Automation of Applications with Python for Windows – The Script Collection
This example opens a Microsoft Visio document and prints the save-time and creation-time of the Visio document:
import sys, win32com.client
doc = sys.argv[1]
try:
visio = win32com.client.Dispatch("Visio.Application")
visio.Visible = 0
try:
dwg = visio.Documents.Open(doc)
print dwg.TimeCreated, ",", dwg.TimeSaved
except Exception, e:
print "Error", e
dwg.Close()
visio.Quit()
except Exception, e:
print "Error opening file",e
A very small example to convert Microsoft Word files to text files. A full featured batchconverter can be found at Homepage of doc2txt
import win32com.client
app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
doc = app.Documents.Open('c:\\files\\mydocument.doc')
print doc.Content.Text
app.Quit()
This script watches for activity at the installed printers and writes a logfile. It shows how much a user has printed on wich printer (works also with network printers).
But it has a proplem with counting the right amount of printed pages đ
It uses the wmi-class from Tim Golden, which you can download from his webpages. Please put the wmi.py in the same directory where you run this script from.
import wmi
c = wmi.WMI ()
print_job_watcher = c.watch_for (
notification_type="Creation",
wmi_class="Win32_PrintJob",
delay_secs=1
)
while 1:
pj = print_job_watcher ()
print "User %s has submitted %d pages to printer %s" % \
(pj.Owner, pj.TotalPages, pj.Name)
With “startCommand” one can start userdefined commands in the same
way as you type the command in the command prompt in CATIA V5.
try:
import win32com.client
except:
print "Oops PYwin32 from Marc Hammond needed"
catapp = win32com.client.Dispatch("CATIA.application")
#Attention: runs only if you have set TOOLS/CUSTOMIZE/OPTIONS to Englisch.
catapp.StartCommand("Open")
#Starts the "File open"-Menu
#other examples:
#catapp.StartCommand("What's This?")
# Runs the Online-Help (Strg+F1)
#catapp.StartCommand("CompassDisplayOff")
# Compass visible
#catapp.StartCommand("CompassDisplayOn")
# Compass invisible