Python Programming

pywinauto is a set of python modules to automate the Microsoft Windows GUI. At it's simplest it allows you to send mouse and keyboard actions to windows dialogs and controls.

Welcome to the PyPubSub / PMS project, an implementation of a pure python networked publish subscribe mechanism. Central is a message broker which dispatches messages between applications.

Robin, Give this a try: from IPython.Debugger import Tracer; debugger = Tracer() debugger() #add this line where you want to break barr

This is a project to develop a cross-platform pythonic GUI API.  The goals of this project are:

PyObject *mainmod = PyImport_AddModule("__main__"); PyObject *foo = PyImport_ImportModule("foo"); Py_INCREF(foo); //Increment foo module since PyModule_AddObject() steals reference PyModule_AddObject(mainmod, "foo", foo);

Change to the top level directory that contains your python source files, and do find -name '*.py' > cscope.files cscope -b

How can I work on VIM for python code such as cscope for C code?

This is first version at CodePlex. PySpec is BDD framework for python. It includes following items PySpec for CUIPySpec for wxPython(little buggy)Any documents(tutorial, reference)

Easily create Google charts using python syntax and datasets. Python wrapper for the Google Chart API. The wrapper can render the URL of the Google chart, based on your parameters, or it can render an HTML img tag to insert into webpages on the fly. Made for dynamic python websites (Django,Zope,CGI,etc.) that need on the fly chart generation without any extra modules. The wrapper SHOULD also work with Eastwood the Google Chart API workalike. G = GChart('p3', [5,10])

You can "turn an ordinary function into a thread" using the Thread class: just pass the function as the value for the `target' argument: import threading threading.Thread(target=your_function).start()

6.5.1 Itertool functions The following module functions all construct and return iterators. Some provide streams of infinite length, so they should only be accessed by functions or loops that truncate the stream.

he most popular cryptographic software for Windows is probably TrueCrypt. In this article I will explain how TrueCrypt works and as a by-product a working Python implementation will be provided. This article is written from a programmer perspective and the math will be kept to the minimum. The emphasis is on how TrueCrypt uses cryptographic primitives such as AES and SHA-1, not how the primitives themselves work.

To attempt to explain it in the simplest terms, a continuation is a representation, at a particular point in a program, of everything the program is capable of doing subsequently. A continuation is a potential that depends on initial conditions. Rather than loop in a traditional way, it is possible to invoke the same continuation recursively with different initial conditions. One broad claim I have read is that continuations, in a theoretical sense, are more fundamental and underlie every other control structure. Don't worry if these ideas cause your brain to melt; that is a normal reaction.

Stackless Python is an alternative implementation of Python created by independent developer Christian Tismer. He started with the conventional Python language processor managed by the language's inventor, Guido van Rossum, and patched his own Stackless invention in place of a small but central part of Python's internals. Stackless Python is the result. This article introduces Tismer's technology and its significance. In future articles, you'll be able to read about how to make your own start at programming Stackless Python, as well as the prospects for a merger between Stackless and the main Python distribution.

Pycha is a very simple Python package for drawing charts using the great Cairo library. Its goals are: Lightweight Simple to use Nice looking with default values Customization It won't try to draw any possible chart on earth but draw the most common ones nicely. There are some other options you may want to look at like pyCairoChart Pycha is based on Plotr which is based on PlotKit. Both libraries are written in JavaScript and are great for client web programming. I needed the same for the server side so that's the reason I ported Plotr to Python. Now we can deliver charts to people with JavaScript disabled or embed them in PDF reports.

Note that it's more rebust to run methods on the public IPython api.I.e. do ip = ipshell.api and then ip.magic('px import os')You can explore the api interactively by playing with _ip object.

In our last article on compression we showed you how to demonstrate run time encoding in Python. In this article we'll show you how to implement another kind of compression, Huffman encoding, which is useful when dealing with small sets of items, such as character strings.

Testoob is an advanced unit testing framework for Python. It integrates effortlessly with existing PyUnit (module ‘unittest’) test suites.

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 17:53:49 -0800 (PST), David Brady <daves_spam_dodging_account at yahoo.com> wrote : >More win32all questions... is it possible to get the >handle of the window that currently has the focus? >win32gui.GetActiveWindow() fails because I'm looking >for a window outside the process of my Python script. E:\>python ActivePython 2.1.1, build 212 (ActiveState) Python 2.1.1 (#20, Jul 26 2001, 11:38:51) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import win32gui >>> import time >>> for x in range(10): ... time.sleep(1) ... print x, win32gui.GetWindowText(win32gui.GetForegroundWindow()) ... 0 cmd - python 1 cmd - python 2 (Untitled) * SciTE 3 (Untitled) * SciTE 4 ActivePython Documentation 5 ActivePython Documentation 6 PythonWin 7 PythonWin 8 PythonWin

Re: Kill process based on window name (win32) Thank you Roger. Your advice did the trick. For anyone interested, the basic code to terminate a process (politely) would be something like this (hwnd is retrieved using win32gui.EnumerateWindows): # Get the window's process id's t, p = win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd) # Ask window nicely to close win32gui.PostMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_CLOSE, 0, 0) # Allow some time for app to close time.sleep(10) # If app didn't close, force close try: handle = win32api.OpenProcess(win32con.PROCESS_TERMINATE, 0, p) if handle: win32api.TerminateProcess(handle,0) win32api.CloseHandle(handle) except: pass: