From Greg.Lindstrom at acxiom.com  Wed Oct  1 10:51:56 2003
From: Greg.Lindstrom at acxiom.com (Lindstrom Greg - glinds)
Date: Wed Oct  1 12:01:52 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Accessing Exchange Server
Message-ID: <ABEE81BE08ADD311B6A1009027DE908D16A94D15@conmsx03.corp.acxiom.net>

Greetings-

I'm new to the win32 list but hope you can help me out.  I am connecting to
a Microsoft Exchange Server via python from a Windows 2000 "Professional"
box using the technique from Mark Hammond's book "Python Programming on
Win32".  I can read subject lines, get senders, and access the text of
messages (all very easily), but I am wanting to mark messages as "read" and
delete them to the deleted messages folder.  I have attempted to read
through the documentation on MAPI, but I can't make heads or tails out of
it.  Do any of you know how to do the above tasks?  Or can you help me
understand the MAPI documentation?

Thanks for your help
--greg lindstrom





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From simon at meru.org.uk  Fri Oct  3 09:33:54 2003
From: simon at meru.org.uk (Simon Judge)
Date: Fri Oct  3 09:26:49 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
Message-ID: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>

Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.

I tried a simple program e.g: http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.

I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
stopped working! Why?!  (error below).

I've tried removing the gen_py folder, however this makes no
difference... 

Help!

Thanks.

Simon

---
Error: 

None: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)

Traceback (innermost last):

File "<string>", line 1, in ?
  
File "\\Server\meru documents\Project Files\Interface
Centre\Python\Dialog Test\word.py", line 6, in ?
  word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
File "C:\Program
Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
95, in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName =
dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
File "C:\Program
Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 84,
in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
  	return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
File "C:\Program
Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 72,
in _GetGoodDispatch
  			IDispatch =
pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)

From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Fri Oct  3 09:40:09 2003
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Fri Oct  3 09:42:29 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
In-Reply-To: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
References: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031003073627.034d4b20@66.28.54.253>

At 07:33 AM 10/3/2003, Simon Judge wrote:

>Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
>
>I tried a simple program e.g: http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
>which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
>
>I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
>stopped working! Why?!  (error below).

One reason for differences after makepy is that names become case 
sensitive. But it seems to me that led to attribute error.

Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625
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From henni at brainbot.com  Fri Oct  3 09:34:22 2003
From: henni at brainbot.com (Thorsten Henninger)
Date: Fri Oct  3 09:49:14 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
In-Reply-To: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
References: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
Message-ID: <3F7D7ADE.5060204@brainbot.com>

Hi,

have you tried the "COM Makeoy utility" in Pythonwin (Menu Tools) to 
create the gen_py files?
I had similar problems and that helped.

Thorsten

Simon Judge wrote:

>Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
>
>I tried a simple program e.g: http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
>which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
>
>I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
>stopped working! Why?!  (error below).
>
>I've tried removing the gen_py folder, however this makes no
>difference... 
>
>Help!
>
>Thanks.
>
>Simon
>
>---
>Error: 
>
>None: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)
>
>Traceback (innermost last):
>
>File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>  
>File "\\Server\meru documents\Project Files\Interface
>Centre\Python\Dialog Test\word.py", line 6, in ?
>  word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
>95, in Dispatch
>    dispatch, userName =
>dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 84,
>in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>  	return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 72,
>in _GetGoodDispatch
>  			IDispatch =
>pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
>pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>
>_______________________________________________
>Python-win32 mailing list
>Python-win32@python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>  
>


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From simon at meru.org.uk  Fri Oct  3 10:08:40 2003
From: simon at meru.org.uk (Simon Judge)
Date: Fri Oct  3 10:01:34 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
Message-ID: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80C6B50@server.meru.co.uk>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Gailer [mailto:bgailer@alum.rpi.edu]
> One reason for differences after makepy is that names become case 
> sensitive. But it seems to me that led to attribute error.

How should I resolve this then?  Which names become case sensitive and
how do I find out the case?  

I really want to roll back makepy anyway so I don't have to run it on
all the machines that I put my program on... Why when I delete the
gen_py directory does the same error still occur?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Henninger [mailto:henni@brainbot.com]
> have you tried the "COM Makeoy utility" in Pythonwin (Menu Tools) to 
> create the gen_py files? 

Does that not just run makepy.pyc ??? Rerunning makepy.pyc does not seem
to solve my problem.

I've just noticed that the program does get as far as launching Word (it
appears in the Task Manager Process List).

This is really frustrating since I saw it working at one point!!!

Cheers for the help.

Simon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Gailer [mailto:bgailer@alum.rpi.edu]
> Sent: 03 October 2003 14:40
> To: Simon Judge; python-win32@python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after
> makepy
> 
> 
> At 07:33 AM 10/3/2003, Simon Judge wrote:
> 
> >Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
> >
> >I tried a simple program e.g: 
> http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
> >which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
> >
> >I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
> >stopped working! Why?!  (error below).
> 
> One reason for differences after makepy is that names become case 
> sensitive. But it seems to me that led to attribute error.
> 
> Bob Gailer
> bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
> 303 442 2625
> 

From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Fri Oct  3 10:54:59 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Fri Oct  3 10:55:30 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
In-Reply-To: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
References: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE80A731A@server.meru.co.uk>
Message-ID: <3F7D8DC3.50508@tallan.com>

This is very, very curious. Looking at the stack trace it really does 
appear that any makepy operation would have nothing to do with this 
problem. At least not as near as I can tell. Does this work on a 
different box?

Simon Judge wrote:

>Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
>
>I tried a simple program e.g: http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
>which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
>
>I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
>stopped working! Why?!  (error below).
>
>I've tried removing the gen_py folder, however this makes no
>difference... 
>
>Help!
>
>Thanks.
>
>Simon
>
>---
>Error: 
>
>None: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)
>
>Traceback (innermost last):
>
>File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>  
>File "\\Server\meru documents\Project Files\Interface
>Centre\Python\Dialog Test\word.py", line 6, in ?
>  word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
>95, in Dispatch
>    dispatch, userName =
>dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 84,
>in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>  	return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>File "C:\Program
>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 72,
>in _GetGoodDispatch
>  			IDispatch =
>pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
>pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>
>_______________________________________________
>Python-win32 mailing list
>Python-win32@python.org
>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>  
>

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From pascor at hotpop.com  Fri Oct  3 13:16:49 2003
From: pascor at hotpop.com (Ray Pasco)
Date: Fri Oct  3 13:23:52 2003
Subject: [python-win32] ? App distribution for those not having python
	installed ?
Message-ID: <3F7DAF01.9050503@hotpop.com>

I'm happy to say I'm ready to distribute my first python app
which is self-contained using Installer.  But, since it doesn't need
python to be installed on the target (Win) platform, how can the
distribution install .EXE program run without python ?  

I'm assuming I'll be using wininst to create a self-installer .EXE
and want the app to be installed somewhere in "C:\program files",
chosen by the user at install-time, and not the 
"Python22\Lib\site-packages".  
directory.  An example would be most helpful !



From theller at python.net  Fri Oct  3 17:38:05 2003
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Fri Oct  3 17:38:19 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: ? App distribution for those not having python
	installed ?
References: <3F7DAF01.9050503@hotpop.com>
Message-ID: <oewy9f42.fsf@python.net>

Ray Pasco <pascor@hotpop.com> writes:

> I'm happy to say I'm ready to distribute my first python app
> which is self-contained using Installer.  But, since it doesn't need
> python to be installed on the target (Win) platform, how can the
> distribution install .EXE program run without python ?  I'm assuming
> I'll be using wininst to create a self-installer .EXE
> and want the app to be installed somewhere in "C:\program files",
> chosen by the user at install-time, and not the
> "Python22\Lib\site-packages".  directory.  An example would be most
> helpful !

You might want to look at inno setup for example (NSIS is another
option from what I hear) if you want to build installation programs for
windows.

bdist_wininst can only be used to install python modules or packages on
system where Python is already installed.

Thomas


From lbates at syscononline.com  Mon Oct  6 09:48:39 2003
From: lbates at syscononline.com (Larry Bates)
Date: Mon Oct  6 09:48:48 2003
Subject: [python-win32] App distribution for those not having python
	installed 
In-Reply-To: <E1A5oqz-00049q-8C@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <034601c38c10$8ceca430$5d00a8c0@LABWXP>

I have used a combination of py2exe (to "freeze" the python
app into an .EXE and some other files) and InnoSetup to act
as the installer (where you can ask user for target for 
installation if you like).  This doesn't work on all Python
programs because there are some (ReportLab as an example) 
that I have still be unable to get to work with py2exe.

-Larry



From peter at monicol.co.uk  Tue Oct  7 05:51:07 2003
From: peter at monicol.co.uk (Peter Mott)
Date: Tue Oct  7 05:51:03 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problem with COM Interface. Windows Installer
Message-ID: <EAEJLJMLPEEFNHAOMBNJCENHCNAA.peter@monicol.co.uk>


The COM inteface apparently breaks when attempting to use "record" objects
derived from Windows.Installer.

Below is a sample script with comments:


import win32com.client
import os
import sys

msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly=0
msidb = "sample.msi"


installer = win32com.client.Dispatch("WindowsInstaller.Installer")
database = installer.OpenDatabase(msidb, msiOpenDatabaseModeReadOnly)
view = database.OpenView("SELECT File, FileName FROM File")
view.Execute()
record = view.Fetch()
x = record.FieldCount
print "%d fields" % x

# Everything to this point is fine. The print statement prints '2' as it
# should


# (1) This does not work. Trace follows:
x = record.DataSize(1)

#	Attempting to get the DataSize gets this error.
##Traceback (most recent call last):
##  File "C:\home\clients\SIMproject\SIM_INSTALL\BuildScripts\testinst.py", line
17, in -toplevel-
##    x = record.DataSize(1)
##  File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 2, in DataSize
##com_error: (-2147352573, 'Member not found.', None, None)

# (2) This does not work with trace following
x = record.StringData(1)

##
##Traceback (most recent call last):
##  File "C:\home\clients\SIMproject\SIM_INSTALL\BuildScripts\testinst.py", line
14, in -toplevel-
##    x = record.StringData(1)
##  File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 2, in StringData
##com_error: (-2147352573, 'Member not found.', None, None)

-----------------
These lines are from a corresponding  vbscript which works without
problem.

  fileId = record.stringData(1)
  filename= record.stringData(2)

I'm using W2K  version 5.00. Python is 2.3.1 and w32all is build 157. The same
problem is on 155. Windows Installer is version 2.00.2600.1183.

I traced some of the Python code. It tries to find out what sort of 'object' it
is looking for, can't, tries a method as a last resort but enjoys no success.

I certainly do not know enough about COM to make any headway with this.

Thanks for any help

Peter



From simon at meru.org.uk  Wed Oct  8 02:54:11 2003
From: simon at meru.org.uk (Simon Judge)
Date: Wed Oct  8 02:46:55 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
Message-ID: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE809D03C@server.meru.co.uk>

Hmm, 

Bizzare - I've replicated what I did exactly on a different box and
can't recreate it!  It must be box specific - maybe a problem with
office???  It is behaving slightly weirdly at the moment...

