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

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=]

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?

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

-- Gerhard

 

[Ladvánszky Károly]

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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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?

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

-- Gerhard

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=]

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? [...]

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 :-/

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=]

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?

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

-- Gerhard

 

[Michael Hudson]

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? [...]

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].

It's only DNS woes. Try IP 217.160.219.194.

Cheers,
mwh

 

[Henk Punt]

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.