Popular recipes tagged "windows" but not "commandline"

Quick-and-dirty Windows drive detector (Python)

2016-09-20T17:46:37-07:00

Python recipe 580699 by Vasudev Ram (drives, sysadmin, system_programming, utility, windows).

This is a quick-and-dirty Python script to detect the currently available drives on your Windows PC.

A pseudo-echo, (or printf), function for any Python version. (Python)

2017-01-20T22:17:23-08:00

Python recipe 580750 by Barry Walker (amiga, apple, demo, echo, fs_uae, linux, printf, unix, windows, winuae).

A simple example of having a pseudo-echo using sys.stdout.write...

This gives exactly the same results from Python Versions, 1.4.0, 2.0.1, 2.5.6, 2.6.9, 3.4.3 and 3.5.2 on various platforms including the classic AMIGA A1200.

Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems...

Bazza.

Publish a Windows Process List to PDF with xtopdf (Batch)

2015-12-27T20:45:32-08:00

Batch recipe 579142 by Vasudev Ram (pdf, pdfwriter, pdf_generation, processes, process_management, python, windows).

This recipe shows how you can generate a Windows process list or task list (basically, a list of running processes, with some information about each of them), to a PDF file, using the Windows TASKLIST command along with the xtopdf toolkit. The list is sorted in ascending order of memory usage of the processes, before writing it to PDF.

It differs somewhat from other xtopdf recipes, in that no additional code needs to be written, over and above what is already in the xtopdf package. We just have to use the needed commands there, in a series of commands or a pipeline.

However, one can still write additional code, by modifying the program used (StdinToPDF.py), if needed, to customize the PDF output.

A simple raw hexdumper. (Python)

2016-09-19T13:24:37-07:00

Python recipe 580697 by Barry Walker (amiga, apple, fs_uae, hex, hexdump, linux, macbook_pro, raw_hexdump, unix, windows, winuae).

This is not a hexreader. This code creates a raw hexdump of a binary file that is whitespace, optional, delimited. The dump is saved into the current directory with a ".hex" extension.

It works on just about any current platform but is designed around a stock Amiga A1200(HD) with Python 1.4.0. It also works on the current stable version 3.5.2.

I needed a hexdump some years ago for banging the Amiga hardware, and decided to modify recently for another usage but it had to still work on version 1.4.0 for the classic A1200.

Enjoy...

[python3-tk/ttk] Onager Scratchpad (Python)

2016-04-24T02:34:03-07:00

Python recipe 580650 by Mickey Kocic (python3, text_processing, tkinter, ttk, windows). Revision 2.

I wrote this simple text editor to use for my diary. It's customized the way I like it, but the code is set up so it's easy for other people to change bg, fg, font, etc. I've also compiled a standalone Windows executable (thank you very much ActiveState! without ActivePython the compilation would have been impossible). Anyone who wants a copy of the executable is free to message or email me.

NOTE: If you get an error that the theme is not recognized, just comment out line 18 or run the following code in your python3 interpreter:

>>>from tkinter.ttk import Style
>>>s = Style()
>>>s.theme_use()

You'll get a list of the available themes and can replace the 'alt' in line 18 with any one of them you want.

add password masking ability to getpass.getpass() (Python)

2016-01-13T00:46:40-08:00

Python recipe 579148 by KingMak (character, display, getpass, hiding, masking, msvcrt, password, windows).

adding the ability to display a password masking character of the programmer's choice

data_dump.py, like the Unix od (octal dump) command (Python)

2015-11-01T12:43:38-08:00

Python recipe 579120 by Vasudev Ram (data, dump, hexadecimal, linux, octal, od, representation, unix, utility, windows).

This recipe implements a simple data dump tool, roughly like the od command of Unix, which stands for octal dump (though od can also dump data in hex and other formats). This tool dumps data in character and hex formats, in this version. This is data_dump.py version 1.

Recognizing speech (speech-to-text) with the Python speech module (Python)

2015-10-22T13:09:02-07:00

Python recipe 579115 by Vasudev Ram (language_translation, python, python2, speech_recognition, windows).

This recipe shows how to use the 'speech' (or 'pyspeech' - it seems to have two names) Python library to make the computer recognize what you say and convert it to text. Note: This library did not always give correct results for me, so it may not be advisable to use it in production. Also, the pyspeech site says that the library is no longer being maintained. Use at your own risk.

Drop a minimal, valid Windows executable file to disk, for testing (Python)

2015-03-03T10:47:32-08:00

Python recipe 579029 by Simon Harrison (executable, pe, windows). Revision 3.

Sometimes I need to create a valid windows executable file from a Python script for the sake of running a test.

A Function To Create A 1 Second Sinewave WAVE Beep File. (Python)

2014-11-23T19:24:46-08:00

Python recipe 578971 by Barry Walker (amiga, apple, audio, beep, error_beep, error_sound, e_uae, linux, sinewave, sound, wav, wave, windows, winuae).

sinebeep.py

Creating an audio file called...

beep.wav

...that can be played using almost ANY audio player available.

This simple snippet of code generates a 1 second sinewave WAVE file. It IS saved inside the CURRENT drawer so that you can find it... ;o)

This works on:- Classic stock AMIGA A1200, using Python 1.4.0. WinUAE and E-UAE, AmigaOS 3.0.x using Python 1.4.0 to 2.0.1. Windows, to at least 7, using Python 2.0.1 to 3.3.2. Various Linux flavours using Python 2.4.6 to 3.2.2. Apple OSX 10.7.x and above using Python 2.5.6 to 3.4.1.

The file size is 8044 bytes and _IF_ you need to it can be palyed directly without a player on some Linux flavours that have the /dev/dsp device. It is an 8 bit, unsigned integer, mono, 8000Hz sampling speed 8000 byte RAW file with the WAVE header added.

It will still work with PulseAudio and OSS using...

cat /full/path/to/beep.wav > /dev/dsp

...but with a momenatry click due to the 44 header bytes; but hey it is a beep alternative...

Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems.

Bazza.

Simple Audio Capture For Windows... (Python)

2014-10-17T14:39:16-07:00

Python recipe 578952 by Barry Walker (audio, audio_capture, capture, sample, signal_capture, windows).

This snippet will capture from approximately 1 second to nearly 10000 hours of audio silently using Windows SoundRecorder.exe and save automatically to a file named SAMPLE.WAV in the C:\Windows\Temp\ folder/drawer/directory. It is 16 bit signed integer depth, stereo and sampled at 44100 Hz. This is for Python 2.0.1 to 3.3.2, (my latest version).

Enjoy finding simple solutions to very difficult problems...

(An OSX version is on its way too...)

Bazza...

Get all installed Windows hotfixes (Perl)

2014-07-31T17:33:19-07:00

Perl recipe 578917 by Brett Carroll (engineering, fix, hotfix, hotfixes, ole, perl, quick, win32, windows, wmi).

This script uses WMI (via Win32::OLE) to retrieve and print out a comma separated list of all installed Windows hotfixes.

JavaScript WebSocket client for Python + Go WebSocket-based system monitoring example (JavaScript)

2014-01-03T21:09:54-08:00

JavaScript recipe 578806 by Vasudev Ram (golang, javascript, linux, python, sysadmin, unix, websockets, windows).

This recipe is the JavaScript client side of an overall recipe that shows how to do system monitoring using WebSockets, Python, Go (using websocketd), and JavaScript + HTML. The server side of the recipe (in Python, and using websocketd which is written in Go), is here:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578803-using-websocketd-with-python-for-web-based-system-/?in=user-4173351

The system monitoring example shows the system disk space info (total, used and free) using the Python psutil module.

Get a value un windows registry (Python)

2013-10-15T07:30:39-07:00

Python recipe 578689 by Garel Alex (registry, win32api, windows).

A small function to get a value in windows registry from its key path and value name.

Note that recipe http://code.activestate.com/recipes/502268/ gives a more complete solution.

Sticky window (Python)

2013-12-16T17:10:25-08:00

Python recipe 578789 by winand (windows).

Create a window which sticks to screen edges using PyQt4 under Windows.

Get memory usage of Windows processes using GetProcessMemoryInfo (via ctypes) (Python)

2013-04-25T01:26:19-07:00

Python recipe 578513 by Ben Hoyt (ctypes, memory, process, win32, windows).

These functions call the Win32 function GetProcessMemoryInfo() using ctypes to get the memory usage of the current process. Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Python 2.6+ (including Python 3.x).

Conway's Game of Life In Python (Python)

2013-06-13T15:33:41-07:00

Python recipe 578559 by alexander baker (game, life, numpy, of, python, windows).

Conway's Game of Life In Python

A SOX 1KHz Sinewave Generator Using A Windows, (TM), Batch File... (Batch)

2013-05-02T17:48:18-07:00

Batch recipe 578516 by Barry Walker (audio, generator, sound, sound_exchange, sox, windows).

32 bit Windows to Windows 7...

This batch file generates a 65536 byte binary file to give 8 seconds of pure sinewave at the earphone/speaker output(s)...

It uses ONLY a default Windows 32 bit installation, to Windows 7, except for the installation of SOX...

Obtain SOX from here:-

http://sox.sourceforge.net/

Notepad was the _main_ editor... ;o)

Hopefully the code section does NOT corrupt the binary part which is 8 bytes in size. If it does then let me know on here and I will post a pointer from where to grab it...

Enjoy...

Enable Clear Type font smoothing on Windows (ctypes version) (Python)

2013-05-07T09:17:56-07:00

Python recipe 578500 by ccpizza (fontsmoothing, windows). Revision 3.

Running the script without parameters will enable Clear Type font smoothing. Pass 0, false, off, or disable to turn off Clear Type.

This version requires the ctypes module.

For a version that uses pywin32 see http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578499-enable-clear-type-font-smoothing-on-windows-pywin3/

Python subprocess: hide console on Windows (Python)

2013-07-29T05:33:49-07:00

Python recipe 578300 by Esteban Castro Borsani (python, subprocess, windows).

It creates a new hidden window, so it will work in frozen apps (.exe).