[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: See also PyXDG (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/) and winpaths (http://ginstrom.com/code/winpaths.html). -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Christian Heimes added the comment: Oh my, this patch is rather ancient. Is this feature still of interest? I'm happy to port it from 2.6 to 3.4. -- status: languishing -> open versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

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Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Christian: have you any interest in keeping this open or can it be closed, gien that the last comment was 2 1/2 years ago? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker ___

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[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > I'm using win2000, and latest free compiler doesn't support it :-( I hope it does. r60696 is only about supporting win2000 when compiled with vs9. Building with vc6 should be corrected. I filed issue2065. __ Tracker <[EMA

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Hirokazu Yamamoto added the comment: Sorry for interruption. I'm a little doubtful this is really needed. We can get "My Documents" path by following 5 lines of code. import ctypes dll = ctypes.windll.shell32 buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(300) dll.SHGetSpecialFolderPathA(None, buf, 0x0005,

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Christian Heimes added the comment: Mark Hammond wrote: > I'm not sure why the approach of "load-em-all" is being taken. > Interestingly, SHGetFolderPathW is listed as deprecated, so I doubt that > list will grow too much, but the implementation as specified prevents > the user from using other

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Mark Hammond added the comment: I'm not sure why the approach of "load-em-all" is being taken. Interestingly, SHGetFolderPathW is listed as deprecated, so I doubt that list will grow too much, but the implementation as specified prevents the user from using other facilities available via the API

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > OK. We should also remove references to older versions on the website: > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.1/ and the various READMEs. No. Python 2.5.1 *does* support Windows 95 (I have myself tested that). Only 2.6 will drop support for 9x. __

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Christian Heimes added the comment: Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote: > For testing older platforms, we can still use virtual machines. I think > this is how Christian develops on Windows XP. Correct, I'm using a VMWare installation of Windows XP SP2 German and DesktopBSD (FreeBSD variant) to test Pyt

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: OK. We should also remove references to older versions on the website: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.1/ and the various READMEs. For testing older platforms, we can still use virtual machines. I think this is how Christian develops on Windows

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: It was never explicitly discussed, however, I always assumed that NT4 support is not necessary anymore. I would like to pose a policy that Python does not need to support Windows releases which have left Microsoft's "extended support". For NT 4 WS, this was on

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: > It uses SHGetFolderPathW which is compatible with Windows 2000. Is Python supposed to still work on Windows NT 4? http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/README says that support will be droppen in 2.6 for Win9x and WinME, but says nothing about NT4

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Christian Heimes added the comment: Here is a new patch which adds os.path.getshellfolders(). It uses SHGetFolderPathW which is compatible with Windows 2000. I've implemented the API because several of my project need the path to my documents. I've a personal interested in the specific feature.

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I believe Microsoft advises against looking at the registry to find these things, and advocates the use of SHGetFolder instead: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/apcompat/apcompat/use_the_application_programming_interface_to_locat

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm not very good in naming things. I'm open to suggestions :) __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ ___ Python-bugs-list

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Raghuram Devarakonda added the comment: The current 'path' modules such as posixpath and ntpath have functions that operate on a file path. But I see this module more as a way of getting information related to one's profile. So the name 'winpath' may not be a good choice. -- nosy: +dragh

[issue1763] Winpath module - easy access to Windows directories like My Documents

New submission from Christian Heimes: The new module "winpath" gives easy access to Windows shell folders like my documents, my files, application data etc. -- components: Library (Lib), Windows files: trunk_winpath.patch keywords: patch messages: 59547 nosy: tiran priority: normal sever