News : How to use ShellExecuteA with Python programming language.

I just discovery this option to use ShellExecuteA in Python.

Let's see some example:

import ctypes
import sys

def is_admin():
    try:
        return ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()
    except:
        return False

if not is_admin():
    ctypes.windll.shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, "runas", sys.executable, __file__, None, 1)

... and another example:

import sys
import ctypes

#fix unicode access
import sys
if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    unicode = str

def run_as_admin(argv=None, debug=False):
    shell32 = ctypes.windll.shell32
    if argv is None and shell32.IsUserAnAdmin():
        return True    
    if argv is None:
        argv = sys.argv
    if hasattr(sys, '_MEIPASS'):
        # Support pyinstaller wrapped program.
        arguments = map(unicode, argv[1:])
    else:
        arguments = map(unicode, argv)
    argument_line = u' '.join(arguments)
    executable = unicode(sys.executable)
    if debug:
        print('Command line: ', executable, argument_line)
    ret = shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, u"runas", executable, argument_line, None, 1)
    if int(ret) <= 32:
        return False
    return None  

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ret = run_as_admin()
    if ret is True:
        print ('I have admin privilege.')
        input('Press ENTER to exit.')
    elif ret is None:
        print('I am elevating to admin privilege.')
        input('Press ENTER to exit.')
    else:
        print('Error(ret=%d): cannot elevate privilege.' % (ret, ))

News : NVIDIA Kaolin library provides a PyTorch API.

NVIDIA Kaolin library provides a PyTorch API for working with a variety of 3D representations and includes a growing collection of GPU-optimized operations such as modular differentiable rendering, fast conversions between representations, data loading, 3D checkpoints, differentiable camera API, differentiable lighting with spherical harmonics and spherical gaussians, powerful quadtree acceleration structure called Structured Point Clouds, interactive 3D visualizer for jupyter notebooks, convenient batched mesh container and more ... from GitHub repo - kaolin.

See this example from NVIDIA:

NVIDIA Kaolin library has introduced the SurfaceMesh class to make it easier to track attributes such as faces, vertices, normals, face_normals, and others associated with surface meshes.

Python 3.12.1 : Create a simple color palette.

Today I tested a simple source code for a color palette created with PIL python package.

This is the result:

Let's see the source code:

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

# 640x640 pixeli with 10x10 squares 64x64 
img = Image.new('RGB', (640, 640))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

# color list
colors = []
# for 100 colors you need to set steps with 62,62,64 
# or you can change 64,62,62 some little changes 
for r in range(0, 256, 62):
    for g in range(0, 256, 62):
        for b in range(0, 256, 64):
            colors.append((r, g, b))

# show result of colors and size up 100 items 
print(colors)
print(len(colors))

# create 10x10 colors and fill the image 
for i in range(10):
    for j in range(10):
        x0 = j * 64
        y0 = i * 64
        x1 = x0 + 64
        y1 = y0 + 64
        color = colors[i*10 + j]  # Selectarea culorii din lista
        draw.rectangle([x0, y0, x1, y1], fill=color)

# save teh image
img.save('rgb_color_matrix.png')

Python 3.10.12 : LaTeX on colab notebook - part 043.

Today I tested with a simple LaTeX examples in the Colab notebook.

If you open my notebook colab then you will see some issues and how can be fixed.

You can find this on my notebook - catafest_056.ipynb on colab repo.

Python 3.12.1 : How to read all CLSID with winreg.

The winreg python module can be found default into python instalation.

This is the source code I used to list all of CLSID:

import winreg

# Open the CLSID key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
clsid_key = winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "CLSID")

# Iterate through all the subkeys
for i in range(winreg.QueryInfoKey(clsid_key)[0]):
    # Get the name of the subkey
    subkey_name = winreg.EnumKey(clsid_key, i)
    # Open the subkey
    subkey = winreg.OpenKey(clsid_key, subkey_name, 0, winreg.KEY_READ)
    try:
        # Read the default value of the subkey
        value, type = winreg.QueryValueEx(subkey, "")
        # Print the subkey name and the value
        print(subkey_name, value)
    except:
        # Skip the subkeys that cannot be read
        pass
    # Close the subkey
    winreg.CloseKey(subkey)

# Close the CLSID key
winreg.CloseKey(clsid_key)

... and this source code comes with an text file output:

import winreg

# Open the CLSID key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
clsid_key = winreg.OpenKey(winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, "CLSID")

# Open the file for writing
with open("clsid_info.txt", "w") as f:
    # Iterate through all the subkeys
    for i in range(winreg.QueryInfoKey(clsid_key)[0]):
        # Get the name of the subkey
        subkey_name = winreg.EnumKey(clsid_key, i)
        # Open the subkey
        subkey = winreg.OpenKey(clsid_key, subkey_name, 0, winreg.KEY_READ)
        try:
            # Read the default value of the subkey
            value, type = winreg.QueryValueEx(subkey, "")
            # Write the subkey name and the value to the file
            f.write(subkey_name + " " + value + "\n")
        except:
            # Skip the subkeys that cannot be read
            pass
        # Close the subkey
        winreg.CloseKey(subkey)

# Close the CLSID key
winreg.CloseKey(clsid_key)