Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 007.

Today I show you a new script I tested a few days ago with win32com and Win32_LogonSession class, see thedocumentation.

The Win32_LogonSession WMI class describes the logon session or sessions associated with a user logged on to a computer system running Windows.

Let's see the script:

import win32com.client
from win32com.client import gencache
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Session")
for objItem in colItems:
    print("Caption" , objItem.Caption)
    print("Description" , objItem.Description)
    print("InstallDate" , objItem.InstallDate)
    print("Name" , objItem.Name)
    print("Status" , objItem.Status)
    print("StartTime" , objItem.StartTime)
    print("AuthenticationPackage" , objItem.AuthenticationPackage)
    print("LogonId" , objItem.LogonId)
    print("LogonType" , objItem.LogonType)

The result of this python script:

Caption None
Description None
InstallDate None
Name None
Status None
StartTime 20190530105325.022532+180
AuthenticationPackage LiveSSP
LogonId 8291403
LogonType 2
Caption None
Description None
InstallDate None
Name None
Status None
StartTime 20190530105325.022532+180
AuthenticationPackage LiveSSP
LogonId 8291220
LogonType 2

You can read info with this python module.

For example, the output tells me aboutLogonType.

You’ll see type 2 logons when a user attempts to log on at the local keyboard and screen whether with a domain account or a local account from the computer.

Python 3.7.3 : How fast are Data Classes.

This simple tutorial follows the PEP 0557 subject of Data Classes.
About the python classes then you can define into three ways:

• standard_class;
• slot_class ( standard_class with __slots__);
• the new dataclass

Today I will show you how this works and how fast are these classes.
First, let's import some python modules: dataclasses and timeit.
The dataclasses python module lets us use the new dataclass.
This dataclass is a class decorator as defined in PEP 526.
For testing, I define a function to show us the output:

def  _str(n): return f'({n.x})'

This will get value and return it.
I define three classes for each type of these with one value named x and set to 1.0.
Each of these classes can have values and be used:

sc = standard_class(1.0)
sl = slot_class(1.0)
dc = new_dataclass(1.0)

This will set for each class the value 1.0 to x parameter.
The next step will start with the measure execution time of the time object creation for each of these classes.
Let's see the source code:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from timeit import timeit

def  _str(n): return f'({n.x})'

class standard_class:
 def __init__(self, x=0.0):
  self.x = x
 def __str__(self): return _str(self)

class slot_class:
 __slots__ = 'x'
 def __init__(self, x=0):
  self.x =x
 def __str__(self): return _str(self)

@dataclass
class new_dataclass:
 x: float = 0.0
 def __str__(self): return _str(self)

sc = standard_class(1.0)
sl = slot_class(1.0)
dc = new_dataclass(1.0)
print(sc,sl,dc)

time_sc=timeit('standard_class()', setup = 'from __main__ import standard_class')
print(f'standard class: {time_sc:.5f}')
time_sc=timeit('slot_class()', setup = 'from __main__ import slot_class')
print(f'standard class: {time_sc:.5f}')
time_sc=timeit('new_dataclass()', setup = 'from __main__ import new_dataclass')
print(f'standard class: {time_sc:.5f}')

The output is:

C:\Python373>python.exe dataclasses_001.py
(1.0) (1.0) (1.0)
standard class: 0.48912
standard class: 0.41349
standard class: 0.48514

As you can see, the new types of the class definition are not very fast but allow for other advantages and disadvantages.
You can read more about this at PEP 0557.

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 006.

Today I will show you how to see the system environment setting:

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Environment")
for objItem in colItems:
    print("Caption:", objItem.Caption)
    print("Description:", objItem.Description)
    print("Install Date:", objItem.InstallDate)
    print("Name:", objItem.Name)
    print("Status:", objItem.Status)
    print("System Variable:", objItem.SystemVariable)
    print("User Name:", objItem.UserName)
    print("Variable Value:", objItem.VariableValue)

The result is :

...
Install Date: None
Name: PATH
Status: OK
System Variable: False...

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 005.

Another example with win32com python module:
This script show info about the audio or video codec, see this link:

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_CodecFile")
for objItem in colItems:
    print("Access Mask: " , objItem.AccessMask)
    print("Archive: " , objItem.Archive)
    print("Caption: " , objItem.Caption)
    print("Drive: " , objItem.Drive)
    print("Extension: " , objItem.Extension)
    print("File Name: " , objItem.FileName)
    print("File Size: " , objItem.FileSize)
    print("File Type: " , objItem.FileType)
    print("File System Name: " , objItem.FSName)
    print("Group: " , objItem.Group)
    print("Hidden: " , objItem.Hidden)
    print("Manufacturer: " , objItem.Manufacturer)
    print("Name: " , objItem.Name)
    print("Path: " , objItem.Path)
    print("Version: " , objItem.Version)

The output is this:

File Type:  Application Extension
File System Name:  NTFS
Group:  Video
Hidden:  False
Manufacturer:  Microsoft Corporation
Name:  C:\Windows\system32\MSVIDC32.DLL
Path:  \windows\system32\
Version:  6.3.9600.17415
Access Mask:  1179817
Archive:  True
Caption:  c:\windows\system32\l3codeca.acm
Drive:  c:
Extension:  acm
File Name:  l3codeca
File Size:  82432
File Type:  acm File
File System Name:  NTFS
Group:  Audio
Hidden:  False
Manufacturer:  Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS
Name:  C:\Windows\system32\L3CODECA.ACM
Path:  \windows\system32\
Version:  1.9.0.401

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 004.

