[python-win32] win32api documentation
Hi everyone... I've been searching high and low looking for any sort of decent reference for the win32api in python and I can't find anything that is useful. The only real explanation I've found is the msdn site, but as I'm not a C programmer, translating the various calls to python and guessing what the python functions are called is probably an exercise in futility at best. So I wanted to start off by asking if any of you can point me to some site or document that lists the various python calls to the win32api. What I'm trying to do ultimately, is improve our testing scripts, which are all python. They are cross-platform and geared to run on both windows and Linux systems in test. The linux side is fairly trivial, as I am pretty intimate with getting what I want from a Linux system. However, getting that info, programmatically in Windows is new ground for me and because I want this stuff to be as light as possible, and portable, I don't want to rely on a bunch of extra Windows tools to get the info. The win32api has the calls I need, I just need help or a reference to get them over to python. So what I'm trying to do for now, is fairly simple. I just want to be able to make a couple calls and get system info like the number of processor packages, the number of processor cores, processor flags (if possible), free mem, total mem, OS version and a few other tidbits of system information. Any ideas that will help me get a clue? Jeff -- Stephen Leacock - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_leacock.html ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation
J wrote: I've been searching high and low looking for any sort of decent reference for the win32api in python and I can't find anything that is useful. There isn't much, in spite of a few attempts (my own included) to get something going. There's never enough time... Ultimately, the win32api calls *are* wrapping the MSDN calls almost directly so you just have to dive in, but ... So what I'm trying to do for now, is fairly simple. I just want to be able to make a couple calls and get system info like the number of processor packages, the number of processor cores, processor flags (if possible), free mem, total mem, OS version and a few other tidbits of system information. Here at least I can help. Try using WMI which eats this kind of thing for breakfast[*]. Start here: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html taking in this: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi-tutorial.html and this: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html and feel free to get back with specifics. TJG [*] I hope :) ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:06, Tim Golden wrote: > Here at least I can help. Try using WMI which eats this kind of > thing for breakfast[*]. Start here: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html > > taking in this: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi-tutorial.html > > and this: > > http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi_cookbook.html > > and feel free to get back with specifics. Awesome! Thanks a lot. I'll dig into that after lunch. I finally stumbled on the ActiveState info on win32api with a ref for all the calls, and I'll have to do a little more digging. I found out finally how to pull SYSTEM_INFO (turns out it IS farily trivial) but now I have other things to figure out (which is nice, as it actually gives me something to do while I'm waiting on the next project to start). I can pull most of what I need now after finding the ActiveState reference, but specifically, I'm having trouble with: Number of logical processors (counting cores with and without HyperThreading enabled in BIOS) Number of processor packages Total system RAM Available RAM I think I can figure out the RAM, but right now it's the processor counting and info that's dogging me. Anyway, like I said, I'll dig into the WMI stuff in a bit after a nice break from the lab and this nasty chair. Thanks a lot for the pointers! Jeff -- Ogden Nash - "The trouble with a kitten is that when it grows up, it's always a cat." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/ogden_nash.html ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] SSPI/NTLM authentication via XMLRPC
Thanks, Sorry for not doing my homework but what does the "auth dance" entail, how many backwards and forwards would there be, seeing as every bit of data would have to be encapsulated via xmlrpc, would that potentially mean many calls? On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Mark Hammond wrote: > On 9/10/2009 10:11 AM, David wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if this would be possible: >> >> At the minute i have a login xmlrpc call that takes a username/password >> as an argument. simple enough, authenticates off the windows domain via >> LogonUser(pywin32), the user then gets a cookie for the session(to >> execute further xmlrpc calls). >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to achieve SSO using SSPI/NTLM >> via XMLRPC? >> >> I see an example in win32/Demos/sspi/socket_server.py, im not sure if >> something similar could be used via XMLRPC. >> > > Off the top of my head I can't see why not if you control both the client > and the server and don't mind making them do an auth dance to set things up > - you probably want to check out the simple_auth.py sample for some idea of > how it could be implemented. > > Cheers, > > Mark > ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] win32api documentation
J wrote: Awesome! Thanks a lot. I'll dig into that after lunch. I finally stumbled on the ActiveState info on win32api with a ref for all the calls, and I'll have to do a little more digging. Well that's simply a copy of the CHM which is provided with the pywin32 installation. I host another copy over here: http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/contents.html for private entertainment. It's fairly searchable using Google, eg: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Atimgolden.me.uk%2Fpywin32-docs+EnumProcesses and has a bit of breadcrumbness about it to help you out. But, as I say, it's merely an online copy of the .chm which is itself eminently searchable. I found out finally how to pull SYSTEM_INFO (turns out it IS farily trivial) but now I have other things to figure out (which is nice, as it actually gives me something to do while I'm waiting on the next project to start). I can pull most of what I need now after finding the ActiveState reference, but specifically, I'm having trouble with: Number of logical processors (counting cores with and without HyperThreading enabled in BIOS) Number of processor packages Total system RAM Available RAM I think I can figure out the RAM, but right now it's the processor counting and info that's dogging me. Anyway, like I said, I'll dig into the WMI stuff in a bit after a nice break from the lab and this nasty chair. Although I'm the author of the Python wmi module, WMI itself covers such a huge area that I have absolutely no pretence at comprehensive knowledge. Faced with queries such as yours, I'd normally just stick, eg, "available ram wmi" into Google and go from there. There's lots of info out there aimed at C or vbs developers; translating it into Python's usually not too hard. TJG ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
[python-win32] PythonWin Grep modifications
I've made some modifications to PythonWin's Grep functionality. At first I
just wanted to add highlighting for the regex matches, but I guess I got
carried away. :b I'll eventually submit it to SourceForge, so that Mark may
include it in the official release if he wants. In the meantime, here's the
current version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmjntzmjwmm/sgrepmdi.py
To test it, replace "pythonwin\pywin\framework\sgrepmdi.py". If anyone's got
any more suggestions, fire away.
Here's a list of the changes so far:
Functionality:
- added match highlighting
- replaced editboxes with combos to store MRU items
- added keyboard handling:
- Enter opens match (same as double-click)
- AppMenu opens context menu (same as right-click)
- added support for registry root key shorthands ('HKLM', 'HKCU', etc.)
- added folder selection via common dlg
- changed settings INI location to %AppData%;
originally it defaulted to %WinDir% which wouldn't allow writing in
Vista
- made richedit control readonly
Code & UI:
- added a couple of comments, docstrings, and constants
- added SearchOptions, PathSet, IniFile
- replaced list-based dir/file/mask traversal with a generator
- added msgboxes for Open/Save errors
- added specific types to except clauses
- replaced glob() with os.listdir() (glob() chokes on dirnames with
square brackets)
- replaced 'MS Sans Serif' dlg font with 'MS Shell Dlg'
- tweaked dlg layouts and added a couple of icons
BUGS:
- setting text format is off by 1 sometimes (e.g. XP vs. Vista); maybe
richedit EOL related
- saved results file has junk at the end and uses \n as EOL
- dirs and files are not generated in sorted order
- context menu should be shown over the richedit cursor (not the mouse)
when opened with the keyboard
- right-clicking should move the caret before showing the context menu
TODO:
- tweak "More" dialog and rename to "Favorites"
- keyboard: make Delete remove whole match line
- add options for fonts, colors, regex (e.g. highlight all matches, not
just first)
- test on Python 3
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Re: [python-win32] How to use COM when there isn't a type library or IDL file
Mark Hammond schrieb:
> This is very tricky to do in pure-python. Other interfaces with this
> issue (eg, the shell interfaces) tend to use custom c++ code (often
> generated by the 'makegw' package then heavily edited) to implement a
> win32com 'sub-module'. The best alternative for you may be to
> investigate how comtypes might help...
comtypes: If neither a type library nor an idl file is available,
then you can still create the interface definition manually.
You can probably, given some experience, define the interface
by looking at the header file. I started this for the first few
methods of the IRealTimeStylus interface:
"""
# module realtimestylus.py
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *
from comtypes import IUnknown
from comtypes import GUID
from comtypes import COMMETHOD
class IRealTimeStylus(IUnknown):
_iid_ = GUID('{A8BB5D22-3144-4A7B-93CD-F34A16BE513A}')
IRealTimeStylus._methods_ = [
COMMETHOD(['propget'], HRESULT, 'Enabled',
( ['retval', 'out'], POINTER(c_int), 'pfEnable' )),
COMMETHOD(['propput'], HRESULT, 'Enabled',
( ['in'], c_int, 'pfEnable' )),
COMMETHOD(['propget'], HRESULT, 'HWND',
( ['retval', 'out'], POINTER(c_int), 'phwnd' )),
COMMETHOD(['propput'], HRESULT, 'HWND',
( ['in'], c_int, 'phwnd' )),
COMMETHOD(['propget'], HRESULT, 'WindowInputRectangle',
( ['retval', 'out'], POINTER(RECT), 'prcWndInputRect' )),
COMMETHOD(['propput'], HRESULT, 'WindowInputRectangle',
( ['in'], c_int, 'prcWndInputRect' )),
# here are quite some methods missing...
]
"""
Then you can create such an object, QI for the interface, and try to use it.
I had to look up the CLSID for the RealTimeStylus class in the registry.
>>> p = CreateObject("{E26B366D-F998-43CE-836F-CB6D904432B0}")
>>> print p
>>> p.QueryInterface(IRealTimeStylus)
>>> s = p.QueryInterface(IRealTimeStylus)
>>> s.Enabled
0
>>> s.Enabled = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "comtypes\__init__.py", line 278, in __setattr__
value)
_ctypes.COMError: (-2144862203, 'The clear disable flag is set and all clear
operations now require physical access.', (None, None, None, 0, None))
>>>
However, I would only recommend this approach to an experienced
COM developer.
Thomas
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