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(Reblog) HotKeys on Windows using Python

This post comes  from the old blog.

A few weeks ago, I have to write a program in PyGTK that was supposed to be all the time in the background. This application needs to run over Microsoft Windows, and hide in the notification area, wich in Windows is near to the clock.

One of challenges for me in this application is that as it must run in the background there must be a way to raise it, the most easy way to do it is by force the user to click on the small icon in the notification area, but in this case, that was impossible because the computer don’t have any mouse, everything is done with the keyboard. read more

Python: Simple HTTP Server on python.

(Repost from old blog)

Python have several modules that help you to achieve your goals. This week, on my spare time that is getting every day more scarce I spend time figuring out how to create a Python Web Server, I was planing to use it over an application that I’m developing on ICT Consulting. At the end I didn’t use it because I didn’t want a “passive” communication, but probably I will use this code on the CRM Desktop application that we use here.

Anyway, this code may be helpful for you too. I found that creating a small web server is really simple, It starts getting bigger as you add functions to that web server, but the basis is quite simple.

import os import cgi import sys from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler class customHTTPServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html') self.end_headers() self.wfile.write('<HTML><body>Get!</body></HTML>') return def do_POST(self): global rootnode ctype,pdict = cgi.parse_header(self.headers.getheader('Content-type')) if ctype == 'multipart/form-data': query = cgi.parse_multipart(self.rfile, pdict) self.send_response(301) self.end_headers() self.wfile.write('Post!') def main(): try: server = HTTPServer(('',8080),customHTTPServer) print 'server started at port 8080' server.serve_forever() except KeyboardInterrupt: server.socket.close() if __name__=='__main__': main() read more