This is a source code I created a few days ago.

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ProgIDSpecification")
for objItem in colItems:
    print ("Caption: ", objItem.Caption)
    print ("Check ID: ", objItem.CheckID)
    print ("Check Mode: ", objItem.CheckMode)
    print ("Description: ", objItem.Description)
    print ("Name: ", objItem.Name)
    print ("Parent: ", objItem.Parent)
    print ("ProgID: ", objItem.ProgID)
    print ("Software Element ID: ", objItem.SoftwareElementID)
    print ("Software Element State: ", objItem.SoftwareElementState)
    print ("Target Operating System: ", objItem.TargetOperatingSystem)
    print ("Version: ", objItem.Version)

This script uses the win32com python module to show us info about Win32_ProgIDSpecification.
The result is strange and shows like this:

...
Version:  None
Caption:  Addin Class
...

See the full documentation at this link.

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 003.

This is another python script with win32com python module and python version 3.7.3 .
The script shows us info about the drive:

import win32com
from win32com import client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
out_items = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive")
for object_item in out_items:
    if object_item.Availability != None:
        print("Availability:" +  str(object_item.Availability))
    if object_item.BytesPerSector != None:
        print("BytesPerSector:" +  str(object_item.BytesPerSector))
    print("Capabilities:")
    strList = " "
    try :
        for obj_element in object_item.Capabilities :
            strList = strList + 'obj_element' + "," + obj_element
    except:
        strList = strList + 'null'
    print(strList)
    print("CapabilityDescriptions:")
    strList = " "
    try :
        for obj_element in object_item.CapabilityDescriptions :
            strList = strList + 'obj_element' + "," + obj_element
    except:
        strList = strList + 'null'
    print(strList)
    if object_item.Caption != None:
        print("Caption:" +  str(object_item.Caption))
    if object_item.CompressionMethod != None:
        print("CompressionMethod:" + str(object_item.CompressionMethod))
    if object_item.ConfigManagerErrorCode != None:
        print("ConfigManagerErrorCode:" + str(object_item.ConfigManagerErrorCode))
    if object_item.ConfigManagerUserConfig != None:
        print("ConfigManagerUserConfig:" + str(object_item.ConfigManagerUserConfig))
    if object_item.CreationClassName != None:
        print("CreationClassName:" + str(object_item.CreationClassName))
    if object_item.DefaultBlockSize != None:
        print("DefaultBlockSize:" + str(object_item.DefaultBlockSize))
    if object_item.Description != None:
        print("Description:" + str(object_item.Description))
    if object_item.DeviceID != None:
        print("DeviceID:" + str(object_item.DeviceID))
    if object_item.ErrorCleared != None:
        print("ErrorCleared:" + str(object_item.ErrorCleared))
    if object_item.ErrorDescription != None:
        print("ErrorDescription:" + str(object_item.ErrorDescription))
    if object_item.ErrorMethodology != None:
        print("ErrorMethodology:" + str(object_item.ErrorMethodology))
    if object_item.Index != None:
        print("Index:" + str(object_item.Index))
    #object_item.InstallDate - this is not show
    if object_item.InterfaceType != None:
        print("InterfaceType:" + str(object_item.InterfaceType))
    if object_item.LastErrorCode != None:
        print("LastErrorCode:" + str(object_item.LastErrorCode))
    if object_item.Manufacturer != None:
        print("Manufacturer:" + str(object_item.Manufacturer))
    if object_item.MaxBlockSize != None:
        print("MaxBlockSize:" + str(object_item.MaxBlockSize))
    if object_item.MaxMediaSize != None:
        print("MaxMediaSize:" + str(object_item.MaxMediaSize))
    if object_item.MediaLoaded != None:
        print("MediaLoaded:" + str(object_item.MediaLoaded))
    if object_item.MediaType != None:
        print("MediaType:" + str(object_item.MediaType))
    if object_item.MinBlockSize != None:
        print("MinBlockSize:" + str(object_item.MinBlockSize))
    if object_item.Model != None:
        print("Model:" + str(object_item.Model))
    if object_item.Name != None:
        print("Name:" + str(object_item.Name))
    if object_item.NeedsCleaning != None:
        print("NeedsCleaning:" + str(object_item.NeedsCleaning))
    if object_item.NumberOfMediaSupported != None:
        print("NumberOfMediaSupported:" + str(object_item.NumberOfMediaSupported))
    if object_item.Partitions != None:
        print("Partitions:" + str(object_item.Partitions))
    if object_item.PNPDeviceID != None:
        print("PNPDeviceID:" + str(object_item.PNPDeviceID))
    print("PowerManagementCapabilities:")
    strList = " "
    try :
        for obj_element in object_item.PowerManagementCapabilities :
            strList = strList + 'obj_element' + "," + obj_element
    except:
        strList = strList + 'null'
    print(strList)
    if object_item.PowerManagementSupported != None:
        print("PowerManagementSupported:" + str(object_item.PowerManagementSupported))
    if object_item.SCSIBus != None:
        print("SCSIBus:" + str(object_item.SCSIBus))
    if object_item.SCSILogicalUnit != None:
        print("SCSILogicalUnit:" + str(object_item.SCSILogicalUnit))
    if object_item.SCSIPort != None:
        print("SCSIPort:" + str(object_item.SCSIPort))
    if object_item.SCSITargetId != None:
        print("SCSITargetId:" + str(object_item.SCSITargetId))
    if object_item.SectorsPerTrack != None:
        print("SectorsPerTrack:" + str(object_item.SectorsPerTrack))
    if object_item.Signature != None:
        print("Signature:" + str(object_item.Signature))
    if object_item.Size != None:
        print("Size:" + str(object_item.Size))
    if object_item.Status != None:
        print("Status:" + str(object_item.Status))
    if object_item.StatusInfo != None:
        print("StatusInfo:" + str(object_item.StatusInfo))
    if object_item.SystemCreationClassName != None:
        print("SystemCreationClassName:" + str(object_item.SystemCreationClassName))
    if object_item.SystemName != None:
        print("SystemName:" + str(object_item.SystemName))
    if object_item.TotalCylinders != None:
        print("TotalCylinders:" + str(object_item.TotalCylinders))
    if object_item.TotalHeads != None:
        print("TotalHeads:" + str(object_item.TotalHeads))
    if object_item.TotalSectors != None:
        print("TotalSectors:" + str(object_item.TotalSectors))
    if object_item.TotalTracks != None:
        print("TotalTracks:" + str(object_item.TotalTracks))
    if object_item.TracksPerCylinder != None:
        print("TracksPerCylinder:" + str(object_item.TracksPerCylinder))

The result looks something like this:

MediaLoaded:True
...
MediaType:Fixed hard disk media
Model:TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050
Name:\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0
Partitions:2
PNPDeviceID:SCSI\DISK&VEN_TOSHIBA&PROD_MQ01ABF050\4&AD866E5&0&000000
PowerManagementCapabilities:
 null
SCSIBus:0
SCSILogicalUnit:0
SCSIPort:0
SCSITargetId:0
SectorsPerTrack:63
Signature:-1846003871
Size:500105249280
Status:OK
SystemCreationClassName:Win32_ComputerSystem
SystemName:CATAFEST
TotalCylinders:60801
TotalHeads:255
TotalSectors:976768065
TotalTracks:15504255
TracksPerCylinder:255

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 002.

Today I tested the win32com python module with python 3.7.3.
I'll show you two scripts I tested with this python module.

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ClassicCOMClass")
for objItem in colItems:
    print("Component ID: " , objItem.ComponentId)
    print("Description: " , objItem.Description)
    print("Name: " , objItem.Name)

The result is something like this:

Name:  Shell Execute Hardware Event Handler
Component ID:  {FFC9F9AE-E87A-3252-8E25-B22423A40 }
Description:  System.ThreadStaticAttribute
Name:  System.ThreadStaticAttribute
Component ID:  {FFCDB781-D71C-4D10-BD5F-0492EAFFD }
Description:  PSFactoryBuffer
Name:  PSFactoryBuffer
Component ID:  {ffd90217-f7c2-4434-9ee1-6f1b530db }
Description:  XML Feed Moniker
Name:  XML Feed Moniker
Component ID:  {ffe1df5f-9f06-46d3-af27-f1fc10d63 }
Description:  HomeGroup CPL Advanced Settings Writer
Name:  HomeGroup CPL Advanced Settings Writer
Component ID:  {FFE2A43C-56B9-4bf5-9A79-CC6D42856 }
Description:  Windows Photo Viewer Image Verbs
Name:  Windows Photo Viewer Image Verbs

The following example contains this source code:

import win32com.client
strComputer = "."
objWMIService = win32com.client.Dispatch("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
objSWbemServices = objWMIService.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2")
colItems = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComponentCategory")
for objItem in colItems:
    print("Category ID: " , objItem.CategoryId)
    print("Name: " , objItem.Name)

The result is something like this:

Name:  3D DirectTransform
Category ID:  {F0B7A1A1-9847-11CF-8F20-00805F2CD }
Name:  Active Scripting Engine
Category ID:  {F0B7A1A2-9847-11CF-8F20-00805F2CD }
Name:  Active Scripting Engine with Parsing
Category ID:  {F0B7A1A3-9847-11CF-8F20-00805F2CD }
Name:  Active Scripting Engine with Encoding

Python 3.7.3 : Using the pelican python module and GitHub.

This tutorial follows a similar tutorial from the web.
I tested that tutorial to see if it works.
This tutorial is focused on GitHub but can also be used independently on another python platform.
You need a GitHub Pro, your personal account:
With GitHub Pro, your personal account gets unlimited public and private repositories with unlimited collaborators.

In addition to the features available with GitHub Free, private repositories on GitHub Pro include advanced tools and insights:

Unlimited collaborators
GitHub Pages
Wikis
Protected branches
Code owners
Repository insights graphs: Pulse, contributors, traffic, commits, code frequency, network, and forks
Let's start with pip install tool:

C:\Python373>cd Scripts

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install pelican ghp-import
...
Installing collected packages: unidecode, blinker, feedgenerator, pelican, ghp-import
Successfully installed blinker-1.4 feedgenerator-1.9 ghp-import-0.5.5 pelican-4.0.1
 unidecode-1.0.23

Now you can create a new repository with your name into the GitHub website.
I create a repository named catafest:

C:\Python373\Scripts>git clone https://github.com/catafest/catafest.git blog
Cloning into 'blog'...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.

C:\Python373\Scripts>cd blog

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git checkout -b content
Switched to a new branch 'content'

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>pelican-quickstart
Welcome to pelican-quickstart v4.0.1.

This script will help you create a new Pelican-based website.

Please answer the following questions so this script can generate the files
needed by Pelican.


> Where do you want to create your new web site? [.] .
> What will be the title of this web site? catafest
> Who will be the author of this web site? Catalin George Festila
> What will be the default language of this web site? [English]
> Do you want to specify a URL prefix? e.g., https://example.com   (Y/n) n
> Do you want to enable article pagination? (Y/n)
> How many articles per page do you want? [10]
> What is your time zone? [Europe/Paris] Europe/Bucharest
> Do you want to generate a tasks.py/Makefile to automate generation and publish
ing? (Y/n) y
> Do you want to upload your website using FTP? (y/N) n
> Do you want to upload your website using SSH? (y/N) n
> Do you want to upload your website using Dropbox? (y/N) n
> Do you want to upload your website using S3? (y/N) n
> Do you want to upload your website using Rackspace Cloud Files? (y/N) n
> Do you want to upload your website using GitHub Pages? (y/N) y
> Is this your personal page (username.github.io)? (y/N) y
Done. Your new project is available at C:\Python373\Scripts\blog

The content of the blog file:

[.]              [..]             [content]        Makefile
[output]         pelicanconf.py   publishconf.py   tasks.py
               4 File(s)          6,496 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  333,558,878,208 bytes free

The quickstart created five files and one new directory:

• Makefile: make command convenience tasks for common operations such as running a development server, building a site and cleaning extraneous build files;
• fabfile.py: A Fabric file that has some of the same types of commands as the Makefile. Fabric is a wonderful code library but for now I recommend skipping the Fabric file because unfortunately Fabric does not yet support Python 3;
• develop_server.sh: shell script for running the development server;
• pelicanconf.py: settings file for your Pelican project. If you are used to earlier versions of Pelican this file was instead named settings.py;
• publishconf.py: another (optional) settings file that can be considered as a "production" settings file when you move past the development phase and want to deploy your site;
• content: location for your markup files, which should be stored under pages and posts directories

Now we can use the local Git repo, commit the changes, and push the local changes to the remote repo hosted on GitHub:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git add .
warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in Makefile.

This can be fixed with:

git config core.autocrlf true

Check the first commit:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git commit -m "first commit"

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'catal_000@catafest.(none)')

Add the mail and name to your git settings:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git config --global user.email "catafest@yahoo.com"
C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git config --global user.name "catafest"

Use the git for the first commit

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git commit -m "first commit"
[content (root-commit) 85814f7] first commit
 6 files changed, 230 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Makefile
 create mode 100644 README.md
 create mode 100644 git
 create mode 100644 pelicanconf.py
 create mode 100644 publishconf.py
 create mode 100644 tasks.py

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git push origin content
Enumerating objects: 8, done.
Counting objects: 100% (8/8), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 2.91 KiB | 994.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 8 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://github.com/catafest/catafest.git
 * [new branch]      content -> content

Create folders pages and images and create the first post with new file first-post.md.

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>cd content
C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content>mkdir pages images
C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content>notepad first-post.md

Add content to the first post:

title: First Post on My Sweet New Blog
date: 
author: Your Name Here

#I am On My Way To Internet Fame and Fortune!

This is my first post on my new blog. While not super informative it
should convey my sense of excitement and eagerness to engage with you,
the reader!

Copy an image file into folder images.
I used the catafest.jpg image.
Create a new file into pages and named this file about.md.

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content>cd pages

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content\pages>notepad about.md

The content of about.md file is:

title: About
date: 

![So Schmexy][my_sweet_photo]

Hi, I am  and I wrote this epic collection of Interweb
wisdom. In days of yore, much of this would have been deemed sorcery
and I would probably have been burned at the stake.

😆

[my_sweet_photo]: {filename}/images/catafest.jpg

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content>cd pages

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content\pages>notepad about.md

Run Pelican to generate the static HTML files in the output:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content\pages>notepad about.md

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content\pages>cd ..

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\content>cd ..

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>pelican content -o output -s publishconf.py
WARNING: Feeds generated without SITEURL set properly may not be valid
WARNING: Docutils has no localization for 'english'. Using 'en' instead.
WARNING: No valid files found in content for the active readers:
  | BaseReader (static)
  | HTMLReader (htm, html)
  | RstReader (rst)
Done: Processed 0 articles, 0 drafts, 0 pages, 0 hidden pages and 0 draft pages
in 0.23 seconds.

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>ghp-import -m "Generate Pelican site" --no-jekyll -b m
aster output

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git push origin master
Enumerating objects: 49, done.
Counting objects: 100% (49/49), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (45/45), done.
Writing objects: 100% (49/49), 149.15 KiB | 2.98 MiB/s, done.
Total 49 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), done.
remote:
remote: Create a pull request for 'master' on GitHub by visiting:
remote:      https://github.com/catafest/catafest/pull/new/master
remote:
To https://github.com/catafest/catafest.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git add content

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git commit -m "added a first post, a photo and an abou
t page"
[content 4b036fd] added a first post, a photo and an about page
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 content/first-post.md
create mode 100644 content/images/catafest.jpg
create mode 100644 content/pages/about.md

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>git push origin content
Enumerating objects: 9, done.
Counting objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 20.28 KiB | 5.07 MiB/s, done.
Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To https://github.com/catafest/catafest.git
85814f7..4b036fd  content -> content

Open your browser and enter:

https://username.github.io

If you want to test it without Github, then use this:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>pelican -s pelicanconf.py -o output content
WARNING: Docutils has no localization for 'english'. Using 'en' instead.
WARNING: No valid files found in content for the active readers:
  | BaseReader (static)
  | HTMLReader (htm, html)
  | RstReader (rst)
Done: Processed 0 articles, 0 drafts, 0 pages, 0 hidden pages and 0 draft pages
in 0.19 seconds.

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>cd output

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog\output>python -m http.server
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

Open your browser with the http://localhost:8000 URL.
You need to understand the difference between these two commands and how this make changes into output:

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>pelican -s pelicanconf.py -o output content
WARNING: Docutils has no localization for 'english'. Using 'en' instead.
WARNING: No valid files found in content for the active readers:
  | BaseReader (static)
  | HTMLReader (htm, html)
  | RstReader (rst)
Done: Processed 0 articles, 0 drafts, 0 pages, 0 hidden pages and 0 draft pages
in 0.19 seconds.

C:\Python373\Scripts\blog>pelican content -o output -s publishconf.py
WARNING: Feeds generated without SITEURL set properly may not be valid
WARNING: Docutils has no localization for 'english'. Using 'en' instead.
WARNING: No valid files found in content for the active readers:
  | BaseReader (static)
  | HTMLReader (htm, html)
  | RstReader (rst)
Done: Processed 0 articles, 0 drafts, 0 pages, 0 hidden pages and 0 draft pages
in 0.23 seconds.

You can create themes and used into similar way like django with this command:

pelican -s pelicanconf.py -o output -t theme content

I do not want to extend this tutorial, but I can tell you that this python module is very versatile.

Python 3.7.3 : Using the win32com - part 001.

The tutorial is about win32com python module using the python 3.7.3.
First exameple is simple:

import sys
import win32com.client
from win32com.client import constants

speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")
print ("Type word or phrase, then enter.")
while 1:
      text_to_say = input("> ")
      speaker.Speak(text_to_say)

Let's run it.
The Microsoft Speech SDK to speak what you type in from the keyboard.

C:\Python373>python.exe speak_001.py
Type word or phrase, then enter.
> this is a test

The next example is more complex and uses speech recognition to create outputs.
You can change this example to execute tasks.

# This is a sample code for speech recognition using the MS Speech API

from win32com.client import constants
import win32com.client
import pythoncom
 
""" 
You will see a voice say: Started successfully
The you need to start the speech recognition tool.
After running this, then saying "One", "Two", "Three" or "Four" should
display "You said One" etc on the console.
"""
 
class SpeechRecognition:
    """ Initialize the speech recognition with the passed in list of words """
    def __init__(self, wordsToAdd):

        # For text-to-speech
        self.speaker = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpVoice")

        # For speech recognition - first create a listener
        self.listener = win32com.client.Dispatch("SAPI.SpSharedRecognizer")

        # Then a recognition context
        self.context = self.listener.CreateRecoContext()

        # which has an associated grammar
        self.grammar = self.context.CreateGrammar()

        # Do not allow free word recognition - only command and control
        # recognizing the words in the grammar only
        self.grammar.DictationSetState(0)

        # Create a new rule for the grammar, that is top level (so it begins
        # a recognition) and dynamic (ie we can change it at runtime)
        self.wordsRule = self.grammar.Rules.Add("wordsRule",
                        constants.SRATopLevel + constants.SRADynamic, 0)

        # Clear the rule (not necessary first time, but if we're changing it
        # dynamically then it's useful)
        self.wordsRule.Clear()

        # And go through the list of words, adding each to the rule
        [ self.wordsRule.InitialState.AddWordTransition(None, word) for word in wordsToAdd ]

        # Set the wordsRule to be active
        self.grammar.Rules.Commit()
        self.grammar.CmdSetRuleState("wordsRule", 1)

        # Commit the changes to the grammar
        self.grammar.Rules.Commit()

        # And add an event handler that's called back when recognition occurs
        self.eventHandler = ContextEvents(self.context)

        # Announce we've started
        self.say("Started successfully")
    """Speak a word or phrase"""
    def say(self, phrase):
        self.speaker.Speak(phrase)
 
"""
The callback class that handles the events raised by the speech object.
"""

class ContextEvents(win32com.client.getevents("SAPI.SpSharedRecoContext")):

    """Called when a word/phrase is successfully recognized and is
        found in a currently open grammar """

    def OnRecognition(self, StreamNumber, StreamPosition, RecognitionType, Result):
        newResult = win32com.client.Dispatch(Result)
        print ("You said: ",newResult.PhraseInfo.GetText())
    
if __name__=='__main__':
    wordsToAdd = [ "One", "Two", "Three", "Four" ]
    speechReco = SpeechRecognition(wordsToAdd)
    while 1:
        pythoncom.PumpWaitingMessages()

The result can be see on my youtube channel:

Python 3.7.3 : Use the tweepy to deal with twitter api - part 002.

The tutorial for today is about with python 3.7.3
The development team comes with this intro:
An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.
You need to have an application on twitter with tokens and key, see here.
The first step is to install this python module:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install tweepy
...
Successfully built PySocks
Installing collected packages: PySocks, tweepy
Successfully installed PySocks-1.6.8 tweepy-3.7.0

This is the source code I used.
Is very simple to understand:

import tweepy

# set the keys strings
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

# get  the keys 
input("consumer_key :")
input("consumer_secret :")
input("access_token :")
input("access_token_secret :")
print("--------")

# authentification and get data 
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
user = api.me()
print (user.name)
user = api.me()
print(user.name)
print(user.location)
search = input("search :")
numberOfTweets = int(input("number of tweets :"))
phrase = input("response phrase :")
for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers).items():
    try:
        follower.follow()
    except tweepy.error.TweepError:
        pass

print("Followed everyone that is following " + user.name)
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
    try:
    #Reply
        print('\nTweet by: @' + tweet.user.screen_name)
        print('ID: @' + str(tweet.user.id))
        tweetId = tweet.user.id
        username = tweet.user.screen_name
        api.update_status("@" + username + " " + phrase, in_reply_to_status_id = tweetId)
        print ("Replied with " + phrase)
    except tweepy.TweepError as e:
        print(e.reason)
    except StopIteration:
        break

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
    try:
        #Reply
        tweet.favorite()
        print('Favorited the tweet') 
        #Retweet
        tweet.retweet()
        print('Retweeted the tweet')   
        #Follow
        tweet.user.follow()
        print('Followed the user')        
    except tweepy.TweepError as e:
        print(e.reason)
    except StopIteration:
        break

The result is this:

C:\Python373>python.exe tweepy_001.py
catafest
catafest
Romania, Suceava, Falticeni
search :Catalin
number of tweets :1
response phrase :Festila
Followed everyone that is following catafest

Tweet by: @rumeys1a
ID: @1103384469703196673
Replied with Festila
Favorited the tweet
Retweeted the tweet
Followed the user

You can see what are the technical follow limits for twitter here.
The tweepy Documentation can be read at this link.

Python 3.7.3 : The google-cloud-vision python module - part 002.

I used Windows 8.1 and python 3.7.3 version.
The first step is to install the python module.

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install --upgrade google-cloud-vision

You can see another tutorial about this python module here.
Let's test the python module.

C:\Python373>python
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD6
4)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from google.cloud import vision
>>> from google.cloud.vision import types
>>> from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

You need to have billing enabled for your Google Cloud Platform project.
Evaluated prices can vary and Google gives us this online calculator, or let us test with a FREE account with 300$.
To change the billing account go to the Google Cloud Platform Console.
Open the console left side menu and select Billing.
If you have more than one billing account then you need to solve this issue, see this webpage.
The Cloud Vision API integrates vision features, like: including image labeling, face, logo, and landmark detection, optical character recognition (OCR), and detection of explicit content, into applications.
You need to set the authentification for your google account and your project, see this page.
The next step is to instantiate a client:

client = vision.ImageAnnotatorClient()

Google provides this tutorial with the same steps as into this tutorial.
You can test and read more about Google Vision on the official page.

Python 3.7.3 : Using the cognitive face detection from Azure Microsoft .

The Microsoft Azure comes with this free feature named Computer Vision:
This API key is currently active
7 days remaining
Distill actionable information from images
5,000 transactions, 20 per minute.

You can test with the cognitive_face python module from GitHub.
Another good example of extract printed text can be found at docs.microsoft.com.
Let's install it:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install cognitive_face
...
Installing collected packages: cognitive-face
Successfully installed cognitive-face-1.4.2

Now a simple intro using the dir:

C:\Python373>python.exe
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD6
4)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import cognitive_face as CF
>>> dir(CF)
['BaseUrl', 'CognitiveFaceException', 'Key', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__do
c__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__
', 'face', 'face_list', 'large_face_list', 'large_face_list_face', 'large_person
_group', 'large_person_group_person', 'large_person_group_person_face', 'person'
, 'person_group', 'util']

For detections you need to use the face with detect:

import cognitive_face as CF
# Replace with your valid Subscription Key here.
KEY = '111111111111'  
CF.Key.set(KEY)
# Replace with your regional Base URL based by 
# https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/cognitive-services/my-apis/?apiSlug=computer-vision

BASE_URL = 'https://westcentralus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/vision/v2.0'  
CF.BaseUrl.set(BASE_URL)

img_url = 'https://previews.123rf.com/images/boarding1now/boarding1now150
8/boarding1now150800143/44403889-background-collage-large-group-portrait
-of-multiracial-young-smile-smiling-people-social-media.jpg'
result = CF.face.detect(img_url)
print (result)

img_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Microsoft/Cognitive-Face-
Windows/master/Data/detection1.jpg'
result2 = CF.face.detect(img_url)
print (result2)

The result of this running code is:

C:\Python373>python.exe face_cognitive_001.py
{'objects': [{'rectangle': {'x': 145, 'y': 14, 'w': 121, 'h': 160}, 'object': 'p
erson', 'confidence': 0.535}, {'rectangle': {'x': 533, 'y': 25, 'w': 121, 'h': 1
84}, 'object': 'person', 'confidence': 0.535}], 'requestId': '9a3d41e9-b8cc-49ac
-a99b-f3da8d5fac2a', 'metadata': {'width': 1300, 'height': 866, 'format': 'Jpeg'
}}
{'objects': [{'rectangle': {'x': 236, 'y': 0, 'w': 620, 'h': 657}, 'object': 'pe
rson', 'confidence': 0.912}], 'requestId': 'fd415dd3-0f11-4cac-b307-f58888fc875a
', 'metadata': {'width': 1000, 'height': 664, 'format': 'Jpeg'}}

If you take a look at the images and results will see how this works.

Python 3.7.3 : Try Ethereum with web3.

Today I tested the web3 python module.
This is the Ethereum python module.
More about this python module can be found here.
Ethereum programming has a large area of development.
For transaction you can use:
from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider, IPCProvider, WebsocketProvider
I tested with an account from infura.io.

>>> from web3 import Web3, HTTPProvider, IPCProvider, WebsocketProvider
>>> w3 = Web3(HTTPProvider('ropsten.infura.io/v3/1f2fb5d1e1be4c11acdbbb07a2e06a1
c'))
>>> dir(w3)
['EthereumTesterProvider', 'HTTPProvider', 'IPCProvider', 'Iban', 'RequestManage
r', 'TestRPCProvider', 'WebsocketProvider', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict_
_', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__',
'__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__mo
dule__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__seta
ttr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_ens', 'adm
in', 'ens', 'eth', 'fromWei', 'isAddress', 'isChecksumAddress', 'isConnected', '
manager', 'middleware_stack', 'miner', 'net', 'parity', 'personal', 'providers',
 'sha3', 'soliditySha3', 'testing', 'toBytes', 'toChecksumAddress', 'toHex', 'to
Int', 'toText', 'toWei', 'txpool', 'version']
>>> from eth_account import Account
>>> my_account = Account.create('KEYSMASH FESTILA_GEORGE_CATALIN 1530')
>>> my_account.address
'0x2b8e7E92064F718B0AC91c381968baC8D1561d7d'
>>> # check the adresss and add it to infura.io
...
>>> address=Web3.toChecksumAddress(my_account.address)
>>> print (address)
0x2b8e7E92064F718B0AC91c381968baC8D1561d7d

Let's start with the default installation and some testing with a message:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install virtualenv
Requirement already satisfied: virtualenv in c:\python373\lib\site-packages (16.
5.0)
C:\Python373\Scripts>cd ..
C:\Python373>virtualenv env
Using base prefix 'c:\\python373'
New python executable in C:\Python373\env\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.
(env) C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install web3
(env) C:\Python373\Scripts>cd ..
(env) C:\Python373>python
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD6
4)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from web3.auto import w3
>>> dir(w3)
['EthereumTesterProvider', 'HTTPProvider', 'IPCProvider', 'Iban', 'RequestManage
r', 'TestRPCProvider', 'WebsocketProvider', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict_
_', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__',
'__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__mo
dule__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__seta
ttr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_ens', 'adm
in', 'ens', 'eth', 'fromWei', 'isAddress', 'isChecksumAddress', 'isConnected', '
manager', 'middleware_stack', 'miner', 'net', 'parity', 'personal', 'providers',
 'sha3', 'soliditySha3', 'testing', 'toBytes', 'toChecksumAddress', 'toHex', 'to
Int', 'toText', 'toWei', 'txpool', 'version']

One example with message hashing mechanism :

>>> from web3.auto import w3
>>> from eth_account.messages import defunct_hash_message
>>> msg = "Hello world!"
>>> private_key = b"46474346474346474330313246474346"
>>> b"46474346474346474330313246474346".decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")
'46474346474346474330313246474346'
>>> signed_message = w3.eth.account.signHash(message_hash, private_key=private_
ey)
>>> signed_message
AttrDict({'messageHash': HexBytes('0xaa05af77f274774b8bdc7b61d98bc40da523dc2821f
dea555f4d6aa413199bcc'), 'r': 77081816383569854304871908993806785907809199379052
64818114708355336522791320, 's': 50065392922095131225302404096180206949656260456
560091946111418092912822128476, 'v': 27, 'signature': HexBytes('0x110aad1b6fa3f8
9ef0ceff3579de2a166c6cfefee73bd8b13364d71745f979986eb00219a1d6630a09fb0e7db3b713
51bce570d5842fa39fbae390fdfa7b0f5c1b')}) 

Python 3.7.3 and Django CMS.

From official www.django-cms.org:
django CMS was originally conceived by web developers frustrated with the technical and security limitations of other systems. Its lightweight core makes it easy to integrate with other software and put to use immediately, while its ease of use makes it the go-to choice for content managers, content editors and website admins.
The django-crm.readthedocs.io/en/latest tells us:
Django-CRM provides a dashboard where you can manage customers at sales of the organization. It Provides to manage leads information and its activity, track issues from leads, contacts to send emails.
...
Modules used:

Python >= 2.6 (or Python 3.4)
Django = 1.9.6
JQuery >= 1.7
Let's start with these commands:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Collecting virtualenv
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4f/ba/6f9315180501d5ac3e70
7f19fcb1764c26cc6a9a31af05778f7c2383eadb/virtualenv-16.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
(2.0MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 2.0MB 939kB/s
Installing collected packages: virtualenv
Successfully installed virtualenv-16.5.0

C:\Python373\Scripts>cd ..

C:\Python373>virtualenv env
Using base prefix 'c:\\python373'
New python executable in C:\Python373\env\Scripts\python.exe
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...
done.

C:\Python373>env\Scripts\activate

(env) C:\Python373>pip install djangocms-installer

(env) C:\Python373>djangocms mysite
...
  Applying djangocms_video.0005_migrate_to_filer... OK
  Applying djangocms_video.0006_field_adaptions... OK
  Applying djangocms_video.0007_create_nested_plugin... OK
  Applying djangocms_video.0008_reset_null_values... OK
  Applying djangocms_video.0009_removed_null_values... OK
  Applying djangocms_video.0010_videoplayer_parameters... OK
  Applying easy_thumbnails.0001_initial... OK
  Applying easy_thumbnails.0002_thumbnaildimensions... OK
  Applying filer.0008_auto_20171117_1313... OK
  Applying filer.0009_auto_20171220_1635... OK
  Applying filer.0010_auto_20180414_2058... OK
  Applying filer.0011_auto_20190418_0137... OK
  Applying menus.0001_initial... OK
  Applying sessions.0001_initial... OK
  Applying sites.0002_alter_domain_unique... OK
Creating admin user
All done!
Get into "C:\Python373\mysite" directory and type "python manage.py runserver" 
to start your project

(env) C:\Python373>cd mysite

(env) C:\Python373\mysite>python manage.py runserver

The result is this: