.



2012/5/8 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com>

> DANIEL POSE wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32.
> > When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
> > faster to use vba than python.
> > Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
> > with AutoCAD elements?
> > For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
> > ...
> >
> > The output for the code is the following:
> >
> > M_dimension= 512
> > R_dimension= 262144
> > t_block1= 4.25343304805
> > t_block2= 3.88635510938
> > t_block3= 0.487477319045
> >
> >
> > Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
> >
>
> I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
> two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
> loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
> Python.
>
> > Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
> >
>
> There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
> work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
> believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.
>
> However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
>    acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From Rohit.Nirantar at wellsfargo.com  Fri May 11 06:02:40 2012
From: Rohit.Nirantar at wellsfargo.com (Rohit.Nirantar at wellsfargo.com)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:02:40 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Help needed on Dispatch
Message-ID: <FDDA738D3029514C81C01328D6D2932A56AC53DA4C@MSGCMSIL1001.ent.wfb.bank.corp>

Hi All,

I am getting error while trying to execute code:

from win32com.client import Dispatch
xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")

    Dispatch    C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py       95
    _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py        108
    _GetGoodDispatch    C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py        85
com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)

Can anyone please help me.

Thanks



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From timr at probo.com  Fri May 11 19:10:11 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:10:11 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Help needed on Dispatch
In-Reply-To: <FDDA738D3029514C81C01328D6D2932A56AC53DA4C@MSGCMSIL1001.ent.wfb.bank.corp>
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Message-ID: <4FAD47F3.7050909@probo.com>

Rohit.Nirantar at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I am getting error while trying to execute code:
>  
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>  
>     Dispatch   
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py      
> 95             
>     _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py       
> 108            
>     _GetGoodDispatch   
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py       
> 85             
> com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)

The most likely explanation is that you do not have Excel installed on
your computer.

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


From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sat May 12 05:32:53 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:32:53 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <CA+MSYVov9UJQPPLzCnGLsg8jQwEkg4i9ih9Pq69tUX=5W+0J0w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
	<CA+MSYVov9UJQPPLzCnGLsg8jQwEkg4i9ih9Pq69tUX=5W+0J0w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FADD9E5.1060403@gmail.com>

On 10/05/2012 12:33 AM, Tom wrote:
> Sorry to interject here but I have a question along the same vein:
> If I have a script (in this case that interacts with Word through
> win32com.client) with statements like this:
> doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.BoldRun()
> doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.TypeText(_type)
> doc.ActiveWindow.Selection.BoldRun()
>
> Does each line require 3 COM calls, one for ActiveWindow, one for
> Selection and one for the method being called, or is the Selection
> object cached somewhere?

It requires 3 COM calls - there is no caching (and your code above is a 
good example of why - the "ActiveWindow" could easily change between the 
value being cached and it being reused).

> The question really is the code below more efficient than the code above
> in terms of COM calls, or is the difference minimal?
> selec = doc.ActiveWindow.Selection
> selec.BoldRun()
> selec.TypeText(_type)
> selec.BoldRun()

The above would be more efficient.

Cheers,

Mark
>
> Its something I have always wondered. Thanks!
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com
> <mailto:timr at probo.com>> wrote:
>
>     DANIEL POSE wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using
>     pywin32.
>      > When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
>      > faster to use vba than python.
>      > Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
>      > with AutoCAD elements?
>      > For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
>      > ...
>      >
>      > The output for the code is the following:
>      >
>      > M_dimension= 512
>      > R_dimension= 262144
>      > t_block1= 4.25343304805
>      > t_block2= 3.88635510938
>      > t_block3= 0.487477319045
>      >
>      >
>      > Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>      >
>
>     I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
>     two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
>     loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
>     Python.
>
>      > Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>      >
>
>     There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
>     work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
>     believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.
>
>     However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
>         acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
>     --
>     Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>
>     Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     python-win32 mailing list
>     python-win32 at python.org <mailto:python-win32 at python.org>
>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
>
>
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sat May 12 05:36:14 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:36:14 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <CAOV229myB2SL=mN1YZDvKqnLSAcWoAFak2N0cBFQfua=8zb++w@mail.gmail.com>
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	<4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
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Message-ID: <4FADDAAE.5070500@gmail.com>

On 10/05/2012 6:38 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
> I have read about Early Binding but I hadn't tested the line that you
> reference:
> acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> For my surprise, if I replace line:
>
> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> for the line:
>
> acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> I have an error about a missing attribute in the line:
>
> M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)

Once you use early-binding, the object becomes case sensitive where it 
usually wasn't before.  So I suspect you wanted something like 
"insertionPoint" or some other difference in case.

> The problem here is that if now I go back to use the line:
>
> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> Now pywin32 brokes and I have always the same error in line:
> M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)
>
> I need to reinstall pywin32 in order to repair the problem.

Yeah, this is unfortunate - once you've generated the early binding 
support, win32com.client.Dispatch will generally be able to use it.  A 
work around without reinstalling would have been to delete the 
win32com\client\gen_py directory.

HTH,

Mark

>
>
>
> 2012/5/8 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>>
>
>     DANIEL POSE wrote:
>      > Hello,
>      >
>      > I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using
>     pywin32.
>      > When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
>      > faster to use vba than python.
>      > Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
>      > with AutoCAD elements?
>      > For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
>      > ...
>      >
>      > The output for the code is the following:
>      >
>      > M_dimension= 512
>      > R_dimension= 262144
>      > t_block1= 4.25343304805
>      > t_block2= 3.88635510938
>      > t_block3= 0.487477319045
>      >
>      >
>      > Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>      >
>
>     I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
>     two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
>     loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
>     Python.
>
>      > Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>      >
>
>     There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
>     work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
>     believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.
>
>     However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
>         acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
>     --
>     Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>
>     Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     python-win32 mailing list
>     python-win32 at python.org <mailto:python-win32 at python.org>
>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sat May 12 05:37:27 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 13:37:27 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Help needed on Dispatch
In-Reply-To: <FDDA738D3029514C81C01328D6D2932A56AC53DA4C@MSGCMSIL1001.ent.wfb.bank.corp>
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Message-ID: <4FADDAF7.8020606@gmail.com>

Or as a follow-up to Tim's response, the other likely scenario is that 
you have a 32bit Excel but a 64bit Python.  So if that sounds likely, 
just remove the 64bit Python and use a 32bit version.

Cheers,

Mark

On 11/05/2012 2:02 PM, Rohit.Nirantar at wellsfargo.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am getting error while trying to execute code:
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
>      Dispatch
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py       95
>      _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py        108
>      _GetGoodDispatch
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py        85
> com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)
> Can anyone please help me.
> Thanks
>
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From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Sat May 12 21:00:20 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 21:00:20 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <4FADDAAE.5070500@gmail.com>
References: <CAOV229nAzHag1FvLu0gpOhnH8OW==cs4mD8HaPed6XsMQn1k2g@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FA94D99.2000404@probo.com>
	<CAOV229myB2SL=mN1YZDvKqnLSAcWoAFak2N0cBFQfua=8zb++w@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FADDAAE.5070500@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOV229kg6xj8+dzhD5nvJtgtKqTrS20_uq7LdGDNDbQSRQr_gw@mail.gmail.com>

I had tried to change attribute name in several ways (InsertionPoint,
insertionPoint, insertionpoint,...) but I obtained the same error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
  File
"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\startup.py",
line 128, in runfile
    execfile(filename, glbs)
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Usuario\Mis
documentos\Dropbox\PYTHON\PruebaAutoCAD.py", line 29, in <module>
    M.append(objeto.insertionpoint)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
465, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" % (repr(self),
attr))
AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.AutoCAD 2008 Type Library.IAcadEntity
instance at 0x88940672>' object has no attribute 'insertionpoint'

If I delete only the  win32com\client\gen_py  folder It doesn't work. I
need delete for example win32com and win32 folders and restore older ones.


2012/5/12 Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>

> On 10/05/2012 6:38 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
>
>> I have read about Early Binding but I hadn't tested the line that you
>> reference:
>> acad= win32com.client.gencache.**EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.**Application")
>>
>> For my surprise, if I replace line:
>>
>> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("**AutoCAD.Application")
>>
>> for the line:
>>
>> acad= win32com.client.gencache.**EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.**Application")
>>
>> I have an error about a missing attribute in the line:
>>
>> M.append(objeto.**InsertionPoint)
>>
>
> Once you use early-binding, the object becomes case sensitive where it
> usually wasn't before.  So I suspect you wanted something like
> "insertionPoint" or some other difference in case.
>
>
>  The problem here is that if now I go back to use the line:
>>
>> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("**AutoCAD.Application")
>>
>> Now pywin32 brokes and I have always the same error in line:
>> M.append(objeto.**InsertionPoint)
>>
>> I need to reinstall pywin32 in order to repair the problem.
>>
>
> Yeah, this is unfortunate - once you've generated the early binding
> support, win32com.client.Dispatch will generally be able to use it.  A work
> around without reinstalling would have been to delete the
> win32com\client\gen_py directory.
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2012/5/8 Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>>
>>
>>
>>    DANIEL POSE wrote:
>>     > Hello,
>>     >
>>     > I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using
>>    pywin32.
>>     > When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is
>>     > faster to use vba than python.
>>     > Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster
>>     > with AutoCAD elements?
>>     > For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
>>     > ...
>>     >
>>     > The output for the code is the following:
>>     >
>>     > M_dimension= 512
>>     > R_dimension= 262144
>>     > t_block1= 4.25343304805
>>     > t_block2= 3.88635510938
>>     > t_block3= 0.487477319045
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>>     >
>>
>>    I hope that's not a surprise to you.  The first loop (block2) involves
>>    two calls into the AutoCAD COM object in each iteration.  The second
>>    loop (block3) is simply manipulating lists of integers, entirely within
>>    Python.
>>
>>     > Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>>     >
>>
>>    There isn't really anything here to speed up.  You're just "glue".  The
>>    work is being done in AutoCAD.  It is almost impossible for me to
>>    believe that Visual Basic does this same loop any faster.
>>
>>    However, you can certainly try switching to early binding by using:
>>        acad= win32com.client.gencache.**EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.**
>> Application")
>>
>>    --
>>    Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com <mailto:timr at probo.com>
>>
>>    Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
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From dan.glassman at gmail.com  Sat May 12 22:37:28 2012
From: dan.glassman at gmail.com (Dan Glassman)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 15:37:28 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
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VBA is faster because it's running in-process inside AutoCAD (everything is
loaded into acad.exe).  Python runs out-of-process (AutoCAD objects need to
be passed back and forth between acad.exe and python.exe).

You can use AutoCAD's ObjectARX API to embed python inside AutoCAD and make
python in-process; you'll get a significant speedup.  You'll need to know
C++ in order to do that.  Let me know if you'd like further details.

64-bit AutoCAD runs VBA out-of-process because there is no 64-bit VBA;
you'd see the same slowness there that you're seeing with python.

