[python-win32] Library not Registered Error while running
siddhartha veedaluru
siddhartha.veedaluru at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 06:59:41 CET 2008
Bingo That Worked.
Thanks,
Tim
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:25 PM, <python-win32-request at python.org> wrote:
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> 1. Re: python-win32 Digest, Vol 60, Issue 26 (Tim Golden)
> 2. Re: Skip Alt+F4 (le dahut)
> 3. Re: Running SQL queries on excel sheets (Rickey, Kyle W)
> 4. Re: How to create a com_record? (Kevin Patterson)
> 5. Confusion with 'SetForegroundWindow() (Scott Nelson)
> 6. python 2.5 (Tarun Kapoor)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:51:01 +0000
> From: Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 60, Issue 26
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Message-ID: <47DE5B25.6070804 at timgolden.me.uk>
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> siddhartha veedaluru wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I tried the snippet you sent to me.
> > Same error.
> >
> > i opened the python shell and gave "import wmi"
> > It give the same error.
> >
> > comobj._oleobj_.GetTypeInfo().GetContainingTypeLib()[0].GetTypeComp()
> > com_error: (-2147319779, 'Library not registered.', None, None)
>
> Aha. That's what I wanted to know. (In fact, now I look
> at your original post, the same information's shown there.
> Shame on me for not checking).
>
> It *looks* as though one (or more) of the WMI DLLs which in
> my system are in c:\windows\system32\wbem need to be reregistered.
> It might be something else, however. Can you try running
>
> regsvr32.exe against the DLLs in (your equivalent of)
> c:\windows\system32\wbem?
>
> I'm sorry this is so involved: I've never encountered someone
> with this error before when running WMI.
>
> TJG
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:11:14 +0100
> From: le dahut <le.dahut at laposte.net>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Skip Alt+F4
> To: Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>
> Cc: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID: <47DE6DF2.6050108 at laposte.net>
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> Oh yes ! That's it. Thank you.
>
> It is a frame that's used by a service to display some information
> before uncancelable forced reboot.
>
> I now have to determinate how to modify the informations displayed in
> the frame.
>
> Should my program run in the class of the frame ? Or should it get a
> sort of handler to the frame and modify the content of a text box ?
> I don't know if the second way is possible.
>
> Paul Moore a ?crit :
> > On 17/03/2008, le dahut <le.dahut at laposte.net> wrote:
> >> I'm writting a Wx app and I want to skip Alt+F4. I've used somehting
> >> like that :
> >> def OnKeyDown(self, event):
> >> print event.AltDown(), event.GetKeyCode()
> >> if event.AltDown() and event.GetKeyCode() == wx.WXK_F4:
> >> print 'try to close'
> >>
> >> Everything gets printed but my app closes anyway on Alt+F4, is there a
> >> way to skip this ?
> >
> > (a) you should think hard before doing this - about the only
> > reasonable reason for overriding the standard Alt-F4 on Windows, is to
> > minimise to the tray rather than closing
> >
> > (b) if you still want to do this, look at the OnClose event, and
> override that.
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:40:45 -0500
> From: "Rickey, Kyle W" <Kyle.Rickey at bakerhughes.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Running SQL queries on excel sheets
> To: <python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID:
> <E369D273B0E6904EA8D4A952BA05953C07DD323B at MSGCLAMBX.ent.bhicorp.com
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> Thanks John, I'll check that out.
>
> -Kyle Rickey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Machin [mailto:sjmachin at lexicon.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 4:40 AM
> To: Rickey, Kyle W
> Cc: python-win32 at python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] Running SQL queries on excel sheets
>
> Rickey, Kyle W wrote:
> > Tim, thanks for your response. I've got 7 excel files that need
> reading
> > containing a total of ~6100 rows. I agree, about this code making me
> > sick :)
>
> That's not exactly "absolutely tons of data" :-)
>
> One problem with the ODBC approach to reading spreadsheets (at least
> with the MS Excel ODBC driver) is that it examines a limited number
> (e.g. 8 or 10) of rows to determine what type a column is. So the first
> 10 rows have floats in column X then Noddy's managed to get some text in
>
> cell X11 which is a fatal error for ODBC -- you can't continue.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Obviously, all that is only helpful up to a point. Is there some
> > reason why you can't just pull the data out straight into Python
> > structures and take it from there (or even push it into a Sqlite
> > memory database)? Perhaps you've got absolutely tons of data so
> > extracting it would be a pain? If not, consider using one of
> > the COM packages (win32com.client or comtypes) or something like
> > pyExcelerator to pull it out.
> > </more helpful>
>
> Consider the xlrd package (http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm).
> It'll tell you what type the data is cell-by-cell -- you can then
> compare that with your expectations.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:18:26 -0400
> From: "Kevin Patterson" <patter001 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [python-win32] How to create a com_record?
> To: mhammond at skippinet.com.au
> Cc: Python-Win32 List <python-win32 at python.org>
> Message-ID:
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>
> In case it helps, here's the overall description of the COM/app and what
> how
> this function fits: "COM_App" is a typelib (with multiple classes) for
> interfacing to an application that controls hardware on a USB port. When
> multiple applications are started it becomes impossible for users to write
> code for accessing a particular instance of the app, therefore a manager
> com
> "COM_Manager" was created. There are two important level of the
> COM_Manager.
> The first call gets you an object representing the particular application
> (Its not really "COM_App" per-se, its just another object that handles
> that
> app). Then there is "SomeFunction" below, it gives you the particular
> class
> for the particular COM_App. That is why it is takes a GUID as a parameter.
>
> I'm still learning about the details of the COM, I guess VT_RECORD is
> sort
> of the standard way of passing any structure information back and forth?
> My
> email access for the first half of the week is fairly limited but I'll
> still
> try to learn my way around the test harness to see if I can create an
> example.
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just to clarify:
> >
> > > HRESULT SomeFunction( [in] GUID* pGuid, [out, retval,
> > iid_is(pGuid)]
> > IUnknown** ppUnknown);
> >
> > > win32com says that it needs a VT_RECORD in order to pass the
> GUID
> > information
> > > to the COM. But from previous email exchanges I can't just deifne some
> > GUID
> >
> > My understanding is that the IDispatch implementation of this method
> > declares that it wants a VT_RECORD - which win32com is trying to comply
> > with.
> >
> > When I get back home, my approach will be to simply try and repro the
> > issue
> > in the win32com test suite, which will at least give me a clearer
> picture
> > of
> > what is happening. If Kevin could take some steps towards this it would
> > help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:09:32 -0500
> From: "Scott Nelson" <sirgnip at gmail.com>
> Subject: [python-win32] Confusion with 'SetForegroundWindow()
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> Greets...
>
> I'm looking to use the win32api and win32gui modules to do a bit of
> Windows tinkering (win2k, ActiveState's Python 2.4.1 distribution) and
> I've hit a snag.
>
> I'd like to have my process/window "steal" the focus from whatever
> window currently has it, get a bit of input from the keyboard, and
> then restore the focus back to the original window.
>
> In simple cases win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(hwnd) seems to be what
> I'm looking for. It works fine when I simply try to set focus to
> another window from my app.
>
> But, I'm seeing unexpected behavior when I go beyond that. I wrote a
> simple test script that enumerates through all visible windows and
> tries to give each one the focus in turn, after a short delay. It
> gets through 1-2 windows out of the 8-10 non-minimized windows I have
> open (IE, notepad, wordpad, etc.) and then gives me this:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "D:\_code\python\apps\WinTests.py", line 25, in ?
> cycle_foreground()
> File "D:\_code\python\apps\WinTests.py", line 20, in cycle_foreground
> win32gui.SetForegroundWindow(handle)
> pywintypes.error: (0, 'SetForegroundWindow', 'No error message is
> available')
>
> What am I doing wrong in this case? Do I have some bad assumptions?
> Is my app allowed to "give away" its focus but can't force a different
> app's window with focus to "give away" its focus? Is there any other
> way to accomplish this? I've attempted using a mix of SetFocus(),
> BringWindowToTop(), and EnableWindow() but couldn't find a magic
> combo.
>
> I've attached my test script. Run it as "WinTests cycle" to attempt
> to cycle the focus through all top level windows and see the
> traceback. Run it as "WinTests 12345" to successfully set the focus
> to the window with hwnd of 12345. Run it as "WinTests" to get a list
> of all top level window names and their hwnd's.
>
> I've tried reading the win32 docs provided with ActiveState's
> PythonWin, I've read a bit on the win32 API on MSDN and I've googled
> around a bit, and haven't found much.
>
> So, I got curious and tried to code up something similar in C++. It
> uses the identical API calls (from what I can tell) and It seems to
> have no problem cycling through all the top-level windows. I've
> attached my .cpp file as well.
>
> Why the discrepancy between what I'm seeing with win32gui and c++?
> Thoughts?
>
> -Scott
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:53:23 -0500
> From: "Tarun Kapoor" <tkapoor at wscm.net>
> Subject: [python-win32] python 2.5
> To: <python-win32 at python.org>
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> I want to use python win32 extensions on python 2.5 but it seems like
> they were built for 2.3...
>
> I copied the win32 folders from C:\python23\lib\site-packages to
> C:\python25\lib\site-packages but it does not work....
>
> Is there a workaround ? anyone using it ?
>
> -TK
>
>
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