[Python] wxDirDialog

If you are in Windows, check the Network Neighborhood. If you are on
any other platform, I don't know.

I have never tried to select a file on a computer through network
neighborhood, so don't know if you get what you want (something like
\\computername\service\path\file ) or not.

- Josiah

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> wrote in message news:<c35la1$sdi$2 at news.service.uci.edu>...
What i meant is that i can select a file over the network but i need
to select the computer name only e.g. homepc, fileserver, etc over
the network.

DO i need to use python win32 API?
Eric

Checking the wxPython demo, trying to select a computer from the
"Network Neighborhood" or "My Network Places/Computers Near Me" using
the wxDirDialog produces the following error:

Debug: e:\Projects\wx2.4\src\msw\dirdlg.cpp(161): 'SHGetPathFromIDList'
failed with error 0x00000000 (the operation completed successfully.).

It doesn't look like you can overtly select computers from a standard
dialog.

However, you can:

import os
a = os.popen('net view')
data = a.read()
a.close()
computers = [line.split('\\')[2] for line in data.split('\n')]

And get a list of computer names.

- Josiah

I've sent a list of machines on a Windows network to a wxListBox.

If you like, I can dig up the code.



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