Python Programming On Win32

Executing Scripts

Quite often the user wants to execute simple scripts. If the user has created a simple script in a file on disk, it can be run with the built-in function execfile ( file[, globals[, locals]] ). This is broadly equivalent to the exec statement discussed earlier, except that it’s a function, and it takes filename as an argument, processing the entire contents. To expose this, we’ve implemented a new method of COMBookSet , which takes the filename as a single argument, and calls execfile( filename , self.userNameSpace ):

def execFile(self, filename):
    if type(filename) not in [type(''), UnicodeType]:
        raise Exception(desc="Must be a string", \
                          scode=winerror.DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH)
    execfile(str(filename), self.userNameSpace)

VB provides a rich-text editor component that makes it easy to create an editor, so we’ve added yet another form to our application called frmScriptEditor . This has a single editing region and a menu. We provided menu options to open and save files, and it keeps track of the filename and whether the text has changed. We won’t cover those functions here. It also has a menu option to run a script, which is straightforward to implement:

Private Sub mnuScriptRun_Click()
    mnuScriptSave_Click
    If Saved Then
        On Error GoTo mnuScriptRun_Error
        frmMain.BookServer.execFile FileName
        On Error GoTo 0
        frmConsole.UpdateOutput
    End If
    Exit Sub
    
mnuScriptRun_Error:
    MsgBox "Error running script:" + vbCrLf + vbCrLf + Err.Description
End Sub

We handle errors, since the user ...