Ohh well, unless anyone has any other ideas, i'll just develop on
another box...  I suppose I could try reinstalling the lot (python, wx
&win32all).

Thanks.

Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Judge 
> Sent: 07 October 2003 16:57
> To: 'Jens B. Jorgensen'
> Subject: RE: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after
> makepy
> 
> 
> It is, yes!  I'll try it on a different box tonight, thanks.
> 
> Simon
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jens.jorgensen@tallan.com]
> > Sent: 03 October 2003 15:55
> > To: Simon Judge
> > Cc: python-win32@python.org
> > Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' 
> error after
> > makepy
> > 
> > 
> > This is very, very curious. Looking at the stack trace it 
> really does 
> > appear that any makepy operation would have nothing to do with this 
> > problem. At least not as near as I can tell. Does this work on a 
> > different box?
> > 
> > Simon Judge wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
> > >
> > >I tried a simple program e.g: 
> > http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
> > >which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
> > >
> > >I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
> > >stopped working! Why?!  (error below).
> > >
> > >I've tried removing the gen_py folder, however this makes no
> > >difference... 
> > >
> > >Help!
> > >
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >Simon
> > >
> > >---
> > >Error: 
> > >
> > >None: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)
> > >
> > >Traceback (innermost last):
> > >
> > >File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> > >  
> > >File "\\Server\meru documents\Project Files\Interface
> > >Centre\Python\Dialog Test\word.py", line 6, in ?
> > >  word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
> > >File "C:\Program
> > 
> >Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> > >95, in Dispatch
> > >    dispatch, userName =
> > >dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
> > >File "C:\Program
> > >Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py
> > ", line 84,
> > >in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
> > >  	return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
> > >File "C:\Program
> > >Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py
> > ", line 72,
> > >in _GetGoodDispatch
> > >  			IDispatch =
> > >pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> > >pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> > >
> > >_______________________________________________
> > >Python-win32 mailing list
> > >Python-win32@python.org
> > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jens B. Jorgensen
> > jens.jorgensen@tallan.com
> > 
> > "With a focused commitment to our clients and our people, we 
> > deliver value through customized technology solutions."
> > 
> > 
> 

From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Wed Oct  8 09:23:39 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Wed Oct  8 09:24:38 2003
Subject: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after makepy
In-Reply-To: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE809D03C@server.meru.co.uk>
References: <A402F921D31AD64D9B3777D12A944DE809D03C@server.meru.co.uk>
Message-ID: <3F840FDB.5060207@tallan.com>

It's probably something to do with the office automation components 
rather than Python I'm guessing. The error really seems to indicate that 
the object that is instantiated is saying that it doesn't support the 
IDispatch interface. This is weird but I have seen weirder things happen 
for no reason (i.e. COM registry entries getting mangled with bizarre 
entries for no reason causing strange errors to occur).

Simon Judge wrote:

>Hmm, 
>
>Bizzare - I've replicated what I did exactly on a different box and
>can't recreate it!  It must be box specific - maybe a problem with
>office???  It is behaving slightly weirdly at the moment...
>
>Ohh well, unless anyone has any other ideas, i'll just develop on
>another box...  I suppose I could try reinstalling the lot (python, wx
>&win32all).
>
>Thanks.
>
>Simon
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Simon Judge 
>>Sent: 07 October 2003 16:57
>>To: 'Jens B. Jorgensen'
>>Subject: RE: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' error after
>>makepy
>>
>>
>>It is, yes!  I'll try it on a different box tonight, thanks.
>>
>>Simon
>>
>>    
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jens.jorgensen@tallan.com]
>>>Sent: 03 October 2003 15:55
>>>To: Simon Judge
>>>Cc: python-win32@python.org
>>>Subject: Re: [python-win32] 'No such interface supported' 
>>>      
>>>
>>error after
>>    
>>
>>>makepy
>>>
>>>
>>>This is very, very curious. Looking at the stack trace it 
>>>      
>>>
>>really does 
>>    
>>
>>>appear that any makepy operation would have nothing to do with this 
>>>problem. At least not as near as I can tell. Does this work on a 
>>>different box?
>>>
>>>Simon Judge wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi, I am trying to use win32all to export some information to word.
>>>>
>>>>I tried a simple program e.g: 
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>http://p-nand-q.com/python/ms_office.html
>>>      
>>>
>>>>which worked... and TestMSOffice.py which also worked.
>>>>
>>>>I then used makepy.py and testmakepy.py ... after this the examples
>>>>stopped working! Why?!  (error below).
>>>>
>>>>I've tried removing the gen_py folder, however this makes no
>>>>difference... 
>>>>
>>>>Help!
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Simon
>>>>
>>>>---
>>>>Error: 
>>>>
>>>>None: (-2147467262, 'No such interface supported', None, None)
>>>>
>>>>Traceback (innermost last):
>>>>
>>>>File "<string>", line 1, in ?
>>>> 
>>>>File "\\Server\meru documents\Project Files\Interface
>>>>Centre\Python\Dialog Test\word.py", line 6, in ?
>>>> word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
>>>>File "C:\Program
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
>>>      
>>>
>>>>95, in Dispatch
>>>>   dispatch, userName =
>>>>dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>>>>File "C:\Program
>>>>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>", line 84,
>>>      
>>>
>>>>in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>>>> 	return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>>>>File "C:\Program
>>>>Files\Python\231\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>", line 72,
>>>      
>>>
>>>>in _GetGoodDispatch
>>>> 			IDispatch =
>>>>pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
>>>>pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
>>>>
>>>>_______________________________________________
>>>>Python-win32 mailing list
>>>>Python-win32@python.org
>>>>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Jens B. Jorgensen
>>>jens.jorgensen@tallan.com
>>>
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>>>deliver value through customized technology solutions."
>>>
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From croxton3 at yahoo.com  Thu Oct  9 12:30:06 2003
From: croxton3 at yahoo.com (Derek Croxton)
Date: Thu Oct  9 14:40:20 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: .py, .pyw extensions not associated with python,
 pythonwin, after installing Python2.3/win32all-157
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030915221006.01bbba20@smtp.sbcglobal.net>
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030915221006.01bbba20@smtp.sbcglobal.net>
Message-ID: <bm42ee$sc5$1@sea.gmane.org>

Tony Cappellini wrote:
> 
> 
> After installing Python 2.3, and win32all-2.3, the green snake icons are 
> not associated with any .py and .pyw files, and therefor
> double clicking does execute either.
> 
> This has happened on 2 different Win2k systems. I never had this problem 
> with Python 2.2, or win32all for Py2.2.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem ?

I get the same thing (2 computers, Win2k and ME).  Of course, I only 
started using Python a week ago, so I thought it was normal...



From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Thu Oct  9 14:45:57 2003
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim Vickroy)
Date: Thu Oct  9 14:46:02 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: .py, .pyw extensions not associated with 
	python,pythonwin, after installing Python2.3/win32all-157
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20030915221006.01bbba20@smtp.sbcglobal.net>
	<bm42ee$sc5$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <3F85ACE4.ECCF669E@noaa.gov>

I definitely do not see this behavior on either my Win Xp nor my Win 2k
machines.

Derek Croxton wrote:

> Tony Cappellini wrote:
> >
> >
> > After installing Python 2.3, and win32all-2.3, the green snake icons are
> > not associated with any .py and .pyw files, and therefor
> > double clicking does execute either.
> >
> > This has happened on 2 different Win2k systems. I never had this problem
> > with Python 2.2, or win32all for Py2.2.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this problem ?
>
> I get the same thing (2 computers, Win2k and ME).  Of course, I only
> started using Python a week ago, so I thought it was normal...
>
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From peter at monicol.co.uk  Thu Oct  9 15:14:38 2003
From: peter at monicol.co.uk (Peter Mott)
Date: Thu Oct  9 15:14:38 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: .py, .pyw extensions not associated with python,
	pythonwin, after installing Python2.3/win32all-157
In-Reply-To: <bm42ee$sc5$1@sea.gmane.org>
Message-ID: <EAEJLJMLPEEFNHAOMBNJCEAACOAA.peter@monicol.co.uk>

If you open Explorer->Tools->Folder Options->FileTypes you get the list of
current associations. Scroll down to .PY and then press the Advanced button (not
the Change...) one. This lets you set the options for the association and one of
them is to fix the icon. The icon, though, does not have anything to do with the
action on double clicking/right clicking afaik.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Derek Croxton
> Sent: 09 October 2003 17:30
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Re: .py, .pyw extensions not associated with
> python, pythonwin, after installing Python2.3/win32all-157
>
>
> Tony Cappellini wrote:
> >
> >
> > After installing Python 2.3, and win32all-2.3, the green snake icons are
> > not associated with any .py and .pyw files, and therefor
> > double clicking does execute either.
> >
> > This has happened on 2 different Win2k systems. I never had this problem
> > with Python 2.2, or win32all for Py2.2.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this problem ?
>
> I get the same thing (2 computers, Win2k and ME).  Of course, I only
> started using Python a week ago, so I thought it was normal...
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Python-win32@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>
>



From koen_van_herck at yahoo.com  Thu Oct  9 13:36:27 2003
From: koen_van_herck at yahoo.com (Koen Van Herck)
Date: Thu Oct  9 15:27:20 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Early binding problem
Message-ID: <006b01c38e8b$df29c200$4028000a@KVanherck>

>From within Pythonwin, I run the makepy utility to create the <clsid>.py file.
Then I can do:

win32com.client.Dispatch('...')

and get 

<win32com.gen_py...>

which is OK.

However, if I close Pythonwin and restart it, and then do the Dispatch, I get

<COMObject ...>

which is the late binding COM object.

I can see the <clsid>.py file exists in my temp directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Koen.
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From moof at metamoof.net  Fri Oct 10 04:49:37 2003
From: moof at metamoof.net (Moof)
Date: Fri Oct 10 04:50:21 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Multithreaded COM, when do I need to CoUninitialise?
Message-ID: <3F8672A1.90403@metamoof.net>

I'm currently writing a Webware app (http://webware.sf.net/), which uses 
multiple threads to serve web requests in the application server.

Due to the nature of my application, I have to save a number of COM 
objects in my sessions, which are held in memory, for about 15-30 
minutes, which is when the session times out and is garbage collected.

After playing around with the COMKit part of Webware and deciding it 
isn't as simple as it looks, I now find I'm doing a little something 
like this:

import sys
sys.coinit_flags = 0
import pythoncom
from Webkit.Page import Page
from win32com.client import Dispatch

class FooPage(Page):
	def procThatGetsCalledToSetUpData(self):
		#first reinit COM, in case this thread hasn't inited it
		pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_MULTITHREADED)
		foo = Dipatch('comlib.object1')
		#do stuff with foo
		bar = Dispatch('comlib.object2')
		bar.doStuff(foo)
		self.session().setValue('foo',foo)
		self.session().setvalue('bar',bar)
		#And here I used to CoUninitialize()
		self.writePage()

The reason I *used* to CoUninitialize there was that at the time, I 
didn't need the com objects anymore, but now I find that I do, and need 
to store them in the session.

