From kalpurus at cxbd.com  Sun May  2 23:38:41 2004
From: kalpurus at cxbd.com (Azizur Rahman)
Date: Sat May  1 04:03:04 2004
Subject: [python-win32] converting a python program into a windows
	executable (.exe) file
Message-ID: <000d01c430da$da196e40$40f7bdcb@aziz>

HELLO EVERYONE.

I use Python for solving almost all of my programming problems. I work in
Windows platform. Unfortunately, Python is not installed on other machines
(all windows platform)
where I work (Python is only installed on my home computer) and it is not
possible to install Python on those machines. So I cannot run my python
program on those machines.

Is there any way by which I can convert my existing Python code into an .exe
(windows executable file) without any modification of the original code
(i.e. without any embedding and extending?)

THANK YOU ALL

a novice










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From rasjidw at openminddev.net  Sat May  1 06:38:39 2004
From: rasjidw at openminddev.net (Rasjid Wilcox)
Date: Sat May  1 06:38:53 2004
Subject: [python-win32] converting a python program into a windows
	executable (.exe) file
In-Reply-To: <000d01c430da$da196e40$40f7bdcb@aziz>
References: <000d01c430da$da196e40$40f7bdcb@aziz>
Message-ID: <200405012038.40085.rasjidw@openminddev.net>

On Monday 03 May 2004 13:38, Azizur Rahman wrote:
> HELLO EVERYONE.
>
> I use Python for solving almost all of my programming problems. I work in
> Windows platform. Unfortunately, Python is not installed on other machines
> (all windows platform)
> where I work (Python is only installed on my home computer) and it is not
> possible to install Python on those machines. So I cannot run my python
> program on those machines.
>
> Is there any way by which I can convert my existing Python code into an
> .exe (windows executable file) without any modification of the original
> code (i.e. without any embedding and extending?)

Look at py2exe.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

-- 
Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun May  2 06:12:09 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun May  2 06:12:34 2004
Subject: [python-win32] pythoncom.new behavior in build 200/201
In-Reply-To: <JIEKIFCDJPGCDHFBIBGBMELDFNAA.koliphant@qwest.net>
Message-ID: <026d01c4302d$eeeae6d0$0200a8c0@eden>

> Has anyone noticed that pythoncom.new does not behave the
> same as it used
> to.
> Previously one could pass it something like this:
>
> CLSID = IID('{D5193935-0382-4448-A309-60C38795FB60}')
> pythoncom.new( CLSID  )

What is IID()?  It is possible it is a local function, or not what you
think?

>>> import pywintypes, pythoncom
>>> CLSID = pywintypes.IID('{D5193935-0382-4448-A309-60C38795FB60}')
>>> pythoncom.new( CLSID  )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
com_error: (-2147221164, 'Class not registered', None, None)
>>>

(Note the exception is because no COM object has that GUID - but the
conversion worked and did not raise the TypeError you see.

Mark.


From osre at freenet.de  Sun May  2 08:30:42 2004
From: osre at freenet.de (osre@freenet.de)
Date: Sun May  2 08:30:49 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python win32Com
Message-ID: <E1BKG7G-0002sA-Dk@www5.emo.freenet-rz.de>

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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun May  2 23:15:10 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun May  2 23:15:47 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python win32Com
In-Reply-To: <E1BKG7G-0002sA-Dk@www5.emo.freenet-rz.de>
Message-ID: <060801c430bc$da7bd530$0200a8c0@eden>

Ensure pythoncom is imported before you try and do this -
PyRun_SimpleString("import pythoncom\n") may be all you need to do.  Once
you have done that, use "GetModuleHandle()" rather than LoadLibrary - this
will ensure you are using the same module as imported by Python.

Mark.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of osre@freenet.de
  Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2004 10:31 PM
  To: python-win32@python.org
  Subject: [python-win32] Problems with Python win32Com


  Hi,

  I embedded python-2.3.3 an a scription language to my tool written in VC7.
  I also installed pywin32-201.
  Everything works fine, I can load a module and call a Python function from
my tool.
  But the I tryed to use win32com.

  The Problem:
  I can not create a PyObject by PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown. I always get an
access violation.
  So I builded Python-2.3.3 and pywin32-201 by my self (with some problems)
and found out that g_obPyCom_MapIIDToType is NULL.
  The line:
  PyObject *createType = PyDict_GetItem(g_obPyCom_MapIIDToType, obiid);
  in PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown pycomhelpers.cpp(92) fails.
  This means for me that PyCom_RegisterCoreSupport was not called. But I
dont know why!

  I tryed it in two ways:
  1.
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------
  #include
  #include

  Py_Initialize();

  PyObject* p = PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown(GetIDispatch( true ), IID_I_KApp,
FALSE); // boom

  2. (as I saw in some mailings from Gary Bishop gb@cs.unc.edu)
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------
  #include

  /* get the function we need from the win32com package using explicit
linking */
  typedef PyObject* (*PYCOM_PYOBJECTFROMIUNKNOWN)(IUnknown *punk,
  REFIID riid,
  BOOL bAddRef /*= FALSE*/);
  PYCOM_PYOBJECTFROMIUNKNOWN PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown = NULL;

  void GetPythoncomDLL() {
  /* this should use the version of figure out the name */
  HINSTANCE hDLL = LoadLibrary("pythoncom24_d"); // in original it was
"pythoncom22"
  if (hDLL != NULL) {
  PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown = (PYCOM_PYOBJECTFROMIUNKNOWN)
  GetProcAddress(hDLL, "PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown");
  }
  if (hDLL == NULL || PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown == NULL) {
  fprintf(stderr, "Explicit link to pythoncom24_d.dll failed\n");
  }
  }

  Py_Initialize();
  GetPythoncomDLL();

  PyObject* p = PyCom_PyObjectFromIUnknown(GetIDispatch( true ), IID_I_KApp,
FALSE); // boom

  thanks for every litte help, Reinhard.
  --

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From: anand at easi.soft.net (Anand K Rayudu)
Date: Mon May  3 10:17:09 2004
Subject: [python-win32] pythonwin32 UI
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From firephreek at earthlink.net  Mon May  3 13:36:10 2004
From: firephreek at earthlink.net (firephreek)
Date: Mon May  3 14:07:08 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Excel win32com
Message-ID: <002e01c43135$1fb882b0$6f01010a@Rachel>

I'm looking for the method to retrive the cell format for a given cell.
I found it, but then I lost it.  And using dir() on the classes doesn't
help.  Anybody have any ideas?  And is it really the case that methods
exist that are not defined/shown when calling dir()?

Also, on a different note, I'm a bit new to all this, so why do I have
to run the makepy file before I can use the methods for the win32com
app?  Or did that make any sense?  Sorry, haven't slept recently.

STryder


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Mon May  3 16:09:50 2004
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon May  3 16:09:29 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Using CDO via COM
In-Reply-To: <00a101c42f0f$75522870$0432afc8@ricardo>
References: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434859@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>
	<00a101c42f0f$75522870$0432afc8@ricardo>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20040503140341.02657f28@mail.mric.net>

At 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2k3/_clb_sending_smtp_mail_by_port_25_using_cdosys_vb.asp
there is sample VBA code for using CDOSYS to send mail. Here is the start 
of the code:
**** CODE****
'Sending SMTP mail via port 25 using CDOSYS
'This VB sample uses CDOSYS to send SMTP mail using the cdoSendUsingPort 
option and specifying a SMTP host.
Private Sub SendMessage(strTo As String, strFrom As String)
'Send using the Port on a SMTP server
Dim iMsg As New CDO.Message
Dim iConf As New CDO.Configuration
Dim Flds As ADODB.Fields
Dim strHTML
Set Flds = iConf.Fields
With Flds
     .Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = cdoSendUsingPort
     .Item(cdoSMTPServer) = "smarthost"
     'Use SSL to connect to the SMTP server:
     '.Item(cdoSMTPUseSSL) = True
     .Item(cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout) = 10
     .Update
End With
[snip]
I can use win32com.client'Dispatch to get CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration
I don't understand what to do with Dim Flds As ADODB.Fields, and how to get 
the (I assume constants) cdoSendUsingMethod etc.
Any guidance will be appreciated.

Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625 home
720 938 2625 cell 
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From Christian.Wyglendowski at greenville.edu  Mon May  3 17:26:26 2004
From: Christian.Wyglendowski at greenville.edu (Christian Wyglendowski)
Date: Mon May  3 17:26:36 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Using CDO via COM
Message-ID: <CE1475C007B563499EDBF8CDA30AB45B0A390C@empex.greenville.edu>

Bob,

I think you can ignore the ADODB.Fields bit.  You have a fields collect
in your Configuration object:

c = win32com.client.Dispatch('CDO.Configuration')
c.Fields.Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = 2                     #see link
below
c.Fields.Item('cdoSMTPServer').Value = 'smarthost'
c.Fields.Item('cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout').Value = 10
c.Fields.Update()

m = win32com.client.Dispatch('CDO.Message')
m.Configuration = c

See this link about cdoSendUsingMethod/cdoSendUsingPort:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cdosys/
html/_cdosys_cdosendusing_enum.asp

I did a test with this config and it sent using the SMTP server running
on my workstation.

Hope this helps.

Christian
http://www.dowski.com


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From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Bob Gailer
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:10 PM
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Using CDO via COM


At
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2
k3/_clb_sending_smtp_mail_by_port_25_using_cdosys_vb.asp
there is sample VBA code for using CDOSYS to send mail. Here is the
start of the code:
**** CODE****

'Sending SMTP mail via port 25 using CDOSYS
'This VB sample uses CDOSYS to send SMTP mail using the cdoSendUsingPort
option and specifying a SMTP host.
Private Sub SendMessage(strTo As String, strFrom As String)
'Send using the Port on a SMTP server
Dim iMsg As New CDO.Message
Dim iConf As New CDO.Configuration
Dim Flds As ADODB.Fields
Dim strHTML
Set Flds = iConf.Fields
With Flds
    .Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = cdoSendUsingPort
    .Item(cdoSMTPServer) = "smarthost"
    'Use SSL to connect to the SMTP server:
    '.Item(cdoSMTPUseSSL) = True
    .Item(cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout) = 10
    .Update
End With

[snip]
I can use win32com.client'Dispatch to get 
CDO.Message and
CDO.Configuration

I don't understand what to do with 
Dim Flds As ADODB.Fields,
and how to get the (I assume constants) cdoSendUsingMethod

etc.
Any guidance will be appreciated.
Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625 home
720 938 2625 cell 

From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Mon May  3 18:23:34 2004
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Mon May  3 18:23:15 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Using CDO via COM
In-Reply-To: <CE1475C007B563499EDBF8CDA30AB45B0A390C@empex.greenville.ed
 u>
References: <CE1475C007B563499EDBF8CDA30AB45B0A390C@empex.greenville.edu>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20040503162133.03a23838@mail.mric.net>

At 03:26 PM 5/3/2004, Christian Wyglendowski wrote:
>Bob,
>
>I think you can ignore the ADODB.Fields bit.  You have a fields collect
>in your Configuration object:
>
>c = win32com.client.Dispatch('CDO.Configuration')
>c.Fields.Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = 2                     #see link
>below
>c.Fields.Item('cdoSMTPServer').Value = 'smarthost'
>c.Fields.Item('cdoSMTPConnectionTimeout').Value = 10
>c.Fields.Update()
>
>m = win32com.client.Dispatch('CDO.Message')
>m.Configuration = c

That did it! Of course
c.Fields.Item(cdoSendUsingMethod) = 2  should be
c.Fields.Item('cdoSendUsingMethod').Value = 2


>See this link about cdoSendUsingMethod/cdoSendUsingPort:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cdosys/
>html/_cdosys_cdosendusing_enum.asp
[snip]

Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
303 442 2625 home
720 938 2625 cell 


From magnus at thinkware.se  Mon May  3 18:33:24 2004
From: magnus at thinkware.se (Magnus Lycka)
Date: Mon May  3 18:33:30 2004
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?UmU6IFtweXRob24td2luMzJdIEV4Y2VsIHdpbjMyY29t?=
Message-ID: <think001_4096c1cad2f5f@webmail.thinkware.se>

STryder wrote:
> I'm looking for the method to retrive the cell format for a given cell.
> I found it, but then I lost it.  

This is part of the Excel object model. The most convenient way to learn that
might be the MS Excel VBA help texts and to use the object browser in the
Visual Basic Editor. I can also recommend Steven Roman's "Writing Excel
Macros with VBA", from O'Reilly.
 
> Also, on a different note, I'm a bit new to all this, so why do I have
> to run the makepy file before I can use the methods for the win32com
> app?  Or did that make any sense?  Sorry, haven't slept recently.

Go to sleep Stryder, that usually improves the code. ;)

You don't *have* to run makepy. I very rarely do... As I'm
mentioning O'Reilly books, I can only advice you to get Mark
Hammond's and Andy Robinson's "Python Programming on Win32".
(By the way, what happened with a 2nd edition of that?)

By using MakePy, you will enable early binding for COM objects.
This gives you three advantages:
 - Faster interfacing with the COM object (the Python win32com
   code doesn't have to locate your object in runtime).
 - Constants defined by the type library become available.
 - There is better support for advanced parameter passing.
There are also disadvantages:
 - It's extra work...
 - The generated file is rather big.
 - You need to handle case sensitivity issues.


-- 
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Alvans vag 99, SE-907 50 UMEA, SWEDEN
phone: int+46 70 582 80 65, fax: int+46 70 612 80 65
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From somesh at qviqsoft.com  Tue May  4 08:55:38 2004
From: somesh at qviqsoft.com (Somesh Bartakke)
Date: Tue May  4 08:54:12 2004
Subject: [python-win32] chm generation ?
Message-ID: <000a01c431d7$1f8c3af0$436a640a@qsoft25>

how to generate windows .chm help file with or without Python ?
is ther eany other way ?

Somesh Bartakke
Q-Soft Pvt Ltd, Pune (India)
--
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From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Tue May  4 09:13:32 2004
Subject: [python-win32] chm generation ?
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E443486D@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

SB> how to generate windows .chm help file with or without Python ?
SB> is ther eany other way ?

Have a look at this:

http://www.rutherfurd.net/software/rst2chm/

TJG


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From tony at tcapp.com  Tue May  4 22:10:24 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Tue May  4 22:10:27 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <E1BL2M7-0001CJ-0U@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <20040504190049.A98798-100000@yamato.yamato.com>


Is there any way to pass args to the functions in shell.pyd, from Python?

For example, shell.SHBrowseForFOlder  takes 6 arguments, the first of
which is a window handle.

So what is Python passing as a window handle?
Is there anyway to get access to what is being passed in as defualts?

I would like to pass in a known value for the second argument, but need to
know what
the Keyword argument is for the second arg. (pidlRoot doesn't work)


help() doesn't give any info on the arguments


shell.SHBrowseForFolder
(PyIDL, string displayName, iImage) = SHBrowseForFolder(hwndOwner,
pidlRoot , title , flags , callback , callbackParam )

Displays a dialog box that enables the user to select a shell folder.


Parameters

hwndOwner=0 : int


pidlRoot=None : PyIDL


title=None : Unicode /string


flags=0 : int


callback : object

Not yet supported - must be None

callbackParam=0 : int


Return Value
The result is ALWAYS a tuple of 3 items. If the user cancels the dialog,
all items are None. If the dialog is closed normally, the result is a
tuple of (PIDL, DisplayName, iImageList)




From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May  5 03:05:10 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May  5 03:05:28 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <20040504190049.A98798-100000@yamato.yamato.com>
Message-ID: <07f801c4326f$4ea2fe80$0200a8c0@eden>

> Is there any way to pass args to the functions in shell.pyd,
> from Python?

Yes - just pass them like any other function.

> For example, shell.SHBrowseForFOlder  takes 6 arguments, the first of
> which is a window handle.
>
> So what is Python passing as a window handle?

If you look at the param list:
> hwndOwner=0 : int
> pidlRoot=None : PyIDL
> title=None : Unicode /string
> flags=0 : int
> callback : object
> Not yet supported - must be None
> callbackParam=0 : int

You will not they all have "default" values specified (except 'callback',
and it should).  ie, if the function was written in Python, it would look
like:

def SHBrowseForFolder(hwndOwner=0, pidlRoot=None, title=None, flags=0,
callback=None, cbparam=0):
  ...

If you want to specify a hwnd, just pass it.  Note that 'keyword' params
aren't supported, so you can't say:

SHBrowseForFolder(title="Foo")

You must say:

SHBrowseForFolder(0, None, "Foo")

Mark


From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Wed May  5 08:49:48 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed May  5 08:51:33 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Changing Display Size
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434873@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

In case no-one's come across this yet:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/wxPython-users/1684800

is a routine to change size / resolution as you go. Seems to work fine.

Thanks very much to Shane Holloway for going through the
(I guess, not inconsiderable) pain of twiddling the bits
of the DEVMODE structure and saving us from doing the same.

TJG


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From tony at tcapp.com  Wed May  5 12:18:37 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Wed May  5 12:18:57 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <07f801c4326f$4ea2fe80$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <20040505091624.H14148-100000@yamato.yamato.com>



> > Is there any way to pass args to the functions in shell.pyd,
> > from Python?
>
> Yes - just pass them like any other function.
>
> > For example, shell.SHBrowseForFolder  takes 6 arguments, the first of
> > which is a window handle.
> >
> > So what is Python passing as a window handle?
>
> If you look at the param list:
> > hwndOwner=0 : int
> > pidlRoot=None : PyIDL
> > title=None : Unicode /string
> > flags=0 : int
> > callback : object
> > Not yet supported - must be None
> > callbackParam=0 : int


Since shell is a pyd file, I could not see the real parameter list, only
the description from the Pywin help file.


thanks


From bgailer at alum.rpi.edu  Wed May  5 13:03:47 2004
From: bgailer at alum.rpi.edu (Bob Gailer)
Date: Wed May  5 13:03:42 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Changing Display Size
In-Reply-To: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434873@tdi_nt9.internal.vi
	acom-outdoor.co.uk>
References: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434873@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20040505105859.03b41d18@mail.mric.net>

At 06:49 AM 5/5/2004, Tim Golden wrote:
>In case no-one's come across this yet:
>
>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/wxPython-users/1684800
>
>is a routine to change size / resolution as you go. Seems to work fine.

This works...almost. I normally dock my Windows Taskbar on the right. When 
I use the above to go to a lower x value (e.g. 1920 to 1600) the Taskbar 
goes "out of range", whereas the same change thru Display 
Properties->Settings keeps the taskbar in range. I'm guessing there needs 
to be another call to reposition the taskbar.

>Thanks very much to Shane Holloway for going through the
>(I guess, not inconsiderable) pain of twiddling the bits
>of the DEVMODE structure and saving us from doing the same.
>
>TJG
>
>
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From tony at tcapp.com  Wed May  5 13:36:52 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Wed May  5 13:36:57 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <07f801c4326f$4ea2fe80$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <20040505103032.Y15435-100000@yamato.yamato.com>


Mark,

> Yes - just pass them like any other function.
I would like to pass this dialog the Path to a directory, but the
pidlRoot
parameter is a PyIDL Object.

I don't see any functions in the shell that convert a normal path to a
PyIDL object format, so I just tried passing a string as in
"C:\\Python23".

This blew up python nad dropped me back in the WIn2K/Dos box command line.

I have a Visual Basic example of how to pass a starting directory to
SHBrowseForFolder, but I can't seem to duplicate it through the python
shell extensions.




From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May  5 18:59:01 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May  5 18:59:19 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <20040505091624.H14148-100000@yamato.yamato.com>
Message-ID: <0c3501c432f4$8f1789b0$0200a8c0@eden>


> Since shell is a pyd file, I could not see the real parameter
> list, only
> the description from the Pywin help file.

This helpfile lists the real parameters!  What made you think the parameter
descriptions for that function did not apply to that function?

To your other mail:
> > Yes - just pass them like any other function.
> I would like to pass this dialog the Path to a directory, but the
> pidlRoot
> parameter is a PyIDL Object.
>
> I don't see any functions in the shell that convert a normal path to a
> PyIDL object format, so I just tried passing a string as in
> "C:\\Python23".
>
> This blew up python nad dropped me back in the WIn2K/Dos box
> command line.

Can you give more details here?  I can't make Python blow up like this, and
it it can, it is a serious bug.

I see:

>>> shell.SHBrowseForFolder(0 ,"foo")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: Only sequences (but not strings) are valid ITEMIDLIST objects
(got str).

Which is correct.

> I have a Visual Basic example of how to pass a starting directory to
> SHBrowseForFolder, but I can't seem to duplicate it through the python
> shell extensions.

Can you show us the example?

desktop=shell.SHGetDesktopFolder()
chEaten, pidl, flags = desktop.ParseDisplayName(0, None, "C:\\temp")

Is one way to get the PIDL for a known filename.

Mark.


From tony at tcapp.com  Wed May  5 19:37:22 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Wed May  5 19:37:48 2004
Subject: [python-win32] passing args to shell functions in shell.pyd
In-Reply-To: <0c3501c432f4$8f1789b0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <20040505162056.C22308-100000@yamato.yamato.com>



>
> This helpfile lists the real parameters!  What made you think the parameter
> descriptions for that function did not apply to that function?
>

Because I had tried using the KW args, before your previous email, and
they didn't work. Now I understand why.


> To your other mail:
> > > Yes - just pass them like any other function.
> > I would like to pass this dialog the Path to a directory, but the
> > pidlRoot
> > parameter is a PyIDL Object.
> >
> > I don't see any functions in the shell that convert a normal path to a
> > PyIDL object format, so I just tried passing a string as in
> > "C:\\Python23".
> >
> > This blew up python nad dropped me back in the WIn2K/Dos box
> > command line.
>
> Can you give more details here?  I can't make Python blow up like this, and
> it it can, it is a serious bug.

I can't duplicate it now (argggggh) (most likely, I had a parameter in the
wrong order)
But- this is what I have been doing most of the day, trying to find a way
to pass a starting directory to BrowseForFolder

import winshell

sh=winshell.shell
sh.SHBrowseForFolder(0,"C:\\Python23","Select a folder")

If I can duplicate it again, I will document it as much as possible.
Whatever I did, it crashed hard.

>
> I see:
>
> >>> shell.SHBrowseForFolder(0 ,"foo")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: Only sequences (but not strings) are valid ITEMIDLIST objects
> (got str).
>
> Which is correct.
>
> > I have a Visual Basic example of how to pass a starting directory to
> > SHBrowseForFolder, but I can't seem to duplicate it through the python
> > shell extensions.
>
> Can you show us the example?

Ehh- sure. Should I post the full VB  example to the list, or would you
prefer
a private email attachment, or a link to an http site?

>
> desktop=shell.SHGetDesktopFolder()
> chEaten, pidl, flags = desktop.ParseDisplayName(0, None, "C:\\temp")
>
> Is one way to get the PIDL for a known filename.

This is helpfull
>


From tony at tcapp.com  Wed May  5 21:34:57 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Wed May  5 21:35:00 2004
Subject: [python-win32] contents of PYTHONSTARTUP file not visible in
	PythonWin
In-Reply-To: <E1BLOpA-0003MG-9A@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <20040505182820.X25024-100000@yamato.yamato.com>


I've written some functions that I want to use when I am using the
Interactive IDE (python.exe)

The file containing these functions gets imported via the PYTHONSTARTUP
env var.

When I type dir from the IDE, I see the functions, and they execute just
fine.

SO I then tried the same from inside of PythonWin.
Surprizingly, when I typed dir(), the functions where not displayed.

However, when I looked at os.environ['PYTHONSTARTUP'], the correct
path to the startup file
that I created, was displayed.

Why is this file not executed when I run PythonWin ?



From anand at easi.soft.net  Thu May  6 01:10:17 2004
From: anand at easi.soft.net (Anand K Rayudu)
Date: Thu May  6 01:04:03 2004
Subject: [python-win32] pythonwin32 UI
References: <175f01c42d1c$50cb6e20$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <4099C8B9.9080304@easi.soft.net>

Hi All,

I want to pass python function to my C++ program through COM interface.
How can i do this.
I want to pass call back function to C++ program so that my C++ program 
can call it, when necessary.
I hope through python COM layer I can pass it.
I tried it but I am not able to get correct pointer to my COM interface 
via VARIANT.

Can some one please help.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Anand


From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Thu May  6 04:32:31 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Thu May  6 04:34:36 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Changing Display Size
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434879@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

>At 06:49 AM 5/5/2004, Tim Golden wrote:
>>In case no-one's come across this yet:
>>
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/wxPython-users/1684800
>>
>>is a routine to change size / resolution as you go. Seems to 
>work fine.
>
>This works...almost. I normally dock my Windows Taskbar on the 
>right. When 
>I use the above to go to a lower x value (e.g. 1920 to 1600) 
>the Taskbar 
>goes "out of range", whereas the same change thru Display 
>Properties->Settings keeps the taskbar in range. I'm guessing 
>there needs 
>to be another call to reposition the taskbar.

Bit more tricky. The technique seems to be something like this:

<code>
import win32gui

taskbar_window = win32gui.FindWindow ("Shell_TrayWnd", "")
# Do whatever with Taskbar window, eg MoveWindow, HideWindow, etc.

</code>

Unfortunately, in the 2 minutes I've got available to try this out,
I can get it to move around like it does when you're pulling it.

Let us know if you get something to work this way.

TJG


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From Tikva at israsrv.net.il  Thu May  6 06:12:58 2004
From: Tikva at israsrv.net.il (Tikva Bonneh)
Date: Thu May  6 06:12:23 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Py_RunSimpleString() - read the buffer from file.
Message-ID: <00ab01c43352$b83b37c0$0101c80a@bonneh>

I am running my python script from a VC++ application. 
I tried to read the script from my .py file to a into  buffer and execute the buffer with Py_RunSimpleString.
It didn't work. This is the way I did it:

void gg()
{
  int argc;
 char *argv[100];
 long lSize;
 char * buffer, * buff1;
 char  par[1000]; 
 FILE * pFile;

 strcpy(par, "c:\\Python23e\\test.py");
   FILE * pFile = fopen ( par, "r" );

 if (pFile==NULL) exit (1);

  // obtain file size.
  fseek (pFile , 0 , SEEK_END);
lSize = ftell (pFile);
  rewind (pFile);

  // allocate memory to contain the whole file.
 buffer = (char*) malloc (lSize);
  if (buffer == NULL) exit (2);

  // copy the file into the buffer.
 fread (buffer,1,lSize,pFile);

  // initialize the interpreter

   Py_Initialize();
   PySys_SetArgv(argc,argv);
PyRun_SimpleString(buffer);
 // shut down the interpreter
   Py_Finalize();
 
  // terminate
 fclose (pFile);
 free (buffer);  ;
}


I ended up inlining my python code into the c++ code,  this way
PyRun_SimpleString("k=0;\n");
PyRun_SimpleString("i=0;\n");  

Which is not  so convinient. 

How should I run a python script from a VC++ program?

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From Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com  Thu May  6 06:23:16 2004
From: Paul.Moore at atosorigin.com (Moore, Paul)
Date: Thu May  6 06:23:16 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Py_RunSimpleString() - read the buffer from file.
Message-ID: <16E1010E4581B049ABC51D4975CEDB88052CB0C9@UKDCX001.uk.int.atosorigin.com>

From: Tikva Bonneh
> I am running my python script from a VC++ application. 
> I tried to read the script from my .py file to a into 
> buffer and execute the buffer with Py_RunSimpleString.
> It didn't work. This is the way I did it:

[...]
  // allocate memory to contain the whole file.
 buffer = (char*) malloc (lSize);
  if (buffer == NULL) exit (2);

  // copy the file into the buffer.
 fread (buffer,1,lSize,pFile);
[...]

Looking at this, it doesn't look like you null-terminated
the string. Could that be all your problem is? (Don't forget
to add 1 to the length of the buffer you malloc as well!)

Paul


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From ccollier at viawest.net  Thu May  6 20:20:04 2004
From: ccollier at viawest.net (ccollier@viawest.net)
Date: Thu May  6 20:20:10 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405061815470.29476-100000@radar.atomicservers.com>


background:

using - win2k, python2.3.3, pywin32 201.1, wmi 0.5 (from Tim Golden)

Typically, I use python in a *nix envoronment, but in this case I'm of 
course working on a windows machine and slightly out of my element.  I've 
successfully implemented some pieces of code using Tim Golden's wmi module 
and they work well.  I've also implemented some very basic service code 
and successfully registered pythonservice.exe, installed the service, and 
stopped and started it. (all using win32 items and examples)

When I take working service code, add an "import wmi" statement, and 
update the service, I then suddenly get failures when trying to start the 
service.  The event log holds almost no information.  I simply get this:

A system error has occured.
System error 1067 has occured.
The process terminated unexpectedly.

Interestingly, when I use pythonservice.exe to run the service in debug 
mode it runs well.

question:
Has anyone else successfully used the wmi.py and pythonservice.exe 
combination, or have any leads I might research?

