Ivo wrote: > Richard Townsend wrote: >> If I have a windows shortcut to a URL, is there a way to get the URL >> in a Python app? >> >> I found some code that uses pythoncom to resolve shortcuts to local >> files, but I haven't found any examples for URLs. >> >> The PyWin32 help mentions the PyIUniformResourceLocator Object, but I >> couldn't find an example of how to use it. >> > do you mean a *.lnk file or a *.url file?
for a link (*.lnk) file: from win32com.shell import shell import pythoncom import os, sys class PyShortcut(object): def __init__(self): self._base = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(shell.CLSID_ShellLink, None, pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, shell.IID_IShellLink) def load(self, filename): self._base.QueryInterface(pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Load(filename) def save(self, filename): self._base.QueryInterface(pythoncom.IID_IPersistFile).Save(filename, 0) def __getattr__(self, name): if name != "_base": return getattr(self._base, name) if __name__=="__main__": lnk = PyShortcut() lnk.load("path to your shortcut file including the .lnk extention even if you don't see it in windows") print "Location:", lnk.GetPath(shell.SLGP_RAWPATH)[0] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list