-drg



On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, DANIEL POSE <iinjdpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32.
> When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is faster to
> use vba than python.
> Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster with
> AutoCAD elements?
> For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
>
> import win32com.client
>
> import time
>
> t1=time.clock()
>
> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> doc = acad.ActiveDocument
>
> seleccion=doc.SelectionSets.Add('selection6')
>
> seleccion.SelectOnScreen()
>
> t2=time.clock()
>
> M=[]
>
> for objeto in seleccion:
>
> if objeto.ObjectName=='AcDbBlockReference':
>
> M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)
>
> t3=time.clock()
>
> print 'M_dimension=',len(M)
>
> R=[]
>
> for m in M:
>
> for x in M:
>
> R.append(max(m)+max(x))
>
> print 'R_dimension=',len(R)
>
> t4=time.clock()
>
> t_block1=t2-t1
>
> t_block2=t3-t2
>
> t_block3=t4-t3
>
> print 't_block1=',t_block1
>
> print 't_block2=',t_block2
>
> print 't_block3=',t_block3
>
>
> The output for the code is the following:
>
> M_dimension= 512
> R_dimension= 262144
> t_block1= 4.25343304805
> t_block2= 3.88635510938
> t_block3= 0.487477319045
>
>
> Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>
> Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Daniel Pose.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From ed.shallow at gmail.com  Sat May 12 14:31:38 2012
From: ed.shallow at gmail.com (EdShallow)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 08:31:38 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
Message-ID: <CAB3xoRi=fh82gqW2nyiROymhjEZ7MuL7LyiZBechnhYniDFO0Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Folks,

     I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in WinXP. I can
call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208 without
problems.

     As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything itself to
anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon entry.

     Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to addressing
this incompatibility?

Thanks,
Ed

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun May 13 04:35:17 2012
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:35:17 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
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On 13/05/2012 5:00 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
> I had tried to change attribute name in several ways (InsertionPoint,
> insertionPoint, insertionpoint,...) but I obtained the same error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
>    File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spyderlib\widgets\externalshell\startup.py",
> line 128, in runfile
>      execfile(filename, glbs)
>    File "C:\Documents and Settings\Usuario\Mis
> documentos\Dropbox\PYTHON\PruebaAutoCAD.py", line 29, in <module>
>      M.append(objeto.insertionpoint)
>    File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 465, in __getattr__
>      raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
> (repr(self), attr))
> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.AutoCAD 2008 Type Library.IAcadEntity
> instance at 0x88940672>' object has no attribute 'insertionpoint'

In the gen_py directory you should find a generated file supporting the 
AutoCAD object - it will have a GUID in its name so it might not be 
obvious which one applies, but inside that you should find the 
'IAcadEntity' object.  That should have a _prop_map_get attribute which 
lists the attributes available on the object - I'd expect to find 
insertionPoint listed there.  It may turn out it is actually on a 
different object, in which case the win32com.client.CastTo() function 
might be useful to get the appropriate interface.

> If I delete only the win32com\client\gen_py  folder It doesn't work. I
> need delete for example win32com and win32 folders and restore older ones.

Hrm - I certainly can't explain that!  Or maybe I can - check your 
%TEMP% folder and see if there is a gen_py directory there?

Mark

From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Sun May 13 13:42:24 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 13:42:24 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
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Thank you Dan, by now it is clear for me. Unfortunately I haven't C++
knowledge but don't worry, for me it is enought to know that the problem is
not in python or in my code.
Now I am occasionaly programmer in Python or VBA, then it would be too
complicated for me to learn C++, but perhaps I will consider this question
in the future.

2012/5/12 Dan Glassman <dan.glassman at gmail.com>

> VBA is faster because it's running in-process inside AutoCAD (everything
> is loaded into acad.exe).  Python runs out-of-process (AutoCAD objects need
> to be passed back and forth between acad.exe and python.exe).
>
> You can use AutoCAD's ObjectARX API to embed python inside AutoCAD and
> make python in-process; you'll get a significant speedup.  You'll need to
> know C++ in order to do that.  Let me know if you'd like further details.
>
> 64-bit AutoCAD runs VBA out-of-process because there is no 64-bit VBA;
> you'd see the same slowness there that you're seeing with python.
>
> -drg
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, DANIEL POSE <iinjdpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am writing code to program AutoCAD access from Python using pywin32.
>> When I need to work with a high number of AutoCAD objects, it is faster to
>> use vba than python.
>> Are there some way to speed up python code in order to work faster with
>> AutoCAD elements?
>> For example in the next code when I work with 512 AutoCAD blocks:
>>
>> import win32com.client
>>
>> import time
>>
>> t1=time.clock()
>>
>> acad= win32com.client.Dispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>>
>> doc = acad.ActiveDocument
>>
>> seleccion=doc.SelectionSets.Add('selection6')
>>
>> seleccion.SelectOnScreen()
>>
>> t2=time.clock()
>>
>> M=[]
>>
>> for objeto in seleccion:
>>
>> if objeto.ObjectName=='AcDbBlockReference':
>>
>> M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)
>>
>> t3=time.clock()
>>
>> print 'M_dimension=',len(M)
>>
>> R=[]
>>
>> for m in M:
>>
>> for x in M:
>>
>> R.append(max(m)+max(x))
>>
>> print 'R_dimension=',len(R)
>>
>> t4=time.clock()
>>
>> t_block1=t2-t1
>>
>> t_block2=t3-t2
>>
>> t_block3=t4-t3
>>
>> print 't_block1=',t_block1
>>
>> print 't_block2=',t_block2
>>
>> print 't_block3=',t_block3
>>
>>
>> The output for the code is the following:
>>
>> M_dimension= 512
>> R_dimension= 262144
>> t_block1= 4.25343304805
>> t_block2= 3.88635510938
>> t_block3= 0.487477319045
>>
>>
>> Then it is faster to work with R than M, even though R is bigger.
>>
>> Some suggestions for speed up pywin32 code in this example?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Daniel Pose.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>
>>
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From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Sun May 13 14:09:46 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 14:09:46 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
In-Reply-To: <4FAF1DE5.7080903@skippinet.com.au>
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Thank you Mark, I will try to use  win32com.client.CastTo() because
InsertionPoint attribute is not inside  IAcadEntity.

Opss, you are right, the problem was TEMP\gen_py folder. Thank you!

2012/5/13 Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>

> On 13/05/2012 5:00 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
>
>> I had tried to change attribute name in several ways (InsertionPoint,
>> insertionPoint, insertionpoint,...) but I obtained the same error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File
>> "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\spyderlib\widgets\**
>> externalshell\startup.py",
>> line 128, in runfile
>>     execfile(filename, glbs)
>>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Usuario\Mis
>> documentos\Dropbox\PYTHON\**PruebaAutoCAD.py", line 29, in <module>
>>     M.append(objeto.**insertionpoint)
>>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\win32com\client\__**init__.py",
>> line 465, in __getattr__
>>     raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
>> (repr(self), attr))
>> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.AutoCAD 2008 Type Library.IAcadEntity
>> instance at 0x88940672>' object has no attribute 'insertionpoint'
>>
>
> In the gen_py directory you should find a generated file supporting the
> AutoCAD object - it will have a GUID in its name so it might not be obvious
> which one applies, but inside that you should find the 'IAcadEntity'
> object.  That should have a _prop_map_get attribute which lists the
> attributes available on the object - I'd expect to find insertionPoint
> listed there.  It may turn out it is actually on a different object, in
> which case the win32com.client.CastTo() function might be useful to get the
> appropriate interface.
>
>
>  If I delete only the win32com\client\gen_py  folder It doesn't work. I
>> need delete for example win32com and win32 folders and restore older ones.
>>
>
> Hrm - I certainly can't explain that!  Or maybe I can - check your %TEMP%
> folder and see if there is a gen_py directory there?
>
> Mark
>
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From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Sun May 13 20:19:50 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:19:50 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
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Just for conclude the discusion, the solution is win32.client.CastTo() as
Mark said. However, this modification doesn't speed up the code (at least
in my case).
Then, perhaps I need to learn C++ in order to embed python inside AutoCAD
as Dan Glassman said. But, not now...
Here I post the code using CastTo:

<code>

import win32com.client

import time

import string

import random


 def nombrealeatorio(size=10, chars=string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits):

'''Esta funci?n crea un nombre aleatorio de 10 caracteres'''

return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for x in range(size))

 t1=time.clock()


acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")

doc=win32com.client.CastTo(acad,"IAcadApplication")

doc = acad.ActiveDocument

seleccion=win32com.client.CastTo(doc,"IAcadSelectionSets")

seleccion=doc.SelectionSets.Add(nombrealeatorio())

seleccion=win32com.client.CastTo(seleccion,"IAcadSelectionSet")

seleccion.SelectOnScreen()


t2=time.clock()

M=[]

for objeto in seleccion:

objeto=win32com.client.CastTo(objeto, "IAcadBlockReference")

if objeto.ObjectName=='AcDbBlockReference':

M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)

t3=time.clock()

print 'M_dimension=',len(M)

R=[]

for m in M:

for x in M:

R.append(max(m)+max(x))

print 'R_dimension=',len(R)

t4=time.clock()

t_block1=t2-t1

t_block2=t3-t2

t_block3=t4-t3

print 't_block1=',t_block1

print 't_block2=',t_block2

print 't_block3=',t_block3

print 't_total=',t4-t1


</code>


timing using early-binding:

M_dimension= 512

R_dimension= 262144

t_block1= 3.46952811042

t_block2= 4.81084020455

t_block3= 0.49030086226

t_total= 8.77066917723


timing using late-binding:

M_dimension= 512

R_dimension= 262144

t_block1= 3.20033803179

t_block2= 4.96431445896

t_block3= 0.570101227949

t_total= 8.7347537187


Thank you for this wonderfull mailing list and pywin32.


2012/5/13 Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>

> On 13/05/2012 5:00 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
>
>> I had tried to change attribute name in several ways (InsertionPoint,
>> insertionPoint, insertionpoint,...) but I obtained the same error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File
>> "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\spyderlib\widgets\**
>> externalshell\startup.py",
>> line 128, in runfile
>>     execfile(filename, glbs)
>>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Usuario\Mis
>> documentos\Dropbox\PYTHON\**PruebaAutoCAD.py", line 29, in <module>
>>     M.append(objeto.**insertionpoint)
>>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\win32com\client\__**init__.py",
>> line 465, in __getattr__
>>     raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
>> (repr(self), attr))
>> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.AutoCAD 2008 Type Library.IAcadEntity
>> instance at 0x88940672>' object has no attribute 'insertionpoint'
>>
>
> In the gen_py directory you should find a generated file supporting the
> AutoCAD object - it will have a GUID in its name so it might not be obvious
> which one applies, but inside that you should find the 'IAcadEntity'
> object.  That should have a _prop_map_get attribute which lists the
> attributes available on the object - I'd expect to find insertionPoint
> listed there.  It may turn out it is actually on a different object, in
> which case the win32com.client.CastTo() function might be useful to get the
> appropriate interface.
>
>
>  If I delete only the win32com\client\gen_py  folder It doesn't work. I
>> need delete for example win32com and win32 folders and restore older ones.
>>
>
> Hrm - I certainly can't explain that!  Or maybe I can - check your %TEMP%
> folder and see if there is a gen_py directory there?
>
> Mark
>
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From iinjdpa at gmail.com  Sun May 13 20:28:26 2012
From: iinjdpa at gmail.com (DANIEL POSE)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 20:28:26 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] speed up win32com.client
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Sorry!!! my mistake!!! really there are a speed up, the timing using
late-binding is:
M_dimension= 512
R_dimension= 262144
t_block1= 3.00059867944
t_block2= 12.2370913063
t_block3= 0.488927223991
t_total= 15.7266172097

Then it is about half time using early-binding for my example. It is
wonderfull!!



2012/5/13 DANIEL POSE <iinjdpa at gmail.com>

> Just for conclude the discusion, the solution is win32.client.CastTo() as
> Mark said. However, this modification doesn't speed up the code (at least
> in my case).
> Then, perhaps I need to learn C++ in order to embed python inside AutoCAD
> as Dan Glassman said. But, not now...
> Here I post the code using CastTo:
>
> <code>
>
> import win32com.client
>
> import time
>
> import string
>
> import random
>
>
>  def nombrealeatorio(size=10, chars=string.ascii_uppercase +
> string.digits):
>
> '''Esta funci?n crea un nombre aleatorio de 10 caracteres'''
>
> return ''.join(random.choice(chars) for x in range(size))
>
>  t1=time.clock()
>
>
> acad= win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("AutoCAD.Application")
>
> doc=win32com.client.CastTo(acad,"IAcadApplication")
>
> doc = acad.ActiveDocument
>
> seleccion=win32com.client.CastTo(doc,"IAcadSelectionSets")
>
> seleccion=doc.SelectionSets.Add(nombrealeatorio())
>
> seleccion=win32com.client.CastTo(seleccion,"IAcadSelectionSet")
>
> seleccion.SelectOnScreen()
>
>
> t2=time.clock()
>
> M=[]
>
> for objeto in seleccion:
>
> objeto=win32com.client.CastTo(objeto, "IAcadBlockReference")
>
> if objeto.ObjectName=='AcDbBlockReference':
>
> M.append(objeto.InsertionPoint)
>
> t3=time.clock()
>
> print 'M_dimension=',len(M)
>
> R=[]
>
> for m in M:
>
> for x in M:
>
> R.append(max(m)+max(x))
>
> print 'R_dimension=',len(R)
>
> t4=time.clock()
>
> t_block1=t2-t1
>
> t_block2=t3-t2
>
> t_block3=t4-t3
>
> print 't_block1=',t_block1
>
> print 't_block2=',t_block2
>
> print 't_block3=',t_block3
>
> print 't_total=',t4-t1
>
>
> </code>
>
>
> timing using early-binding:
>
> M_dimension= 512
>
> R_dimension= 262144
>
> t_block1= 3.46952811042
>
> t_block2= 4.81084020455
>
> t_block3= 0.49030086226
>
> t_total= 8.77066917723
>
>
> timing using late-binding:
>
> M_dimension= 512
>
> R_dimension= 262144
>
> t_block1= 3.20033803179
>
> t_block2= 4.96431445896
>
> t_block3= 0.570101227949
>
> t_total= 8.7347537187
>
>
> Thank you for this wonderfull mailing list and pywin32.
>
>
> 2012/5/13 Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
>
>> On 13/05/2012 5:00 AM, DANIEL POSE wrote:
>>
>>> I had tried to change attribute name in several ways (InsertionPoint,
>>> insertionPoint, insertionpoint,...) but I obtained the same error:
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<ipython console>", line 1, in <module>
>>>   File
>>> "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\spyderlib\widgets\**
>>> externalshell\startup.py",
>>> line 128, in runfile
>>>     execfile(filename, glbs)
>>>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Usuario\Mis
>>> documentos\Dropbox\PYTHON\**PruebaAutoCAD.py", line 29, in <module>
>>>     M.append(objeto.**insertionpoint)
>>>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-**packages\win32com\client\__**init__.py",
>>> line 465, in __getattr__
>>>     raise AttributeError("'%s' object has no attribute '%s'" %
>>> (repr(self), attr))
>>> AttributeError: '<win32com.gen_py.AutoCAD 2008 Type Library.IAcadEntity
>>> instance at 0x88940672>' object has no attribute 'insertionpoint'
>>>
>>
>> In the gen_py directory you should find a generated file supporting the
>> AutoCAD object - it will have a GUID in its name so it might not be obvious
>> which one applies, but inside that you should find the 'IAcadEntity'
>> object.  That should have a _prop_map_get attribute which lists the
>> attributes available on the object - I'd expect to find insertionPoint
>> listed there.  It may turn out it is actually on a different object, in
>> which case the win32com.client.CastTo() function might be useful to get the
>> appropriate interface.
>>
>>
>>  If I delete only the win32com\client\gen_py  folder It doesn't work. I
>>> need delete for example win32com and win32 folders and restore older
>>> ones.
>>>
>>
>> Hrm - I certainly can't explain that!  Or maybe I can - check your %TEMP%
>> folder and see if there is a gen_py directory there?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Mon May 14 03:07:19 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:07:19 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
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You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you see? 
  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that works?

Mark

On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>       I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in WinXP. I
> can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208
> without problems.
>
>       As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything itself
> to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon entry.
>
>       Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
> addressing this incompatibility?
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
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From antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com  Mon May 14 14:23:01 2012
From: antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com (Antony Joseph)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:53:01 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Windows service using py2exe
Message-ID: <CAMTL9-eB2xLBtbcb2x1RygVxbZrmkKrr+-U4GKUOkyWWLpf5ow@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I converted my python project to a service. When using the usual
options of install and start/stop, everything works correctly.

When I compile the project using py2exe,

>test.exe install
Installing service test

>test.exe start
Starting service test

- But it not actually get started

When i run it in debug mode,

>test.exe debug
Starting service Test

C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop>test.exe debug
Debugging service Test - press Ctrl+C to stop.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "boot_service.py", line 185, in <module>
  File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 611, in HandleCommandLine
  File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 447, in DebugService
  File "test.pyc", line 28, in __init__
WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid:
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\admin\\Desktop\\sharefolder\\test.e
xe'

Code:
test = Target(
    description = 'Test Service',
    modules = ['test'],
    cmdline_style='pywin32'

)

setup(
    options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1, "bundle_files": 1, "ascii":
1, "packages": ["encodings"]} },
    console=["test.py"],
    zipfile = None,
    service=[test]
)

From haraldarminmassa at gmail.com  Mon May 14 14:26:32 2012
From: haraldarminmassa at gmail.com (Harald Armin Massa[legacy])
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 14:26:32 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Windows service using py2exe
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Antony,

> C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop>test.exe debug
> Debugging service Test - press Ctrl+C to stop.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ?File "boot_service.py", line 185, in <module>
> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 611, in HandleCommandLine
> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 447, in DebugService
> ?File "test.pyc", line 28, in __init__
> WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid:
> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\admin\\Desktop\\sharefolder\\test.e
> xe'

services get run with windows-system directory as current directory.

Most likely there are no access rights to admins user directory. As a
first approach put your exe somewhere else then on the desktop.

Harald



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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Mon May 14 14:50:40 2012
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:50:40 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
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[re-adding python-win32 - please keep replies on list]

On 14/05/2012 10:39 PM, EdShallow wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
>       Python 2.3 with pywin32-208 works. The error I receive reads
> "Object through and exception at line 3".

How do you get that error?  You say "my dll throws an exception 
immediately upon entry" - I can't reconcile that "with the error I 
receive".  What does Python do when calling your failing DLL?  (ie, do 
you get a traceback?  If so, please include it completely.  If not, what 
result does Python get?  I'm still very unclear on the context of your 
problem.

>       Un-registering and re-registering the dll does not help.

But that's just unregistering and re-registering your DLL right?

>       The test was conducted on the same machine after uninstalling
> Python and re-installing numerous combinations of Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
> 2.7 with associated pywin32-208 thry pywin32-214.
>
>      If I uninstall the newer Python and re-install Python 2.3 and
> pywin32-208 all is OK again. It is definitely environmental as opposed
> to the code.

Well - it's *someone's* code :)  To be clear, 2.3 + pywin32 209 fails?

Mark
>
> Thanks,
> Ed
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
> <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you
>     see?  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that
>     works?
>
>     Mark
>
>
>     On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>
>         Hi Folks,
>
>               I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in
>         WinXP. I
>         can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208
>         without problems.
>
>               As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything
>         itself
>         to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon
>         entry.
>
>               Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
>         addressing this incompatibility?
>
>         Thanks,
>         Ed
>
>         --
>         Ed's Contact Information:
>         Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410 <tel:613-852-6410>
>         Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>>
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>
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>
>
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From ed.shallow at gmail.com  Mon May 14 15:00:56 2012
From: ed.shallow at gmail.com (EdShallow)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:56 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
In-Reply-To: <4FB0FFA0.6070109@skippinet.com.au>
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Thanks Mark,

  I will get you the details you request later today. Thanks for the help.

Ed

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>wrote:

> [re-adding python-win32 - please keep replies on list]
>
>
> On 14/05/2012 10:39 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>      Python 2.3 with pywin32-208 works. The error I receive reads
>> "Object through and exception at line 3".
>>
>
> How do you get that error?  You say "my dll throws an exception
> immediately upon entry" - I can't reconcile that "with the error I
> receive".  What does Python do when calling your failing DLL?  (ie, do you
> get a traceback?  If so, please include it completely.  If not, what result
> does Python get?  I'm still very unclear on the context of your problem.
>
>
>       Un-registering and re-registering the dll does not help.
>>
>
> But that's just unregistering and re-registering your DLL right?
>
>
>       The test was conducted on the same machine after uninstalling
>> Python and re-installing numerous combinations of Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
>> 2.7 with associated pywin32-208 thry pywin32-214.
>>
>>     If I uninstall the newer Python and re-install Python 2.3 and
>> pywin32-208 all is OK again. It is definitely environmental as opposed
>> to the code.
>>
>
> Well - it's *someone's* code :)  To be clear, 2.3 + pywin32 209 fails?
>
> Mark
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed
>>
>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
>> <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.**com <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>    You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you
>>    see?  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that
>>    works?
>>
>>    Mark
>>
>>
>>    On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>
>>        Hi Folks,
>>
>>              I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in
>>        WinXP. I
>>        can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208
>>        without problems.
>>
>>              As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything
>>        itself
>>        to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon
>>        entry.
>>
>>              Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
>>        addressing this incompatibility?
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>        Ed
>>
>>        --
>>        Ed's Contact Information:
>>        Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410 <tel:613-852-6410>
>>        Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>>        <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>>
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From haraldarminmassa at gmail.com  Tue May 15 11:27:45 2012
From: haraldarminmassa at gmail.com (Harald Armin Massa[legacy])
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:27:45 +0200
Subject: [python-win32] Windows service using py2exe
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Hello Antony,

please keep discussion on the list, so it may serve as a later
reference for others with similiar problems.

2012/5/14 Antony Joseph <antonyjoseph89 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for your quick response.
>
> I tried, I get the same result
>
> C:\Service>test.exe install
> Installing service Test
> Service installed
>
> C:\Service>test.exe start
> Starting service Test
>
> C:\Service>test.exe debug
> Debugging service Test - press Ctrl+C to stop.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ?File "boot_service.py", line 185, in <module>
> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 611, in HandleCommandLine
> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 447, in DebugService
> ?File "test.pyc", line 28, in __init__
> WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid: 'C:\\Service\\test.exe'
>
>
> On 14 May 2012 17:56, Harald Armin Massa[legacy]
> <haraldarminmassa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Antony,
>>
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop>test.exe debug
>>> Debugging service Test - press Ctrl+C to stop.
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> ?File "boot_service.py", line 185, in <module>
>>> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 611, in HandleCommandLine
>>> ?File "win32serviceutil.pyc", line 447, in DebugService
>>> ?File "test.pyc", line 28, in __init__
>>> WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid:
>>> 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\admin\\Desktop\\sharefolder\\test.e
>>> xe'

Please check: what ishappining in line 28 of your test.py ? why is the
application trying to access the desktop?

Harald



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From page3d at gmail.com  Thu May 17 19:01:18 2012
From: page3d at gmail.com (David L. Page)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 13:01:18 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Trouble with SQL CE 3.5 DB File
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Hi,

I have an .sdf file (SQL CE 3.5) that someone has given me. I need to
extract some data from the file (and will need to extract similar data from
similar files in the future). I'm trying to write a python script to do it.