Thanks!

cody





From wolf at circle-cross.org  Thu May  6 20:42:51 2004
From: wolf at circle-cross.org (Wolf Logan)
Date: Thu May  6 20:42:56 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405061815470.29476-100000@radar.atomicservers.com>
Message-ID: <005a01c433cc$3a824f60$742f6945@circlecross.home>

system error 1067 is, as it says, unexpected process termination. as you're
aware, services are not supposed to exit unless they've been sent the "stop"
signal, so any exit from your code while starting or running will log this
error.

I'm going to guess that the python script is exiting with an exception for
some reason. you could try wrapping the code in an exception handler, and
then logging the exception somewhere before exiting.

it's possible that the WMI stuff needs some resource privileges that the
service environment isn't providing. the default setting for services is
very restricted, for security. if your service is set to log on as the
"local system", try setting the "interact with desktop" flag, which allows
some extra privileges. otherwise, try running the service to log on as a
regular user, preferably one which can successfully run the code from the
desktop (for example, your own account).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ccollier@viawest.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:20 PM


> When I take working service code, add an "import wmi" statement, and
> update the service, I then suddenly get failures when trying to start the
> service.  The event log holds almost no information.  I simply get this:
>
> A system error has occured.
> System error 1067 has occured.
> The process terminated unexpectedly.
>
> Interestingly, when I use pythonservice.exe to run the service in debug
> mode it runs well.
>
> question:
> Has anyone else successfully used the wmi.py and pythonservice.exe
> combination, or have any leads I might research?


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu May  6 23:55:18 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu May  6 23:55:39 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
In-Reply-To: <005a01c433cc$3a824f60$742f6945@circlecross.home>
Message-ID: <07cc01c433e7$1d51f970$0200a8c0@eden>

> system error 1067 is, as it says, unexpected process
> termination. as you're
> aware, services are not supposed to exit unless they've been
> sent the "stop"
> signal, so any exit from your code while starting or running
> will log this
> error.

Theoretically, this should not be able to happen for Python services.
Unhandled exceptions should still terminate "gracefully", logging the error
and notifying the SCM that it finished.

A fatal Python error could cause this though, and the most common cause of
this is a thread-state mixup - but then I would expect the same code to fail
regardless of the context it was being executed in.

All my ideas to diagnose this require MSVC.

Mark


From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Fri May  7 02:30:41 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri May  7 02:32:31 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E443487D@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

> using - win2k, python2.3.3, pywin32 201.1, wmi 0.5 (from Tim Golden)
>
> I've successfully implemented some pieces of code using Tim 
> Golden's wmi module and they work well.  

Glad to hear it!

>When I take working service code, add an "import wmi" statement, and 
>update the service, I then suddenly get failures when trying 
>to start the service.  The event log holds almost no information.  

No magic bullet here, I'm afraid. I've not tried this myself, tho'
if I have time this morning I'll give it a go.
You're up against at least two things:

+ Security issues around services, which -- by default -- run
  as the most basic user possible, without network access (I
  think).

+ The WMI security model is a real pain to manipulate, not
  least because you have to contend with its own security,
  general COM / DCOM security, and even more general NT
  Security, all of which are interlinked, but subtly different
  (or at least that's the impression I have from no small
  amount of research).

And, of course, it may be that even sorting this out won't 
solve your problem!

I suggest that you run the service under the same user which
you're logged in as. In case you haven't done this before, it
means going to Control Panel -> Admin Tools -> Services
(or however you normally get there), right-clicking for 
Properties, selecting the LogOn tab, and specifying an
exact account. Then try starting the service again.

As you can see from the top of the WMI file, the only thing
the module does on import (apart from defining a few constants
and, obviously, the classes and functions) is to call 
win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch. This is to ensure
that various constants etc are readily available. There aren't
many, (in fact, three), so you might try adding these lines 
somewhere towards the top of the module at line 129:

wbemErrInvalidQuery = -2147217385
wbemErrTimedout = -2147209215

  to replace lines 129-131:

#obj = win32com.client.GetObject ("winmgmts:")
#win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch (obj._oleobj_)
#del obj

You could then replace "win32com.client.constants." with ""
throughout (there are only three instances) and see if that
helps.

(In case it wasn't obvious, all I'm doing there is to remove
the need to do any win32com stuff on module import, in case
that's a problem.)

Let us know if that helps or hinders.

TJG


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From cedric.delfosse at linbox.com  Fri May  7 09:24:06 2004
From: cedric.delfosse at linbox.com (Cedric Delfosse)
Date: Fri May  7 09:24:11 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
Message-ID: <1083936246.23077.38.camel@replic.freealter.fr>

Hello,

I use python 2.2.2 with win32all-148 on Windows NT. I know these are
outdated version, but I must do with it.

The problematic code is:

def get_process_pids(name): 
    """
    Return the process ids corresponding to the given 'name'
    """
    # Flush process info internal cache
    win32pdh.EnumObjects(None, None, 0, 1)
    return(win32pdhutil.FindPerformanceAttributesByName(name))

I have these exceptions with FindPerformanceAttributesByName, when I
call it lots of time (that's what I think, I can't reproduce the
problem):

  File "conversions.py", line 68, in get_process_pids
  File "C:\Python22\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
49, in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
    items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object, -1) 
api_error: (-1073738824, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
message is available')

and after:

  File "conversions.py", line 67, in get_process_pids
api_error: (170, 'EnumObjects for buffer size', 'The requested resource
is in use.')


Do you think that an upgrade of python-win32 could resolve the problem ?

Best regards,

-- 
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152, rue de Grigy - Technopole Metz              57070 Metz - FRANCE
t?l: +33 (0)3 87 50 87 90                          http://linbox.com


From cedric.delfosse at linbox.com  Fri May  7 12:07:52 2004
From: cedric.delfosse at linbox.com (Cedric Delfosse)
Date: Fri May  7 12:07:57 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
In-Reply-To: <1083936246.23077.38.camel@replic.freealter.fr>
References: <1083936246.23077.38.camel@replic.freealter.fr>
Message-ID: <1083946072.23073.142.camel@replic.freealter.fr>

Le ven 07/05/2004 ? 15:24, Cedric Delfosse a ?crit :
> Hello,
> 
> I use python 2.2.2 with win32all-148 on Windows NT. I know these are
> outdated version, but I must do with it.

I tried an upgrade to pywin32-201.

The first problem I had is:

  pids = win32pdhutil.FindPerformanceAttributesByName('python')
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
71, in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
    if object is None: object =
find_pdh_counter_localized_name("Process", machine)
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
41, in find_pdh_counter_localized_name
    return win32pdh.LookupPerfNameByIndex(machine_name,
counter_english_map[english_name.lower()])
RuntimeError: The pdh.dll entry point functions could not be loaded.

To resolve this, I downloaded pdh.dll available here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q284996 and put
it into C:\python22.

Now, into a Python shell:

>>> import win32pdhutil
>>> win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in ?
    win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
94, in ShowAllProcesses
    items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object,
win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
error: (-1073738824, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
message is available')


I'm sure this was working with my previous version of pywin32
(win32all-148).
Is there something else I should do so that it works ?

Best regards,

-- 
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From ccollier at viawest.net  Fri May  7 12:21:39 2004
From: ccollier at viawest.net (ccollier@viawest.net)
Date: Fri May  7 12:21:44 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
In-Reply-To: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E443487D@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405071013490.6288-100000@radar.atomicservers.com>


Thank you all for the quick input and insights.  Tim, I'll give your 
suggestions a shot for routing around the com imports issue when I have a 
chance.

In the mean time, I found an interesting work around.  If I rename wmi.py 
to anything else and then reference it accordingly, the problem 
dissapears.  (ex. pywmi.py, import pywmi)  Due to deadlines, I'll probably 
have to come back and learn why this is the case later, but I'm sure it 
will provide some good insight and a learning experience regarding python 
internal workings.

cody



On Fri, 7 May 2004, Tim Golden wrote:

> > using - win2k, python2.3.3, pywin32 201.1, wmi 0.5 (from Tim Golden)
> >
> > I've successfully implemented some pieces of code using Tim 
> > Golden's wmi module and they work well.  
> 
> Glad to hear it!
> 
> >When I take working service code, add an "import wmi" statement, and 
> >update the service, I then suddenly get failures when trying 
> >to start the service.  The event log holds almost no information.  

--snip--



From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Fri May  7 12:24:26 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Fri May  7 12:26:14 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434886@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

>Thank you all for the quick input and insights.  Tim, I'll give your 
>suggestions a shot for routing around the com imports issue 
>when I have a 
>chance.
>
>In the mean time, I found an interesting work around.  If I 
>rename wmi.py 
>to anything else and then reference it accordingly, the problem 
>dissapears.  (ex. pywmi.py, import pywmi)  Due to deadlines, 
>I'll probably 
>have to come back and learn why this is the case later, but 
>I'm sure it 
>will provide some good insight and a learning experience 
>regarding python 
>internal workings.
>
>cody

Wow. Don't pretend to understand that one bit, but thanks
for the information. 

I did try to put an "import wmi" into
my usual test service earlier, but ran into annoying problems
before ever getting the "import wmi" into the script and
ran out of time, so inconclusive. Should really try again so
I can advise when other people try.

TJG


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From tony at tcapp.com  Fri May  7 20:15:24 2004
From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini)
Date: Fri May  7 20:15:33 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Launching COM apps from Python
In-Reply-To: <E1BM7ml-0003Ig-KA@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <20040507170144.R79627-100000@yamato.yamato.com>



I'm trying to launch an in-house COM-server from Python.
I do have the IDL file that the TLB was created from but ....

I haven't been to launch the program successfully yet.
I've registered the app as a com server, run makepy and imported the
resulting py file.

I've tried following the examples in Programming Python on W32 as well.

So I looked in the Win32com/test directory, at the test scripts for the
Office Apps, trying to follow suit.

I've tried this approach
mytest = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("mytest.Application")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
95, in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName =
dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
    return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
79, in _GetGoodDispatch
    IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)


as well as
mytest = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("mytest")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
95, in Dispatch
    dispatch, userName =
dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
    return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
79, in _GetGoodDispatch
    IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)


I've substituted the name "mytest" with the case-sensitive name from the
IDL file.

This COM stuff just drives me crazy.

Would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction?

thanks



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri May  7 21:40:37 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri May  7 21:40:58 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Launching COM apps from Python
In-Reply-To: <20040507170144.R79627-100000@yamato.yamato.com>
Message-ID: <05e901c4349d$77555f50$0200a8c0@eden>

You are trying to use a ProgID that does not exist.  A "ProgID" is really
just a mapping to its CLSID.  It sounds like your object is not registering
itself correctly.

Look in the registry - all COM objects have their name directly under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.  Under that name, you will find a CLSID.  This CLSID will
then have a key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID.  Look at the registry to
confirm that the names you tried do not exist as COM objects.

Otherwise, try using the CLSID of the object directly, instead of the
ProgID - just pass the IID string directly to Dispatch()

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Tony Cappellini
> Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2004 10:15 AM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Launching COM apps from Python
>
>
>
>
> I'm trying to launch an in-house COM-server from Python.
> I do have the IDL file that the TLB was created from but ....
>
> I haven't been to launch the program successfully yet.
> I've registered the app as a com server, run makepy and imported the
> resulting py file.
>
> I've tried following the examples in Programming Python on
> W32 as well.
>
> So I looked in the Win32com/test directory, at the test
> scripts for the
> Office Apps, trying to follow suit.
>
> I've tried this approach
> mytest = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("mytest.Application")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 95, in Dispatch
>     dispatch, userName =
> dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 79, in _GetGoodDispatch
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)
>
>
> as well as
> mytest = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("mytest")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line
> 95, in Dispatch
>     dispatch, userName =
> dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,clsctx)
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 91, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
>     return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
>   File
> "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line
> 79, in _GetGoodDispatch
>     IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx,
> pythoncom.IID_IDispatch)
> com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)
>
>
> I've substituted the name "mytest" with the case-sensitive
> name from the
> IDL file.
>
> This COM stuff just drives me crazy.
>
> Would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri May  7 21:45:22 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri May  7 21:45:39 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
In-Reply-To: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434886@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <05f301c4349e$20df2ab0$0200a8c0@eden>

> >In the mean time, I found an interesting work around.  If I
> >rename wmi.py
> >to anything else and then reference it accordingly, the problem
> >dissapears.  (ex. pywmi.py, import pywmi)  Due to deadlines,
> >I'll probably
> >have to come back and learn why this is the case later, but
> >I'm sure it
> >will provide some good insight and a learning experience
> >regarding python
> >internal workings.

It is possible that a "wmi.dll" is being found first on sys.path, and is
what is getting loaded.  It may also be that the sys.path{} was setup this
way only when running under the service context (eg, due to the user, etc)

I'm still love to know how it caused a silent fatal error - unless the
"wmi.dll/.pyd" found was indeed an old Python extension module built for a
different Python version.  (If it was just a "regular" windows DLL, it
should cause an ImportError, which should not be silent.)

Mark.


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Fri May  7 22:02:17 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Fri May  7 22:02:35 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
In-Reply-To: <1083946072.23073.142.camel@replic.freealter.fr>
Message-ID: <05fe01c434a0$7d944fe0$0200a8c0@eden>

> To resolve this, I downloaded pdh.dll available here
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q28499
> 6 and put
> it into C:\python22.

That KB article references Windows NT4 - is that what you are running?  The
installer probably should try and ensure the latest is installed - I opened
a bug at sourceforge to remind myself.

> >>> import win32pdhutil
> >>> win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in ?
>     win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
>   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
> 94, in ShowAllProcesses
>     items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object,
> win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
> error: (-1073738824, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
> message is available')

That error translates to PDH_CSTATUS_NO_OBJECT, which MS document as:
"The specified machine was found, but no matching performance object was
found on that machine. If this status is returned when the counter is being
added, the specified counter is not included in the query. If this status is
returned by an active counter, the data for that counter is invalid. Each
time the data is requested, PDH tries to obtain this counter data."

That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense in this case - but I've no
further ideas I'm afraid (and it does work for me!)

Mark


From cedric.delfosse at linbox.com  Mon May 10 04:36:18 2004
From: cedric.delfosse at linbox.com (Cedric Delfosse)
Date: Mon May 10 04:36:44 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in FindPerformanceAttributesByName
In-Reply-To: <05fe01c434a0$7d944fe0$0200a8c0@eden>
References: <05fe01c434a0$7d944fe0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <1084178178.26409.42.camel@replic.freealter.fr>

Le sam 08/05/2004 ? 04:02, Mark Hammond a ?crit :
> > To resolve this, I downloaded pdh.dll available here
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q28499
> > 6 and put
> > it into C:\python22.
> 
> That KB article references Windows NT4 - is that what you are running?  The
> installer probably should try and ensure the latest is installed - I opened
> a bug at sourceforge to remind myself.

Yes, Windows NT 4.00.1381, French version.

> > >>> import win32pdhutil
> > >>> win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in ?
> >     win32pdhutil.ShowAllProcesses()
> >   File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32pdhutil.py", line
> > 94, in ShowAllProcesses
> >     items, instances = win32pdh.EnumObjectItems(None,None,object,
> > win32pdh.PERF_DETAIL_WIZARD)
> > error: (-1073738824, 'EnumObjectItems for buffer size', 'No error
> > message is available')
> 
> That error translates to PDH_CSTATUS_NO_OBJECT, which MS document as:
> "The specified machine was found, but no matching performance object was
> found on that machine. If this status is returned when the counter is being
> added, the specified counter is not included in the query. If this status is
> returned by an active counter, the data for that counter is invalid. Each
> time the data is requested, PDH tries to obtain this counter data."
> 
> That doesn't really make a whole lot of sense in this case - but I've no
> further ideas I'm afraid (and it does work for me!)

I installed python 2.3.3 and pywin32-201, and now it works fine (and no
need to add any pdh.dll). Looks like it's time for my customer to
upgrade :)

Thanks a lot for your help,

-- 
C?dric Delfosse                             Linbox / Free&ALter Soft
152, rue de Grigy - Technopole Metz              57070 Metz - FRANCE
t?l: +33 (0)3 87 50 87 90                          http://linbox.com


From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Mon May 10 10:49:04 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Mon May 10 10:50:56 2004
Subject: [python-win32] wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434888@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

Well, as Mark Hammond suggested in another post
(which I can't now find to respond to), there is
in my Win2K installation a [wmi.dll] stashed
away in [c:\winnt\system32]. If you cd to that
directory, start a Python session on try doing
"import wmi" it crashes mightily. Don't know
why.

Presumably services run in the context of that 
directory, so running the script from elsewhere
won't manifest the problem while as soon as it
becomes a service -- BANG!

Looks like I might want to consider calling the
module pywmi or something instead, if only to
avoid this problem.

TJG


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From Mike.Tallhamer at USONCOLOGY.COM  Mon May 10 12:50:05 2004
From: Mike.Tallhamer at USONCOLOGY.COM (Mike.Tallhamer@USONCOLOGY.COM)
Date: Mon May 10 12:52:31 2004
Subject: [python-win32] python and pdf question
Message-ID: <1D09B341F14C6E429F374C2FC17E7CBFD00946@utx001sx011.usoncology.com>

I am not new to python but I am new to python on windows and have a current
project where I would like to create a pdf form where I can retrieve data
from the user for processing in a python program. Does any one know if I
create a pdf form is it possible to retrieve field data from the pdf form
using python (possibly using a COM interface?) and then update the form
fields from the python program after the data has been processed? Is there
any books on this or any links to documentation on this type of thing
because I can't seem to find it anywhere and I am unfamiliar with COM on
widows and how to use it effectively as of yet but I am working on it. I
would appreciate any type of help you could provide even a point in the
general direction on any of this.

Thanks so much for any help you folks can provide.

Michael Tallhamer
Medical Physicist
Department of Radiation Oncology
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Denver, Co

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From jens.jorgensen at tallan.com  Mon May 10 13:23:42 2004
From: jens.jorgensen at tallan.com (Jens B. Jorgensen)
Date: Mon May 10 13:24:03 2004
Subject: [python-win32] python and pdf question
In-Reply-To: <1D09B341F14C6E429F374C2FC17E7CBFD00946@utx001sx011.usoncology.com>
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Message-ID: <409FBA9E.1020000@tallan.com>

I don't know. But, the way to pursue this would probably be to get 
documentation for the full version of Adobe Acrobat. A word of caution 
here though: are you sure that the free version of Acrobat will let you 
save a PDF Form with populated values? I'm not sure but I don't think it 
will. I think the only thing the free reader will let you do with a form 
is print it. If you were thinking of using this as some large scale data 
collection it may not be a good idea to expect people to purchase and 
install a $299 software package.

If you're doing large-scale data collection my first choice would be a 
web page. If you need people to be able to work on it off-line then 
things get trickier. A Word form would be ok, but let's people edit and 
screw it up. Another thing to look into would be building a little Flash 
app. It'd be smally to deploy, multi-platform, and should be easy to 
write from what I hear.

Mike.Tallhamer@USONCOLOGY.COM wrote:

>I am not new to python but I am new to python on windows and have a current
>project where I would like to create a pdf form where I can retrieve data
>from the user for processing in a python program. Does any one know if I
>create a pdf form is it possible to retrieve field data from the pdf form
>using python (possibly using a COM interface?) and then update the form
>fields from the python program after the data has been processed? Is there
>any books on this or any links to documentation on this type of thing
>because I can't seem to find it anywhere and I am unfamiliar with COM on
>widows and how to use it effectively as of yet but I am working on it. I
>would appreciate any type of help you could provide even a point in the
>general direction on any of this.
>
>Thanks so much for any help you folks can provide.
>
>Michael Tallhamer
>Medical Physicist
>Department of Radiation Oncology
>Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
>Denver, Co
>
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From niki at vintech.bg  Tue May 11 04:26:09 2004
From: niki at vintech.bg (Niki Spahiev)
Date: Tue May 11 04:26:48 2004
Subject: [python-win32] python and pdf question
In-Reply-To: <1D09B341F14C6E429F374C2FC17E7CBFD00946@utx001sx011.usoncology.com>
References: <1D09B341F14C6E429F374C2FC17E7CBFD00946@utx001sx011.usoncology.com>
Message-ID: <40A08E21.3000507@vintech.bg>

Mike.Tallhamer@USONCOLOGY.COM wrote:

> I am not new to python but I am new to python on windows and have a current
> project where I would like to create a pdf form where I can retrieve data
> from the user for processing in a python program. Does any one know if I
> create a pdf form is it possible to retrieve field data from the pdf form
> using python (possibly using a COM interface?) and then update the form
> fields from the python program after the data has been processed? Is there
> any books on this or any links to documentation on this type of thing
> because I can't seem to find it anywhere and I am unfamiliar with COM on
> widows and how to use it effectively as of yet but I am working on it. I
> would appreciate any type of help you could provide even a point in the
> general direction on any of this.
> 
> Thanks so much for any help you folks can provide.

Look at http://reportlab.org

HTH
Niki Spahiev


From theller at python.net  Tue May 11 06:20:22 2004
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Tue May 11 06:20:35 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Re: wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
References: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E4434888@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>
Message-ID: <1xlre049.fsf@python.net>

Tim Golden <tim.golden@viacom-outdoor.co.uk> writes:

> Well, as Mark Hammond suggested in another post
> (which I can't now find to respond to), there is
> in my Win2K installation a [wmi.dll] stashed
> away in [c:\winnt\system32]. If you cd to that
> directory, start a Python session on try doing
> "import wmi" it crashes mightily. Don't know
> why.

It crashes when trying to access the import table of the wmi.dll.
File Python/dynload_win.c, line 125, in the GetPythonImport function.

On WinXP Pro, it seems wmi.dll doesn't contain an import table.
Or something like that.

Thomas


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Tue May 11 07:04:08 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Tue May 11 07:04:30 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Re: wmi.py + pythonservice.exe
In-Reply-To: <1xlre049.fsf@python.net>
Message-ID: <0b2701c43747$b01b4780$0200a8c0@eden>

> It crashes when trying to access the import table of the wmi.dll.
> File Python/dynload_win.c, line 125, in the GetPythonImport function.
>
> On WinXP Pro, it seems wmi.dll doesn't contain an import table.
> Or something like that.

It's like a tag-team match :)

www.python.org/sf/951851

Thomas - a quick review of the patch, if you don't mind, and I'll check it
in before 2.3.4 goes out!

Thanks,

Mark


From lbates at syscononline.com  Tue May 11 12:32:46 2004
From: lbates at syscononline.com (Larry Bates)
Date: Tue May 11 12:32:56 2004
Subject: [python-win32] python and pdf question
In-Reply-To: <E1BNZgq-0003Uc-ID@mail.python.org>
Message-ID: <01d101c43775$97b88490$5d00a8c0@LABWXP>

Mike,

I've done something like what you describe using ReportLab
and ReportLab's PageCatcher module.  Background .PDF form
is imported into ReportLab and placed on canvas.  Then I 
draw my data fields on the background form and save as .PDF.
This doesn't actually use the .PDF "forms" but accomplishes
the same end result.

Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.



I am not new to python but I am new to python on windows and have a current
project where I would like to create a pdf form where I can retrieve data
from the user for processing in a python program. Does any one know if I
create a pdf form is it possible to retrieve field data from the pdf form
using python (possibly using a COM interface?) and then update the form
fields from the python program after the data has been processed? Is there
any books on this or any links to documentation on this type of thing
because I can't seem to find it anywhere and I am unfamiliar with COM on
widows and how to use it effectively as of yet but I am working on it. I
would appreciate any type of help you could provide even a point in the
general direction on any of this.

Thanks so much for any help you folks can provide.

Michael Tallhamer
Medical Physicist
Department of Radiation Oncology
Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers
Denver, Co




From jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net  Wed May 12 14:24:05 2004
From: jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net (Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre)
Date: Wed May 12 14:26:42 2004
Subject: [python-win32] COM server with py2exe
Message-ID: <40A26BC5.1040003@savoirfairelinux.net>

I need to implement a COM server for quickbooks. This is for receiving 
events from Quickbooks.
I'm registering my COM server as a local server. The problem is that 
Quickbook takes the LocalServer32 value and check its certificate 
signature. Its not required to have a certificate signature, but since 
python is registering the LocalServer32 as:
C:\Python23\python.exe 
"C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\LocalServer.py" (and the 
clsid)
for example, it fails because it cannot find a file named 
"C:\Python23\python.exe 
"C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\server\LocalServer.py" (and the 
clsid)".

To get rid of this of this behavior I'm using the py2exe package to have 
an executable. The problem is that, even with py2exe, there's an extra 
argument. The LocalServer32 variable is :

C:\MyApp\MyPythonApp.exe /Automate.

I searched throught the win32com sources files and found the code 
responsible of this:

------ win32com/server/register.py -------------
  if clsctx & pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER:
    if pythoncom.frozen:
      # If we are frozen, we write "{exe} /Automate", just
      # like "normal" .EXEs do
      exeName = win32api.GetShortPathName(sys.executable)
      command = '%s /Automate' % (exeName,)
    else:
      # Running from .py sources - we need to write
      # 'python.exe win32com\server\localserver.py {clsid}"
      exeName = _find_localserver_exe(1)
      exeName = win32api.GetShortPathName(exeName)
      pyfile = _find_localserver_module()
      command = '%s "%s" %s' % (exeName, pyfile, str(clsid))
    _set_string(keyNameRoot + '\\LocalServer32', command)

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

why do you need to add /Automate? Can I get rid of it?


From jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net  Wed May 12 15:55:47 2004
From: jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net (Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre)
Date: Wed May 12 15:55:59 2004
Subject: [python-win32] shelve py2exe error
Message-ID: <40A28143.1090002@savoirfairelinux.net>

Hi, I have ran into a problem with py2exe 0.5.0 and *shelve* in *python*
2.3.3.  The script works fine standalone, but not with py2exe.

Does anyone have a solution of workaround for this? Thanks.



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Thu May 13 07:10:54 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Thu May 13 07:11:17 2004
Subject: [python-win32] COM server with py2exe
In-Reply-To: <40A26BC5.1040003@savoirfairelinux.net>
Message-ID: <025a01c438da$f6d0c6c0$0200a8c0@eden>

> To get rid of this of this behavior I'm using the py2exe
> package to have
> an executable. The problem is that, even with py2exe, there's
> an extra
> argument. The LocalServer32 variable is :
>
> C:\MyApp\MyPythonApp.exe /Automate.

It is quite common for C++ apps to require this arg - many MS samples
certainly do.  AFAIK, it is really only used to prevent "accidentally"
starting the server - eg, when you just double-click on it, to see what it
does!  I admit to having done that myself (obviously only when trusting the
content!)

I believe that with py2exe, you will find that without it, you will see a
messagebox.  If you don't, then it probably will work :)

> why do you need to add /Automate? Can I get rid of it?

I'm not sure I would support dropping that just for this problem.  I
probably would support the concept of a custom 'bootstrap' for a
localserver, but it may require a bit of work to get both pywin32 and py2exe
both supporting it.

Mark


From rasjidw at openminddev.net  Thu May 13 08:16:11 2004
From: rasjidw at openminddev.net (Rasjid Wilcox)
Date: Thu May 13 08:16:28 2004
Subject: [python-win32] shelve py2exe error
In-Reply-To: <40A28143.1090002@savoirfairelinux.net>
References: <40A28143.1090002@savoirfairelinux.net>
Message-ID: <200405132216.12048.rasjidw@openminddev.net>

On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:55, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre wrote:
> Hi, I have ran into a problem with py2exe 0.5.0 and *shelve* in *python*
> 2.3.3.  The script works fine standalone, but not with py2exe.
>
> Does anyone have a solution of workaround for this? Thanks.

Care to share any errors?  Also, does the py2exe process give any warnings at 
the end?

Cheers,

Rasjid.

-- 
Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net


From theller at python.net  Thu May 13 10:21:50 2004
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu May 13 10:22:02 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Re: COM server with py2exe
References: <40A26BC5.1040003@savoirfairelinux.net>
	<025a01c438da$f6d0c6c0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <hdukjtkx.fsf@python.net>

>> To get rid of this of this behavior I'm using the py2exe package to
>> have an executable. The problem is that, even with py2exe, there's an
>> extra argument. The LocalServer32 variable is :
>>
>> C:\MyApp\MyPythonApp.exe /Automate.
>
> It is quite common for C++ apps to require this arg - many MS samples
> certainly do.  AFAIK, it is really only used to prevent "accidentally"
> starting the server - eg, when you just double-click on it, to see what it
> does!  I admit to having done that myself (obviously only when trusting the
> content!)

I think the intent of the /Automate argument is to enable the executable
to find out whether it has been started by the user or by COM.

OTOH, from what I know it is unneeded to do it this way - when an exe
server is started from COM, it *automatically* gets the '-Embedding' on
the command line.

>
> I believe that with py2exe, you will find that without it, you will see a
> messagebox.  If you don't, then it probably will work :)
>
>> why do you need to add /Automate? Can I get rid of it?
>
> I'm not sure I would support dropping that just for this problem.  I
> probably would support the concept of a custom 'bootstrap' for a
> localserver, but it may require a bit of work to get both pywin32 and py2exe
> both supporting it.

Thomas


From theller at python.net  Thu May 13 10:32:28 2004
From: theller at python.net (Thomas Heller)
Date: Thu May 13 10:32:42 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Re: shelve py2exe error
References: <40A28143.1090002@savoirfairelinux.net>
Message-ID: <brksjt37.fsf@python.net>

Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre <jpbarrette@savoirfairelinux.net> writes:

> Hi, I have ran into a problem with py2exe 0.5.0 and *shelve* in *python*
> 2.3.3.  The script works fine standalone, but not with py2exe.
>
> Does anyone have a solution of workaround for this? Thanks.

Well, trying to py2exe this simple script

  import shelve
  shelve.open("myfile")

and then running the executable prints this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "myshelve.py", line 3, in ?
    shelve.open("filename")
  File "shelve.pyc", line 231, in open
  File "shelve.pyc", line 211, in __init__
  File "anydbm.pyc", line 62, in ?
ImportError: no dbm clone found; tried ['dbhash', 'gdbm', 'dbm', 'dumbdbm']

So it seems quite clear that you have to include one of the dbm modules.
Running the setup again with this command line seems to work ok:

  python setup.py -i dbhash

Thomas


From rasjidw at openminddev.net  Fri May 14 06:12:03 2004
From: rasjidw at openminddev.net (Rasjid Wilcox)
Date: Fri May 14 06:12:19 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Re: shelve py2exe error
In-Reply-To: <brksjt37.fsf@python.net>
References: <40A28143.1090002@savoirfairelinux.net> <brksjt37.fsf@python.net>
Message-ID: <200405142012.03863.rasjidw@openminddev.net>

On Friday 14 May 2004 00:32, Thomas Heller wrote:
> Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre <jpbarrette@savoirfairelinux.net> writes:
> > Hi, I have ran into a problem with py2exe 0.5.0 and *shelve* in *python*
> > 2.3.3.  The script works fine standalone, but not with py2exe.
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution of workaround for this? Thanks.
>
> Well, trying to py2exe this simple script
>
>   import shelve
>   shelve.open("myfile")
>
> and then running the executable prints this:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "myshelve.py", line 3, in ?
>     shelve.open("filename")
>   File "shelve.pyc", line 231, in open
>   File "shelve.pyc", line 211, in __init__
>   File "anydbm.pyc", line 62, in ?
> ImportError: no dbm clone found; tried ['dbhash', 'gdbm', 'dbm', 'dumbdbm']
>
> So it seems quite clear that you have to include one of the dbm modules.
> Running the setup again with this command line seems to work ok:
>
>   python setup.py -i dbhash

You can modify the setup.py file to automatically do the include, but I can't 
recall the exact syntax (the code is at work, I'm now at home).  Look in some 
of the py2exe samples.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

-- 
Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net


From michael at sentai.com  Fri May 14 10:05:53 2004
From: michael at sentai.com (Michael Beaulieu)
Date: Fri May 14 09:54:14 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error trying to create a com instance
Message-ID: <40A4D241.2040702@sentai.com>

I'm running python 22
win32all build 148

 From experimenting with ocx's previously I have managed to create an 
object using this pattern
'''
camtasia = .... EnsureModule( ..... )
recorder = camtasia.CamtasiaRecorder
rec = recorder()
iface_rec = camtasia.ICamtasiaRecorder(rec)
'''

I try to run the following code and I'm not clear on what's happening - 
something seems out of sync

 >>> speller = 
win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}', 
0, 2, 1)
 >>> speller.VSSpell
<class 
win32com.gen_py.97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.VSSpell at 
0x01254928>
 >>> sp= speller.VSSpell()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "win32com\gen_py\97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.py", 
line 726, in __init__
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

The generated module contains the class source below and if I replace 
the default_class and default_source values with the classnames in place 
of the ID's I no longer get the error, but I haven't tested the actual 
OCX yet, so I don't know if something else is wrong.

What do I have to do to ensure the proper creation of the module?

thanks,
Mike

###########  from the generated module  ############################

class CoClassBaseClass:
    def __init__(self, oobj=None):
        if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
        self.__dict__["_dispobj_"] = self.default_interface(oobj)    # 
this is line 726
    def __repr__(self):
        return "<win32com.gen_py.%s.%s>" % (__doc__, 
self.__class__.__name__)

    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
        if d is not None: return getattr(d, attr)
        raise AttributeError, attr
    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
        if self.__dict__.has_key(attr): self.__dict__[attr] = value; return
        try:
            d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
            if d is not None:
                d.__setattr__(attr, value)
                return
        except AttributeError:
            pass
        self.__dict__[attr] = value

class VSSpell(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
    # VCI VisualSpeller Spellchecker
    CLSID = pythoncom.MakeIID("{97F4CED0-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}")
    coclass_sources = [
        '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
    ]
    default_source = '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
    coclass_interfaces = [
        '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
    ]
    default_interface = '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'



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From anand at easi.soft.net  Sat May 15 04:24:16 2004
From: anand at easi.soft.net (Anand K Rayudu)
Date: Sat May 15 04:18:15 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Fatal Python error:PyThreadState_Get: No current
	Thread
References: <175f01c42d1c$50cb6e20$0200a8c0@eden>
	<4099C8B9.9080304@easi.soft.net>
Message-ID: <40A5D3B0.5050002@easi.soft.net>

Hi All,

Python encountered FATAL error, while doing the following. Can some one 
please suggest what could be the problem.



# source.py file
from win32com.client import Displatch
o=Dispatch("GuiCntlrs.Dialogs")  # This is my COM object module, which 
allows me to post the
                                                      # pre defined 
dialog boxes.

o.CreateMyDialog()
o.SetCallBack("source.py","Execute")  # Here I am passing current module 
name & the call back function name
                                                            # my ideas 
is to execute the call back 'Execute' when ever user clicks on any
                                                            # button
o.PutEventLoop()  # This code is just event loop

Def Execute(reason):
     Print 'Executing Call back'


// The following my COM object code to get the python callback.

SetCallBack(BSTR   module_name, BSTR callbk_name){
     PyObject *mod = PyImport_AddModule(module_name);  // The Fatal 
error is generated while doing this
                                                                        
                      // Actually this calls PyImport_GetModuleDict();
                                                                        
                      // This is the function which is failing.
     if(!mod) return S_OK;

  m_pPyCallbk=PyObject_GetAttrString(mod,callbk_name);
  return S_OK;

}


Can some one please suggest how to solve this.
or is there a better way to pass python function to COM objects.

Thanks for any clue or suggestions.

Regards,
Anand



From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sat May 15 07:21:50 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sat May 15 07:22:09 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Fatal Python error:PyThreadState_Get: No
	currentThread
In-Reply-To: <40A5D3B0.5050002@easi.soft.net>
Message-ID: <032201c43a6e$d1fa4570$0200a8c0@eden>

> // The following my COM object code to get the python callback.
>
> SetCallBack(BSTR   module_name, BSTR callbk_name){

You need to add:
       PyGILState_STATE state = PyGILState_Ensure();

>      PyObject *mod = PyImport_AddModule(module_name);  // The Fatal
> error is generated while doing this
>
>
>                       // Actually this calls PyImport_GetModuleDict();
>
>
>                       // This is the function which is failing.
>      if(!mod) return S_OK;
>
>   m_pPyCallbk=PyObject_GetAttrString(mod,callbk_name);

and at *every* single exit point (including the one above - 'goto error;' is
what I tend to use)
    PyGILState_Release(state);

>   return S_OK;
>
> }



> Can some one please suggest how to solve this.
> or is there a better way to pass python function to COM objects.

I'm not sure why you are using COM to pass Python stuff around - if you are
already assuming Python, then just use the Python API directly without the
COM overhead - ie, in your example, "SetCallBack" could just be a method on
an object in a regular Python extension.  You may have a good reason - in
which case, it seems fine!

Mark


From Chad.CTR.Baber at faa.gov  Mon May 17 01:00:55 2004
From: Chad.CTR.Baber at faa.gov (Chad.CTR.Baber@faa.gov)
Date: Mon May 17 01:01:20 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Chad CTR Baber/AWA/CNTR/FAA is out of the office.
Message-ID: <OFECC30282.5D119E7F-ON85256E97.001B8CC1-85256E97.001B8CC1@faa.gov>





I will be out of the office starting  05/14/2004 and will not return until
06/09/2004.

I will respond to your message when I return.


From Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov  Mon May 17 10:41:29 2004
From: Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov (Jim Vickroy)
Date: Mon May 17 10:41:33 2004
Subject: [python-win32] module mssvcrt file locking misunderstanding
Message-ID: <MKEKIDIMJCDMCDGCNDKBKEDCCAAA.jim.vickroy@noaa.gov>

Hello all,

I do not understand the behavior of msvcrt.locking(...); maybe, I do not
understand locking in general <smile>.  Here is a sample session
illustrating my confusion:

      >>> filename   = 'file_locks-test'
      >>> transactor = open(filename, mode='w+b')

      >>> transactor.seek(0)
      >>> transactor.write('spam & eggs')

      >>> import msvcrt
      >>> transactor.seek(0)
      >>> msvcrt.locking(transactor.fileno(), msvcrt.LK_LOCK,
os.path.getsize(filename))
      >>> transactor.read()
      'spam & eggs'

      >>> reader = open(filename, mode='wb')
## 1 ##
      >>> msvcrt.locking(reader.fileno(), msvcrt.LK_LOCK,
os.path.getsize(filename)) ## 2 ##
      >>> reader.read()
## 3 ##

What occurs:
	IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor -- at ## 3 ##

What I expected:
	an IOError at statement ## 1 ## or ## 2 ##

Why is *reader* granted a lock when *transactor* already has one?

My setup:
	python 2.3.3
	win32 build 200
	XP Professional with all latest service packs

Thanks for your time,

-- jv


From asu at ritm.msk.ru  Tue May 18 01:29:14 2004
From: asu at ritm.msk.ru (=?KOI8-R?Q?=EF=D4=C4=C5=CC_=E1=F3=F5_=C9_=EE=FC=EF?=)
Date: Tue May 18 01:27:12 2004
Subject: [python-win32] test
Message-ID: <40A99F2A.2040506@ritm.msk.ru>

test

From asu at ritm.msk.ru  Tue May 18 01:39:35 2004
From: asu at ritm.msk.ru (=?UTF-8?B?0J7RgtC00LXQuyDQkNCh0KMg0Lgg0J3QrdCe?=)
Date: Tue May 18 01:37:34 2004
Subject: [python-win32] test
Message-ID: <40A9A197.9020201@ritm.msk.ru>

test


From asu at ritm.msk.ru  Tue May 18 02:12:15 2004
From: asu at ritm.msk.ru (=?UTF-8?B?0J7RgtC00LXQuyDQkNCh0KMg0Lgg0J3QrdCe?=)
Date: Tue May 18 02:10:15 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Python and COM
Message-ID: <40A9A93F.2030908@ritm.msk.ru>


Hello.
I write the program on Python 2.3.3 + win32all (system Windows 2000 Pro).
(I have convinced the chief to use Python instead of Visual Basic.)
I use technology Microsoft COM.

I can not address to a method - there is a mistake (lines 67-69 test.py).
See the attached file files.zip
I can not understand in any way how to correct the program that there
was no mistake.
Help, please.

More in detail about a problem:

I address m_prod = Lib.Products(m_prodID) and I receive type IProduct.
Type IProduct2 is necessary for me.
I tried different variants (for example
m_prod=win32com.client.CastTo(ARKCore, 'IProduct2')).
At attempt to address to a method there is a mistake.


Anton


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From somesh at qviqsoft.com  Tue May 18 08:37:24 2004
From: somesh at qviqsoft.com (Somesh Bartakke)
Date: Tue May 18 08:36:01 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python
Message-ID: <004901c43cd4$e461e250$436a640a@qsoft25>

i want to work with some Memory related issues where i want to use python 

1. as part of program 
2. as testing tool for memory leaks etc

how i should use it ? is there ne one who is using for same purpose,
and is there Memory leakage problem within Python softwaer itself ?
how should i start testing ?

Somesh Bartakke
Q-Soft Pvt Ltd, Pune (India)
--
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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From michael.beaulieu at sentai.com  Tue May 18 10:06:33 2004
From: michael.beaulieu at sentai.com (Michael Beaulieu)
Date: Tue May 18 10:19:36 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
Message-ID: <40AA1869.4050104@sentai.com>

I'm running python 22
win32all build 148

 From experimenting with ocx's previously I have managed to create an 
object using this pattern
'''
camtasia = .... EnsureModule( ..... )
recorder = camtasia.CamtasiaRecorder
rec = recorder()
iface_rec = camtasia.ICamtasiaRecorder(rec)
'''

I try to run the following code and I'm not clear on what's happening - 
something seems out of sync

 >>> speller = 
win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}', 
0, 2, 1)
 >>> speller.VSSpell
<class 
win32com.gen_py.97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.VSSpell at 
0x01254928>
 >>> sp= speller.VSSpell()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
 File "win32com\gen_py\97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.py", 
line 726, in __init__
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

The generated module contains the class source below and if I replace 
the default_class and default_source values with the classnames in place 
of the ID's I no longer get the error, but I haven't tested the actual 
OCX yet, so I don't know if something else is wrong.

What do I have to do to ensure the proper creation of the module, 
because I'd like to have this work in an exe I'm creating and so far id 
doesn't work

thanks,
Mike

###########  from the generated module  ############################

class CoClassBaseClass:
   def __init__(self, oobj=None):
       if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
       self.__dict__["_dispobj_"] = self.default_interface(oobj)    # 
this is line 726
   def __repr__(self):
       return "<win32com.gen_py.%s.%s>" % (__doc__, 
self.__class__.__name__)

   def __getattr__(self, attr):
       d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
       if d is not None: return getattr(d, attr)
       raise AttributeError, attr
   def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
       if self.__dict__.has_key(attr): self.__dict__[attr] = value; return
       try:
           d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
           if d is not None:
               d.__setattr__(attr, value)
               return
       except AttributeError:
           pass
       self.__dict__[attr] = value

class VSSpell(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
   # VCI VisualSpeller Spellchecker
   CLSID = pythoncom.MakeIID("{97F4CED0-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}")
   coclass_sources = [
       '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
   ]
   default_source = '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
   coclass_interfaces = [
       '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
   ]
   default_interface = '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'



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From asu at ritm.msk.ru  Tue May 18 01:50:46 2004
From: asu at ritm.msk.ru (=?UTF-8?B?0J7RgtC00LXQuyDQkNCh0KMg0Lgg0J3QrdCe?=)
Date: Tue May 18 10:20:12 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Python and COM
Message-ID: <40A9A436.2080504@ritm.msk.ru>


Hello.
I write the program on Python 2.3.3 + win32all (system Windows 2000 Pro).
(I have convinced the chief to use Python instead of Visual Basic.)
I use technology Microsoft COM.

I can not address to a method - there is a mistake (lines 67-69 test.py).
See the attached file files.zip
I can not understand in any way how to correct the program that there
was no mistake.
Help, please.

More in detail about a problem:

I address m_prod = Lib.Products(m_prodID) and I receive type IProduct.
Type IProduct2 is necessary for me.
I tried different variants (for example
m_prod=win32com.client.CastTo(ARKCore, 'IProduct2')).
At attempt to address to a method there is a mistake.


Anton

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From cgadgil_list at cxoindia.dnsalias.com  Tue May 18 23:53:48 2004
From: cgadgil_list at cxoindia.dnsalias.com (Chetan Gadgil)
Date: Tue May 18 23:53:35 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python
In-Reply-To: <004901c43cd4$e461e250$436a640a@qsoft25>
Message-ID: <00bf01c43d54$e40eaa10$5b0aa8c0@cxodt03>

Somesh
 
You could use the WMI APIs either through the COM integration or through
one of the .NET integrations
available for python.
 
I am assuming that you want to do this on win32. If not, for platforms
such as Solaris/Linux etc. you could either grab the outputs
of tools such as prstat/top or use the corresponding C API calls.
 
 
And no, Python does not leave any intentional memory leaks by itself. It
depends on you whether you leak memory or not.
 
Of course the answer to this question also varies from time to time, as
at any given point in time, Python may
or may not happen to have memory leaks in its implementation. These are
usually fixed in subsequent releases, if detected.
 
Chetan
--
  ""I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum
mechanics."
     - Richard P. Feynman 
-----Original Message-----
From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
[mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org] On Behalf Of Somesh Bartakke
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 6:07 PM
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python
 
i want to work with some Memory related issues where i want to use
python 
 
1. as part of program 
2. as testing tool for memory leaks etc
 
how i should use it ? is there ne one who is using for same purpose,
and is there Memory leakage problem within Python softwaer itself ?
how should i start testing ?
 
Somesh Bartakke
Q-Soft Pvt Ltd, Pune (India)
--
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so
long to begin it.
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From: somesh at qviqsoft.com (Somesh Bartakke)
Date: Wed May 19 00:34:15 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python
References: <00bf01c43d54$e40eaa10$5b0aa8c0@cxodt03>
Message-ID: <002901c43d5a$c0b058b0$436a640a@qsoft25>


thanX chetan,
 
yeh, i want to use the script for win32 platform only.
  You could use the WMI APIs either through the COM integration or through one of the .NET integrations

  available for python. 

  do you have any examples ? or is there any tool/help available on net ?



   

  I think it is also safe to say that no one understands wot is understood by him !

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From cgadgil_list at cxoindia.dnsalias.com  Wed May 19 01:16:49 2004
From: cgadgil_list at cxoindia.dnsalias.com (Chetan Gadgil)
Date: Wed May 19 01:16:42 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python
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Message-ID: <00da01c43d60$82306160$5b0aa8c0@cxodt03>

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html
--
  ""I think it is safe to say that no one understands quantum
mechanics."
     - Richard P. Feynman 
-----Original Message-----
From: Somesh Bartakke [mailto:somesh@qviqsoft.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:06 AM
To: Chetan Gadgil
Cc: python-win32@python.org
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Memory Leak & Python


 
thanX chetan,
 
yeh, i want to use the script for win32 platform only.
You could use the WMI APIs either through the COM integration or through
one of the .NET integrations
available for python. 
do you have any examples ? or is there any tool/help available on net ?
 
 
I think it is also safe to say that no one understands wot is understood
by him !
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From master at hilug.org  Wed May 19 03:36:59 2004
From: master at hilug.org (Y.H. Rhiu)
Date: Wed May 19 03:36:51 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Converting VBScript using WMI to Python: data type
	problem
Message-ID: <00c901c43d74$14628c80$dc3fe7cb@greatstream>

Hi, I'd like to write a python script that create IIS site and virtual
directories, using WMI.
But I have a problem with converting sample VBScript code to Python code:

<code=VBScript>
' Source:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/datacenter/proddocs/en-us/prog_wmi_tut_03_03.asp?frame=true
set locatorObj = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
set providerObj = locatorObj.ConnectServer("MyMachine",
"root/MicrosoftIISv2")
set serviceObj = providerObj.Get("IIsWebService='W3SVC'")

Bindings = Array(0)
Set Bindings(0) = providerObj.get("ServerBinding").SpawnInstance_()
Bindings(0).IP = ""
Bindings(0).Port = "8383"
Bindings(0).Hostname = ""

Dim strSiteObjPath
strSiteObjPath = serviceObj.CreateNewSite("MyNewSite", Bindings,
"C:\Inetpub\Wwwroot")
</code>

<code=Python>
from win32com.client import *

locatorObj = Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
providerObj = locatorObj.ConnectServer(".", "root/MicrosoftIISv2")
serviceObj = providerObj.Get("IIsWebService='W3SVC'")
Bindings = providerObj.Get("ServerBinding").SpawnInstance_()

Bindings.Properties_('Hostname').Value = 'mydomain.com'
Bindings.Properties_('IP').Value = ''
Bindings.Properties_('Port').Value = '80'

InParam = serviceObj.Methods_('CreateNewSite').InParameters.SpawnInstance_()
InParam.Properties_('PathOfRootVirtualDir').Value = 'c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot'
InParam.Properties_('ServerComment').Value = 'my web site'
InParam.Properties_('ServerBindings').Value = Bindings  # ERROR occurs here

strSiteObjPath = serviceObj.ExecMethod_('CreateNewSite',InParam)
</code>

I think the problem is a conflict of data type on 15th line in above code.
Can I have a solution of workaround for this?
Any guidance will be appreciated.

__
Y.H. Rhiu



From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Wed May 19 06:24:14 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed May 19 06:26:13 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Converting VBScript using WMI to Python: data 
	type problem
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E44348B4@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

| Hi, I'd like to write a python script that create IIS site and virtual
| directories, using WMI.
| But I have a problem with converting sample VBScript code to 
| Python code:
 
[... snip VBScript ...]

| <code=Python>
| from win32com.client import *
| 
| locatorObj = Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
| providerObj = locatorObj.ConnectServer(".", "root/MicrosoftIISv2")
| serviceObj = providerObj.Get("IIsWebService='W3SVC'")
| Bindings = providerObj.Get("ServerBinding").SpawnInstance_()
| 
| Bindings.Properties_('Hostname').Value = 'mydomain.com'
| Bindings.Properties_('IP').Value = ''
| Bindings.Properties_('Port').Value = '80'
| 
| InParam = 
| serviceObj.Methods_('CreateNewSite').InParameters.SpawnInstance_()
| InParam.Properties_('PathOfRootVirtualDir').Value = 
| 'c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot'
| InParam.Properties_('ServerComment').Value = 'my web site'
| InParam.Properties_('ServerBindings').Value = Bindings  # 
| ERROR occurs here
| 
| strSiteObjPath = serviceObj.ExecMethod_('CreateNewSite',InParam)
| </code>

First, I sympathise with you: WMI can be such a pain to
work with. The module I've written takes some of the
grief away by hiding the plumbing:

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

If you use that, then your code translates as
below. BUT... I also get an error trying to
pass in the binding, to do with SAFEARRAYs.
If I get a few more moments (and further access
to a friendly Win2k3 machine) I'll try to
investigate further.

<code>
import wmi

connection = wmi.connect_server (server=".",
namespace="root/MicrosoftIISv2")
c = wmi.WMI (wmi=connection)

#
# Could as well be achieved by doing:
#  web_server = c.IISWebService (Name="W3SVC")[0]
#
for web_server in c.IIsWebService (Name="W3SVC"):
  break
  
binding = c.new ("ServerBinding")
binding.IP = ""
binding.Port = "8383"
binding.Hostname = ""

web_server.CreateNewSite (
  PathOfRootVirtualDir=r"c:\inetpub\wwwroot",
  ServerComment="My Web Site",
  ServerBindings= [binding]
)

</code>

TJG


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From tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk  Wed May 19 06:38:37 2004
From: tim.golden at viacom-outdoor.co.uk (Tim Golden)
Date: Wed May 19 06:40:37 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Converting VBScript using WMI to Python: data 
	type problem
Message-ID: <F1921F85572CB04D9F55B14BDC76B3E44348B5@tdi_nt9.internal.viacom-outdoor.co.uk>

Y.H. Rhiu
| | Hi, I'd like to write a python script that create IIS site 
| and virtual
| | directories, using WMI.
| | But I have a problem with converting sample VBScript code to 
| | Python code:

OK, I've got it. What you need is this:

<code>
import wmi

connection = wmi.connect_server (server=".",
namespace="root/MicrosoftIISv2")
c = wmi.WMI (wmi=connection)

#
# Could as well be achieved by doing:
#  web_server = c.IISWebService (Name="W3SVC")[0]
#
for web_server in c.IIsWebService (Name="W3SVC"):
  break
  
binding = c.new ("ServerBinding")
binding.IP = ""
binding.Port = "8383"
binding.Hostname = ""

web_server.CreateNewSite (
  PathOfRootVirtualDir=r"c:\inetpub\wwwroot",
  ServerComment="My Web Site",
  ServerBindings= [binding.ole_object]
)
</code>

The significant thing is that for the ServerBindings
parameter to the CreateNewSite method at the end,
you need (a) to pass in a sequence (albeit of one
entry) and (b) to have the objects in that array
be the ole_object normally delegated to by the 
wmi_object. It's a bit messy, and I'd probably like
to do something a bit more automatic for the future.

But it works.

TJG


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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May 19 10:31:40 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May 19 10:32:02 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
In-Reply-To: <40AA1869.4050104@sentai.com>
Message-ID: <081101c43dae$01b772a0$0200a8c0@eden>

Find the "prog id" of your object, and create it using
win32com.client.Dispatch(), rather than trying to create it directly from
the generated module.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Beaulieu
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:07 AM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
>
>
> I'm running python 22
> win32all build 148
>
>  From experimenting with ocx's previously I have managed to create an
> object using this pattern
> '''
> camtasia = .... EnsureModule( ..... )
> recorder = camtasia.CamtasiaRecorder
> rec = recorder()
> iface_rec = camtasia.ICamtasiaRecorder(rec)
> '''
>
> I try to run the following code and I'm not clear on what's
> happening -
> something seems out of sync
>
>  >>> speller =
> win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-838
> 5-524153480001}',
> 0, 2, 1)
>  >>> speller.VSSpell
> <class
> win32com.gen_py.97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.VSSpell at
> 0x01254928>
>  >>> sp= speller.VSSpell()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>  File
> "win32com\gen_py\97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.py",
> line 726, in __init__
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>
> The generated module contains the class source below and if I replace
> the default_class and default_source values with the
> classnames in place
> of the ID's I no longer get the error, but I haven't tested
> the actual
> OCX yet, so I don't know if something else is wrong.
>
> What do I have to do to ensure the proper creation of the module,
> because I'd like to have this work in an exe I'm creating and
> so far id
> doesn't work
>
> thanks,
> Mike
>
> ###########  from the generated module  ############################
>
> class CoClassBaseClass:
>    def __init__(self, oobj=None):
>        if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
>        self.__dict__["_dispobj_"] = self.default_interface(oobj)    #
> this is line 726
>    def __repr__(self):
>        return "<win32com.gen_py.%s.%s>" % (__doc__,
> self.__class__.__name__)
>
>    def __getattr__(self, attr):
>        d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>        if d is not None: return getattr(d, attr)
>        raise AttributeError, attr
>    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
>        if self.__dict__.has_key(attr): self.__dict__[attr] =
> value; return
>        try:
>            d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>            if d is not None:
>                d.__setattr__(attr, value)
>                return
>        except AttributeError:
>            pass
>        self.__dict__[attr] = value
>
> class VSSpell(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
>    # VCI VisualSpeller Spellchecker
>    CLSID = pythoncom.MakeIID("{97F4CED0-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}")
>    coclass_sources = [
>        '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>    ]
>    default_source = '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>    coclass_interfaces = [
>        '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>    ]
>    default_interface = '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>
>
>
> #############  end of clip #############
>
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May 19 10:32:31 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May 19 10:32:47 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Python and COM
In-Reply-To: <40A9A93F.2030908@ritm.msk.ru>
Message-ID: <081401c43dae$1ea266e0$0200a8c0@eden>

If IProduct is not derived from IDispatch, than at the moment you can not
call it from win32com.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of ????? ??? ? ???
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 May 2004 4:12 PM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Python and COM
>
>
>
> Hello.
> I write the program on Python 2.3.3 + win32all (system
> Windows 2000 Pro).
> (I have convinced the chief to use Python instead of Visual Basic.)
> I use technology Microsoft COM.
>
> I can not address to a method - there is a mistake (lines
> 67-69 test.py).
> See the attached file files.zip
> I can not understand in any way how to correct the program that there
> was no mistake.
> Help, please.
>
> More in detail about a problem:
>
> I address m_prod = Lib.Products(m_prodID) and I receive type IProduct.
> Type IProduct2 is necessary for me.
> I tried different variants (for example
> m_prod=win32com.client.CastTo(ARKCore, 'IProduct2')).
> At attempt to address to a method there is a mistake.
>
>
> Anton
>
>
>


From michael.beaulieu at sentai.com  Wed May 19 15:50:28 2004
From: michael.beaulieu at sentai.com (Michael Beaulieu)
Date: Wed May 19 17:45:20 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
References: <081101c43dae$01b772a0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <40ABBA84.4030109@sentai.com>

if I run :
sp = win32com.client.Dispatch("VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1")  # got the name 
from the registry
print dir(sp)
I get the following:

['_ApplyTypes_', '_FlagAsMethod', '_LazyAddAttr_', '_NewEnum', 
'_Release_', '__AttrToID__', '__LazyMap__', '__call__', '__cmp__', 
'__doc__', '__getattr__', '__getitem__', '__init__', '__int__', 
'__len__', '__module__', '__nonzero__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', 
'__setitem__', '__str__', '_builtMethods_', '_enum_', 
'_find_dispatch_type_', '_get_good_object_', '_get_good_single_object_', 
'_lazydata_'
, '_make_method_', '_mapCachedItems_', '_oleobj_', '_olerepr_', 
'_print_details_', '_proc_', '_unicode_to_string_', '_username_', 
'_wrap_dispatch_']


I'm not sure what to do with these!!  What interface am I actually 
using?  There are not methods I can call and I don't even have the
_prop_map_get_ and _prop_map_put_  dictionaries that I'm guessing is 
part of the automagic of python integration.

when I had this running previously ( by hacking the generated module ) I 
could do this :
sp.OpenStandard = "american.vtd"

now I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PageForm.py", line 4787, in OnSpellClick
    sp.OpenStandard= "american.vtd"
  File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 
504, in__setattr__
    raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." % 
(self._username_, attr)
AttributeError: Property 'VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1.OpenStandard' can not be 
set.


what is it?
print  sp.OpenStandard
gives:
<bound method CDispatch.OpenStandard of <COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>>

call it :
sp.OpenStandard("american.vtd")
which gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PageForm.py", line 4788, in OnSpellClick
    sp.OpenStandard("american.vtd")
  File "<COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>", line 2, in OpenStandard
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): american.vtd

ok use the contant for the american dict dict
thedict = spellermodule.constants.VSLANG_AMERICAN
sp.OpenStandard( thedict )
 
and this gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "PageForm.py", line 4789, in OnSpellClick
    sp.OpenStandard(speller.constants.VSLANG_AMERICAN)
  File "<COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>", line 2, in OpenStandard
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147418113, 'Catastrophic failure', None, None)

Any explanation would help this beginner immensely

thanks,
mike





Mark Hammond wrote:

>Find the "prog id" of your object, and create it using
>win32com.client.Dispatch(), rather than trying to create it directly from
>the generated module.
>
>Mark
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
>>[mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Beaulieu
>>Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:07 AM
>>To: python-win32@python.org
>>Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
>>
>>
>>I'm running python 22
>>win32all build 148
>>
>> From experimenting with ocx's previously I have managed to create an
>>object using this pattern
>>'''
>>camtasia = .... EnsureModule( ..... )
>>recorder = camtasia.CamtasiaRecorder
>>rec = recorder()
>>iface_rec = camtasia.ICamtasiaRecorder(rec)
>>'''
>>
>>I try to run the following code and I'm not clear on what's
>>happening -
>>something seems out of sync
>>
>> >>> speller =
>>win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-838
>>5-524153480001}',
>>0, 2, 1)
>> >>> speller.VSSpell
>><class
>>win32com.gen_py.97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.VSSpell at
>>0x01254928>
>> >>> sp= speller.VSSpell()
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>> File
>>"win32com\gen_py\97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.py",
>>line 726, in __init__
>>TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>
>>The generated module contains the class source below and if I replace
>>the default_class and default_source values with the
>>classnames in place
>>of the ID's I no longer get the error, but I haven't tested
>>the actual
>>OCX yet, so I don't know if something else is wrong.
>>
>>What do I have to do to ensure the proper creation of the module,
>>because I'd like to have this work in an exe I'm creating and
>>so far id
>>doesn't work
>>
>>thanks,
>>Mike
>>
>>###########  from the generated module  ############################
>>
>>class CoClassBaseClass:
>>   def __init__(self, oobj=None):
>>       if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
>>       self.__dict__["_dispobj_"] = self.default_interface(oobj)    #
>>this is line 726
>>   def __repr__(self):
>>       return "<win32com.gen_py.%s.%s>" % (__doc__,
>>self.__class__.__name__)
>>
>>   def __getattr__(self, attr):
>>       d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>>       if d is not None: return getattr(d, attr)
>>       raise AttributeError, attr
>>   def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
>>       if self.__dict__.has_key(attr): self.__dict__[attr] =
>>value; return
>>       try:
>>           d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>>           if d is not None:
>>               d.__setattr__(attr, value)
>>               return
>>       except AttributeError:
>>           pass
>>       self.__dict__[attr] = value
>>
>>class VSSpell(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
>>   # VCI VisualSpeller Spellchecker
>>   CLSID = pythoncom.MakeIID("{97F4CED0-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}")
>>   coclass_sources = [
>>       '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>>   ]
>>   default_source = '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>>   coclass_interfaces = [
>>       '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>>   ]
>>   default_interface = '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>>
>>
>>
>>#############  end of clip #############
>>
>>
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From michael.beaulieu at sentai.com  Wed May 19 17:41:21 2004
From: michael.beaulieu at sentai.com (Michael Beaulieu)
Date: Wed May 19 18:00:43 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
References: <081101c43dae$01b772a0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <40ABD481.9070009@sentai.com>

if I run :
sp = win32com.client.Dispatch("VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1")  # got the name 
from the registry
print dir(sp)
I get the following:

['_ApplyTypes_', '_FlagAsMethod', '_LazyAddAttr_', '_NewEnum', 
'_Release_', '__AttrToID__', '__LazyMap__', '__call__', '__cmp__', 
'__doc__', '__getattr__', '__getitem__', '__init__', '__int__', 
'__len__', '__module__', '__nonzero__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', 
'__setitem__', '__str__', '_builtMethods_', '_enum_', 
'_find_dispatch_type_', '_get_good_object_', '_get_good_single_object_', 
'_lazydata_'
, '_make_method_', '_mapCachedItems_', '_oleobj_', '_olerepr_', 
'_print_details_', '_proc_', '_unicode_to_string_', '_username_', 
'_wrap_dispatch_']


I'm not sure what to do with these!!  What interface am I actually 
using?  There are not methods I can call and I don't even have the
_prop_map_get_ and _prop_map_put_  dictionaries that I'm guessing is 
part of the automagic of python integration.

when I had this running previously ( by hacking the generated module ) I 
could do this :
sp.OpenStandard = "american.vtd"

now I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "PageForm.py", line 4787, in OnSpellClick
   sp.OpenStandard= "american.vtd"
 File "C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 
504, in__setattr__
   raise AttributeError, "Property '%s.%s' can not be set." % 
(self._username_, attr)
AttributeError: Property 'VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1.OpenStandard' can not be 
set.


what is it?
print  sp.OpenStandard
gives:
<bound method CDispatch.OpenStandard of <COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>>

call it :
sp.OpenStandard("american.vtd")
which gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "PageForm.py", line 4788, in OnSpellClick
   sp.OpenStandard("american.vtd")
 File "<COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>", line 2, in OpenStandard
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): american.vtd

ok use the contant for the american dict dict
thedict = spellermodule.constants.VSLANG_AMERICAN
sp.OpenStandard( thedict )

and this gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "PageForm.py", line 4789, in OnSpellClick
   sp.OpenStandard(speller.constants.VSLANG_AMERICAN)
 File "<COMObject VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1>", line 2, in OpenStandard
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147418113, 'Catastrophic failure', None, None)

Any explanation would help this beginner immensely

thanks,
mike





Mark Hammond wrote:

> Find the "prog id" of your object, and create it using
> win32com.client.Dispatch(), rather than trying to create it directly from
> the generated module.
>
> Mark
>
>  
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
>> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of Michael Beaulieu
>> Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2004 12:07 AM
>> To: python-win32@python.org
>> Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
>>
>>
>> I'm running python 22
>> win32all build 148
>>
>> From experimenting with ocx's previously I have managed to create an
>> object using this pattern
>> '''
>> camtasia = .... EnsureModule( ..... )
>> recorder = camtasia.CamtasiaRecorder
>> rec = recorder()
>> iface_rec = camtasia.ICamtasiaRecorder(rec)
>> '''
>>
>> I try to run the following code and I'm not clear on what's
>> happening -
>> something seems out of sync
>>
>> >>> speller =
>> win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-838
>> 5-524153480001}',
>> 0, 2, 1)
>> >>> speller.VSSpell
>> <class
>> win32com.gen_py.97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.VSSpell at
>> 0x01254928>
>> >>> sp= speller.VSSpell()
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
>> File
>> "win32com\gen_py\97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001x0x2x1.py",
>> line 726, in __init__
>> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>
>> The generated module contains the class source below and if I replace
>> the default_class and default_source values with the
>> classnames in place
>> of the ID's I no longer get the error, but I haven't tested
>> the actual
>> OCX yet, so I don't know if something else is wrong.
>>
>> What do I have to do to ensure the proper creation of the module,
>> because I'd like to have this work in an exe I'm creating and
>> so far id
>> doesn't work
>>
>> thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>> ###########  from the generated module  ############################
>>
>> class CoClassBaseClass:
>>   def __init__(self, oobj=None):
>>       if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
>>       self.__dict__["_dispobj_"] = self.default_interface(oobj)    #
>> this is line 726
>>   def __repr__(self):
>>       return "<win32com.gen_py.%s.%s>" % (__doc__,
>> self.__class__.__name__)
>>
>>   def __getattr__(self, attr):
>>       d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>>       if d is not None: return getattr(d, attr)
>>       raise AttributeError, attr
>>   def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
>>       if self.__dict__.has_key(attr): self.__dict__[attr] =
>> value; return
>>       try:
>>           d=self.__dict__["_dispobj_"]
>>           if d is not None:
>>               d.__setattr__(attr, value)
>>               return
>>       except AttributeError:
>>           pass
>>       self.__dict__[attr] = value
>>
>> class VSSpell(CoClassBaseClass): # A CoClass
>>   # VCI VisualSpeller Spellchecker
>>   CLSID = pythoncom.MakeIID("{97F4CED0-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}")
>>   coclass_sources = [
>>       '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>>   ]
>>   default_source = '{97F4CED2-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>>   coclass_interfaces = [
>>       '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}',
>>   ]
>>   default_interface = '{97F4CED1-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001}'
>>
>>
>>
>> #############  end of clip #############
>>
>>
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From michael.beaulieu at sentai.com  Wed May 19 17:48:46 2004
From: michael.beaulieu at sentai.com (Michael Beaulieu)
Date: Wed May 19 18:00:45 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error creating activex control
References: <081101c43dae$01b772a0$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <40ABD63E.3010400@sentai.com>

I have some activex controls I'm trying to use from python.
I have installed the runtime libraries and I can see them in the 
pythonwin COM browser but when I try to create one I get the following 
error.

  File 
"C:\PrgOther\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", 
line 485, in __init__
    if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221230, 'Class is not licensed for use', 
None, None)

I have a licence for it, what do I do with the licence so it doesn't fail?

Thanks,
Mike


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May 19 20:53:02 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May 19 20:53:19 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error creating activex control
In-Reply-To: <40ABD63E.3010400@sentai.com>
Message-ID: <0d1301c43e04$ce7ee330$0200a8c0@eden>

I'm afraid it looks like you can't - we don't expose IClassFactory2.  I
thought we did have a way, but can't find it now :(  Please add a bug at
sourceforge - we should be able to do that!

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Beaulieu
> Sent: Thursday, 20 May 2004 7:49 AM
> Cc: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Error creating activex control
>
>
> I have some activex controls I'm trying to use from python.
> I have installed the runtime libraries and I can see them in the
> pythonwin COM browser but when I try to create one I get the
> following
> error.
>
>   File
> "C:\PrgOther\Python23\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py",
> line 485, in __init__
>     if oobj is None: oobj = pythoncom.new(self.CLSID)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221230, 'Class is not licensed for use',
> None, None)
>
> I have a licence for it, what do I do with the licence so it
> doesn't fail?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Python-win32 mailing list
> Python-win32@python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Wed May 19 20:57:32 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Wed May 19 20:57:47 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
In-Reply-To: <40ABD481.9070009@sentai.com>
Message-ID: <0d1c01c43e05$6f0e4020$0200a8c0@eden>

> if I run :
> sp = win32com.client.Dispatch("VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1")  # got
> the name
> from the registry
> print dir(sp)
> I get the following:
>
> ['_ApplyTypes_', '_FlagAsMethod', '_LazyAddAttr_', '_NewEnum',
> '_Release_', '__AttrToID__', '__LazyMap__', '__call__', '__cmp__',
> '__doc__', '__getattr__', '__getitem__', '__init__', '__int__',
> '__len__', '__module__', '__nonzero__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',
> '__setitem__', '__str__', '_builtMethods_', '_enum_',
> '_find_dispatch_type_', '_get_good_object_',
> '_get_good_single_object_',
> '_lazydata_'
> , '_make_method_', '_mapCachedItems_', '_oleobj_', '_olerepr_',
> '_print_details_', '_proc_', '_unicode_to_string_', '_username_',
> '_wrap_dispatch_']
>
>
> I'm not sure what to do with these!!

These are all internal implementation details of "dynamic dispatch".

It sounds like your object is not correctly reporting its type information.

Try doing:

# get the module
speller =
win32com.client.gencache.EnsureModule('{97F4CED3-9103-11CE-8385-524153480001
}', 0, 2, 1)
# get the object
ob = win32com.client.Dispatch("VSPELLER.VSpellCtrl.1")
# and force it in.
ob = speller.VSSpell(ob)

> What interface am I actually
> using?  There are not methods I can call and I don't even have the
> _prop_map_get_ and _prop_map_put_  dictionaries that I'm guessing is
> part of the automagic of python integration.

It is.  As Python discovers methods (ie, as you successfully use/try to use
them), these get filled on.  For some (older) COM objects, these are
pre-filled.

Mark


From andywil at nortelnetworks.com  Thu May 20 05:21:34 2004
From: andywil at nortelnetworks.com (Andy Wilson)
Date: Thu May 20 05:22:01 2004
Subject: [python-win32] ftp retrlines problem
Message-ID: <588B15E2E2B1D41180B800508BF934F20D8FCB0F@bmdhd6.europe.nortel.com>

Ho Folks,
 
I am having a few head scratching issues with ftplib, I would appreciate any
advice:
 
My code is:-
 
ftp_dest = "wctfsxxx.europe.nortel.com"
ftp_user = "ccps"
ftp_pass = string.rstrip (lines[0]) # password stored in a file
ftp = FTP (ftp_dest)
ftp.login <ftp://ftp.login>  (ftp_user, ftp_pass)
ftp.cwd <ftp://ftp.cwd>  (external_dir)
ftp.retrlines('LIST' <ftp://ftp.retrlines('LIST'> )
At this point I get "Sequence index out of range: list index out of range"
The same code works in the Python intrepreter, so I know I am connected. Any
ideas?
 
Regards,
Andy Wilson

CCPS Technical Prime


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From jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net  Thu May 20 11:42:41 2004
From: jpbarrette at savoirfairelinux.net (Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre)
Date: Thu May 20 11:44:00 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Quickbooks and COM
Message-ID: <40ACD1F1.5090509@savoirfairelinux.net>

I'm using the Quickbooks SDK. This SDK allow us to receive events from 
the application. Events are sent by COM. I need to implement a 
IQBEventCallback. It's from QBSDKEVENT type lib. with the function 
win32com.client.gencache.MakeModuleForTypelib I get this.


-----------------------------------------------------------
# -*- coding: mbcs -*-
# Created by makepy.py version 0.4.91
# By python version 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 
bit (Intel)]
# From type library '{941BD791-06C1-4D4D-8F6A-8F685810DD5E}'
# On Thu May 20 10:41:21 2004
"""QBSDKEvent 1.0 Type Library"""
makepy_version = '0.4.91'
python_version = 0x20303f0

import win32com.client.CLSIDToClass, pythoncom
import win32com.client.util
from pywintypes import IID
from win32com.client import Dispatch

# The following 3 lines may need tweaking for the particular server
# Candidates are pythoncom.Missing and pythoncom.Empty
defaultNamedOptArg=pythoncom.Empty
defaultNamedNotOptArg=pythoncom.Empty
defaultUnnamedArg=pythoncom.Empty

CLSID = IID('{941BD791-06C1-4D4D-8F6A-8F685810DD5E}')
MajorVersion = 1
MinorVersion = 0
LibraryFlags = 8
LCID = 0x0

IQBEventCallback_vtables_dispatch_ = 0
IQBEventCallback_vtables_ = [
    (('inform', 'eventXML'), 1610678272, (1610678272, (), [(8, 1, None, 
None)], 1, 1, 4, 0, 12, (3, 0, None, None), 0)),
]

RecordMap = {
}

CLSIDToClassMap = {
}
CLSIDToPackageMap = {}
win32com.client.CLSIDToClass.RegisterCLSIDsFromDict( CLSIDToClassMap )
VTablesToPackageMap = {}
VTablesToClassMap = {
    '{A3A4E33E-E747-48CF-947B-93FDE67FF72F}' : 'IQBEventCallback',
}


NamesToIIDMap = {
    'IQBEventCallback' : '{A3A4E33E-E747-48CF-947B-93FDE67FF72F}',
}

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

now the question is: "What do I need to do to implement this interface?".


P.S.: I'm not familiar with COMs.


From actuary77 at comcast.net  Thu May 20 11:45:46 2004
From: actuary77 at comcast.net (David Koch)
Date: Thu May 20 11:47:24 2004
Subject: [python-win32] How to set up scripting engine
Message-ID: <40ACD2AA.3090402@comcast.net>

How do you set up the scripting engine?  pywin32-201, python 2.3.3, 
windows 2k

The default in to not allow active scripting because of security issues.

How can I modify pyscript.py, framework.py, etc. to permit active 
scripting in

html pages, wsh, etc in 'any' environment where security is NOT an issue?

Thanks for the help.

david Koch



From rwupole at msn.com  Sun May 23 19:43:30 2004
From: rwupole at msn.com (Roger Upole)
Date: Sun May 23 19:27:07 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Anybody using win32security.SetSecurityInfo ?
Message-ID: <000a01c4411f$c2882370$7a17c943@rupole>

I'm going to make a change to the parms for this function that's
not backward compatible.  Specifically, the SECURITY_INFORMATION
value will now have to be passed in also.  Also, the error checking is
backwards right now, so that when the Api call succeeds, it throws
a Python error, and when it fails None is returned.

      Roger
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From acidrex at earthlink.net  Mon May 24 17:43:42 2004
From: acidrex at earthlink.net (acidblue)
Date: Mon May 24 17:43:48 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Adding dates/usr input
Message-ID: <002701c441d8$32446120$0a4ffea9@amdbox>

Trying to add dates togetther, with user input.
print datetime.date.today()=datetime.timedelta(days=90)
that works fine for today's date , but I want user's to enter their own date. What would the syntax be?
Udate=raw("Date:")
print datetime.date.Udate()+datetime.timedelta(days=90)???
Obviouslly this dosen't work, any suggetions?
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From niki at vintech.bg  Tue May 25 09:06:17 2004
From: niki at vintech.bg (Niki Spahiev)
Date: Tue May 25 09:07:29 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Error in the generated module for my ocx
In-Reply-To: <0d1c01c43e05$6f0e4020$0200a8c0@eden>
References: <0d1c01c43e05$6f0e4020$0200a8c0@eden>
Message-ID: <40B344C9.8020307@vintech.bg>

Mark Hammond wrote:

> 
> 
> These are all internal implementation details of "dynamic dispatch".
> 
> It sounds like your object is not correctly reporting its type information.

I have similar problem with an app i try to automate. Version 6 stopped 
to work as expected (version 5 was ok) and needs explicit interface casts:

x = tlb_generated_module.SomeInterface(x)

What is correct way for reporting type information, especially default 
interface?

regards,
Niki Spahiev


From b.hall at irl.cri.nz  Thu May 27 02:07:35 2004
From: b.hall at irl.cri.nz (Blair Hall)
Date: Thu May 27 02:08:09 2004
Subject: [python-win32] PythonWin in the shortcut menu 
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20040527180309.02615ae0@127.0.0.1>

I've just installed the recent versions of Python and Pythonwin on a
new Windows XP machine.

In the past (with older versions), when right-clicking on a '.py'
file in the Explorer, there was a shortcut menu option to 'edit' and another
to 'edit with IDLE'.

After my recent installation, I only get the latter 'edit with IDLE'.

Is there some way for me to add the former 'edit' shortcut, which
opened the file using Pythonwin?


From mbg at apama.com  Fri May 28 06:24:47 2004
From: mbg at apama.com (Moray B. Grieve)
Date: Fri May 28 06:24:59 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Basic win32pdh calls on windows 2003 server
Message-ID: <7CD4BE0203A91845A17CE0E8BD9A1289BD17E5@ukcamms002.msapama.apama.com>

I'm having some problems running basic win32pdh commands on windows 2003
servers. Making a  simple call to win32pdh.EnumObjects(None, None, 0, 1)
produces the following;

pywintypes.error: (-2147481648, 'EnumObjects for buffer size', 'No error
message is available')

This call runs fine on WinNT, 2000, 2000 server, XP etc. Does anyone
know why this may be happening? I have seen this with Python 2.3.4 and
win32all 1.6.3, as well as older versions of both.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Moray


From benn at cenix-bioscience.com  Fri May 28 08:49:24 2004
From: benn at cenix-bioscience.com (Neil Benn)
Date: Fri May 28 08:49:29 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Install error
Message-ID: <40B73554.7080109@cenix-bioscience.com>

Hello,

          I'm attempting to install the win32 on PCs running Python 
2.3.3 (2000 and XP).  The installer ends with a windows error (Illegal 
operation), win32all still works after this but I thought someone may 
wish to know.  It's happened on three separate PCs for me.

Cheers,

Neil

-- 

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Cenix BioScience
BioInnovations Zentrum
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Dresden
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From greglandrum at mindspring.com  Fri May 28 17:49:11 2004
From: greglandrum at mindspring.com (greg Landrum)
Date: Fri May 28 17:49:19 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with automation in newer versions of
	win32all
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040528142400.045433e0@mail.earthlink.net>


Upon upgrading to Python 2.3 and installing the most recent version of win32all (build 163), some frequently used COM client code ceased to function.

The exception I'm seeing is:
  File "chemdraw.py", line 89, in CDXConvert
    theObjs.SetData(inFormat,inData)
  File "c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\5F646AAB-3B56-48D2-904C-A68D7989C251x0x7x0.py", line 416, in SetData
    return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(21, LCID, 4, (24, 0), ((12, 17), (12, 17),(12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 1)),dataType, resolution, Width, Height, arg4)
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.', (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147352571), 5)

The definition of SetData() (from the auto-generated file) looks like this:
	# The method SetData is actually a property, but must be used as a method to correctly pass the arguments
	def SetData(self, dataType=defaultNamedNotOptArg, resolution=defaultNamedNotOptArg, Width=defaultNamedNotOptArg, Height=defaultNamedNotOptArg, arg4=defaultUnnamedArg):
		"""Returns the data of the objects."""
		return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(21, LCID, 4, (24, 0), ((12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 1)),dataType, resolution, Width, Height, arg4)

SetData() is being called with proper arguments (2 strings)

I first encountered this problem about  a year ago using Python 2.2 and discovered that it started at build 150 of win32all (my earlier message about this same problem can be found at URL: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Python-win32/1686417 ).  My "solution" then was to just stick with using build 148.  Unfortunately, now that I've switched to Python 2.3, this is no longer an option.

This is a serious problem for us, I would be very grateful for any solutions or work-arounds.

Thanks
-greg


From cwilcox at etcconnect.com  Fri May 28 17:58:38 2004
From: cwilcox at etcconnect.com (Christian Wilcox)
Date: Fri May 28 17:58:44 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with automation in newer versions
	ofwin32all
Message-ID: <1AFF07010C7F1345A5406FD325580D2A1A0BC8@MIDL-MAILV.etclink.net>

>Upon upgrading to Python 2.3 and installing the most recent version of
win32all(build 163), some frequently used COM client code ceased to
function.

I believe build 201 is the most recent release of pywin32 (the new name
of the win32 extensions). You might want verify that's what you are
using...

Best regards,
Christian Wilcox

From greglandrum at mindspring.com  Fri May 28 18:20:05 2004
From: greglandrum at mindspring.com (greg Landrum)
Date: Fri May 28 18:20:11 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with automation in newer versions
	ofwin32all
In-Reply-To: <1AFF07010C7F1345A5406FD325580D2A1A0BC8@MIDL-MAILV.etclink. net>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040528151818.04543be0@mail.mindspring.com>

At 02:58 PM 5/28/2004, Christian Wilcox wrote:
> >Upon upgrading to Python 2.3 and installing the most recent version of
>win32all(build 163), some frequently used COM client code ceased to
>function.
>
>I believe build 201 is the most recent release of pywin32 (the new name
>of the win32 extensions). You might want verify that's what you are
>using...

I was stupidly still using 163 (the most recent version on starship), but I 
just upgraded to 201.1 from sourceforge and encountered the same problem.

Thanks for pointing out the version problem though.
-greg



From somesh at qviqsoft.com  Sat May 29 02:48:50 2004
From: somesh at qviqsoft.com (Somesh Bartakke)
Date: Sat May 29 02:47:30 2004
Subject: [python-win32] dll, ctypes and functions
Message-ID: <007301c44549$053958b0$436a640a@qsoft25>

hello,
i want to use my dll file in my python program.
am using python 2.3 + ctypes for that.
bu tmy function exported from dll is not getting called.
dll is OK bcause its working from another VC program wel.

Wot may be wrong ?
or how to use dll with win32all / pywin32 package ?


Somesh Bartakke
Q-Soft Pvt Ltd, Pune (India)
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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun May 30 05:17:00 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun May 30 05:17:23 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Problems with automation in newer versions
	ofwin32all
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040528142400.045433e0@mail.earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <10d301c44626$dde83220$0200a8c0@eden>

My guess is that the default params are causing some problems.  Try
explicitly passing each param, passing either pythoncom.Missing, or
pythoncom.Empty, for the params you would otherwise exclude.

Mark.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces@python.org]On Behalf Of greg Landrum
> Sent: Saturday, 29 May 2004 7:49 AM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Problems with automation in newer versions
> ofwin32all
>
>
>
> Upon upgrading to Python 2.3 and installing the most recent
> version of win32all (build 163), some frequently used COM
> client code ceased to function.
>
> The exception I'm seeing is:
>   File "chemdraw.py", line 89, in CDXConvert
>     theObjs.SetData(inFormat,inData)
>   File
> "c:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\win32com\gen_py\5F646AAB-3B56-4
> 8D2-904C-A68D7989C251x0x7x0.py", line 416, in SetData
>     return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(21, LCID, 4, (24, 0),
> ((12, 17), (12, 17),(12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 1)),dataType,
> resolution, Width, Height, arg4)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147352567, 'Exception occurred.',
> (0, None, None, None, 0, -2147352571), 5)
>
> The definition of SetData() (from the auto-generated file)
> looks like this:
> 	# The method SetData is actually a property, but must
> be used as a method to correctly pass the arguments
> 	def SetData(self, dataType=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> resolution=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> Width=defaultNamedNotOptArg, Height=defaultNamedNotOptArg,
> arg4=defaultUnnamedArg):
> 		"""Returns the data of the objects."""
> 		return self._oleobj_.InvokeTypes(21, LCID, 4,
> (24, 0), ((12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 17), (12, 17), (12,
> 1)),dataType, resolution, Width, Height, arg4)
>
> SetData() is being called with proper arguments (2 strings)
>
> I first encountered this problem about  a year ago using
> Python 2.2 and discovered that it started at build 150 of
> win32all (my earlier message about this same problem can be
> found at URL:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Python-win32/168
6417 ).  My "solution" then was to just stick with using build 148.
Unfortunately, now that I've switched to Python 2.3, this is no longer an
option.

This is a serious problem for us, I would be very grateful for any solutions
or work-arounds.

Thanks
-greg


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From mhammond at skippinet.com.au  Sun May 30 05:17:38 2004
From: mhammond at skippinet.com.au (Mark Hammond)
Date: Sun May 30 05:17:57 2004
Subject: [python-win32] Basic win32pdh calls on windows 2003 server
In-Reply-To: <7CD4BE0203A91845A17CE0E8BD9A1289BD17E5@ukcamms002.msapama.apama.com>
Message-ID: <10d401c44626$f4a40cf0$0200a8c0@eden>

This is fixed in build 201, from sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org
> [mailto:python-win32-bounces+mhammond=keypoint.com.au@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Moray B. Grieve
> Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 8:25 PM
> To: python-win32@python.org
> Subject: [python-win32] Basic win32pdh calls on windows 2003 server
> 
> 
> I'm having some problems running basic win32pdh commands on 
> windows 2003
> servers. Making a  simple call to win32pdh.EnumObjects(None, 
> None, 0, 1)
> produces the following;
> 
> pywintypes.error: (-2147481648, 'EnumObjects for buffer 
> size', 'No error
> message is available')
> 
> This call runs fine on WinNT, 2000, 2000 server, XP etc. Does anyone
> know why this may be happening? I have seen this with Python 2.3.4 and
> win32all 1.6.3, as well as older versions of both.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.
> 
> Moray
> 
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