# This is a "demo" of win32file - it used to be more a test case than a # demo, so has been moved to the test directory. import os # Please contribute your favourite simple little demo. import win32api import win32con import win32file # A very simple demo - note that this does no more than you can do with # builtin Python file objects, so for something as simple as this, you # generally *should* use builtin Python objects. Only use win32file etc # when you need win32 specific features not available in Python. def SimpleFileDemo(): testName = os.path.join(win32api.GetTempPath(), "win32file_demo_test_file") if os.path.exists(testName): os.unlink(testName) # Open the file for writing. handle = win32file.CreateFile( testName, win32file.GENERIC_WRITE, 0, None, win32con.CREATE_NEW, 0, None ) test_data = "Hello\0there".encode("ascii") win32file.WriteFile(handle, test_data) handle.Close() # Open it for reading. handle = win32file.CreateFile( testName, win32file.GENERIC_READ, 0, None, win32con.OPEN_EXISTING, 0, None ) rc, data = win32file.ReadFile(handle, 1024) handle.Close() if data == test_data: print("Successfully wrote and read a file") else: raise Exception("Got different data back???") os.unlink(testName) if __name__ == "__main__": SimpleFileDemo()