The DB file has a table (Profiles) with three items (DataID (int), Data
(varbinary[8000], CreationDate(datetime)). I am having a problem accessing
the varbinary data in Data. Here's a code snippet that works for the
CreationDate.

==== Begin Code (test.py) ====
import adodbapi

file =
"D:\\Not_Synced\\Code\\GetProfile\\20120516_111500\\ProfileDB.1.1.sdf"
connstr = 'Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5; Data Source=%s;' %
file
conn = adodbapi.connect(connstr)
cur = conn.cursor()
sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
cur.execute(sql)
result = cur.fetchall()
for item in result:
print item
 cur.close()
conn.close()
==== End Code ====

==== Begin Output ====

D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test.py
adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
Data S
ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf;"
adodbapi New connection at 2C034F0
adodbapi New cursor at 2C03B50 on conn 2C034F0
Executing command="select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
('2012-01-18 10:54:19.843000',)
adodbapi Closed connection at 2C034F0

==== End Output ====

That code snippet accesses the date just fine.

However, when I try to access the Data by changing the select command:

sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"

I get the following error.

==== Begin Output2 ====

D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test2.py
adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
Data S
ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf"
adodbapi New connection at 2C834F0
adodbapi New cursor at 2C83B50 on conn 2C834F0
Executing command="select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 9, in <module>
    cur.execute(sql)
  File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 1008, in
execu
te
    self._execute_command()
  File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 893, in
_execu
te_command
    self._raiseCursorError(klass, _message)
  File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 758, in
_raise
CursorError
    eh(self.connection,self,errorclass,errorvalue)
  File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 107, in
standa
rdErrorHandler
    raise errorclass(errorvalue)
adodbapi.adodbapi.DatabaseError: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
u'Micr
osoft SQL Server Compact OLE DB Provider', u'Multiple-step OLE DB operation
gene
rated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was
done.',
None, 0, -2147217887), None)
Command:
select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2
Parameters:
[]
adodbapi Closed connection at 2C834F0

==== End Output2 ====

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

--Dave

PS I'm using Win7 x64 with a Python 2.7 (32 bit) installation.




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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Thu May 17 20:59:09 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 12:59:09 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Trouble with SQL CE 3.5 DB File
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David:
   You do not mention the version of adodbapi you are using.
>>>import adodbapi
>>>print adodbapi.version

2.4.2.2 is current. Some older versions have known problems with large
binary fields -- which is just exactly what you are using.
Please try again with a current version if you have not done that. If that
does not do the trick, then there is yet another bug to chase...
download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodbapi or get the latest
pywin32.

--
Vernon Cole

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David L. Page <page3d at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have an .sdf file (SQL CE 3.5) that someone has given me. I need to
> extract some data from the file (and will need to extract similar data from
> similar files in the future). I'm trying to write a python script to do it.
>
> The DB file has a table (Profiles) with three items (DataID (int), Data
> (varbinary[8000], CreationDate(datetime)). I am having a problem accessing
> the varbinary data in Data. Here's a code snippet that works for the
> CreationDate.
>
> ==== Begin Code (test.py) ====
> import adodbapi
>
> file =
> "D:\\Not_Synced\\Code\\GetProfile\\20120516_111500\\ProfileDB.1.1.sdf"
> connstr = 'Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5; Data Source=%s;' %
> file
> conn = adodbapi.connect(connstr)
> cur = conn.cursor()
> sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
> cur.execute(sql)
> result = cur.fetchall()
> for item in result:
> print item
>  cur.close()
> conn.close()
> ==== End Code ====
>
> ==== Begin Output ====
>
> D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test.py
> adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
> Data S
> ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf;"
> adodbapi New connection at 2C034F0
> adodbapi New cursor at 2C03B50 on conn 2C034F0
> Executing command="select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
> ('2012-01-18 10:54:19.843000',)
> adodbapi Closed connection at 2C034F0
>
> ==== End Output ====
>
> That code snippet accesses the date just fine.
>
> However, when I try to access the Data by changing the select command:
>
> sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
>
> I get the following error.
>
> ==== Begin Output2 ====
>
> D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test2.py
> adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
> Data S
> ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf"
> adodbapi New connection at 2C834F0
> adodbapi New cursor at 2C83B50 on conn 2C834F0
> Executing command="select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 9, in <module>
>     cur.execute(sql)
>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 1008, in
> execu
> te
>     self._execute_command()
>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 893, in
> _execu
> te_command
>     self._raiseCursorError(klass, _message)
>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 758, in
> _raise
> CursorError
>     eh(self.connection,self,errorclass,errorvalue)
>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 107, in
> standa
> rdErrorHandler
>     raise errorclass(errorvalue)
> adodbapi.adodbapi.DatabaseError: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
> u'Micr
> osoft SQL Server Compact OLE DB Provider', u'Multiple-step OLE DB
> operation gene
> rated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was
> done.',
> None, 0, -2147217887), None)
> Command:
> select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2
> Parameters:
> []
> adodbapi Closed connection at 2C834F0
>
> ==== End Output2 ====
>
> Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> --Dave
>
> PS I'm using Win7 x64 with a Python 2.7 (32 bit) installation.
>
>
>
>
> --
> David L. Page
> davidpage at ieee.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From vernondcole at gmail.com  Thu May 17 21:02:34 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 13:02:34 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Trouble with SQL CE 3.5 DB File
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My error! Reading again, I see that your version is up to date.
If the data is not private, could you send a zipped copy of your data file
to me directly (not to the list)?
--
Vernon

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:

> David:
>    You do not mention the version of adodbapi you are using.
> >>>import adodbapi
> >>>print adodbapi.version
>
> 2.4.2.2 is current. Some older versions have known problems with large
> binary fields -- which is just exactly what you are using.
> Please try again with a current version if you have not done that. If that
> does not do the trick, then there is yet another bug to chase...
> download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodbapi or get the latest
> pywin32.
>
> --
> Vernon Cole
>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David L. Page <page3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an .sdf file (SQL CE 3.5) that someone has given me. I need to
>> extract some data from the file (and will need to extract similar data from
>> similar files in the future). I'm trying to write a python script to do it.
>>
>> The DB file has a table (Profiles) with three items (DataID (int), Data
>> (varbinary[8000], CreationDate(datetime)). I am having a problem accessing
>> the varbinary data in Data. Here's a code snippet that works for the
>> CreationDate.
>>
>> ==== Begin Code (test.py) ====
>> import adodbapi
>>
>> file =
>> "D:\\Not_Synced\\Code\\GetProfile\\20120516_111500\\ProfileDB.1.1.sdf"
>> connstr = 'Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5; Data Source=%s;' %
>> file
>> conn = adodbapi.connect(connstr)
>> cur = conn.cursor()
>> sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
>> cur.execute(sql)
>> result = cur.fetchall()
>> for item in result:
>> print item
>>  cur.close()
>> conn.close()
>> ==== End Code ====
>>
>> ==== Begin Output ====
>>
>> D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test.py
>> adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
>> Data S
>> ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf;"
>> adodbapi New connection at 2C034F0
>> adodbapi New cursor at 2C03B50 on conn 2C034F0
>> Executing command="select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
>> ('2012-01-18 10:54:19.843000',)
>> adodbapi Closed connection at 2C034F0
>>
>> ==== End Output ====
>>
>> That code snippet accesses the date just fine.
>>
>> However, when I try to access the Data by changing the select command:
>>
>> sql = "select CreationDate from Profiles where DataID = 2"
>>
>> I get the following error.
>>
>> ==== Begin Output2 ====
>>
>> D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500>python test2.py
>> adodbapi v2.4.2.2 attempting: "Provider=Microsoft.SQLSERVER.CE.OLEDB.3.5;
>> Data S
>> ource=D:\Not_Synced\Code\GetProfile\20120516_111500\ProfilesDB.1.1.sdf"
>> adodbapi New connection at 2C834F0
>> adodbapi New cursor at 2C83B50 on conn 2C834F0
>> Executing command="select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2"
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "test.py", line 9, in <module>
>>     cur.execute(sql)
>>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 1008,
>> in execu
>> te
>>     self._execute_command()
>>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 893, in
>> _execu
>> te_command
>>     self._raiseCursorError(klass, _message)
>>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 758, in
>> _raise
>> CursorError
>>     eh(self.connection,self,errorclass,errorvalue)
>>   File "e:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 107, in
>> standa
>> rdErrorHandler
>>     raise errorclass(errorvalue)
>> adodbapi.adodbapi.DatabaseError: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.',
>> (0, u'Micr
>> osoft SQL Server Compact OLE DB Provider', u'Multiple-step OLE DB
>> operation gene
>> rated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was
>> done.',
>> None, 0, -2147217887), None)
>> Command:
>> select Data from Profiles where DataID = 2
>> Parameters:
>> []
>> adodbapi Closed connection at 2C834F0
>>
>> ==== End Output2 ====
>>
>> Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>>
>> --Dave
>>
>> PS I'm using Win7 x64 with a Python 2.7 (32 bit) installation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David L. Page
>> davidpage at ieee.org
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>
>>
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From page3d at gmail.com  Thu May 17 23:12:06 2012
From: page3d at gmail.com (David L. Page)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 17:12:06 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Trouble with SQL CE 3.5 DB File
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Update:

I have put together some C# code and I'm able to see the varbinary Data
using the MS Visual C# System.Data.SqlServerCe calls. (I am by no means a
C# or SQLCE expert. I just thought I'd try another avenue.)

I can supply the C# code if desired, but here's the SQL select call that
retrieves what I need:

using (SqlCeCommand com = new SqlCeCommand("SELECT Data FROM Profiles WHERE
DataID=2", con))

Does the mean there's a problem in adodbapi for varbinary(max) data?

--Dave


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From atrick at tri-tech.com  Fri May 18 01:00:30 2012
From: atrick at tri-tech.com (Alan Trick)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:30 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a notification icon from a service
Message-ID: <CAPXkx_BGDdSLvmaZ_Ef=QwyhzLBzFySssNOWgjC=+H1uP8+Ejg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have two smallish python modules, one which runs a service, and the
other which puts a notification icon with a trivial menu on the
windows panel (these modules are quite similar to existing examples in
pywin32). Both of these modules work fine by themselves. However when
I try to create the notification module from the service, I get
troubles. I'm starting the service using
win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine, and it works fine in debug mode
(as long as I'm running as Administrator), but when I try to start it,
the notification code fails and it won't add the icon; and when I try
to stop it, it wont' stop and just hangs.

The main problem that I can identify right now is that my calls to
win32gui.Shell_NotifyIcon fails. It raises a pywintypes.error(0,
'Shell_NotifyIcon', 'No error message is available'). Does anybody
know what this means, or have any idea how to figure out what it
means?

From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Fri May 18 03:20:02 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:20:02 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Adding a notification icon from a service
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Message-ID: <4FB5A3C2.8010207@gmail.com>

On 18/05/2012 9:00 AM, Alan Trick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two smallish python modules, one which runs a service, and the
> other which puts a notification icon with a trivial menu on the
> windows panel (these modules are quite similar to existing examples in
> pywin32). Both of these modules work fine by themselves. However when
> I try to create the notification module from the service, I get
> troubles. I'm starting the service using
> win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine, and it works fine in debug mode
> (as long as I'm running as Administrator), but when I try to start it,
> the notification code fails and it won't add the icon; and when I try
> to stop it, it wont' stop and just hangs.
>
> The main problem that I can identify right now is that my calls to
> win32gui.Shell_NotifyIcon fails. It raises a pywintypes.error(0,
> 'Shell_NotifyIcon', 'No error message is available'). Does anybody
> know what this means, or have any idea how to figure out what it
> means?

