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These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Speech recognition in Windows using the MS Speech API
This is an example of using the Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 under Windows for command and control speech recognition in Python. Perhaps this would be a good way to add some fun voice controls to a Windows app. I suppose there’s nothing similar for Linux

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Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Uncategorized at 4:30 AM MST

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This little script will detect when you hit certain number pad numbers and send the specified function keys on to Windows instead:

import win32com.client
import pythoncom
import pyHook # http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncassist

def translate_keystrokes(event):
    if event.Key=='Numpad6': #Next in Screen Saver
        print 'You hit numpad 6!'
        shell.SendKeys("{F7}")
        return False #blocks keystroke
    elif event.Key=='Numpad4': #Previous in Screen Saver
        print 'You hit numpad 4!'
        shell.SendKeys("{F6}")
        return False #blocks keystroke
    else:
        return True #Key stroke continues to Windows apps  

#object to let us send keystrokes
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
# create a hook manager
hm = pyHook.HookManager()
# watch for all keyboard events
hm.KeyDown = translate_keystrokes
# set the hook
hm.HookKeyboard()
# wait forever
pythoncom.PumpMessages()

Why on earth would I want to do this?
Well, this lets me control a screensaver application with a $10 number pad so that the laptop controlling the display can be tucked away out of site. The alternative was to buy this $80 programmable keypad. (If you hadn’t guessed, the screen saver inflexibly requires F6 to move to the next page.)

To make this little script I followed the pyHook examples here. And figured out how to send keystrokes here.

Finally this page gives you a run down on what WScript.Shell does. And this project looks like another promising alternative for sending keystrokes.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as GUI Automation, win32, Python at 6:34 PM MST

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The built-in calendar module gives you this useful list:

>>> calendar.mdays
[0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]


As an example of using it, here I get the number of days in the current month:

>>> import calendar
>>> import datetime
>>> calendar.mdays[datetime.date.today().month]
31


BTW this would also tell you the last day of a month.

Fine Print:

I’m not sure how this handles leap years. Perhaps mdays is for the current year? In any case, if you want something more robust you could try this:
[0]+[calendar.monthrange(year,month)[1] for year in [2006] for month in range(1,13)]
in place of calendar.mdays since you provide it with the year to use.

Found that idea in the comments here.

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) as Python at 11:57 AM MST

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