The thing I suppose I'm wondering is whether I need to worry about 
CoUninitialize - I have no control over which thread will be working 
with the COM objects later, and I can't even force the user to go 
through a set path in my webpage, the session might never reach 
completion. Basically, I don't know what CoUninitialize does exactly, 
and whether using it is just being "good neighbourly" or whether it's 
actually really necessary.

Since I'm asking, given that a thread may call CoInitializeEx() a number 
of times throughout its lifetime, is that going affect the COM Objects 
that are currently being stored in a session somewhere when I try to 
import them back into that thread?

Thanks in advance,
Moof
-- 
G.A.Radford - Moofing at you from Madrid, Spain
'Intelligence, Khalis, and Eupathy'



From peter at monicol.co.uk  Fri Oct 10 05:35:00 2003
From: peter at monicol.co.uk (Peter Mott)
Date: Fri Oct 10 05:34:55 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Multithreaded COM,
	when do I need to CoUninitialise?
In-Reply-To: <3F8672A1.90403@metamoof.net>
Message-ID: <EAEJLJMLPEEFNHAOMBNJMEAHCOAA.peter@monicol.co.uk>

CoUninitialize frees resources that were used when the COM libraries were
intialized with CoInitialise. BTW as you are using the Dispatch interface which
is what scripting languages like VBscript use I don't see why you need to
initialise COM directly.

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Moof
> Sent: 10 October 2003 09:50
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Multithreaded COM, when do I need to
> CoUninitialise?
>
>
> I'm currently writing a Webware app (http://webware.sf.net/), which uses
> multiple threads to serve web requests in the application server.
>
> Due to the nature of my application, I have to save a number of COM
> objects in my sessions, which are held in memory, for about 15-30
> minutes, which is when the session times out and is garbage collected.
>
> After playing around with the COMKit part of Webware and deciding it
> isn't as simple as it looks, I now find I'm doing a little something
> like this:
>
> import sys
> sys.coinit_flags = 0
> import pythoncom
> from Webkit.Page import Page
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
>
> class FooPage(Page):
> 	def procThatGetsCalledToSetUpData(self):
> 		#first reinit COM, in case this thread hasn't inited it
> 		pythoncom.CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_MULTITHREADED)
> 		foo = Dipatch('comlib.object1')
> 		#do stuff with foo
> 		bar = Dispatch('comlib.object2')
> 		bar.doStuff(foo)
> 		self.session().setValue('foo',foo)
> 		self.session().setvalue('bar',bar)
> 		#And here I used to CoUninitialize()
> 		self.writePage()
>
> The reason I *used* to CoUninitialize there was that at the time, I
> didn't need the com objects anymore, but now I find that I do, and need
> to store them in the session.
>
> The thing I suppose I'm wondering is whether I need to worry about
> CoUninitialize - I have no control over which thread will be working
> with the COM objects later, and I can't even force the user to go
> through a set path in my webpage, the session might never reach
> completion. Basically, I don't know what CoUninitialize does exactly,
> and whether using it is just being "good neighbourly" or whether it's
> actually really necessary.
>
> Since I'm asking, given that a thread may call CoInitializeEx() a number
> of times throughout its lifetime, is that going affect the COM Objects
> that are currently being stored in a session somewhere when I try to
> import them back into that thread?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Moof
> --
> G.A.Radford - Moofing at you from Madrid, Spain
> 'Intelligence, Khalis, and Eupathy'
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Python-win32@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>



From koen_van_herck at yahoo.com  Fri Oct 10 08:53:51 2003
From: koen_van_herck at yahoo.com (Koen Van Herck)
Date: Fri Oct 10 08:53:47 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Hex/Dec problem with LCID
Message-ID: <009f01c38f2d$8f781de0$4028000a@KVanherck>

There seems to be some hex/dec confusion with the LCID of the type library.
In the registry, I have a type library stored at
    \Typelib\{UUID}\1.5\409\win32
which, according to MSDN means the locale ID is 0x409 (English US)
(see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/automat/htm/chap2_89o9.asp)

However, when I run makepy.py, this number is interpreted as decimal 409 and
stored in a file named
    UUIDx409x1x5.py
This file contains a line
    LCID = 0x409
Which is correct. When trying to import the type library
(win32com.client.Dispatch), the code will look for a file
    UUIDx1033x1x5.py
which of course doesn't exist and the import fails.

Changing selecttlb.py as shown below seems to fix the problem (at least for
my case).
(This was with Win2K, Python 2.2, win32all-158)

Regards,
Koen.

--selecttlb.py, line 103--
try:
    lcid = int(lcid, 16) # KVH fix
except ValueError: # crap in the registry!
    continue
# Only care about "{lcid}\win32" key - jump straight there.
try:
    key4 = win32api.RegOpenKey(key3, "%x\win32" % (lcid,)) # KVH fix
except win32api.error:
    continue



From gtalvola at nameconnector.com  Fri Oct 10 17:38:02 2003
From: gtalvola at nameconnector.com (Geoffrey Talvola)
Date: Fri Oct 10 17:38:10 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Multithreaded COM, when do I need to CoUniniti
	alise?
Message-ID: <61957B071FF421419E567A28A45C7FE59AF6DD@mailbox.nameconnector.com>

Moof wrote:
> After playing around with the COMKit part of Webware and deciding it
> isn't as simple as it looks, I now find I'm doing a little something
> like this: 

You shouldn't need to do any calls to CoInitializeEx or CoUninitialize.
Just make sure that your AppServer.config file has

	'EnableCOM': 1,

in it.  This will cause all of the WebKit threads to _automatically_ have
CoInitializeEx(pythoncom.COINIT_MULTITHREADED) called with the thread
starts, and pythoncom.CoUninitialize() called when the thread ends.  (That's
what COMKit does -- it installs the hooks necessary to make sure these
functions are called.)

Is there some reason why this isn't sufficient?

- Geoff


From A.N.Z.Evershed at exeter.ac.uk  Sat Oct 11 17:04:41 2003
From: A.N.Z.Evershed at exeter.ac.uk (Tony Evershed)
Date: Sat Oct 11 17:51:52 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Copying a string to the clipboard
In-Reply-To: <E1A8MBP-000613-1A@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <000001c3903b$4d5c4a30$530910ac@tonypc>

I almost *know* this one has been asked before, but a trawl through Google
and the win32 extensions help failed to turn up anything of use...

Is it possible to copy a string to the clipboard, such that if I click on
'Paste' in Notepad the text will appear? If so, could someone please tell me
how?

I have, for information...
Python 2.3
win32all build 155
Windows XP Professional

Many thanks,

Tony Evershed



From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Sat Oct 11 18:40:01 2003
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Sat Oct 11 18:42:22 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Copying a string to the clipboard
In-Reply-To: <000001c3903b$4d5c4a30$530910ac@tonypc>
References: <E1A8MBP-000613-1A@mail.python.org>
	<000001c3903b$4d5c4a30$530910ac@tonypc>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031011163806.0347ddf0@66.28.54.253>

At 03:04 PM 10/11/2003, Tony Evershed wrote:

>I almost *know* this one has been asked before, but a trawl through Google
>and the win32 extensions help failed to turn up anything of use...
>
>Is it possible to copy a string to the clipboard, such that if I click on
>'Paste' in Notepad the text will appear?

import win32clipboard
win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(text)
win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()

Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625
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From jbauer at rubic.com  Mon Oct 13 09:33:49 2003
From: jbauer at rubic.com (Jeff Bauer)
Date: Mon Oct 13 09:35:10 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Win32 PPP connections
Message-ID: <3F8AA9BD.BADBDA84@rubic.com>

We have a 3rd party application that requires a
Windows PPP connection to a private network.  I'd
like to automate this task with a python script.
Any clues where I should look to startup, then
tear down a PPP connection on Windows (NT/2000)?

Thanks in advance.

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon, Inc.

From pythonwin at evpopov.com  Mon Oct 13 09:54:56 2003
From: pythonwin at evpopov.com (pythonwin)
Date: Mon Oct 13 09:55:04 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Win32 PPP connections
In-Reply-To: <3F8AA9BD.BADBDA84@rubic.com>
References: <3F8AA9BD.BADBDA84@rubic.com>
Message-ID: <1066053296.3f8aaeb00674d@imp.online.net>

> We have a 3rd party application that requires a
> Windows PPP connection to a private network.  I'd
> like to automate this task with a python script.
> Any clues where I should look to startup, then
> tear down a PPP connection on Windows (NT/2000)?

You can try to execute rasdial.exe with proper parameters to start / stop a VPN 
connection (I think rasdial is shipped with NT/2000: try rasdial.exe in a DOS 
box to check).
I had to do that in the past and it did the job (at least for me).

From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Oct 13 09:57:15 2003
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon Oct 13 10:03:31 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Win32 PPP connections
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E44343F8@iron.ima.umn.edu>

> > Any clues where I should look to startup, then
> > tear down a PPP connection on Windows (NT/2000)?

> You can try to execute rasdial.exe 

Better still... use the win32ras module from the win32all extensions.

TJG

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From jbauer at rubic.com  Mon Oct 13 10:09:20 2003
From: jbauer at rubic.com (Jeff Bauer)
Date: Mon Oct 13 10:10:43 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: Win32 PPP connections
Message-ID: <3F8AB210.AF23172E@rubic.com>

Thanks.  That's exactly the kind of hack I was looking for.

-Jeff

> You can try to execute rasdial.exe with proper parameters
> to start / stop a VPN connection (I think rasdial is shipped
> with NT/2000: try rasdial.exe in a DOS box to check). I had
> to do that in the past and it did the job (at least for me)

From sxa at fluent.com  Mon Oct 13 09:20:59 2003
From: sxa at fluent.com (Seb)
Date: Mon Oct 13 11:00:24 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Building Python in Singlethread mode !
Message-ID: <008701c3918c$d7aacd90$8ae4e9c0@sxapc>

Greetings !

We are currently experiencing problems with the way our C++ application is
interacting with the Python modules we made. (Interfacing is done through
SIP)

We discovered that each calls from our C++ app to any functions implemented
in a Python modules needs to be encapsulated by Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and
Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS.

This solves the crashing problems we had so far but causes new crashing
problems in other parts of the code.
We thought that we should try a Python version build in single thread mode.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks !


From cedric.fournier at sescoi.fr  Tue Oct 14 07:08:13 2003
From: cedric.fournier at sescoi.fr (FOURNIER Cedric)
Date: Tue Oct 14 12:18:39 2003
Subject: [python-win32] killing win32 process
Message-ID: <3F8BD91D1D4.7271CEDRIC.FOURNIER@mailhost-lotusfr>

Hello.

I am under win2000 and python 2.3

I have a win32 executable which runs (created through python script with
os.popen3().

I know its name

Can anyone explain me use of win32 api to kill this process.