Services don't have access to the desktop which is there the 
notification bar lives.  The usual way to implement this is with 2 
processes - one for the service and one for the taskbar, and to 
implement some kind of RPC between them, such as a named pipe - one of 
the service samples uses a named pipe so that should get you started.

HTH,

Mark

From ed.shallow at gmail.com  Sat May 19 17:22:32 2012
From: ed.shallow at gmail.com (EdShallow)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 11:22:32 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
In-Reply-To: <4FB0FFA0.6070109@skippinet.com.au>
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Hi Mark,

     After much more testing here is some more to go on:

Background again:
- I have a VisualBasic-generated ActiveX COM object called
capiCrypto.clsCrypto
- I call it like this
        clsCrypto = win32com.client.Dispatch("capiCrypto.clsCrypto")
        clsCrypto.InStringBuffer = newCert
        clsCrypto.CRLFileName = self.Request.FqdnCRL
        result = clsCrypto.CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile()
- it was generated on WinXP SP2
- It can successfully be called from Python 2.3 win32-208 without problem
- As soon as I upgrade to Python 2.7 I get this stack trace without
touching the dll or its registration
2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
  File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
  File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
  File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
  File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
  File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)

Now here is some strange feedback . . .
- Knowing that everything was OK with Python 2.3, I isolated the above code
in its own HTTP process and py2exe'ed it thinking py2exe would preserve the
whole 2.3 call environment
- My thought was I would call the HTTP daemon which was packaged with 2.3
and 208 from my 2.7 environment both in their own py2exe-created exe's one
in 2.7 the other in 2.3
- So check this, the very first call to the dll in the 2.3 exe from the 2.7
exe worked !!! Then all successive calls failed ????
- here is the log:

2012/05/19 08:53:28  INFO CheckCertCRL completed with TransactionStatus
===> 1763 and TransactionStatusString ==> Certificate Revocation Check
failed  Current time is NOT within the CRL validity period

2012/05/19 10:18:12 HTTP INFO 127.0.0.1 - POST /crlHandler HTTP/1.1
2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
  File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
  File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
  File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
  File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
  File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)

- Note the first call which successfully checked the revocation status of a
certificate and returned a 1763 indicating a successful call to the COM dll
(although the cert check failed)
- Every subsequent time I called the dll it fails ???
- Something happened in the environment after the first call and I have no
clue ???

Ed


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>wrote:

> [re-adding python-win32 - please keep replies on list]
>
>
> On 14/05/2012 10:39 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>      Python 2.3 with pywin32-208 works. The error I receive reads
>> "Object through and exception at line 3".
>>
>
> How do you get that error?  You say "my dll throws an exception
> immediately upon entry" - I can't reconcile that "with the error I
> receive".  What does Python do when calling your failing DLL?  (ie, do you
> get a traceback?  If so, please include it completely.  If not, what result
> does Python get?  I'm still very unclear on the context of your problem.
>
>
>       Un-registering and re-registering the dll does not help.
>>
>
> But that's just unregistering and re-registering your DLL right?
>
>
>       The test was conducted on the same machine after uninstalling
>> Python and re-installing numerous combinations of Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
>> 2.7 with associated pywin32-208 thry pywin32-214.
>>
>>     If I uninstall the newer Python and re-install Python 2.3 and
>> pywin32-208 all is OK again. It is definitely environmental as opposed
>> to the code.
>>
>
> Well - it's *someone's* code :)  To be clear, 2.3 + pywin32 209 fails?
>
> Mark
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed
>>
>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
>> <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.**com <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>    You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you
>>    see?  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that
>>    works?
>>
>>    Mark
>>
>>
>>    On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>
>>        Hi Folks,
>>
>>              I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in
>>        WinXP. I
>>        can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208
>>        without problems.
>>
>>              As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything
>>        itself
>>        to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon
>>        entry.
>>
>>              Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
>>        addressing this incompatibility?
>>
>>        Thanks,
>>        Ed
>>
>>        --
>>        Ed's Contact Information:
>>        Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410 <tel:613-852-6410>
>>        Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>>        <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>>
>>        VOIP Address: 107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms
>>        <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**> <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms
>>        <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**>__>
>>
>>        VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004 <tel:613-458-5004>
>>        Skype ID: edward.shallow
>>        Home Phone: 613-482-2090 <tel:613-482-2090>
>>
>>
>>
>>        ______________________________**___________________
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>>        python-win32 at python.org <mailto:python-win32 at python.**org<python-win32 at python.org>
>> >
>>        http://mail.python.org/__**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/__mailman/listinfo/python-win32>
>>
>>        <http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ed's Contact Information:
>> Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410
>> Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>> VOIP Address: 107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**>
>> VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004
>> Skype ID: edward.shallow
>> Home Phone: 613-482-2090
>>
>>
>
>


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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Sun May 20 09:04:08 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:04:08 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
In-Reply-To: <CAB3xoRg=mS3PBUi45X5q8Ompr-pDED2OS0RL8OF2k=Ek_0qsyg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAB3xoRi=fh82gqW2nyiROymhjEZ7MuL7LyiZBechnhYniDFO0Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FB05AC7.6060000@gmail.com>
	<CAB3xoRhMeq3=ZG3vO4w+_9SO34kkL=8vZ7-wpUxAEiT9P=8oNQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FB0FFA0.6070109@skippinet.com.au>
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Message-ID: <4FB89768.1050704@gmail.com>

On 20/05/2012 1:22 AM, EdShallow wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
>       After much more testing here is some more to go on:
>
> Background again:
> - I have a VisualBasic-generated ActiveX COM object called
> capiCrypto.clsCrypto
> - I call it like this
>          clsCrypto = win32com.client.Dispatch("capiCrypto.clsCrypto")
>          clsCrypto.InStringBuffer = newCert
>          clsCrypto.CRLFileName = self.Request.FqdnCRL
>          result = clsCrypto.CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile()
> - it was generated on WinXP SP2
> - It can successfully be called from Python 2.3 win32-208 without problem
> - As soon as I upgrade to Python 2.7 I get this stack trace without
> touching the dll or its registration
> 2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
>    File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
>    File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
>    File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
>    File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
>    File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
> CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
> com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)
>
> Now here is some strange feedback . . .
> - Knowing that everything was OK with Python 2.3, I isolated the above code
> in its own HTTP process and py2exe'ed it thinking py2exe would preserve the
> whole 2.3 call environment
> - My thought was I would call the HTTP daemon which was packaged with 2.3
> and 208 from my 2.7 environment both in their own py2exe-created exe's one
> in 2.7 the other in 2.3
> - So check this, the very first call to the dll in the 2.3 exe from the 2.7
> exe worked !!! Then all successive calls failed ????

So you have a Python 2.3 process that accepts incoming http connections 
and calls the crypto DLL, and it fails after making one call?  So it 
should be possible to reproduce the problem in your 2.3 environment by 
simulating the incoming http connection and get the same behaviour?  And 
are you sure this isn't the same thing you are seeing with 2.7 - one 
successful call then failure?  (You didn't mention what version of 
pywin32 you were using with 2.7, which could be useful info.)

I'm afraid it just sounds like a problem with the other DLL though. 
pywin32 still has a test case against a vb6 dll, so it doesn't seem a 
generic problem.  I'd try asking them for some help diagnosing this...

Cheers,

Mark

> - here is the log:
>
> 2012/05/19 08:53:28  INFO CheckCertCRL completed with TransactionStatus
> ===> 1763 and TransactionStatusString ==> Certificate Revocation Check
> failed  Current time is NOT within the CRL validity period
>
> 2012/05/19 10:18:12 HTTP INFO 127.0.0.1 - POST /crlHandler HTTP/1.1
> 2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
>    File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
>    File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
>    File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
>    File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
>    File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
> CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
> com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)
>
> - Note the first call which successfully checked the revocation status of a
> certificate and returned a 1763 indicating a successful call to the COM dll
> (although the cert check failed)
> - Every subsequent time I called the dll it fails ???
> - Something happened in the environment after the first call and I have no
> clue ???
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>wrote:
>
>> [re-adding python-win32 - please keep replies on list]
>>
>>
>> On 14/05/2012 10:39 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>>       Python 2.3 with pywin32-208 works. The error I receive reads
>>> "Object through and exception at line 3".
>>>
>>
>> How do you get that error?  You say "my dll throws an exception
>> immediately upon entry" - I can't reconcile that "with the error I
>> receive".  What does Python do when calling your failing DLL?  (ie, do you
>> get a traceback?  If so, please include it completely.  If not, what result
>> does Python get?  I'm still very unclear on the context of your problem.
>>
>>
>>        Un-registering and re-registering the dll does not help.
>>>
>>
>> But that's just unregistering and re-registering your DLL right?
>>
>>
>>        The test was conducted on the same machine after uninstalling
>>> Python and re-installing numerous combinations of Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
>>> 2.7 with associated pywin32-208 thry pywin32-214.
>>>
>>>      If I uninstall the newer Python and re-install Python 2.3 and
>>> pywin32-208 all is OK again. It is definitely environmental as opposed
>>> to the code.
>>>
>>
>> Well - it's *someone's* code :)  To be clear, 2.3 + pywin32 209 fails?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.**com <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you
>>>     see?  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that
>>>     works?
>>>
>>>     Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>     On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi Folks,
>>>
>>>               I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in
>>>         WinXP. I
>>>         can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and pywin32-208
>>>         without problems.
>>>
>>>               As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything
>>>         itself
>>>         to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon
>>>         entry.
>>>
>>>               Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
>>>         addressing this incompatibility?
>>>
>>>         Thanks,
>>>         Ed
>>>
>>>         --
>>>         Ed's Contact Information:
>>>         Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410 <tel:613-852-6410>
>>>         Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>>>         <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>>
>>>         VOIP Address: 107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms
>>>         <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**> <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms
>>>         <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**>__>
>>>
>>>         VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004 <tel:613-458-5004>
>>>         Skype ID: edward.shallow
>>>         Home Phone: 613-482-2090 <tel:613-482-2090>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         ______________________________**___________________
>>>         python-win32 mailing list
>>>         python-win32 at python.org <mailto:python-win32 at python.**org<python-win32 at python.org>
>>>>
>>>         http://mail.python.org/__**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/__mailman/listinfo/python-win32>
>>>
>>>         <http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-win32<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ed's Contact Information:
>>> Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410
>>> Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
>>> VOIP Address: 107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**>
>>> VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004
>>> Skype ID: edward.shallow
>>> Home Phone: 613-482-2090
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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From karra.etc at gmail.com  Mon May 21 09:29:17 2012
From: karra.etc at gmail.com (Sriram Karra)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:59:17 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a self-contained MSI or self-extracting
	installation executable
Message-ID: <CAFkt3UMNZ4M-sFoY5RLpy8HYxBcU_K8AnKdqv63QabRSLGe8ig@mail.gmail.com>

I am working on a web application based on tornado and sqlalchemy that I
want to distribute to Windows users so they can install and uninstall with
zero pain  and execute the program without needing to install anything else
(including python or pywin32). After a bit of research it appears like
there would be 2 distinct and perhaps totally unrelated parts of the
problem:

1. Using something like py2exe or pyinstaller to create a standalone
executable
2. Bundling it into a MSI or EXE - perhaps with the help of pywin32

Now my questions:

First, is it correct that pywin32 has nothing to offer for Step 1?

Second, is it correct that I could, theoretically use pywin32 fo Step 2? If
yes, where should I start?

Cheers
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From nivthk at gmail.com  Mon May 21 17:49:54 2012
From: nivthk at gmail.com (Nivth Ket)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:49:54 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a self-contained MSI or self-extracting
 installation executable
In-Reply-To: <CAFkt3UMNZ4M-sFoY5RLpy8HYxBcU_K8AnKdqv63QabRSLGe8ig@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFkt3UMNZ4M-sFoY5RLpy8HYxBcU_K8AnKdqv63QabRSLGe8ig@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHriPZBwRkTptzdY3pugAv7pQm40Y5v7tammuqPQDm9q1Y3XEA@mail.gmail.com>

Shiram Karra, I am in no way experienced, but I do believe that pywin32
would not help with the first or second. In my opinion and experience, the
easiest way to make the exe would be py2exe, and you should look to NSIS
for making your installeer, as NSIS is fairly easy to use.
Hoping I helped, Ninth.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sriram Karra <karra.etc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a web application based on tornado and sqlalchemy that I
> want to distribute to Windows users so they can install and uninstall with
> zero pain  and execute the program without needing to install anything else
> (including python or pywin32). After a bit of research it appears like
> there would be 2 distinct and perhaps totally unrelated parts of the
> problem:
>
> 1. Using something like py2exe or pyinstaller to create a standalone
> executable
> 2. Bundling it into a MSI or EXE - perhaps with the help of pywin32
>
> Now my questions:
>
> First, is it correct that pywin32 has nothing to offer for Step 1?
>
> Second, is it correct that I could, theoretically use pywin32 fo Step 2?
> If yes, where should I start?
>
> Cheers
>
> _______________________________________________
> python-win32 mailing list
> python-win32 at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>


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From python at bdurham.com  Tue May 22 02:02:15 2012
From: python at bdurham.com (python at bdurham.com)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:02:15 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] DIR reports file timestamp and size,
 but os.path.getctime(),
 os.path.getsize() raise WindowsError [Error 5] Access is denied
Message-ID: <1337644935.6074.140661078810709.631C0D98@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Wondering if any of you have stumbled across the following
behavior:

I'm doing a recursive directory listing of my Windows folder and
I can access the timestamps and file sizes of all files except
the following 6 files:

In the \windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\config folder:

enterprisesec.config.cch.6824.14057640
security.config.cch.6824.14057640

In the \windows\\microsoft.net\framework64\v2.0.50727\config
folder:

\enterprisesec.config.cch.4412.14151427
enterprisesec.config.cch.6912.14056844
security.config.cch.4412.14151427
security.config.cch.6912.14056844

When I attempt to do any of the following on the above files, a
WindowsError exception is raised with a value of "[Error 5]
Access is denied: ...".

os.path.getctime()
os.path.getatime()
os.path.getmtime()
os.path.getsize()

What's strange is that the DIR command from a cmd prompt returns
timestamps and file sizes for the above files.

Background; 64-bit Windows 7; 32-bit Python 2.7.2

Any ideas on how I can retrieve timestamps and file sizes like
DIR without raising exceptions?

Thank you,
Malcolm
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From planders at gmail.com  Tue May 22 03:00:26 2012
From: planders at gmail.com (Preston Landers)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:00:26 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] DIR reports file timestamp and size,
 but os.path.getctime(),
 os.path.getsize() raise WindowsError [Error 5] Access is denied
In-Reply-To: <1337644935.6074.140661078810709.631C0D98@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1337644935.6074.140661078810709.631C0D98@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <CAKgs+RXtx1vc=kBuB+976b5ROOVTJ4RNOSpqB_RFXJEuDE8u9w@mail.gmail.com>

I'm guessing Microsoft set some unusual ACLs on the files for security
reasons.  Have you looked at the advanced security options for these
files in Windows Explorer?  Have you tried running the script as
Administrator?  If you don't really care about the files you can skip
them.  If for some reason you absolutely have to retrieve that info,
you could try tweaking the ACLs or maybe try launching a "dir" process
and parse the output.
-Preston

From karra.etc at gmail.com  Tue May 22 07:28:31 2012
From: karra.etc at gmail.com (Sriram Karra)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:58:31 +0530
Subject: [python-win32] Creating a self-contained MSI or self-extracting
 installation executable
In-Reply-To: <CAHriPZBwRkTptzdY3pugAv7pQm40Y5v7tammuqPQDm9q1Y3XEA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAFkt3UMNZ4M-sFoY5RLpy8HYxBcU_K8AnKdqv63QabRSLGe8ig@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAFkt3UMmgVLxbTYgiMuTHO06rfXkLWspceRM-=MxMEsLnw0DwA@mail.gmail.com>

Hm, ok. I think I will just go with py2exe and NSIS.

Thanks
Sriram

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Nivth Ket <nivthk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shiram Karra, I am in no way experienced, but I do believe that pywin32
> would not help with the first or second. In my opinion and experience, the
> easiest way to make the exe would be py2exe, and you should look to NSIS
> for making your installeer, as NSIS is fairly easy to use.
> Hoping I helped, Ninth.
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sriram Karra <karra.etc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am working on a web application based on tornado and sqlalchemy that I
>> want to distribute to Windows users so they can install and uninstall with
>> zero pain  and execute the program without needing to install anything else
>> (including python or pywin32). After a bit of research it appears like
>> there would be 2 distinct and perhaps totally unrelated parts of the
>> problem:
>>
>> 1. Using something like py2exe or pyinstaller to create a standalone
>> executable
>> 2. Bundling it into a MSI or EXE - perhaps with the help of pywin32
>>
>> Now my questions:
>>
>> First, is it correct that pywin32 has nothing to offer for Step 1?
>>
>> Second, is it correct that I could, theoretically use pywin32 fo Step 2?
>> If yes, where should I start?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> python-win32 mailing list
>> python-win32 at python.org
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>
>>
>
>
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From skippy.hammond at gmail.com  Wed May 23 06:48:23 2012
From: skippy.hammond at gmail.com (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:48:23 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] DIR reports file timestamp and size,
 but os.path.getctime(),
 os.path.getsize() raise WindowsError [Error 5] Access is denied
In-Reply-To: <1337644935.6074.140661078810709.631C0D98@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References: <1337644935.6074.140661078810709.631C0D98@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Message-ID: <4FBC6C17.4080600@gmail.com>

On 22/05/2012 10:02 AM, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Wondering if any of you have stumbled across the following behavior:
> I'm doing a recursive directory listing of my Windows folder and I can access
> the timestamps and file sizes of all files except the following 6 files:
> In the \windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\config folder:
> enterprisesec.config.cch.6824.14057640
> security.config.cch.6824.14057640
> In the \windows\\microsoft.net\framework64\v2.0.50727\config folder:
> \enterprisesec.config.cch.4412.14151427
> enterprisesec.config.cch.6912.14056844
> security.config.cch.4412.14151427
> security.config.cch.6912.14056844
> When I attempt to do any of the following on the above files, a WindowsError
> exception is raised with a value of "[Error 5] Access is denied: ...".
> os.path.getctime()
> os.path.getatime()
> os.path.getmtime()
> os.path.getsize()
> What's strange is that the DIR command from a cmd prompt returns timestamps and
> file sizes for the above files.
> Background; 64-bit Windows 7; 32-bit Python 2.7.2
> Any ideas on how I can retrieve timestamps and file sizes like DIR without
> raising exceptions?

You could try the win32api.FindFiles function.

Mark

> Thank you,
> Malcolm
>
>
>
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> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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From ed.shallow at gmail.com  Thu May 24 03:02:58 2012
From: ed.shallow at gmail.com (EdShallow)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 21:02:58 -0400
Subject: [python-win32] calling a dll after python 2.3 pywin32-208
In-Reply-To: <4FB89768.1050704@gmail.com>
References: <CAB3xoRi=fh82gqW2nyiROymhjEZ7MuL7LyiZBechnhYniDFO0Q@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FB05AC7.6060000@gmail.com>
	<CAB3xoRhMeq3=ZG3vO4w+_9SO34kkL=8vZ7-wpUxAEiT9P=8oNQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FB0FFA0.6070109@skippinet.com.au>
	<CAB3xoRg=mS3PBUi45X5q8Ompr-pDED2OS0RL8OF2k=Ek_0qsyg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FB89768.1050704@gmail.com>
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Hi Marc,

    I finally found the bug. It had nothing to do with pywin32 (which is
installed with ActiveState Python 2.7 BTW). It was an insidious change
introduced with the new python-ldap-2.4.9 for 2.7 which expects
CertificateRevocationList;binary as the attribute name for a CRL where
CertificateRevocationList worked under the old python-ldap module. Before
the correction this returned nothing which appeared as an object exception
in the .dll. I thought it was the binding that was broken.

Thanks for the time,
Ed

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 20/05/2012 1:22 AM, EdShallow wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>      After much more testing here is some more to go on:
>>
>> Background again:
>> - I have a VisualBasic-generated ActiveX COM object called
>> capiCrypto.clsCrypto
>> - I call it like this
>>         clsCrypto = win32com.client.Dispatch("**capiCrypto.clsCrypto")
>>         clsCrypto.InStringBuffer = newCert
>>         clsCrypto.CRLFileName = self.Request.FqdnCRL
>>         result = clsCrypto.**CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile(**)
>> - it was generated on WinXP SP2
>> - It can successfully be called from Python 2.3 win32-208 without problem
>> - As soon as I upgrade to Python 2.7 I get this stack trace without
>> touching the dll or its registration
>> 2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
>>   File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
>>   File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
>>   File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
>>   File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
>>   File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
>> CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
>> com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)
>>
>> Now here is some strange feedback . . .
>> - Knowing that everything was OK with Python 2.3, I isolated the above
>> code
>> in its own HTTP process and py2exe'ed it thinking py2exe would preserve
>> the
>> whole 2.3 call environment
>> - My thought was I would call the HTTP daemon which was packaged with 2.3
>> and 208 from my 2.7 environment both in their own py2exe-created exe's one
>> in 2.7 the other in 2.3
>> - So check this, the very first call to the dll in the 2.3 exe from the
>> 2.7
>> exe worked !!! Then all successive calls failed ????
>>
>
> So you have a Python 2.3 process that accepts incoming http connections
> and calls the crypto DLL, and it fails after making one call?  So it should
> be possible to reproduce the problem in your 2.3 environment by simulating
> the incoming http connection and get the same behaviour?  And are you sure
> this isn't the same thing you are seeing with 2.7 - one successful call
> then failure?  (You didn't mention what version of pywin32 you were using
> with 2.7, which could be useful info.)
>
> I'm afraid it just sounds like a problem with the other DLL though.
> pywin32 still has a test case against a vb6 dll, so it doesn't seem a
> generic problem.  I'd try asking them for some help diagnosing this...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
>  - here is the log:
>>
>> 2012/05/19 08:53:28  INFO CheckCertCRL completed with TransactionStatus
>> ===> 1763 and TransactionStatusString ==> Certificate Revocation Check
>> failed  Current time is NOT within the CRL validity period
>>
>> 2012/05/19 10:18:12 HTTP INFO 127.0.0.1 - POST /crlHandler HTTP/1.1
>> 2012/05/19 10:18:12  INFO Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 271, in run
>>   File "cherrypy\_cphttptools.pyo", line 502, in main
>>   File "checkcertcrld.pyw", line 113, in crlHandler
>>   File "CrlDispatch.pyo", line 121, in handle
>>   File "CheckCertCrl.pyo", line 38, in execute
>>   File "<COMObject capiCrypto.clsCrypto>", line 3, in
>> CheckCertBufferAgainstCRLFile
>> com_error: (-2147417851, 'The server threw an exception.', None, None)
>>
>> - Note the first call which successfully checked the revocation status of
>> a
>> certificate and returned a 1763 indicating a successful call to the COM
>> dll
>> (although the cert check failed)
>> - Every subsequent time I called the dll it fails ???
>> - Something happened in the environment after the first call and I have no
>> clue ???
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
>> **wrote:
>>
>>  [re-adding python-win32 - please keep replies on list]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/05/2012 10:39 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>>      Python 2.3 with pywin32-208 works. The error I receive reads
>>>> "Object through and exception at line 3".
>>>>
>>>>
>>> How do you get that error?  You say "my dll throws an exception
>>> immediately upon entry" - I can't reconcile that "with the error I
>>> receive".  What does Python do when calling your failing DLL?  (ie, do
>>> you
>>> get a traceback?  If so, please include it completely.  If not, what
>>> result
>>> does Python get?  I'm still very unclear on the context of your problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>       Un-registering and re-registering the dll does not help.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> But that's just unregistering and re-registering your DLL right?
>>>
>>>
>>>       The test was conducted on the same machine after uninstalling
>>>
>>>> Python and re-installing numerous combinations of Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
>>>> 2.7 with associated pywin32-208 thry pywin32-214.
>>>>
>>>>     If I uninstall the newer Python and re-install Python 2.3 and
>>>> pywin32-208 all is OK again. It is definitely environmental as opposed
>>>> to the code.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well - it's *someone's* code :)  To be clear, 2.3 + pywin32 209 fails?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.****com <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    You haven't given us enough information to help.  What error do you
>>>>    see?  What is the most recent combination of Python and pywin32 that
>>>>    works?
>>>>
>>>>    Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    On 12/05/2012 10:31 PM, EdShallow wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>>              I have an ActiveX COM dll generated by VisualBasic 6 in
>>>>        WinXP. I
>>>>        can call it and use it successfully with Python 2.3 and
>>>> pywin32-208
>>>>        without problems.
>>>>
>>>>              As soon as I upgrade either pywin32- or Python to anything
>>>>        itself
>>>>        to anything newer, my dll throws an exception immediately upon
>>>>        entry.
>>>>
>>>>              Can anyone point me in a general direction with respect to
>>>>        addressing this incompatibility?
>>>>
>>>>        Thanks,
>>>>        Ed
>>>>
>>>>        --
>>>>        Ed's Contact Information:
>>>>        Mobile Phone: 613-852-6410 <tel:613-852-6410>
>>>>        Gmail: ed.shallow at gmail.com <mailto:ed.shallow at gmail.com>
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>>>>        <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms****>__>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004 <tel:613-458-5004>
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>>>>
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>>>> VOIP Address: 107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms <mailto:107529 at sip.ca1.voip.ms**
>>>> **>
>>>>
>>>> VOIP DID#: 613-458-5004
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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From atrick at tri-tech.com  Fri May 25 17:47:35 2012
From: atrick at tri-tech.com (Alan Trick)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 08:47:35 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
Message-ID: <CAPXkx_ApD5S4hjVM_rPKGfATA5GGCnd6XkoH9-Qev3DTz6hkcg@mail.gmail.com>

I'm trying to use prepared statements with the adodbapi module, but
it's not working. I'm using the Visual FoxPro OLE DB drivers, and I'm
worried that this is just something that they can't handle.

Here's some sample code:

---

import adodbapi

conn = adodbapi.connect('Provider=vfpoledb;Data
Source=C:\ClinEsse\Data\Frost_7_12\medimax.dbc;Collating
Sequence=machine')

cur = conn.cursor()
cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix= 'LEG' ")
print [`c` for c in cur.fetchall()]

cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ['LEG'])
print [`c` for c in cur.fetchall()]

---

The first "execute" call returns a list of SQLrows, and works fine,
but the second execute call (the prepared statement) raises the
following exception.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 9, in <module>
    cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ['LEG'])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line
1006, in execute
    self._buildADOparameterList(operation,parameters)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 963,
in _buildADOparameterList
    p=getIndexedValue(self.cmd.Parameters,i)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\adodbapi\adodbapi.py", line 77,
in getIndexedValue
    return obj(index)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py",
line 186, in __call__
    return self._get_good_object_(self._oleobj_.Invoke(*allArgs),self._olerepr_.defaultDispatchName,None)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0,
u'ADODB.Parameters', u'Item cannot be found in the collection
corresponding to the
 requested name or ordinal.', u'C:\\Windows\\HELP\\ADO270.CHM',
1240649, -2146825023), None)

I've tried using different paramstyles but the all give the same result.

From timr at probo.com  Fri May 25 19:18:54 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:18:54 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
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Alan Trick wrote:
> I'm trying to use prepared statements with the adodbapi module, but
> it's not working. I'm using the Visual FoxPro OLE DB drivers, and I'm
> worried that this is just something that they can't handle.

Well, there error is firing inside the adodbapi code, not in VFP,
although it's possible that the OLE DB driver's parameter handling is
interfering.  The implication is that the OLE DB's provider has scanned
the statement and decided the are no parameters to substitute.

If you print conn.paramstyle, is it still qmark?

Is there any change if you use a tuple instead of a list?  That is:

    cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ('LEG',))

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


From atrick at tri-tech.com  Fri May 25 19:42:07 2012
From: atrick at tri-tech.com (Alan Trick)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:42:07 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>
> If you print conn.paramstyle, is it still qmark?

Yes, the default is qmark.

> Is there any change if you use a tuple instead of a list?  That is:
>
>    cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ('LEG',))

I get an identital exception with a tuple. For what it's worth, the
value of cur.query is different, but I don't know if that has any
effect on anything. With a list, cur.query is set to "select * from
chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=['LEG']", with a tuple it's "select
* from chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=('LEG',)".

P.S. Sorry time about the duplicate email Tim. I forgot that my email
client was retarded and that I was on a mailing list ;-)

From timr at probo.com  Fri May 25 20:04:09 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 11:04:09 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
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Alan Trick wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
>> Is there any change if you use a tuple instead of a list?  That is:
>>
>>    cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ('LEG',))
> I get an identital exception with a tuple. For what it's worth, the
> value of cur.query is different, but I don't know if that has any
> effect on anything. With a list, cur.query is set to "select * from
> chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=['LEG']", with a tuple it's "select
> * from chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=('LEG',)".

I'd expect that.

I am at a loss. The adodbapi code gives the OLE DB provider a first shot
at processing the parameters.  If that fails, then the Python code does
the processing itself.  My guess is that the OLE DB provider here is
saying "it worked!", but isn't actually setting up the substitutions.

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


From vernondcole at gmail.com  Fri May 25 23:53:28 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:53:28 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
In-Reply-To: <4FBFC999.2080702@probo.com>
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:

> Alan Trick wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> >> Is there any change if you use a tuple instead of a list?  That is:
> >>
> >>    cur.execute("select * from chiro1 where prefix = ?", ('LEG',))
> > I get an identital exception with a tuple. For what it's worth, the
> > value of cur.query is different, but I don't know if that has any
> > effect on anything. With a list, cur.query is set to "select * from
> > chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=['LEG']", with a tuple it's "select
> > * from chiro1 where prefix = ?,parameters=('LEG',)".
>
> I'd expect that.
>
> I am at a loss. The adodbapi code gives the OLE DB provider a first shot
> at processing the parameters.  If that fails, then the Python code does
> the processing itself.  My guess is that the OLE DB provider here is
> saying "it worked!", but isn't actually setting up the substitutions.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
>

My guess is that Tim's guess is correct.  ADO really doesn't do much to
remove the differences between SQL engines, and the adodbapi code blindly
hands stuff  to it.  If the FoxPro provider does not handle parameters, or
expects some format other than qmark, you might see an error like this
one.  Try setting adodbapi.adodbapi.verbose = 4 and see if that sheds any
light. Particularly look for the line that specifies 'error in COM
Refresh(), so adodbapi is building a parameter list'.
--
Vernon Cole
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From atrick at tri-tech.com  Sat May 26 00:06:25 2012
From: atrick at tri-tech.com (Alan Trick)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 15:06:25 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try setting adodbapi.adodbapi.verbose = 4 and see if that sheds any light.
> Particularly look for the line that specifies 'error in COM Refresh(), so
> adodbapi is building a parameter list'.

I already tried debugging it to get a gist of what it's doing and it
does not hit that line, so I guess the provider must be pretending to
support parametrized queries. Is there some way that I can force
adodbapi to build the parameter list?

From vernondcole at gmail.com  Sat May 26 06:03:12 2012
From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon Cole)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:03:12 -0600
Subject: [python-win32] adodbapi: using prepared statements
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{Sorry about the slow response... I had to go drive an ambulance...}
You could try shortcutting the code in _buildADOparamteterList() to always
execute the "except:" clause (around line 941).  I suspect that the same
error will persist -- but maybe not.  (Aren't you glad you have source
code?)
--
Vernon

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Alan Trick <atrick at tri-tech.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Vernon Cole <vernondcole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Try setting adodbapi.adodbapi.verbose = 4 and see if that sheds any
> light.
> > Particularly look for the line that specifies 'error in COM Refresh(), so
> > adodbapi is building a parameter list'.
>
> I already tried debugging it to get a gist of what it's doing and it
> does not hit that line, so I guess the provider must be pretending to
> support parametrized queries. Is there some way that I can force
> adodbapi to build the parameter list?
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From karbonforms at gmail.com  Sat May 26 12:52:11 2012
From: karbonforms at gmail.com (Chris Ness)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 11:52:11 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Win7 explorer "include in library" submenu
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I'm trying to replicate the win 7 explorer context menu on the fly. All 
works well apart from the "Include in Library" submenu, which shows one 
greyed out entry: "retrieving libraries...". Well it's not retrieving 
anything because the code to read the menus has returned! Here is my 
code that reads the menu entries...

def __getMenuItems(hMenu, contextMenu):
     num_items = win32gui.GetMenuItemCount(hMenu)
     rval = []
     for i in range(num_items):
         mi = EmptyMENUITEMINFO()
         win32gui.GetMenuItemInfo(hMenu, i, True, mi[0])
         item = UnpackMENUITEMINFO(mi[0])
         fType, fState, wID, hSubMenu, hbmpChecked, hbmpUnchecked, dwItemData, text, hbmpItem = item
         if hSubMenu:
             hSubMenu = win32gui.GetSubMenu(hMenu, i)
             rval.append((__getMenuItems(hSubMenu, contextMenu), text))
         else:
             rval.append((wID, text))
     return rval


I have no idea what to do and google is no help. Do I need to initiate 
something? Wait for something? Any help much appreciated!

chris


From damienmoloney at gmail.com  Sun May 27 12:54:30 2012
From: damienmoloney at gmail.com (damien moloney)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 20:54:30 +1000
Subject: [python-win32] Retrieve file property values
Message-ID: <CA+rMgOdcMHbyq7pWjhGO=26VQbnUoF2bVV5KGuoSpKVhz0G8AQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Have been unable to retrieve the windows file properties/attributes under
"Subject", and "Description". for .msi files on a Win XP c using win32api.
Have been able to get version type info,
but unable to get much more. I came across the following "from win32com
import storagecon # constants related to storage functions." which looked
promising but fell over as the .msi files I was looking at are not "storage
files". Any ides on where next.

Thanks
Damien.
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From hossain.iqbal at gmail.com  Sun May 27 23:18:22 2012
From: hossain.iqbal at gmail.com (Riz Hossain)
Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 21:18:22 +0000
Subject: [python-win32] WPF drag drop UI automation
Message-ID: <1897245624-1338153498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-487037392-@b14.c4.bise6.blackberry>

Hello,

If anyone could kindly direct me in the right direction for WPF drag and drop control using python, it would be greatly appreciated. 

I need to be able to drag drop elements from one object to another within the application. My automation framework is written all in python, so I would really love to achieve this with python. 

Advanced thanks for any suggestions and help. 

Thanks,

Riz  
Sent from my BlackBerry Torch

From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Mon May 28 16:19:14 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 15:19:14 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Retrieve file property values
In-Reply-To: <CA+rMgOdcMHbyq7pWjhGO=26VQbnUoF2bVV5KGuoSpKVhz0G8AQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+rMgOdcMHbyq7pWjhGO=26VQbnUoF2bVV5KGuoSpKVhz0G8AQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FC38962.5070002@timgolden.me.uk>

On 27/05/2012 11:54, damien moloney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Have been unable to retrieve the windows file properties/attributes
> under "Subject", and "Description". for .msi files on a Win XP c using
> win32api. Have been able to get version type info,
> but unable to get much more. I came across the following "fromwin32com
> importstoragecon # constants related to storage functions." which looked
> promising but fell over as the .msi files I was looking at are not
> "storage files". Any ides on where next.

This is a bit more complicated than you might like. I have
a half-hearted example here:


http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html

and the in-dev version of my winshell module includes some more
general-purpose code which you might at least want to look at
even though it's not 100% at the moment:

  https://github.com/tjguk/winshell

Part of the difficulty is that Windows has switched between two
approaches to this area which doesn't help when trying to get
examples.

TJG

From timr at probo.com  Tue May 29 21:10:04 2012
From: timr at probo.com (Tim Roberts)
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 12:10:04 -0700
Subject: [python-win32] WPF drag drop UI automation
In-Reply-To: <1897245624-1338153498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-487037392-@b14.c4.bise6.blackberry>
References: <1897245624-1338153498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-487037392-@b14.c4.bise6.blackberry>
Message-ID: <4FC51F0C.3030306@probo.com>

Riz Hossain wrote:
> If anyone could kindly direct me in the right direction for WPF drag and drop control using python, it would be greatly appreciated. 
>
> I need to be able to drag drop elements from one object to another within the application. My automation framework is written all in python, so I would really love to achieve this with python. 

Are you using IronPython?  WPF is strictly a .NET technology.  You can't
play in that world from C Python.

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


From etaoinbe at yahoo.com  Thu May 31 10:34:29 2012
From: etaoinbe at yahoo.com (jo)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 01:34:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [python-win32] how to switch keyboards in windows with win32api ?
Message-ID: <1338453269.66225.YahooMailNeo@web39406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi 


On windows 7 I have not managed to switch keyboard to dutch netherlands with below script. It does switch to US keyboard though. What am I doing wrong...? 

I have been experimenting with different parameters and so on. 

msdn also mentions ActivateKeyboardLayout but it does not appear in my win32api. 


import sys
sys.version
'2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]'

?python setkeyboard.py


win32api.GetLastError()=0
GetKeyboardLayout : 68355091 4130413
win32api.GetLastError()=0
67699721 4090409
win32api.GetLastError()=0
GetKeyboardLayout : 67699721 4090409
win32api.GetLastError()=0
67699721 4090409
GetKeyboardLayout :? 67699721 4090409
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.? All rights reserved.


?type setkeyboard.py


import win32api,win32con,os

# kl=win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout('135464979',19|win32con.KLF_SETFORPROCESS|win32con.KLF_REORDER)
oldkl= win32api.GetKeyboardLayout()
print "win32api.GetLastError()=%s " % win32api.GetLastError()
print "GetKeyboardLayout : %s %x " % (oldkl,oldkl)


####
kl=win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout('8130813',19|win32con.KLF_SETFORPROCESS|win32con.KLF_REORDER)
print "win32api.GetLastError()=%s " % win32api.GetLastError()
print "%s %x " % (kl,kl)

curkl= win32api.GetKeyboardLayout()
print "win32api.GetLastError()=%s " % win32api.GetLastError()
print "GetKeyboardLayout : %s %x " % (curkl,curkl)

###
kl=win32api.LoadKeyboardLayout('135464979',19|win32con.KLF_SETFORPROCESS|win32con.KLF_REORDER)
print "win32api.GetLastError()=%s " % win32api.GetLastError()
print "%s %x " % (kl,kl)

curkl= win32api.GetKeyboardLayout()
print "GetKeyboardLayout :? %s %x " % (curkl,curkl)


os.system("cmd")



Kind Regards,
joe
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From kevin.horn at gmail.com  Thu May 31 15:40:42 2012
From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 08:40:42 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Importing tempfile (or random) results in disaster...
Message-ID: <CA+U=zK0W8tpJnw75DhJvdXgv6WwpFeLZb3eZjiQiAeSLAqJYAg@mail.gmail.com>

I'm setting up a new machine (Win7) and one of the first things I thought
I'd do is install Python, distribute, pip, virtualenv, etc.

However, I can't seem to get that far.

When trying to install distribute (using distribute_setup.py), I get the
following traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "distribute_setup.py", line 20, in <module>
    import tempfile
  File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
    from random import Random as _Random
  File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 881, in <module>
    _inst = Random()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.seed(x)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 111, in seed
    a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16)
WindowsError: [Error -2146893818] Invalid Signature

"Huh," I thought.  "That's weird".

A little googling turned up this bug:

http://bugs.python.org/issue13524

Which has the same traceback, but purports to have something to do with not
passing the right environment to the subprocess module (and is marked as
"Wontfix").

But this doesn't seem to me to be the problem, as I'm not using the
subprocess module.  In fact, here is the minimal reproducible example on my
machine:

tfile.py:
import tempfile



That's it.  Just "import tempfile" and Python comes to a screeching halt.
In fact, "import random" does this as well, and either one will also cause
the traceback from within the interactive interpreter.

What's going on here?  Is this a Win7 thing?  I have 2.7.3 working on XP
and Vista without a problem.

Any pointers?

Kevin Horn
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From mail at timgolden.me.uk  Thu May 31 18:09:24 2012
From: mail at timgolden.me.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 17:09:24 +0100
Subject: [python-win32] Importing tempfile (or random) results in
	disaster...
In-Reply-To: <CA+U=zK0W8tpJnw75DhJvdXgv6WwpFeLZb3eZjiQiAeSLAqJYAg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+U=zK0W8tpJnw75DhJvdXgv6WwpFeLZb3eZjiQiAeSLAqJYAg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4FC797B4.80606@timgolden.me.uk>

On 31/05/2012 14:40, Kevin Horn wrote:
> I'm setting up a new machine (Win7) and one of the first things I
> thought I'd do is install Python, distribute, pip, virtualenv, etc.
> 
> However, I can't seem to get that far.
> 
> When trying to install distribute (using distribute_setup.py), I get the
> following traceback:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "distribute_setup.py", line 20, in <module>
>     import tempfile
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
>     from random import Random as _Random
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 881, in <module>
>     _inst = Random()
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 97, in __init__
>     self.seed(x)
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 111, in seed
>     a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16)
> WindowsError: [Error -2146893818] Invalid Signature
> 
> "Huh," I thought.  "That's weird".
> 
> A little googling turned up this bug:
> 
> http://bugs.python.org/issue13524
> 
> Which has the same traceback, but purports to have something to do with
> not passing the right environment to the subprocess module (and is
> marked as "Wontfix").
> 
> But this doesn't seem to me to be the problem, as I'm not using the
> subprocess module.  In fact, here is the minimal reproducible example on
> my machine:
> 
> tfile.py:
> import tempfile
> 
> 
> 
> That's it.  Just "import tempfile" and Python comes to a screeching
> halt.  In fact, "import random" does this as well, and either one will
> also cause the traceback from within the interactive interpreter.
> 
> What's going on here?  Is this a Win7 thing?  I have 2.7.3 working on XP
> and Vista without a problem.

Are you inside a virtualenv? There was a venv bug recently
which manifested itself in a similar way. Hang on...

Have a look around here (not sure exactly which part of the
thread to pull at) and see if anything rings bells.

  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/118233.html

TJG

From kevin.horn at gmail.com  Thu May 31 18:26:07 2012
From: kevin.horn at gmail.com (Kevin Horn)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:26:07 -0500
Subject: [python-win32] Fwd: Importing tempfile (or random) results in
	disaster...
In-Reply-To: <CA+U=zK0iJx8gzFWsticY1Kc7BwrOWuqCxKUjs3rLcMijm2dy6Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+U=zK0W8tpJnw75DhJvdXgv6WwpFeLZb3eZjiQiAeSLAqJYAg@mail.gmail.com>
	<4FC797B4.80606@timgolden.me.uk>
	<CA+U=zK0iJx8gzFWsticY1Kc7BwrOWuqCxKUjs3rLcMijm2dy6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+U=zK0gG_Hz84rXMdnXHadUEYosFryaP+QqNdcc1wDmxpvKUg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 31/05/2012 14:40, Kevin Horn wrote:
> > I'm setting up a new machine (Win7) and one of the first things I
> > thought I'd do is install Python, distribute, pip, virtualenv, etc.
> >
> > However, I can't seem to get that far.
> >
> > When trying to install distribute (using distribute_setup.py), I get the
> > following traceback:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "distribute_setup.py", line 20, in <module>
> >     import tempfile
> >   File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 34, in <module>
> >     from random import Random as _Random
> >   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 881, in <module>
> >     _inst = Random()
> >   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 97, in __init__
> >     self.seed(x)
> >   File "C:\Python27\lib\random.py", line 111, in seed
> >     a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16)
> > WindowsError: [Error -2146893818] Invalid Signature
> >
> > "Huh," I thought.  "That's weird".
> >
> > A little googling turned up this bug:
> >
> > http://bugs.python.org/issue13524
> >
> > Which has the same traceback, but purports to have something to do with
> > not passing the right environment to the subprocess module (and is
> > marked as "Wontfix").
> >
> > But this doesn't seem to me to be the problem, as I'm not using the
> > subprocess module.  In fact, here is the minimal reproducible example on
> > my machine:
> >
> > tfile.py:
> > import tempfile
> >
> >
> >
> > That's it.  Just "import tempfile" and Python comes to a screeching
> > halt.  In fact, "import random" does this as well, and either one will
> > also cause the traceback from within the interactive interpreter.
> >
> > What's going on here?  Is this a Win7 thing?  I have 2.7.3 working on XP
> > and Vista without a problem.
>
> Are you inside a virtualenv? There was a venv bug recently
> which manifested itself in a similar way. Hang on...
>
> Have a look around here (not sure exactly which part of the
> thread to pull at) and see if anything rings bells.
>
>  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/118233.html
>
> TJG
>
>
OK, so I have no idea what caused this, but apparently rebooting my machine
fixed it.

I guess that should have been my first instinct (thanks, Windows!).  I have
no idea why a reboot would fix this though.

Thanks for the reply though, Tim.

Kevin Horn
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