Yes, you can use the ctypes module [1] for this sort of thing: import ctypes user32=cdll.LoadLibrary('/cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/User32.dll') mbw=getattr(user32,"MessageBoxW") mbw(0,"Hello World","Caption",2)
.. but I think the ctypes module on Cygwin's Pythons should support the windll stuff out of the box and it doesn't seem to, then you could just do ctypes.windll.user32.MessageBoxW(...) instead. [1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/ctypes.html -- Best regards, Ray. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Dennis Putnam <d...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > On 4/4/2016 5:53 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 04/04/2016 11:28, Dennis Putnam wrote: >>> I'm trying to install pypiwin32 and have hit a stone wall. That module >>> wants _winreg so I installed cygwinreg. However, I cannot find a way to >>> tell pip to use cygwinreg rather than _winreg. Is there a way to alias >>> or some way to get pip to use the right module? TIA. >>> >> >> I doubt the package is cygwin compatible >> >> -- >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >> >> > If that is the case then is there another way to open message boxes > without running Xwin? > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple