Popular recipes tagged "windows" but not "linux"

A simple text file pager in Python (Python)

2017-02-10T21:34:45-08:00

Python recipe 580755 by Vasudev Ram (command, commandline, pagination, paging, python, text, utilities, windows).

This recipe shows how to create a simple text file pager in Python. It allows you to view text content a page at a time (with a user-definable number of lines per page). Like standard Unix utilities, it can either take a text file name as a command-line argument, or can read the text from its standard input, which can be redirected to come from a file, or to come from a pipe. The recipe is for Windows only, though, since it uses the msvcrt.getch() function, which is Windows-specific. However, the recipe can be modified to work on Unix by using things like tty, curses, termios, cbreak, etc.

More details here:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/02/tp-simple-text-pager-in-python.html

Show OS error codes and messages from the os.errno module (Python)

2017-03-01T17:18:23-08:00

Python recipe 580759 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, introspection, libraries, python, unix, utilities, windows).

This recipe is a simple Python introspection utility that displays the defined OS error codes and messages (that Python knows about) from the os.errno module. It works for both Python 2 and Python 3. For each kind of OS error defined in Python, it will display a serial number, the error code, and the corresponding error name, and English error message. E.g. the first few lines of its output are shown below:

$ py -2 os_errno_info.py

Showing error codes and names

from the os.errno module:

Python sys.version: 2.7.12

Number of error codes: 86

Idx Code Name Message

0 1 EPERM Operation not permitted

1 2 ENOENT No such file or directory

2 3 ESRCH No such process

3 4 EINTR Interrupted function call

4 5 EIO Input/output error

More information, full output and other details are available here:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/show-error-numbers-and-codes-from.html

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.

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.

Text ruler for console (record-oriented data processing utility) (Python)

2016-04-17T19:32:26-07:00

Python recipe 580647 by Vasudev Ram (commandline, python, rulers, unix, utilities, windows).

This recipe shows how to create a simple text-based ruler for your command-line console. It can help you find the position of your own program's output on the line, or to find the positions and lengths of fields in fixed- or variable-length records in a text file, fields in CSV files, etc.

[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

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.

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.

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.

'Which' for Windows (Python)

2013-08-16T09:14:07-07:00

Python recipe 578642 by Robert Pyron (commandline, python, utility, which, windows). Revision 2.

WHICH.PY scans through all directories specified in the system %PATH% environment variable, looking for the specified COMMAND(s). It tries to follow the sometimes bizarre rules for Windows command lookup.

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).

Command Line Windows Alarm Clock (Python)

2012-12-05T23:53:49-08:00

Python recipe 578362 by Stephen Chappell (alarm, clock, demonstration, windows).

Using primitive but simple calculations, the alarm program below will find the offset to the time specified, sleep, and awake to run an alarm until terminated. This Windows recipe utilizes the msvcrt and winsound modules to operate and has limited use elsewhere.