Python 3.7.3 : Testing the PyX python module.

This python module has a good documenation with many examples, see the eofficial wepage.
The development team come with this intro:
Summary
PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript, PDF, and SVG files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.
Features

• PostScript, PDF, and SVG output for device independent, freely scalable figures;
• seamless TeX/LaTeX integration;
• full access to PostScript features like paths, linestyles, fill patterns, transformations, clipping, bitmap inclusion, etc.;
• advanced geometric operations on paths like intersections, transformations, splitting, smoothing, etc.;
• sophisticated graph generation: modular design, pluggable axes, axes partitioning based on rational number arithmetics, flexible graph styles, etc.

Let's install this python module with pip tool:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install PyX
...
Installing collected packages: PyX
Successfully installed PyX-0.14.1

I try few examples from official webpage and working well.

>>> from pyx import *
>>>
>>> c = canvas.canvas()
>>> c.stroke(path.line(0, 0, 3, 0))
>>> c.stroke(path.rect(0, 1, 1, 1))
>>> c.fill(path.circle(2.5, 1.5, 0.5))
>>> c.writeEPSfile("path")
>>> c.writePDFfile("path")
>>> c.writeSVGfile("path")
>>> from pyx import *
>>>
>>> c = canvas.canvas()
>>> c.stroke(path.curve(0, 0, 0, 4, 2, 4, 3, 3),
...          [style.linewidth.THICK, style.linestyle.dashed, color.rgb.blue,
...           deco.earrow([deco.stroked([color.rgb.red, style.linejoin.round]),
...                        deco.filled([color.rgb.green])], size=1)])
>>> c.writeEPSfile("arrow")
>>> c.writePDFfile("arrow")
>>> c.writeSVGfile("arrow")

I got some error from writePDFfile with this example:

>>> c.writeEPSfile("textalongpath")
>>> c.writePDFfile("textalongpath")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\canvas.py", line 50, in wrappedindocu
ment
    return method(d, file, **write_kwargs)
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\document.py", line 193, in writePDFfi
le
    pdfwriter.PDFwriter(self, f, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\pdfwriter.py", line 321, in __init__
    registry.write(file, self, catalog)
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\pdfwriter.py", line 78, in write
    object.write(file, writer, self)
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\pdfwriter.py", line 248, in write
    file.write("/MediaBox [%f %f %f %f]\n" % self.PDFcontent.bbox.highrestuple_p
t())
  File "C:\Python373\lib\site-packages\pyx\bbox.py", line 112, in highrestuple_p
t
    raise ValueError("Cannot return high-res tuple for empty bbox")
ValueError: Cannot return high-res tuple for empty bbox
>>> c.writeSVGfile("textalongpath")

This python module has problem with some complex example from official webpage.

Python 3.7.3 : Working with wikipedia python module.

Wikipedia is a Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia.
Let's install it:

C:\Python373\Scripts>pip install wikipedia

First, let's test the default example:

C:\Python373>python.exe
Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 21:26:53) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Inte
l)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import wikipedia
>>> print(wikipedia.summary("Wikipedia"))
...
.Wikipedia has been criticized for exhibiting systemic bias, for presenting a m
ixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods", and for being subject to m
anipulation and spin in controversial topics. But by 2017, Facebook announced th
at it would help readers detect fake news by suggesting links to related Wikiped
ia articles. YouTube announced a similar plan in 2018.
>>> wikipedia.search("Falticeni")
['Falticeni', 'Foresta Falticeni', 'Charles, Prince of Wales', 'Sofia Ionescu',
'Buciumeni River (?omuzul Mare)', '?omuzul Mare River', 'Constantin Schumacher',
'Ionu? Atodiresei', '1967 Cupa României Final', 'J. J. Benjamin']
>>> wikipedia.page("Falticeni")
...
>>> city=wikipedia.page("Falticeni")
>>> city.title
...
>>> city.content
...
>>> wikipedia.set_lang("fr")
>>> page=wikipedia.page("Null")
>>> page.title
'Null' 

You can extract links:

>>> page = wikipedia.page("List_of_works_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci")
>>> print(page.links)

You can test all of these:

>>> dir(wikipedia)
['API_URL', 'BeautifulSoup', 'Decimal', 'DisambiguationError', 'HTTPTimeoutError
', 'ODD_ERROR_MESSAGE', 'PageError', 'RATE_LIMIT', 'RATE_LIMIT_LAST_CALL', 'RATE
_LIMIT_MIN_WAIT', 'RedirectError', 'USER_AGENT', 'WikipediaException', 'Wikipedi
aPage', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__na
me__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', 'cache', 'datetime'
, 'debug', 'donate', 'exceptions', 'geosearch', 'languages', 'page', 'random', '
re', 'requests', 'search', 'set_lang', 'set_rate_limiting', 'set_user_agent', 's
tdout_encode', 'suggest', 'summary', 'sys', 'time', 'timedelta', 'unicode_litera
ls', 'util', 'wikipedia']

Read more at pypi website.

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