Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
On 11/02/2010 18:18, Chris Jesse wrote: Hi All, I currently have a little program which looks for new USB removable media to be inserted into a PC. It does so by polling (every 5 seconds) all the drives within Win32_DiskDrive() and queries to find the ones which PNPDeviceID has 'USBSTOR' within

Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
On 12/02/2010 08:56, Tim Golden wrote: [... snip ideas re WMI ...] To clarify, after a little Googling: it appears that altho' Win32_VolumeChangeEvent is exposed under WinXP it's effectively not implemented. Win32_DeviceChangeEvent doesn't return the device itself. Not sure what OS you're runnin

Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
On 12/02/2010 08:56, Tim Golden wrote: You've got two, perhaps three approaches you could take here. One is to use the WM_DEVICECHANGE windows message. I thought I had an example in my list of How-Tos but I see that I don't. ... so I've now added it: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_

Re: [python-win32] permissions error

2010-02-12 Thread Dave Angel
Jeff Peery wrote: Hello, I'm running on vista and I'm getting a permissions error from win32com. I attached a print screen displaying the error message. It appears win32com is trying to write a file and vista UAC is blocking it. Why is win32com trying to do this and how do I fix it? the only meth

Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Jesse
Hi TJG, Thanks for your very helpful reply and code snippet. I'm happy that there seems to be a way to do this in windows. The application is multi-threaded with the MainThread being a wxPython MainLoop which monitors for events such as Shutdown (QUERY_END_SESSION) etc. It has to be the MainTh

Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
On 12/02/2010 15:52, Chris Jesse wrote: Hi TJG, Thanks for your very helpful reply and code snippet. I'm happy that there seems to be a way to do this in windows. The application is multi-threaded with the MainThread being a wxPython MainLoop which monitors for events such as Shutdown (QUERY_END

Re: [python-win32] USB Insertion Extrinsic Event exists?

2010-02-12 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010, Tim Golden wrote: > On 12/02/2010 08:56, Tim Golden wrote: >> >> You've got two, perhaps three approaches you could take here. One >> is to use the WM_DEVICECHANGE windows message. I thought I had an >> example in my list of How-Tos but I see that I don't. > > ... so I've now

Re: [python-win32] permissions error

2010-02-12 Thread Tim Roberts
Dave Angel wrote: > 2) Are you running a 64bit version of Vista? Yes, he is. The path "Program Files (x86)" is prima facie evidence of this. He's running 32-bit Python on a 64-bit system. And that's just fine. > 3) What do you mean by "compile" and "compiled executable"? It means he has used

[python-win32] MemoryError: can I use more?

2010-02-12 Thread Echavarria Gregory, Maria Angelica
Dear group: I am developing a program using Python 2.5.4 in windows 32 OS. The amount of data it works with is huge. I have managed to keep memory footprint low, but have found that, independent of the physical RAM of the machine, python always gives the MemoryError message when it has occupied

Re: [python-win32] MemoryError: can I use more?

2010-02-12 Thread Greg Antal
Dear Angelica: 2.2 GB is essentially the largest integer you express with 32 bits (2^31), and therefore the largest quantity of memory for which you can define an address. There are some tricks that really sophisticated programmers can do that let you use more than that, but I don't know how

Re: [python-win32] permissions error

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Peery
hello, yes, I am using 64 bit vista. and I am using py2exe to distribute my app. At the moment I'm dead in the water unti lI resolve this issue. Does anyone know of a quick fix?   thanks, Jeff --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Tim Roberts wrote: From: Tim Roberts Subject: Re: [python-win32] permissions e

[python-win32] Compile error on MySQL-Python with Mingw (python 2.6)

2010-02-12 Thread Glen Zangirolami
I am having an issue compiling mysql-python on windows 7 using Mingw32. This is my first time compiling it with Mingw32 and not using Microsoft Visual Studio compilers. I have gotten pretty far using tutorials on the net but hit a road block. *Setup*: Windows 7 Ultimate Python 2.6 MySQL-python-1.2

Re: [python-win32] permissions error

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Peery
hi, yes I can personally do that on my computer but it is not a good solution for my users to require an administrator to grant acces every time they want to launch the software. So I will need a more permanent fix.   Is it a significant task to redirect these files to the application data folde

Re: [python-win32] permissions error

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Peery
Ok thanks, I will look into that.   I was looking around in the win32com.client.__init__.py and it appears that if I delete the folder win32com.client.gen_py then it is created dynamically in the the user/appdata/temp folder when the program launches. Which is good because the user doesn't need