Auto execute python in USB flash disk

[Brian Erhard]

I am still fairly new to python and wanted to attempt a home made
password protection program. There are files that I carry on a USB
flash drive that I would like to password protect. Essentially, I
would like to password protect an entire directory of files. Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?

Thanks.

[Ene]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

On Mar 27, 9:56 am, "Brian Erhard" <theema...@gmai l.comwrote:

I am still fairly new to python and wanted to attempt a home made
password protection program. There are files that I carry on a USB
flash drive that I would like to password protect. Essentially, I
would like to password protect an entire directory of files. Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?
>
Thanks.

Install the free PortablePython from http://www.portablepython.com/ on
your USB
flash drive, and go from there.

[kyosohma@gmail.com]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

On Mar 27, 11:56 am, "Brian Erhard" <theema...@gmai l.comwrote:

I am still fairly new to python and wanted to attempt a home made
password protection program. There are files that I carry on a USB
flash drive that I would like to password protect. Essentially, I
would like to password protect an entire directory of files. Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?
>
Thanks.

I've never done this before, but it sounds cool. You would need to
create some kind of python file object to do this properly. So instead
of actually clicking a folder, you would click a pickled file or
something. I found some cool info about encrypting files here:

http://www.methods.co.nz/python/

There's also a python cryptography kit: http://www.amk.ca/python/writing/pycrypt/

Finally, I found a fellow python programmer that wrote his own:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/378510.html

There's also PortablePython. ..

Enjoy!

Mike

[Tim Golden]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

Brian Erhard wrote:

Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?

That would depend on what desktop / Operating System you're
using. If it's Windows, you need a shell extension (which
is non-trivial to understand and write). If it's one of the
Linux desktops, someone else had better chip in!

TJG

[Shane Geiger]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

>Is there
>a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
>open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
>event on a specific folder?
>>

>
That would depend on what desktop / Operating System you're
using. If it's Windows, you need a shell extension (which
is non-trivial to understand and write). If it's one of the
Linux desktops, someone else had better chip in!
>

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[Larry Bates]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

Brian Erhard wrote:

I am still fairly new to python and wanted to attempt a home made
password protection program. There are files that I carry on a USB
flash drive that I would like to password protect. Essentially, I
would like to password protect an entire directory of files. Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?
>
Thanks.
>

Unless you are just doing this to learn, I would suggest you purchase
USB key with encryption included. They are REALLY cheap.

http://www.kingston.com/flash/DataTr...enterprise.asp

-Larry

[Ben Finney]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

"Ene" <EneUran@yahoo. comwrites:

Install the free PortablePython from http://www.portablepython.com/
on your USB flash drive, and go from there.

To be clear: In addition to being a zero-cost download, Portable
Python is free software:

Python® distribution included in Portable Python is licensed under
PSF License, SciTE is licensed under SciTE license and Portable
Python scripts are licensed under GPL license.

<URL:http://www.portablepyt hon.com/site/download/>

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[Graeme Glass]

Re: Auto execute python in USB flash disk

Or take a look at http://www.truecrypt.org/ (Unless like Brain said,
you are doing this to learn)

On Mar 27, 11:17 pm, Larry Bates <lba...@websafe .comwrote:

Brian Erhard wrote:

I am still fairly new to python and wanted to attempt a home made
password protection program. There are files that I carry on a USB
flash drive that I would like to password protect. Essentially, I
would like to password protect an entire directory of files. Is there
a way to auto execute a python script after a user double clicks to
open a folder on the USB drive? How can you capture that double click
event on a specific folder?

>

Thanks.

>
Unless you are just doing this to learn, I would suggest you purchase
USB key with encryption included. They are REALLY cheap.
>
http://www.kingston.com/flash/DataTr...enterprise.asp
>
-Larry