Win32COM is part of [GitHub]: mhammond/pywin32 – pywin32. According to the (above) URL, the package is only designed to work on Win: Python for Win32 (pywin32) extensions So, this is Win specific (it was never intended for other OSes). As for your question, technically you could install it on Linux, or OSX (it is possible … Read more
Using hints from WindowMover article and Nattee Niparnan’s blog post I managed to create this: import win32con import win32gui def isRealWindow(hWnd): ”’Return True iff given window is a real Windows application window.”’ if not win32gui.IsWindowVisible(hWnd): return False if win32gui.GetParent(hWnd) != 0: return False hasNoOwner = win32gui.GetWindow(hWnd, win32con.GW_OWNER) == 0 lExStyle = win32gui.GetWindowLong(hWnd, win32con.GWL_EXSTYLE) if (((lExStyle … Read more
First you have to install the wonderful pywin32 module. It provides COM support. You need to run the makepy utility. It is located at C:\…\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client. On Vista, it must be ran with admin rights. This utility will show all available COM objects. You can find yours and it will generate a python wrapper for this … Read more
My first thoughts were listed below but if, as you state, you’re certain that GetWindowRect is returning incorrect values, see RESOLUTION further down. “What’s wrong with GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER) and GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYBORDER)? The method you’re using seems a very roundabout way of doing it and, if you can call GetWindowRect(), I’m pretty certain you can call GetSystemMetrics() as … Read more
Try to install pywin32 from here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/ depends on you operation system and the python version that you are using. Normally 32bit version should works on both 32 and 64 bit OS. EDIT: moved to https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/releases
pywintypes is part of the Python for Windows extensions, otherwise known as pywin32. You’ll need to install that to get access to pywintypes. Note that as of this writing, pywin32‘s maintainer doesn’t upload files to PyPI, so you have to get an appropriate version of installer from http://pywin32.sf.net.
NTFS file system has junction points, I think you may use them instead, You can use python win32 API module for that e.g. import win32file win32file.CreateSymbolicLink(fileSrc, fileTarget, 1) If you do not want to rely on win32API module, you can always use ctypes and directly call CreateSymbolicLink win32 API e.g. import ctypes kdll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary(“kernel32.dll”) … Read more
After I copy pywintypes26.dll and pythoncom26.dll from C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pywin32_system32 to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\win32 -> Solve the problem!
Should you wish to do it without the win32 extensions, you can use ctypes to call SHGetFolderPath: >>> import ctypes.wintypes >>> CSIDL_PERSONAL= 5 # My Documents >>> SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT= 0 # Want current, not default value >>> buf= ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(ctypes.wintypes.MAX_PATH) >>> ctypes.windll.shell32.SHGetFolderPathW(0, CSIDL_PERSONAL, 0, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, buf) 0 >>> buf.value u’C:\\Documents and Settings\\User\\My Documents’
Spoiler alert!!! Applied #2.2. (from below) to the original .whls, and published them on [GitHub]: CristiFati/Prebuilt-Binaries – (master) Prebuilt-Binaries/PyWin32/v225 (win_amd64, win32 for Python 3.8). After installing (one of) them, existing code should work OOTB (with respect to this issue). Install steps: Download the .whl that matches your Python architecture (64bit, 32bit – for more details … Read more