Win32

Links

Download

Download pywin32-210.win32-py2.5.exe (for python 2.5) from the site.

Run the installer (login as administrator)…

Sample

Get User Information

import win32api
import win32net
import win32netcon

class windowsAPI(object):
    def GetUser(self):
        info = self.UserGetInfo()
        return info['name']

    def UserGetInfo(self):
        dc = win32net.NetServerEnum(None,100,win32netcon.SV_TYPE_DOMAIN_CTRL)
        user = win32api.GetUserName()
        if dc[0]:
            dcname = dc[0][0]['name']
            return win32net.NetUserGetInfo("\\\\"+dcname,user,1)
        else:
            return win32net.NetUserGetInfo(None,user,1)

Convert Word files to text format.

# http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/279003
#
# Title: Converting Word documents to text
# Submitter: Simon Brunning (other recipes)
# Last Updated: 2004/09/02
# Version no: 1.3
#
# Description:
#
# Here's a script to save all Word documents in and below a given directory to text.

import fnmatch, os, pythoncom, sys, win32com.client

class word2text(object):
    def __init__(self):
        pass

    def convert(self, folder):
        wordapp = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Word.Application")
        try:
            for path, dirs, files in os.walk(folder):
                for doc in [os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, filename)) for filename in files if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, '*.doc')]:
                    print "processing %s" % doc
                    wordapp.Documents.Open(doc)
                    pos = doc.rfind('.')
                    docastxt = doc[:pos + 1] + 'txt'
                    wordapp.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(docastxt, FileFormat=win32com.client.constants.wdFormatTextLineBreaks)
                    wordapp.ActiveWindow.Close()
        finally:
            wordapp.Quit()

Service

Python Windows Services
Using this sample application: sample-windows-service.py
Install the service (on Vista start the command prompt using Run as administrator):
```
python sample-windows-service.py install
```

The service can now be stopped and started using Services (services.msc) or from the command line e.g:

python sample-windows-service.py start
python sample-windows-service.py stop
python sample-windows-service.py update
python sample-windows-service.py restart

View command options by entering python sample-windows-service.py..

Log enties can be viewed in Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe), Windows Logs, Application…
To remove the service (on Vista start the command prompt using Run as administrator):
```
python sample-windows-service.py remove
```

WMI

Tim Golden, WMI Cookbook:
- Tim Golden - python WMI, PyCon UK 2008, Conference Talk.
Blog - Corey Goldberg: