Top-rated recipes tagged "meta:requires=pywintypes" but not "sysadmin"http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/meta:requires=pywintypes-sysadmin/top/2008-05-16T21:12:08-07:00ActiveState Code Recipesportalocker - Cross-platform (posix/nt) API for flock-style file locking. (Python)
2008-05-16T21:12:08-07:00Jonathan Feinberghttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1511/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/65203-portalocker-cross-platform-posixnt-api-for-flock-s/
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Python
recipe 65203
by <a href="/recipes/users/1511/">Jonathan Feinberg</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>).
Revision 7.
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<p>Synopsis:</p>
<p>import portalocker
file = open("somefile", "r+")
portalocker.lock(file, portalocker.LOCK_EX)
file.seek(12)
file.write("foo")
file.close()</p>
Converting OLE datetime values into Python datetime objects (Python)
2006-05-08T06:56:28-07:00Giles Brownhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2880241/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496683-converting-ole-datetime-values-into-python-datetim/
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Python
recipe 496683
by <a href="/recipes/users/2880241/">Giles Brown</a>
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<p>This recipe show how to convert OLE datetime values (as used by PyTime from the pywin32 extensions) into Python datetime objects.</p>
VSS Integration Module (Python)
2006-02-13T07:14:10-08:00Tim Watsonhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2565684/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/473884-vss-integration-module/
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Python
recipe 473884
by <a href="/recipes/users/2565684/">Tim Watson</a>
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<p>This class automates connection to Microsoft's delightful* Visual Source Safe source control system. * -> :D</p>
Run two instances of Windows Explorer side by side (Python)
2005-09-20T23:52:17-07:00Soon Wah Chuahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2598827/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440583-run-two-instances-of-windows-explorer-side-by-side/
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Python
recipe 440583
by <a href="/recipes/users/2598827/">Soon Wah Chua</a>
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<p>This recipie will run two copies of Windows Explorer, resize them to fit each of them to half the desktop size and place them side by side to facilitate file management between two directories or disk drives.</p>