Re: [python-win32] building a complicated Python application on Windows

Conda is well suited to this. I use it to bundle all sorts of stuff on Windows. (You write recipes (see https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes for examples), then 'conda build' them, which produces a package that can be subsequently installed with conda install. Can sign up to anaconda.org

Re: [python-win32] drag files with non-ASCII filenames?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: > > The Windows console shell is an 8-bit entity. That means you only have > 256 characters available at any given time, similar to they way > non-Unicode strings work in Python 2. The input and screen buffers of the console

Re: [python-win32] building a complicated Python application on Windows

I agree on the Conda suggestion. If you haven't used Gohlke's Windows libraries at UCI http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ you can look there as well. All are Intel MKL optimized when possible (as is Enthought's distro) - Ray At 05:05 PM 12/16/2015, Bill Janssen wrote: Trent Nelson

Re: [python-win32] building a complicated Python application on Windows

Trent Nelson wrote: > Conda is well suited to this. I use it to bundle all sorts of stuff on > Windows. Thanks, Trent. That looks possible. Though the documentation is a bit crufty; "source activate foo" doesn't do much on my Mac, because "activate" isn't a script in the

Re: [python-win32] drag files with non-ASCII filenames?

Ulli Horlacher writes: >> That's not true. Well, it's only true A) of programs that use >> 8-bit I/O instead of Unicode (which unfortunately happens to >> include Python > > Ok, then this is a dead end for me? I meant normal Python I/O (read, input, print, etc).

Re: [python-win32] drag files with non-ASCII filenames?

On Wed 2015-12-16 (11:23), Random832 wrote: > If you want to use a strictly console-based approach, you could > simply provide a text input field for the user to type (or > paste, or drop) a filename followed by pressing Enter. I have had this in first place and the problem was: My users

Re: [python-win32] drag files with non-ASCII filenames?

On Tue 2015-12-15 (16:39), Random832 wrote: > > The Windows console shell is an 8-bit entity. > > That's not true. Well, it's only true A) of programs that use > 8-bit I/O instead of Unicode (which unfortunately happens to > include Python Ok, then this is a dead end for me? > The limitation

Re: [python-win32] drag files with non-ASCII filenames?

At 12:27 PM 12/15/2015, Tim Roberts wrote: Ulli Horlacher wrote: > On Tue 2015-12-15 (11:10), Tim Roberts wrote: > >>> I have a python 2.7 program which runs in a console window and upload files. >>> To specify the files, the user uses Windows drag (via explorer) or copy >> This is hopeless.