Access to Win API

[Ladvánszky Károly]

What is the best way to access Win API functions that are not present in the
various extension packages. Is writing a C extension the only solution?
Thanks for any help.

Károly

[Gerhard Häring]

Re: Access to Win API

Ladvánszky Károly wrote:[color=blue]
> What is the best way to access Win API functions that are not present in the
> various extension packages. Is writing a C extension the only solution?[/color]

You don't have to write a C extension, you can use ctypes instead.

-- Gerhard

[Ladvánszky Károly]

Re: Access to Win API

Thanks for your help. I remember once I tried a Python cookbook sample code
that included ctypes but now 'import ctypes' does not work.
Should ctypes come together with the 2.3 installation?

Károly

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Ladvánszky Károly wrote:[color=blue]
> What is the best way to access Win API functions that are not present in[/color]
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> various extension packages. Is writing a C extension the only solution?[/color]

You don't have to write a C extension, you can use ctypes instead.

-- Gerhard

[Gerhard Häring]

Re: Access to Win API

Ladvánszky Károly wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks for your help. I remember once I tried a Python cookbook sample code
> that included ctypes but now 'import ctypes' does not work.
> Should ctypes come together with the 2.3 installation? [...][/color]

No, it's a third-party module that you need to download and install.

Google says it's at http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/, but
the Starship seems to be down ATM [1]. Maybe somebody has the ctypes
installer for Python 2.3 and can send it to you. I only have ctypes 0.2
for Python 2.2 here ATM.

-- Gerhard

[1] Probably the recent virus flood bogs down the server :-/

[Michael Hudson]

Re: Access to Win API

Gerhard Häring <gh@ghaering.de > writes:
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> Ladvánszky Károly wrote:[color=green]
> > Thanks for your help. I remember once I tried a Python cookbook sample code
> > that included ctypes but now 'import ctypes' does not work.
> > Should ctypes come together with the 2.3 installation? [...][/color]
>
> No, it's a third-party module that you need to download and install.
>
> Google says it's at http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/,
> but the Starship seems to be down ATM [1].[/color]

It's only DNS woes. Try IP 217.160.219.194 .

Cheers,
mwh

--
Darned confusing, unless you have that magic ingredient coffee, of
which I can pay you Tuesday for a couple pounds of extra-special
grind today. -- John Mitchell, 11 Jan 1999

[Gerhard Häring]

Re: Access to Win API

Ladvánszky Károly wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks for your help. I remember once I tried a Python cookbook sample code
> that included ctypes but now 'import ctypes' does not work.
> Should ctypes come together with the 2.3 installation?[/color]

It's available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes

-- Gerhard

[Henk Punt]

Re: Access to Win API

And if you are going to write a GUI app for windows with ctypes, you
might want to check out:

http://venster.sourceforge.net/

It already contains a lot of usefull stuff for windows GUI programming.

Henk.

Gerhard Häring <gh@ghaering.de > wrote in message news:<mailman.1 063973126.25678 .python-list@python.org >...[color=blue]
> Ladv nszky K roly wrote:[color=green]
> > Thanks for your help. I remember once I tried a Python cookbook sample[/color]
> code[color=green]
> > that included ctypes but now 'import ctypes' does not work.
> > Should ctypes come together with the 2.3 installation?[/color]
>
> It's available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctypes
>
> -- Gerhard[/color]