Thanks in advance

From null-python-win32 at tinfoilhat.ca  Tue Oct 14 12:21:40 2003
From: null-python-win32 at tinfoilhat.ca (Sean)
Date: Tue Oct 14 12:25:42 2003
Subject: [python-win32] killing win32 process
In-Reply-To: <3F8BD91D1D4.7271CEDRIC.FOURNIER@mailhost-lotusfr>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.33-TFH.0310141119430.3413-100000@redmars.tinfoilhat.ca>

->I have a win32 executable which runs (created through python script with
->os.popen3().
->
A -quick- fix would be to exec pskill (from the PSTools freeware package
www.sysinternals.com).

You could also do it via WMI using the Win32_Process object but this is
more work than it is worth.

-- 
Sean



From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Tue Oct 14 12:19:51 2003
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue Oct 14 12:26:08 2003
Subject: FW: [python-win32] killing win32 process
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434406@iron.ima.umn.edu>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FOURNIER Cedric [mailto:cedric.fournier@sescoi.fr]
> Sent: 14 October 2003 12:08
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] killing win32 process

> I am under win2000 and python 2.3
> I have a win32 executable 
> I know its name
> 
> Can anyone explain me use of win32 api to kill this process.

I'm sure there are other ways, but I'd use WMI:

Get the WMI module from 

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html

Either copy the "Create and then destroy a new notepad process" 
 example from the cookbook page (note to self: put internal
 anchors on that page)

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html

or, if you need to have created it with popen, do something
 like this:

c = wmi.WMI ()
for process in c.Win32_Process (Name='name of process'):
  process.Terminate ()

where 'name of process' obviously has to be replaced by
 the name of the process you're running.

HTH
TJG


[Sorry - I always forget to send back to the group. Tim]

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From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Tue Oct 14 12:52:21 2003
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim Vickroy)
Date: Tue Oct 14 12:52:26 2003
Subject: [python-win32] killing win32 process
References: <3F8BD91D1D4.7271CEDRIC.FOURNIER@mailhost-lotusfr>
Message-ID: <3F8C29C5.2B354C61@noaa.gov>

You may also want to take a look at the win32process module -- specifically,
TerminateProcess.  Depending on your need for interprocess communication
this module may be satisfactory.  If you need interprocess communication the
win32process API requires you to use Windows pipes (win32pipe) which may be
more Windows-specific than you care to be.

FOURNIER Cedric wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am under win2000 and python 2.3
>
> I have a win32 executable which runs (created through python script with
> os.popen3().
>
> I know its name
>
> Can anyone explain me use of win32 api to kill this process.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32@python.org
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From james at digconn.co.uk  Wed Oct 15 04:52:53 2003
From: james at digconn.co.uk (james brooksbank)
Date: Wed Oct 15 05:00:48 2003
Subject: [python-win32] system tray messages
Message-ID: <1066207971.16838.6.camel@digconnserver>

I'm trying to deveolp a program which runs in the system tray, every
minute the program searches for a file in a directory, if there is more
than one file in there then .i need a message to pop up in the system
tray which tells the user that there is mail. I can't figure out how to
get the message to be displayed. I'm using wxPython and the code to call
my system tray icon is

self.tbicon = wxTaskBarIcon()

the following if statement is run as part of a biggere module called
update which is the module which should display the message.

ls = os.listdir(path) #path is my filepath
if len(ls) > 1:
	#the message code should go here

Please can you help

James Brooksbank


From moof at metamoof.net  Fri Oct 17 07:25:28 2003
From: moof at metamoof.net (Moof)
Date: Fri Oct 17 07:28:01 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Why is Webware not using COM early-bound dispatch?
Message-ID: <3F8FD1A8.6060404@metamoof.net>

Hi there:
I have the following bit of test code:

from WebKit.Page import Page
from win32com.client import Dispatch

class COMTest(Page):
     def __init__(self):
         Page.__init__(self)

     def writeContent(self):
         # grab the COM object
         bestOffer = Dispatch("ComTMW.tmwBestOffer")
         self.writeln('<pre>')
         self.writeln('bestOffer: %s' % repr(bestOffer))
         demands = bestOffer.SetDemand(2)
         self.writeln('demands: %s' % repr(demands))
         self.writeln('</pre>')

I do have COMKit installed.

If I run this code from the python shell I get:

 >>> foo = COMTest.COMTest()
 >>> def writeln(foo):
... 	print foo
... 	
 >>> foo.writeln = writeln
 >>> foo.writeContent()
<pre>
bestOffer: 
<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._tmwBestOffer 
instance at 0x22765200>
demands: 
((<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._Demand 
instance at 0x22764120>, 
<win32com.gen_py.03D57A28-498A-484F-873A-266C0E854A66x0x14x0._Demand 
instance at 0x22765440>), 2)
</pre>

However, If I run it from within Webware, I get this returned as content:

<pre>
bestOffer: <COMObject ComTMW.tmwBestOffer>
demands: ((<PyIDispatch at 0x9963f4 with obj at 0x1bc864>, <PyIDispatch 
at 0x995b04 with obj at 0x1bcf3c>), 2)
</pre>

The problem I get is that if I now try to set an attribute in one fo the 
objects in the demands array by writing:

demands[0][0].Adults = 2

this works fine on the python shell but with webware I get the error:

TypeError: PyIDispatch has read-only attributes

This is because I'm tryign to assign a variable to what I thoguht was an 
early-bound COM object. So I'm wondering how to convince Webware to use 
early-bound COM objects.

Webware is 0.8.2, Python is 2.3 and both the Webware and Python shell 
had the win32com\gen_py directory in the correct location in sys.path

Any ideas?

-- 
            Giles Antonio Radford, a.k.a Moof
Sympathy, eupathy, and, currently, apathy coming to you at:
                 <http://metamoof.net/>



From gtalvola at nameconnector.com  Fri Oct 17 12:54:07 2003
From: gtalvola at nameconnector.com (Geoffrey Talvola)
Date: Fri Oct 17 12:54:24 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Why is Webware not using COM early-bound dispa tch?
Message-ID: <61957B071FF421419E567A28A45C7FE59AF712@mailbox.nameconnector.com>

Moof wrote:
> ...
> 
> This is because I'm tryign to assign a variable to what I
> thoguht was an
> early-bound COM object. So I'm wondering how to convince
> Webware to use
> early-bound COM objects.
>
> ...

I'm not sure why this isn't working.  Try using:

from win32com.client.gencache import EnsureDispatch

then use EnsureDispatch in place of Dispatch.  See if this makes any
difference.

- Geoff

From pascor at hotpop.com  Fri Oct 17 17:28:43 2003
From: pascor at hotpop.com (Ray Pasco)
Date: Fri Oct 17 17:28:44 2003
Subject: [python-win32] process creation ID returned as a string, not an int
Message-ID: <3F905F0B.9050201@hotpop.com>

After installing wmi on my Win98 box, I pulled my hair out for a while
trying to get the "Notepad" examples to work.  After a while I identified
the apparent and intermittent problem (bug?).  When creating a process
and saving the returned ID, sometime this value is an integer and sometimes
it is a string !  The only reliable way to end up with the integer value 
is to force it:

NotepadProcID, return_value = c.new ("Win32_Process").Create /
                                (CommandLine="notepad.exe")
# Absolutely necessary to *always* get a usable int !
NotepadProcID == int (str (NotepadProcID))    

I noticed that the integer version would be returned exactly once
immediately after a boot;  subsequent calls return the string equivalent.

Would anyone care to comment ?





From davidostrowski at yahoo.com  Sat Oct 18 17:14:11 2003
From: davidostrowski at yahoo.com (david ostrowski)
Date: Sat Oct 18 17:14:14 2003
Subject: [python-win32] (no subject)
Message-ID: <20031018211411.57658.qmail@web21414.mail.yahoo.com>

I am having difficulty getting the experimental Mark
Hammond python.NET compiler (off activestate site) to
build correctly. Most distributions do not include
NMAKE.exe, which is identified in all readme.txt as
the primary file to run. When run I get the following:

Creating a new key for signing the assemblies


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From davidostrowski at yahoo.com  Sat Oct 18 17:18:41 2003
From: davidostrowski at yahoo.com (david ostrowski)
Date: Sat Oct 18 17:18:45 2003
Subject: [python-win32] (no subject)
Message-ID: <20031018211841.62523.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com>

sorry about the incomplete message.


I am having problems with the compilation of
python.NET experimental compiler from activestate
site. When running NMAKE.exe (on the distributions
that contain it) I get:

Creating a new key for signing the assembles
if not exist ..\ManagedPython sn -k
.\ManagedPython.key
'sn' is not recognized as an internal or external
commonand.
NMAKE : fatal error...





If I go to /compiler and run make.bat manually I get:

ultimately:
pywintypes.com_error (' Invalid class string' )

I have installed python2.2 , win32com successfully as
well as tried this on windows2000, XP, and 98! 
help!

Thanks.
david ostrowski

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From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Sat Oct 18 21:04:17 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Sat Oct 18 21:04:59 2003
Subject: [python-win32] (no subject)
In-Reply-To: <20031018211841.62523.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20031018211841.62523.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <3F91E311.6010505@tallan.com>

I'm just going to make a guess here but there's a couple of things you 
should check out. First, you need to make sure that you have installed 
both the .NET framework redistributable as well as the .NET framework 
SDK. nmake and sn are both included in the .NET SDK. Aside from that 
just make sure that you have your PATH set to include the directories 
for both the above which will probably be something like:

c:/windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322
c:/Program\ Files/Microsoft.NET/SDK/v1.1/Bin

david ostrowski wrote:

>sorry about the incomplete message.
>
>
>I am having problems with the compilation of
>python.NET experimental compiler from activestate
>site. When running NMAKE.exe (on the distributions
>that contain it) I get:
>
>Creating a new key for signing the assembles
>if not exist ..\ManagedPython sn -k
>.\ManagedPython.key
>'sn' is not recognized as an internal or external
>commonand.
>NMAKE : fatal error...
>
>
>
>
>
>If I go to /compiler and run make.bat manually I get:
>
>ultimately:
>pywintypes.com_error (' Invalid class string' )
>
>I have installed python2.2 , win32com successfully as
>well as tried this on windows2000, XP, and 98! 
>help!
>
>Thanks.
>david ostrowski
>
>__________________________________
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From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Oct 20 04:11:18 2003
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon Oct 20 04:17:39 2003
Subject: [python-win32] process creation ID returned as a string, not 
	an int
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E443442B@iron.ima.umn.edu>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Pasco [mailto:pascor@hotpop.com]
> Sent: 17 October 2003 22:29
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] process creation ID returned as a 
> string, not an
> int
> 
> When creating a process and saving the returned ID, 
> sometime this value is an integer and sometimes
> it is a string !

With no particular insight on this, experimentation on my Win2K
 box shows that the id is neither an int nor a string, but rather
 an instance of an ISWbemProperty class. This class, if you're interested:

>>> print id.__class__
win32com.gen_py.565783C6-CB41-11D1-8B02-00600806D9B6x0x1x1.ISWbemProperty.IS
WbemProperty

I'll have a go on a Win98 box later today if I get the chance just
 to see if it's any different.

To ask a question that goes beyond the immediate problem, though,
 what are you trying to do with the return value? All I ever do is
 stash it away in some local or class variable so that I can
 refer to the process later, eg to terminate it. In that case, I
 don't care whether it's an int or a string or anything else: I just
 pass it back in to a WMI query. What are you using it for?

TJG

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From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon Oct 20 04:53:40 2003
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon Oct 20 04:59:54 2003
Subject: FW: [python-win32] process creation ID returned as a string, not 
	an int
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E443442D@iron.ima.umn.edu>

RP> From: Ray Pasco [mailto:pascor@hotpop.com]
RP> 
RP> When creating a process and saving the returned ID, 
RP> sometime this value is an integer and sometimes
RP> it is a string !

TG> I'll have a go on a Win98 box later today if I get the chance just
TG>  to see if it's any different.

Ah. OK. I've now had a look at what Win98 does, and it looks like
 it manages to mangle the process id beyond recognition. I was getting
 out a negative id while the WMI object's own process id was a positive
 number. Converting using long (hex (id), 16) seemed to give the right
 result, but I didn't get a chance to pass it back in again. (Using
 someone else's machine). Even if it worked it would be, like your 
 workaround, a tedious thing to have to do every time.

Not very helpful, I know, but that's probably why I eschew Win98 where
 humanly possible.

TJG

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From stephen at theboulets.net  Mon Oct 20 11:18:01 2003
From: stephen at theboulets.net (stephen)
Date: Mon Oct 20 11:18:05 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Strange issue with killing a process
Message-ID: <20031020151801.M73774@theboulets.net>

I can kill a program this way:

import os, win32api, sys,os.path

base = "C:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.4.13\\i586-pc-win32"
prog = "xemacs.exe"
command = os.path.join(base,prog)
mode = os.P_NOWAIT
id = os.spawnl(mode,command)
win32api.TerminateProcess(id,0)

But, and here's what's strange, this will only work if called from the same
script. When I pickle 'id' and exit the script without killing the process, I
can't start another script that would unpickle 'id' and then kill the process.
Trying to do so gives me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "killprocess.py", line 20, in ?
    win32api.TerminateProcess(id,0)
pywintypes.error: (6, 'TerminateProcess', 'The handle is invalid.')

Anyone know what's going on?

_________
Stephen

From andrew.miller at verizon.com  Mon Oct 20 15:31:07 2003
From: andrew.miller at verizon.com (andrew.miller@verizon.com)
Date: Mon Oct 20 15:32:09 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Need help with COM
Message-ID: <OF9917563A.4CB04AEA-ON85256DC5.006A2BDC@core.verizon.com>

Hi All,


I am new to Python and COM and have run into some problems.

I am trying to write a COM program that will interact with
MS Internet Explorer.

Using code like:

from win32com.client import Dispatch
ie = Dispatch ('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.Visible = 1

I have been able to start IE, navigate and submit forms.

My problem is that one of the pages I navigate to opens up a new
browser window.

How do I navigate and work with this new (child) window instead
of the parent browser?


Thanks in advance.




From tony at tcapp.com  Tue Oct 21 02:13:40 2003
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Tue Oct 21 02:17:09 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Win32all 1.59 crashes during install on XP
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20031020231155.02879fe8@smtp.sbcglobal.net>



When I tried to uninstall this, install.log could not be found, therefore I 
cannot uninstall win32all cleanly.
Is there another way to do a CLEAN uninstall ?
Does the registry get messed with during the install ?


From niki at vintech.bg  Tue Oct 21 03:27:59 2003
From: niki at vintech.bg (Niki Spahiev)
Date: Tue Oct 21 03:30:49 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Strange issue with killing a process
In-Reply-To: <20031020151801.M73774@theboulets.net>
References: <20031020151801.M73774@theboulets.net>
Message-ID: <3F94DFFF.5030503@vintech.bg>

stephen wrote:

> But, and here's what's strange, this will only work if called from the same
> script. When I pickle 'id' and exit the script without killing the process, I
> can't start another script that would unpickle 'id' and then kill the process.
> Trying to do so gives me this error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "killprocess.py", line 20, in ?
>     win32api.TerminateProcess(id,0)
> pywintypes.error: (6, 'TerminateProcess', 'The handle is invalid.')
> 
> Anyone know what's going on?

Handles are closed when process terimantes. You must open new handle in 
second process.

HTH
Niki Spahiev



From jhmsmits at xs4all.nl  Wed Oct 22 17:58:11 2003
From: jhmsmits at xs4all.nl (Sander Smits)
Date: Wed Oct 22 17:58:19 2003
Subject: [python-win32] DDE
Message-ID: <200310222358.11241.jhmsmits@xs4all.nl>

I have a stock data stream via a DDE server. I can connect to it via Excel. 
Now, when I try to connect to it via Python, it will only return requests 
which are opened in Excel already. All other requests (not called at by 
Excel) return an empty string. I use the following script:

import dde
server = dde.CreateServer()
server.Create('')
conversation = dde.CreateConversation(server)
conversation.ConnectTo("name", "topic")
s = "somethingstring"
print conversation.Request(s)

This script only returns values if Excel is opened, and then only returns 
those values which are called at by Excel.
Is there a way to send requests via the DDE server and receive data directly 
via python without having to start Excel?

Regards, 
Sander.

From olson at mcs.anl.gov  Thu Oct 23 08:56:10 2003
From: olson at mcs.anl.gov (Robert Olson)
Date: Thu Oct 23 08:56:23 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>

Hi -

I'm trying to use python+COM to poke at the WinXP firewall configs. I'm 
looking at the VBScript sample available here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/enabling_internet_connection_firewall_vbscript_.asp

(aka http://snurl.com/qu2 ) and attempting to emulate it in Python. I used 
makepy to create a module for the ICS library:

makepy -o hnet.py \windows\system\hnetcfg.dll

I can create the INetSharingManager obj just fine, and invoke its toplevel 
methods, but can't use the objects returned from the enumeration.

here's the test code:

import pythoncom
import hnet

n = hnet.NetSharingManager()
print "n=", n
print "sharingInstalled=", n.SharingInstalled

col = n.EnumEveryConnection

print "Col=%s count=%s" % (col, col.Count)

item = col[0]
print "Item is %s type=%s" % (item, type(item))

iidstr = hnet.VTablesNamesToCLSIDMap['INetConnection']
iid = pythoncom.MakeIID(iidstr)
print "iidstr=%s iid=%s" %( iidstr, iid)

try:
     item2 = item.QueryInterface(iid)
     print "item2=", item2
except Exception, e:
     print "QueryInterface failed: ", e

try:
     con = n.INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection(item)
     print "con=", con
except Exception, e:
     print "INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection failed: ", e

And here's the output:

C:\temp>python thnet.py
n= <win32com.gen_py.NetCon 1.0 Type Library.NetSharingManager>
sharingInstalled= 1
Col=<win32com.gen_py.NetCon 1.0 Type 
Library.INetSharingEveryConnectionCollection> count=2
Item is <PyIUnknown at 0x8cb40c with obj at 0x167408> type=<type 'PyIUnknown'>
iidstr={C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E} 
iid={C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E}
QueryInterface failed:  There is no interface object registered that 
supports this IID
INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection failed:  (-2147467262, 'No such 
interface supported', None, None)

I've poked a little at using QueryInterface to turn the item from the 
collection into a INetConnection but haven't been able to get that to fly. 
I'm using ActiveState Python which doesn't have CastTo; however, I looked 
at the source to CastTo in CVS and it looks like it wouldn't work anyway, 
as the item in the connection doesn't have __class__ attribute as used by 
CastTo.

I find that interface in the registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E}

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks,
--bob


From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Thu Oct 23 15:18:58 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Thu Oct 23 15:20:22 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
Message-ID: <3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>

The INetConnection interface derives from IUnknown so using win32com 
there is no way to call methods on this interface as all calls on 
objects are made through IDispatch even when makepy is used to generate 
"strongly typed" wrappers around such interfaces. (vbscript can't make 
calls on INetConnection either.). The ctypes library has some code that 
supports calling methods on "custom" interfaces. If you need to be able 
to make calls on the INetConnection interface you could either try 
ctypes (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes, 
http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/index.html) or you could 
generate a python extension module. The ctypes com stuff is work in 
progress so you'll need to look at the code and examples (not enough in 
the docs) to see how to do this if it is indeed possible. 

For the python extension here are a couple of options. You could wrap 
the whole type library, all objects,methods, etc. and that would 
probably take a while. You could also just hack something together. 
Since I haven't done something along this vein in a little while and 
have an XP box myself I decided to do just this. I would like to make 
the disclaimer that the thing I hacked together has little error 
checking, and plays very fast and loose with COM. Specifically, my 
strategy was to get the IUnknown * out of the PyIUnknown object so I can 
do the right COM stuff with in in C++. Well, PyIUnknown doesn't provide 
any way of getting at it directly so I did the unthinkable: I take the 
string that str(obj) returns on PyIUnknown and take that second hex 
value which is the pointer itself. I just cast it to IUnknown * and go 
from there. This is against a number of very basic rules of COM but it 
works in the simple case of my test script (same thread/apartment as 
python when it is called, etc. etc.). I implemented a couple of method 
calls so that I could run the following script (I did the same makepy 
you did) which enumerates the connections and prints out the connection 
name and status. I ran it on my laptop and it worked just fine.

import sys
sys.path.append('Release')
import NetConnection
import hnet
n = hnet.NetSharingManager()
col = n.EnumEveryConnection
for nc in col :
    print ""
    print NetConnection.INetConnection_GetName(nc)
    print NetConnection.INetConnection_GetStatus(nc)

The sys.path.append line is because I ran this from the source directory 
where I built the extension module. If you decide to try out (and 
modify?!) the extension yourself all you'll need to do is run "python 
setup.py install" to build and install the extension and then that line 
will not be necessary. If you install the binary extension you also 
won't need it.

Here's a link to the source for my python extension should you want to 
tinker with it and perhaps grow it. As I mentioned above it is all set 
up with distutils for easy building/installing.

http://pitroda.net:8000/~jbj1/NetConnection-0.0.zip

And just 'cause it's easy I built a binary distribution as well for 
instant gratification. Note that this is built against Python 2.2 so if 
that's not your version it won't work.

http://pitroda.net:8000/~jbj1/NetConnection-0.0.win32-py2.2.exe
http://pitroda.net:8000/~jbj1/NetConnection-0.0.win32-py2.2.exe.asc 
(gnupg signature)

Don't be afraid to take a look at the c++ extension I wrote. It is small 
and easy! I think more people should be doing extensions but people are 
afraid of them or think it'll be hard. I never use swig, no need to and 
you get a cleaner interface doing a proper pythonic interface yourself.

Robert Olson wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to use python+COM to poke at the WinXP firewall configs. 
> I'm looking at the VBScript sample available here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/enabling_internet_connection_firewall_vbscript_.asp 
>
>
> (aka http://snurl.com/qu2 ) and attempting to emulate it in Python. I 
> used makepy to create a module for the ICS library:
>
> makepy -o hnet.py \windows\system\hnetcfg.dll
>
> I can create the INetSharingManager obj just fine, and invoke its 
> toplevel methods, but can't use the objects returned from the 
> enumeration.
>
> here's the test code:
>
> import pythoncom
> import hnet
>
> n = hnet.NetSharingManager()
> print "n=", n
> print "sharingInstalled=", n.SharingInstalled
>
> col = n.EnumEveryConnection
>
> print "Col=%s count=%s" % (col, col.Count)
>
> item = col[0]
> print "Item is %s type=%s" % (item, type(item))
>
> iidstr = hnet.VTablesNamesToCLSIDMap['INetConnection']
> iid = pythoncom.MakeIID(iidstr)
> print "iidstr=%s iid=%s" %( iidstr, iid)
>
> try:
>     item2 = item.QueryInterface(iid)
>     print "item2=", item2
> except Exception, e:
>     print "QueryInterface failed: ", e
>
> try:
>     con = n.INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection(item)
>     print "con=", con
> except Exception, e:
>     print "INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection failed: ", e
>
> And here's the output:
>
> C:\temp>python thnet.py
> n= <win32com.gen_py.NetCon 1.0 Type Library.NetSharingManager>
> sharingInstalled= 1
> Col=<win32com.gen_py.NetCon 1.0 Type 
> Library.INetSharingEveryConnectionCollection> count=2
> Item is <PyIUnknown at 0x8cb40c with obj at 0x167408> type=<type 
> 'PyIUnknown'>
> iidstr={C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E} 
> iid={C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E}
> QueryInterface failed:  There is no interface object registered that 
> supports this IID
> INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection failed:  (-2147467262, 'No 
> such interface supported', None, None)
>
> I've poked a little at using QueryInterface to turn the item from the 
> collection into a INetConnection but haven't been able to get that to 
> fly. I'm using ActiveState Python which doesn't have CastTo; however, 
> I looked at the source to CastTo in CVS and it looks like it wouldn't 
> work anyway, as the item in the connection doesn't have __class__ 
> attribute as used by CastTo.
>
> I find that interface in the registry:
>
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{C08956A1-1CD3-11D1-B1C5-00805FC1270E}
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> thanks,
> --bob
>
>
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> Python-win32@python.org
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From olson at mcs.anl.gov  Thu Oct 23 15:28:21 2003
From: olson at mcs.anl.gov (Robert Olson)
Date: Thu Oct 23 15:28:29 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
In-Reply-To: <3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>

Very cool, thanks for putting that together. (there's some other stuff 
that's not python-wrapped (the IP Helper API that I've been pondering 
building an extension for anyway).

When I try to compile it's complaininga bout not having NetConnection.h - 
should I hvae that somewhere, or did it get dropped from the module when 
you packed it up?

-bob



At 02:18 PM 10/23/2003, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>Here's a link to the source for my python extension should you want to 
>tinker with it and perhaps grow it. As I mentioned above it is all set up 
>with distutils for easy building/installing.


From theller at python.net  Thu Oct 23 16:07:10 2003
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu Oct 23 16:08:14 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
Message-ID: <n0broh01.fsf@python.net>

Robert Olson <olson@mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to use python+COM to poke at the WinXP firewall
> configs. I'm looking at the VBScript sample available here:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/enabling_internet_connection_firewall_vbscript_.asp
>
> (aka http://snurl.com/qu2 ) and attempting to emulate it in Python. I
> used makepy to create a module for the ICS library:
>
> makepy -o hnet.py \windows\system\hnetcfg.dll
>
> I can create the INetSharingManager obj just fine, and invoke its
> toplevel methods, but can't use the objects returned from the
> enumeration.
>
> here's the test code:
[...]

Just for fun, I tried to convert this into corresponding ctypes code.

First, you have to run the readtlb.py tool on the hnetcfg.dll typelib:

  "readtlb.py c:\windows\system32\hnetcfg.dll > hnet_gen.py"

which creates a python wrapper containing the interfaces.  Second, I had
to manually write a wrapper for the IEnumVARIANT interface, which was
not yet wrapped by ctypes' com.  Easy:

from ctypes import *
from ctypes.com import IUnknown, GUID, STDMETHOD, HRESULT

class IEnumVARIANT(IUnknown):
    _iid_ = GUID("{00020404-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}")

IEnumVARIANT._methods_ = IUnknown._methods_ + [
        STDMETHOD(HRESULT, "Next", c_ulong, POINTER(VARIANT), POINTER(c_ulong)),
        STDMETHOD(HRESULT, "Skip", c_ulong),
        STDMETHOD(HRESULT, "Reset"),
        STDMETHOD(HRESULT, "Clone", POINTER(POINTER(IEnumVARIANT)))
        ]

And finally, after some experimentation and looking into the generated
hnet_get module, here is the script:

-----
import hnet_gen
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.com import CreateInstance
from ctypes.com.automation import IDispatch

def main():
    n = CreateInstance(hnet_gen.NetSharingManager)
    print "n=", n

    installed = c_int()
    n._get_SharingInstalled(byref(installed))
    print "sharingInstalled=", installed

    collection = POINTER(hnet_gen.INetSharingEveryConnectionCollection)()
    n._get_EnumEveryConnection(pointer(collection))

    count = c_long()
    collection._get_Count(byref(count))

    print "count", count

    enum = POINTER(IUnknown)()
    collection._get__NewEnum(byref(enum))

    print "enum", enum

    ienum = POINTER(IEnumVARIANT)()
    enum.QueryInterface(byref(IEnumVARIANT._iid_), byref(ienum))

    v = VARIANT()
    fetched = c_ulong()
    ienum.Next(1, byref(v), byref(fetched))
    print "Next?", fetched, v.vt
    item = v.value
    print "Got", item
    p = POINTER(hnet_gen.INetConnection)()
    item.QueryInterface(byref(hnet_gen.INetConnection._iid_), byref(p))
    print p
    guid = GUID()
    p.GetUiObjectClassId(byref(guid))
    print "GetUiObjectClassId", guid


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
-----

and here is what it prints:

n= <ctypes.LP_INetSharingManager object at 0x009871B0>
sharingInstalled= c_int(65535)
count c_long(5)
enum <ctypes.LP_IUnknown object at 0x00997AB0>
Next? c_ulong(1) 13
Got <ctypes.LP_IUnknown object at 0x0099D530>
<ctypes.LP_INetConnection object at 0x0099D4F0>
GetUiObjectClassId {7007ACC5-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

Not to say that ctypes.com is ready for production use, but maybe it's
worth a look.

Thomas

PS: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/


From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Thu Oct 23 16:11:32 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Thu Oct 23 16:12:51 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall  Manager
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
Message-ID: <3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>

Robert Olson wrote:

> Very cool, thanks for putting that together. (there's some other stuff 
> that's not python-wrapped (the IP Helper API that I've been pondering 
> building an extension for anyway).

No prob, glad to help.

> When I try to compile it's complaininga bout not having 
> NetConnection.h - should I hvae that somewhere, or did it get dropped 
> from the module when you packed it up?

Ack. Sorry, yeah. I updated the zip and uploaded it to the same spot.

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com

"With a focused commitment to our clients and our people, we deliver value through customized technology solutions."



From theller at python.net  Thu Oct 23 16:13:51 2003
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu Oct 23 16:14:20 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Re: Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<n0broh01.fsf@python.net>
Message-ID: <he1zogow.fsf@python.net>

Thomas Heller <theller@python.net> writes:

> Just for fun, I tried to convert this into corresponding ctypes code.
[...]

I forgot to mention that the code I posted needs some changes to the
VARIANT class which are not even in CVS yet, so it would require some
tweaking.

Thomas


From olson at mcs.anl.gov  Thu Oct 23 17:11:57 2003
From: olson at mcs.anl.gov (Robert Olson)
Date: Thu Oct 23 17:12:11 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
In-Reply-To: <3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023160849.02900170@pop.mcs.anl.gov>

At 03:11 PM 10/23/2003, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>Ack. Sorry, yeah. I updated the zip and uploaded it to the same spot.

Okay, that built and works fine. very cool.

What I'm actually looking for is the ability to call 
INetSharingManager::get_INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection. What I'm 
thinking is I add a call that takes the netsharingmgr instance and the 
netconn IUnknown guy, convert the later to a INetConnectionPtr, and do the 
invocation.

Can you point me at the magic to convert a python <win32com.gen_py.NetCon 
1.0 Type Library.NetSharingManager> into the C++ INetSharingManager object, 
and the other direction for the return of the INetSharingConfiguration 
object (which does implement IDispatch which means I should be able to 
manipulate it in python).

thanks; this is pretty powerful stuff ..

--bob 


From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Thu Oct 23 20:00:11 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Thu Oct 23 20:01:25 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031023160849.02900170@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023160849.02900170@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
Message-ID: <3F986B8B.8010309@tallan.com>

Interesting. I would think that would work actually. Hmm. Actually the 
reason that call doesn't work is because the InvokeTypes call is 
attempting to turn the argument (which is the INetConnection *) into 
VT_DISPATCH, which cannot be done since that interface doesn't support 
IDispatch. I'm not sure where the mistake was made but perhaps when the 
type library was processed it was assumed that the INetConnection 
interface would support IDispatch which of course it does not. I think 
this is technically a bug in makepy. You can actually fix this by 
modifying the hnet.py that was generated by makepy. Go to the line in 
there where it defines INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection there 
is a line there with "InvokeTypes(0x6, LCID, 2, (9, 0), ((9, 1)"... and 
change the bit with "((9, 1)" to "((13, 1)" and now the code should 
work. If I had more time to spare at the moment looking at this I'd 
figure out a patch for makepy and send it on to Mark.

Robert Olson wrote:

> At 03:11 PM 10/23/2003, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
>> Ack. Sorry, yeah. I updated the zip and uploaded it to the same spot.
>
>
> Okay, that built and works fine. very cool.
>
> What I'm actually looking for is the ability to call 
> INetSharingManager::get_INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection. 
> What I'm thinking is I add a call that takes the netsharingmgr 
> instance and the netconn IUnknown guy, convert the later to a 
> INetConnectionPtr, and do the invocation.
>
> Can you point me at the magic to convert a python 
> <win32com.gen_py.NetCon 1.0 Type Library.NetSharingManager> into the 
> C++ INetSharingManager object, and the other direction for the return 
> of the INetSharingConfiguration object (which does implement IDispatch 
> which means I should be able to manipulate it in python).
>
> thanks; this is pretty powerful stuff ..
>
> --bob 


-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com

"With a focused commitment to our clients and our people, we deliver value through customized technology solutions."



From master at hilug.org  Fri Oct 24 04:02:05 2003
From: master at hilug.org (hilug master)
Date: Fri Oct 24 04:02:19 2003
Subject: [python-win32] E_ACCESSDENIED problem with disk quota.
Message-ID: <002201c39a05$1d9dca20$ca3fe7cb@LocalHost>

Hi,

I'm testing to control Windows disk quota by python on win2003 and winXP.

But ther is some problem..
This is the test code:

import win32com.client

qutoa=win32com.client.Dispatch('Microsoft.DiskQuota.1') 
quota.Initialize('c:\\',1)
test=quota.AddUser('test')  ## 'test' is real account name in my machine. 
test.QuotaLimit=10000000  # 10MB

However, If I run it within PythonWin, I get this returned error message:

>>> t.QuotaLimit=10000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 355, in __setattr__
    apply(self._oleobj_.Invoke, args + (value,) + defArgs)
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147024891), None)

I have known error code -2147024891 (0x80070005) means E_ACCESSDENIED by someone's kind help. (Thanks Roger :)

But I run PythonWin on Administrator privilege and I couldn't find any related method for setting permission in 'Microsoft.DiskQuota.1' object.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

--
Y.H. Rhiu
From master at hilug.org  Fri Oct 24 04:55:07 2003
From: master at hilug.org (Y.H. Rhiu)
Date: Fri Oct 24 04:55:43 2003
Subject: [python-win32] E_ACCESSDENIED problem with disk quota.
Message-ID: <008601c39a0c$86971840$ca3fe7cb@LocalHost>

Sorry, I repost this mail because of email MIME-encoding problem.
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I'm testing to control Windows disk quota by python on win2003 and winXP.

But ther is some problem..
This is the test code:

import win32com.client

qutoa=win32com.client.Dispatch('Microsoft.DiskQuota.1') 
quota.Initialize('c:\\',1)
test=quota.AddUser('test')  ## 'test' is real account name in my machine. 
test.QuotaLimit=10000000  # 10MB

However, If I run it within PythonWin, I get this returned error message:

>>> t.QuotaLimit=10000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 355, in __setattr__
    apply(self._oleobj_.Invoke, args + (value,) + defArgs)
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147024891), None)

I have known error code -2147024891 (0x80070005) means E_ACCESSDENIED by someone's kind help. (Thanks Roger :)

But I run PythonWin on Administrator privilege and I couldn't find any related method for setting permission in 'Microsoft.DiskQuota.1' object.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

--
Y.H. Rhiu
From olson at mcs.anl.gov  Fri Oct 24 08:45:57 2003
From: olson at mcs.anl.gov (Robert Olson)
Date: Fri Oct 24 08:46:11 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall  Manager
In-Reply-To: <3F986B8B.8010309@tallan.com>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023160849.02900170@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F986B8B.8010309@tallan.com>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031024074218.047fff60@pop.mcs.anl.gov>

At 07:00 PM 10/23/2003, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>You can actually fix this by modifying the hnet.py that was generated by 
>makepy. Go to the line in there where it defines 
>INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection there is a line there with 
>"InvokeTypes(0x6, LCID, 2, (9, 0), ((9, 1)"... and change the bit with 
>"((9, 1)" to "((13, 1)" and now the code should work. If I had more time 
>to spare at the moment looking at this I'd figure out a patch for makepy 
>and send it on to Mark.

And again, it works like a champ.

(and I find that even though I get a dialog from Windows implying that the 
firewall setting change will only last while the app is running, the change 
sticks).

Thanks so much.

--bob 


From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Fri Oct 24 10:26:07 2003
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Fri Oct 24 10:27:30 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python+COM and XP Firewall Manager
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031024074218.047fff60@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
References: <5.2.0.9.2.20031023071947.02178e10@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9829A2.4070508@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023142731.02b79a38@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F9835F4.5070203@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031023160849.02900170@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
	<3F986B8B.8010309@tallan.com>
	<6.0.0.22.2.20031024074218.047fff60@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
Message-ID: <3F99367F.2060402@tallan.com>

Robert Olson wrote:

> At 07:00 PM 10/23/2003, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
>> You can actually fix this by modifying the hnet.py that was generated 
>> by makepy. Go to the line in there where it defines 
>> INetSharingConfigurationForINetConnection there is a line there with 
>> "InvokeTypes(0x6, LCID, 2, (9, 0), ((9, 1)"... and change the bit 
>> with "((9, 1)" to "((13, 1)" and now the code should work. If I had 
>> more time to spare at the moment looking at this I'd figure out a 
>> patch for makepy and send it on to Mark.
>
>
> And again, it works like a champ.
>
> (and I find that even though I get a dialog from Windows implying that 
> the firewall setting change will only last while the app is running, 
> the change sticks).
>
> Thanks so much.

Great to hear it worked out. By the way after I sent that last email I 
realized I should have probably explained a bit more. The 5th argument 
to InvokeTypes is a tuple describing the parameters to be passed to the 
function. The constant numeric values correspond to the enumeration 
constants for the VARIANT type. The value 9 is VT_DISPATCH, while value 
13 is VT_UNKNOWN. In the python com code a standard windows call is made 
to translate whatever type was passed into the variant type indicated. 
In this case an IUnknown * is passed and the python com code asks it to 
be converted to VT_DISPATCH (IDispatch *) which means that 
IUnknown->QueryInterface is called to get an IDispatch interface. Since 
the INetConnection interface doesn't derive from IDispatch and that 
class doesn't support it this call fails telling you it can't get that 
interface.

When makepy iterates through the type library it sees the argument to 
the function is type INetConnection *. When it is passed though it needs 
to be either IDispatch * or IUnknown * because that's what the dispatch 
(VARIANT) supports. I guess it just assumed that IDispatch * would work. 
It may not have bothered to see what INetConnection derived from or it 
may have made a mistake.

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jens.jorgensen@tallan.com

"With a focused commitment to our clients and our people, we deliver value through customized technology solutions."



From Benjamin.Schollnick at usa.xerox.com  Fri Oct 24 11:40:00 2003
From: Benjamin.Schollnick at usa.xerox.com (Schollnick, Benjamin)
Date: Fri Oct 24 11:40:21 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Help, with Remote Registry access?
Message-ID: <51B62EFFBC83D6118ADA00096BB030A107CADBF2@usamcms7.mc.usa.xerox.com>

Folks,

I am having difficulty with *reading* the registry from a remote Windows
box...

1) I need to impersonate a different user name & password, then the user I
am currently logged in as.
	(i.e. access the registry as a administrator)

2) The registry to be examined is on a different machine...

3) I just need the key entry returned....

For example \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DrWatson\AppendToLogFile
returning the value it has been saved with.

I by no means am a Win32 Python expert, but I usually can muddle my way
through....
But I am missing something here...  And I am not sure what...

I have proof of concept VBScript code....

	strroot = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
	strKeyPath = "\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DrWatson"
	strKey = "AppendToLogFile"
	
	Dim arrValues
	strKeyPath = "\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DrWatson"
	strKey = "AppendToLogfile"
	objRegister.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, strKey,
value
	
	Wscript.Echo value

Here's the code that I have attempted to use....  Can anyone point out what
I am missing?

It works fine locally, but I can't figure out how to assign the user account
and password for the remote system.

import _winreg
import win32com.client



host = "127.0.0.1"     # local host
key = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(host, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(key,
r"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall")
num = _winreg.QueryInfoKey(hkey)[0]
print "*** Found %d Software ***" % num

try:
    for x in range(1000):
        uninstall = _winreg.EnumKey(hkey, x)
        skey = _winreg.OpenKey(key,
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%s" % uninstall)
        try:
            software = _winreg.QueryValueEx(skey, "DisplayName")[0]
            print "%s-%s" % (uninstall, software)
        except:
            pass
except:
    pass


From master at hilug.org  Mon Oct 27 04:38:55 2003
From: master at hilug.org (Y.H. Rhiu)
Date: Mon Oct 27 04:39:16 2003
Subject: [python-win32] E_ACCESSDENIED problem with disk quota.
Message-ID: <003e01c39c6e$24d859c0$ca3fe7cb@LocalHost>

Sorry, I repost this mail because of email MIME-encoding problem. :(
This is last try :)
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I'm testing to control Windows disk quota by python on win2003 and winXP.

But ther is some problem..
This is the test code:

import win32com.client

qutoa=win32com.client.Dispatch('Microsoft.DiskQuota.1')
quota.Initialize('c:\\',1)
test=quota.AddUser('test')  ## 'test' is real account name in my machine.
test.QuotaLimit=10000000  # 10MB

However, If I run it within PythonWin, I get this returned error message:

>>> t.QuotaLimit=10000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
355, in __setattr__
    apply(self._oleobj_.Invoke, args + (value,) + defArgs)
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None,
0, -2147024891), None)

I have known error code -2147024891 (0x80070005) means E_ACCESSDENIED by
someone's kind help. (Thanks Roger :)

But I run PythonWin on Administrator privilege and I couldn't find any
related method for setting permission in 'Microsoft.DiskQuota.1' object.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

--
Y.H. Rhiu



From moof at metamoof.net  Mon Oct 27 06:08:59 2003
From: moof at metamoof.net (Moof)
Date: Mon Oct 27 06:11:32 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Locale settings under python in windows.
Message-ID: <3F9CFCCB.8020805@metamoof.net>

Hi there,
I'm currently trying to validate the input for a web form, the validator 
for which is running under python 2.3 on windows (currently XP, but soon 
2K). I'm validating text input, and trying something along the lines of:

         namere = re.compile(u'''(?x)    #verbose format
             (?i)                        #ignore case
             (?L)                        #Locale active -
					#saves me defining accents, etc.

             ^                           #start of string
             [                           #Start group
                 \w                      #all letters plus _
                 \                       #space
                 \.,:'                   #some punctuation
                 ??? -/\\
                 \d                      #all digits
             ]+
             $                           #end of string

         ''')

and then rejecting the string if it does not match that regex. The thing 
that gets me is \w. The Python 2.3 documentation specifies that \w will 
include all letters in the current locale, which for me would be 
('es_ES', 'cp1252') but it blatantly isn't:

 >>> namere.match('hola')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x01366918>
 >>> namere.match('hol?')
 >>>

So a closer look reveals:

 >>> locale.getlocale()
(None, None)
 >>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('es_ES', 'cp1252')
 >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, locale.getdefaultlocale())
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
   File "C:\Python23\lib\locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
Error: locale setting not supported

Which basically buggers my regexp. How *can* I set locale, or how do I 
get around this problem?

Moof
-- 
            Giles Antonio Radford, a.k.a Moof
Sympathy, eupathy, and, currently, apathy coming to you at:
                 <http://metamoof.net/>



From yhrhiu at simplexi.com  Mon Oct 27 04:37:19 2003
From: yhrhiu at simplexi.com (yhrhiu@simplexi.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 09:36:38 2003
Subject: [python-win32] E_ACCESSDENIED problem with disk quota.
Message-ID: <002e01c39c6d$eacba9d0$ca3fe7cb@LocalHost>

Sorry, I repost this mail because of email MIME-encoding problem. :(
This is last try :)
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi,

I'm testing to control Windows disk quota by python on win2003 and winXP.

But ther is some problem..
This is the test code:

import win32com.client

qutoa=win32com.client.Dispatch('Microsoft.DiskQuota.1')
quota.Initialize('c:\\',1)
test=quota.AddUser('test')  ## 'test' is real account name in my machine.
test.QuotaLimit=10000000  # 10MB

However, If I run it within PythonWin, I get this returned error message:

>>> t.QuotaLimit=10000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
355, in __setattr__
    apply(self._oleobj_.Invoke, args + (value,) + defArgs)
com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None,
0, -2147024891), None)

I have known error code -2147024891 (0x80070005) means E_ACCESSDENIED by
someone's kind help. (Thanks Roger :)

But I run PythonWin on Administrator privilege and I couldn't find any
related method for setting permission in 'Microsoft.DiskQuota.1' object.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

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From lbates at syscononline.com  Mon Oct 27 15:32:58 2003
From: lbates at syscononline.com (Larry Bates)
Date: Mon Oct 27 15:32:59 2003
Subject: [python-win32] py2exe failure on long path
In-Reply-To: <E1AEAkt-0000No-J6@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <000601c39cc9$82c73a00$5d00a8c0@LABWXP>

I have a relatively simple Python program that I wish to 
make into .EXE using py2exe.  When I try to execute the
application I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 2, in ?
  File "imputil.pyc", line 103, in _import_hook
  File "<string>", line 52, in _import_top_module
  File "imputil.pyc", line 216, in import_top
  File "imputil.pyc", line 267, in _import_one
  File "<string>", line 163, in get_code
ImportError: DLL load failed: The process cannot access the file because 
it is being used by another process.

It doesn't appear to tell me which DLL load failed and I can promise that none
of the .DLLs called from this program are in use by another process (I even
rebooted my machine just to make sure).

I copied this from my server where it had a long path name of:

F:\Swami\Projects\Syscon\WTS\SQLdblog\dist\SQLdblog\SQLdblog.exe

to 

C:\Junk\SQLdblog\SQLdblog.exe

(along with the supporting .DLL, .PYD, etc. files)

and it runs fine.  Seems to be a problem with the length of the path where the 
program is being executed from.

Regards, 
Larry Bates





From sureshsubbiah at india.com  Tue Oct 28 06:48:51 2003
From: sureshsubbiah at india.com (Sachin S.Suresh)
Date: Tue Oct 28 06:49:02 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Urgent reg Type conversion in Python
Message-ID: <20031028114852.4314.qmail@india.com>


hi ppl,
fine and how r u?
i've got a  problem with the c++  com object usage in python.

i've imported and could able to create an pythin object of a com dll
file using win32com.client library.


<< dll file name is RouterClient.dll and the class name is
RouterClass. RouterClass has a member function such as 
SendMsgToTheServer(int,BSTR)-c++ convention)>>

the code i've used to create is,

-----------------------------------
import win32com.client

obj = win32com.client.Dispatch("RouterClient.RouterClass")

msg = '0100000000101000076xxxxx'

obj.SendMsgToTheServer(432,msg)
# 432 is the channel used to send the message

------------------------------------

Now the problem comes,
if i run this file say sender.py, i've one error message as :

  File
"win32com\gen_py\D9330E72-3056-4517-AD81-0A15DBDA3899x0x1x0.py",
line 34, in SendMsgToTheServer

TypeError: The VARIANT type is unknown (0000001e)

Some observation i found :

* if i create that object in PythonWin editor and while trying to
call that

SendMsgToTheServer(), once i put this open brace, i could c the
parameter data types as,
obj.SendToTheServer(KeyRange = <PyOleEmpty object at
0x0121cCB38,Message = <PyOleEmpty object at 0x0121cCB38)


* The same funtion called from c++ as using the following type
conversion as,

SendToTheServer(452,BSTR(msg)) ... here it works properly

      My problem here is, how can i typecast that message according
to the above desriptions in our python script and send to the server.
   One more thing , My Project Manager asked me no to include any
C/C++ code here with the source code and only python code has to be
exist.
Can u ppl help me out in this Type error??

Eagerly expecting ur reply ..... plz a bit urgent......


bye...take care

Keeeeeeeeeeep (s)mailing
Sachin S.Suresh

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From Benjamin.Schollnick at usa.xerox.com  Tue Oct 28 10:56:39 2003
From: Benjamin.Schollnick at usa.xerox.com (Schollnick, Benjamin)
Date: Tue Oct 28 10:56:56 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Converting from VB to Python.. Help please...
Message-ID: <51B62EFFBC83D6118ADA00096BB030A107CADC02@usamcms7.mc.usa.xerox.com>

I am attempting to convert the following VB Script code to Python, but with
limited success.

I appear to be connecting fine, but I can't get the registry information
out...  I can get the manifest,
and I do have the correct permissions with the user account that I am
using...

The VB code works, so it is a issue with the python implementation...


------------------------ VB Code -----------------------------
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001

Set objLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer("13.1.99.43", "root\default",
"operator", "spire")
objWMIService.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3
set objRegister = objWMIService.get("StdRegProv")

Dim arrValues
strKeyPath = "Software\SCITEX\GUI"
strKey = "Version"
objRegister.GetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, strKey, value

Wscript.Echo value
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


import _winreg
import win32com.client

HostName = "remote_ip"     # local host
login_account = "account name"
account_pass  = "password"

strKeyPath = r"\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARe\Microsoft\DrWatson"
strKey = r"AppendToLogFile"

HKLM = 0x80000001L

objLocator = win32com.client.Dispatch ("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
print dir(objLocator)
objWMIService = objLocator.ConnectServer (HostName, "root\default",
login_account, account_pass)
objWMIService.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3
print dir(objWMIService.__class__)
	#
	#	Dir is showing a "generic" dynamic listing???  Why?
	#
#print objWMIService.__doc__
objRegister = objWMIService.Get ("StdRegProv")
test = objRegister.GetObjectText_ ( 1 )
#test2 = objRegister.GetStringValue_ ( "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DrWatson",
"AppendToLogFile" )
print test2	# Print's the manifest
#print test




From brian at zope.com  Tue Oct 28 14:20:17 2003
From: brian at zope.com (Brian Lloyd)
Date: Tue Oct 28 15:44:11 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Python for .NET 1.0 beta 1 release
Message-ID: <INENIOEOCHPHGHKLFLOLIEMPCCAA.brian@zope.com>

(Forgot to post this to the win32 list...)

Python for .NET 1.0 beta 1 has been released - you can download 
it from: 

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/


Python for .NET is a near-seamless integration of Python with the 
.NET common language runtime. For more details, see the README:

  http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet/README.html


With the 1.0 b1 release, it is nearly feature-complete and is now 
usable for real applications (some simple demos are included).

There is also now a mailing list for discussion, questions and 
issues related to Python for .NET at: pythondotnet@python.org.

To subscribe to the mailing list or read the online archives, see:

  http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythondotnet


Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
V.P. Engineering   540.361.1716              
Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com 


From PYTHON at telefonica.net  Thu Oct 30 17:25:06 2003
From: PYTHON at telefonica.net (PYTHON@telefonica.net)
Date: Thu Oct 30 17:25:47 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Controlling WinZip with python
Message-ID: <2310d23a14.23a142310d@teleline.es>

Hi all,

   Does anybody know how can i compress a whole directory using winzip 
with python? I?ve read there is a command-line version of winzip but 
it?s still a beta version...anybody has used it?

thanks


From Chris.Ingram at Synchrologic.com  Thu Oct 30 17:30:32 2003
From: Chris.Ingram at Synchrologic.com (Chris Ingram)
Date: Thu Oct 30 17:31:25 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Controlling WinZip with python
Message-ID: <EB0104FB281A6A4FAD86AE2A2B19FE95A2E47A@fs01.synchrologic.com>

Instead of calling out to an external program like WinZip, you'd probably be better off using the zipfile module in the Python standard library.  I've used it, and it works well.  Documentation is available at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/lib/module-zipfile.html.

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Email: Chris.Ingram@synchrologic.com
Phone: 678-802-1305 (direct)
Office: 770-754-5600x1305

-----Original Message-----
From: PYTHON@telefonica.net [mailto:PYTHON@telefonica.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:25 PM
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Controlling WinZip with python


Hi all,

   Does anybody know how can i compress a whole directory using winzip 
with python? I?ve read there is a command-line version of winzip but 
it?s still a beta version...anybody has used it?

thanks


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From Duane.Kaufman at med.ge.com  Thu Oct 30 17:30:38 2003
From: Duane.Kaufman at med.ge.com (Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR))
Date: Thu Oct 30 17:32:00 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Controlling WinZip with python
Message-ID: <DF39E7B75E04D511BBD000508BCFEEA6155BA773@uswaumsx12medge.med.ge.com>

Hi,

I would suggest using the capabilities provided by the ZipFile module in
the Python distribution.

Duane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of
> PYTHON@telefonica.net
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:25 PM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Controlling WinZip with python
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    Does anybody know how can i compress a whole directory 
> using winzip 
> with python? I?ve read there is a command-line version of winzip but 
> it?s still a beta version...anybody has used it?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
> 

From pierre.hjalm at dis.uu.se  Fri Oct 31 06:46:14 2003
From: pierre.hjalm at dis.uu.se (Pierre =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hj=E4lm?=)
Date: Fri Oct 31 10:40:19 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Creating users with ADSI
Message-ID: <20031031124614.1d76a29f.pierre.hjalm@dis.uu.se>

Why does the code below give this error message?:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "usertest2.py", line 12, in ?
    aduser.Setinfo()
  File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 2, in Setinfo
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147019886), None)


# code
from win32com.client import Dispatch

adsi=Dispatch("ADsNamespaces")
ou=adsi.GetObject("","LDAP://ou=Employees,dc=test,dc=local")
# above line changed to protect the innocent ;)

aduser=ou.Create("User","cn=test")

aduser.Put("sAMAccountName","test")
aduser.Put("givenName","test")
aduser.Put("sn","test")
aduser.Put("userPrincipalName","test")
aduser.Setinfo()

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From dave at psys.org  Fri Oct 31 20:30:55 2003
From: dave at psys.org (d.w. harks)
Date: Fri Oct 31 20:30:58 2003
Subject: [python-win32] Creating users with ADSI
In-Reply-To: <20031031124614.1d76a29f.pierre.hjalm@dis.uu.se>
References: <20031031124614.1d76a29f.pierre.hjalm@dis.uu.se>
Message-ID: <20031101013054.GC15041@psys.org>

With carefully-arranged electrons, Pierre Hj?lm wrote:
> Why does the code below give this error message?:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "usertest2.py", line 12, in ?
>     aduser.Setinfo()
>   File "<COMObject <unknown>>", line 2, in Setinfo
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147019886), None)
> 
> 
> # code
> from win32com.client import Dispatch
> 
> adsi=Dispatch("ADsNamespaces")
> ou=adsi.GetObject("","LDAP://ou=Employees,dc=test,dc=local")
> # above line changed to protect the innocent ;)
> 
> aduser=ou.Create("User","cn=test")
> 
> aduser.Put("sAMAccountName","test")
> aduser.Put("givenName","test")
> aduser.Put("sn","test")
> aduser.Put("userPrincipalName","test")
> aduser.Setinfo()
> 

try:
aduser=ou.Create("User","cn=test")
aduser.Put("sAMAccountName", "blah")
aduser.Setinfo()

aduser.Put("givenName","test)
...
aduser.Setinfo()


As to why there would need to be a separate setinfo() call to set the
samaccountname, I'm not entirely sure. I think it has to do with some extra
data sitting in the property cache, causing setinfo to get confused...

dave


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