Win Services helper (Python)

2014-09-06T10:35:54-07:00

Python recipe 551780 by Louis RIVIERE (services, system, windows). Revision 4.

A simple way to implement Windows Service.

Simple command-line alarm clock in Python (Python)

2015-10-25T18:27:27-07:00

Python recipe 579117 by Vasudev Ram (alarm, clock, commandline, linux, python, time, unix, windows).

This recipe shows how to create a simple alarm clock in Python, that can be run from the command line in a terminal. It lets you specify the alarm time in minutes as a command line argument, and prints a wake-up message and beeps a few times, after that time arrives. You can use 0 for the minutes to test it immediately, including to adjust the volume using your speaker controls.

Execute remote commands on windows like psexec (Python)

2011-11-18T11:54:42-08:00

Python recipe 577945 by Ofer Helman (command, remote, windows). Revision 4.

This code attempts to implement psexec in python code, using wmi. As part of a project of mine I had to run remote commands on remote Windows machines from other Windows machine. At first I used psexec for that with subprocess.Popen. The reason in this code for creating .bat files and running them remotely is because complicated commands do not run properly with Win32_Process.Create

In this code I used this code: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/442521/history/3/

required installations:

pywin32 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/

wmi - http://timgolden.me.uk/python/downloads/

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.

Decimal Number To Byte(s) And String To Byte(s) Converter. (Python)

2012-01-24T21:11:47-08:00

Python recipe 578025 by Barry Walker (bytes, converter, decimal, linux, string, windows).

A function to convert decimal integer numbers, (from 0 to 255), into byte(s) format. Another function calling the above function to convert ASCII strings into byte(s) format.

Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 28 2010, 10:01:07) [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> exec(open('/home/G0LCU/Desktop/Code/d2b.py').read())
>>> a=78
>>> type(a)
<class 'int'>
>>> b=d2b(a)
>>> print(b)
b'N'
>>> type(b)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> text="\x00(C)2012, B.Walker, G0LCU.\xFF"
>>> len(text)
27
>>> type(text)
<class 'str'>
>>> newtext=t2b(text)
>>> len(newtext)
27
>>> print(newtext)
b'\x00(C)2012, B.Walker, G0LCU.\xff'
>>> type(newtext)
<class 'bytes'>

It requires NOTHING special at all to work and can be run like above or imported from the correct "Lib" drawer/folder/directorfy as:-

>>> import d2b

And when imported called as:-

>>> d2b.d2b(some_number, optional_some_other_mumber)<RETURN/ENTER>

>>> d2b.t2b(some_ASCII_string)<RETURN/ENTER>

Read the code for much more information...

Issued under the GPL2 licence.

Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems.

Bazza, G0LCU.

IP and MAC addresses (Python)

2016-07-07T17:52:15-07:00

Python recipe 577191 by Jean Brouwers (ios, ip, ipv4, mac, macos, network, python2_4, python3_5, uuid, windows). Revision 3.

This module collects all IP and MAC addresses from several available sources on the underlying system. See the module documentation for more details, supported Python releases and platforms.

Windows Event Log Viewer (Python)

2010-12-12T06:40:35-08:00

Python recipe 577499 by FB36 (system, windows).

Windows Event Log Viewer

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

Searching .dll and .exe files in PATH (Python)

2014-10-06T09:22:53-07:00

Python recipe 576522 by Michal Niklas (dll, exe, file, version, windows). Revision 7.

Returns the pathnames of the file (.exe or .dll) which would be loaded/executed in the current environment. It uses some dirs from configuration (SystemDir, WindowsDir) and dirs from PATH.

To obtain version info it uses code from: http://pywin32.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/pywin32/pywin32/file/tip/win32/Demos/getfilever.py

Example of usage:

    c:\tools\pyscripts\scripts>which_dll.py libpq.dll
    2008-06-09 02:58:26   167936 [b]    c:\postgresql\8.3\bin\libpq.dll ver:8.3.3.8160
    2008-03-17 01:47:50   167936 [b]    c:\tools\libpq.dll  ver:8.3.1.8075
    2008-03-17 01:47:50   167936 [b]    g:\public\libpq.dll ver:8.3.1.8075
        trying to load "libpq.dll" ...
        c:\postgresql\8.3\bin\libpq.dll loaded

Colo(u)rs Inside Text Mode Python... (Python)

2012-08-21T21:01:57-07:00

Python recipe 578101 by Barry Walker (amiga, apple, color, colour, demo, display, e_uae, linux, macbook_pro, windows, winuae). Revision 2.

A simple DEMO to show how to enhance Python inside a Terminal. This works on Classic AMIGAs, E-UAE, Debian Linux 6.0.0, PCLinuxOS 2009, Windows XP and Vista and WinUAE, from Python 1.4.0 to 3.3A2.

Due to a complaint about my _fun_ upload recently I decided to post this so that the MANY can now find out how to manipulate text inside a Python Terminal window so that it looks much better.

Read the code for more information...

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

Bazza...

Detect when system is idle (Python)

2009-05-31T01:18:03-07:00

Python recipe 576786 by Gabriel Genellina (ctypes, idle, idle_time, time, user_input, windows).

Detect when system is idle, globally. That is, the user is not moving the mouse nor typing anything, in any application (not just our program).

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).

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

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

Unix tee-like functionality via a Python class (Python)

2017-03-31T14:30:30-07:00

Python recipe 580767 by Vasudev Ram (cli, command, commandline, linux, python, tee, unix, utilities, windows).

The Unix tee commmand, when used in a command pipeline, allows you to capture the output of the preceding command to a file or files, while still sending it on to standard output (stdout) for further processing via other commands in a pipeline, or to print it, etc.

This recipe shows how to implement simple tee-like functionality via a Python class. I do not aim to exactly replicate the functionality of the Unix tee, only something similar.

More details and sample output here:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2017/03/a-python-class-like-unix-tee-command.html

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.

Win Registry module (Python)

2010-07-20T14:30:04-07:00

Python recipe 502268 by Louis RIVIERE (registry, system, windows). Revision 5.

_winreg module wrapper. Provides easy access, walking and creation/modification of keys and values. Tested with Win98 and XP (admin)

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).

Clear screen and beep for various platforms. (Python)

2011-02-26T14:26:02-08:00

Python recipe 577588 by Barry Walker (amiga, audio, beep, clearscreen, display, error_beep, error_sound, e_uae, linux, screenclear, sound, windows, winuae).

This little module gives a clear screen and beep for the classic AMIGA, WinUAE, Windows and Linux all in CLI/Command-Prompt/Terminal mode.

It works from Python 1.4.x to 2.7.x; talk about backwards compatibility... ;oD With very little modification it will work on Python 3.x.x easily.)

See the file clsbeep.py attached for more information.

it is saved as clsbeep.py and placed into the Python - Lib drawer or where-ever the modules are located and called as a module:-

>>> import clsbeep

Its usage is:-

clsbeep.cls() and clears the screen. clsbeep.beep() and creates an error beep. clsbeep.both() creates an error beep first then clears the screen.

It is Public Domain and if you modify it to suit other platforms please let me have a copy of your code... :)

Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems. ;o)

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.

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