Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 4 September 2012 15:44, Wayne Werner wrote: >> I actually just want the functionality of a shortcut so that I can put an >> icon on the desktop. symlink allows that in Unix (and a few other >> capabilities that I'm not that intersted in) and just want something >> equivalent to the menu it

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread Wayne Werner
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Garry Willgoose wrote: Oscar, I actually just want the functionality of a shortcut so that I can put an icon on the desktop. symlink allows that in Unix (and a few other capabilities that I'm not that intersted in) and just want something equivalent to the menu item for maki

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread Garry Willgoose
Oscar, I actually just want the functionality of a shortcut so that I can put an icon on the desktop. symlink allows that in Unix (and a few other capabilities that I'm not that intersted in) and just want something equivalent to the menu item for making a shortcut in Windows. > On 4 Septembe

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread Walter Prins
Hi, On 4 September 2012 02:57, Garry Willgoose wrote: > I want to put a shortcut onto the desktop in windows (XP and later) in Python > 2.6 or later. In Unix its easy using os.symlink but I can't find anything > equivalent for windows. My searches on the web led me to the code below but > the

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 4 September 2012 02:57, Garry Willgoose wrote: > I want to put a shortcut onto the desktop in windows (XP and later) in > Python 2.6 or later. In Unix its easy using os.symlink but I can't find > anything equivalent for windows. My searches on the web led me to the code > below but the code re

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-04 Thread eryksun
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Garry Willgoose wrote: > I want to put a shortcut onto the desktop in windows (XP and later) in > > AttributeError: function 'CreateSymbolicLinkW' not found A simple search for "msdn CreateSymbolicLink" leads to the following page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/

Re: [Tutor] making a shortcut in windows

2012-09-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:57:48AM +1000, Garry Willgoose wrote: > I want to put a shortcut onto the desktop in windows (XP and later) in > Python 2.6 or later. In Unix its easy using os.symlink but I can't > find anything equivalent for windows. My searches on the web led me to > the code belo