This week's PyDev is Tim Golden. He is a member of the Python Software Foundation and a Python core developer. Tim is also a moderator or owner of several Python mailing lists. In April 2013, Tim was the recipient of the Python Community Service Award "for his work on supporting the Windows Management Interface in […]
Today we will look at Tim Golden's handy package, winshell. The winshell package allows you to find special folders on Windows, create shortcuts easily, work with metadata via "structured storage", use the Windows shell to accomplish file operations and work with the Windows Recycle Bin. We will focus on the special folders, shortcuts and the […]
Occasionally you will need to know what version of software you are using. The normal way to find this information out is usually done by opening the program, going to its Help menu and clicking the About menu item. But this is a Python blog and we want to do it programmatically! To do that […]
Back in my system administrator days, we were thinking about setting the user's Window desktop background to a specific image on login. Since I was in charge of the login scripts, which were written in Python, I decided to do some research to find out if there was a way to do it. We will […]
I recently saw someone asking how to bring a window to the front in Windows and I realized I had had some old unreleased code that might help someone with this task. A long time ago, Tim Golden (and possibly some other fellows on the PyWin32 mailing list) showed me how to make windows come […]
