Python Programming

One of my recent research tasks required me to retrieve various information from del.icio.us, a well-known social bookmarking service. My programming language of choice is Python, and so I wrote a basic Python module for getting the data I needed.

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:

Last week we looked at the itertools module and how its iterator based functions can be faster than doing things from scratch. One of the examples showed a function using itertools.takewhile to be much faster than one using itertools.groupby. Some feedback we got, asked, what then is the point of groupby if it's just a slower version of other functionality?

Louie provides Python programmers with a straightforward way to dispatch signals between objects in a wide variety of contexts. It is based on PyDispatcher, which in turn was based on a highly-rated recipe in the Python Cookbook. Louie is licensed under The BSD License.