running multiple functions

[ryno du preez]

Hello all

Im new to python, I'm trying to write a small Program that will update find files and update then in directory ( this is working ) the problem Im facing is that I can not get two functions to run at the same time. For example While the code searches for the file and replaces them, also display a small popup window showing an text message that the system is busy. and after the code has completed show a popup message Completed.

!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#Shell script version 2
import os
import shutil
from Tkinter import *
import tkMessageBox
import tkSimpleDialog
from threading import Thread
import threading
import time
from multiprocessing import Process
import sys
from tkinter.ttk import *
import multiprocessing
 
 
Search = 'c:\\'
search_folder = ''
 
 
class popupWindow(object):
    def __init__(self,parent):
        top=self.top=Toplevel(parent)
        self.l=Label(top,text="Patch is running")
        self.l.pack()
        self.b=Button(top,text='Ok',command=self.cleanup)
        self.b.pack()
    def cleanup(self):
        #self.value=self.e.get()
        self.top.destroy()
 
class Example(Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent):
        Frame.__init__(self, parent)   
 
        self.parent = parent
 
        self.initUI()
 
    def initUI(self):
        photo = PhotoImage(file="C:\\IMAGE.gif") 
        self.parent.title("Off Line Playe Patch")
        self.style = Style()
        self.style.theme_use("default")
 
        self.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)
 
        W = Label(self,image=photo)
        W.photo = photo
        W.pack()
        #Button(tk,text='foo',command=bar).pack()
        quitButton = Button(self, text="Apply Patch",command=self.StPatch)
        quitButton.place(x=80, y=0)
 
 
    def StPatch(self):
        # Replaces shell.htm with correct file
 
        def FoundShell():
 
            for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_folder):
                for file in files:
                    print os.path.join(root,file)
                    if file == 'shell.htm':
                        print "found file"
                        Shell = os.path.join(root,file)
                        os.remove(Shell)
                        shutil.copy2('./shell.htm',Shell)
 
 
        def Hello():
            self.w = popupWindow(self.parent)
            self.parent.wait_window(self.w.top)
            i = 0
            while i < 100000:
                print('hello world')
                i=i+1
 
 
        if os.path.exists('C:\Player - Office 2010'):
            print 'Found Folder'
            search_folder = 'C:\Player - Office 2010'
            tkMessageBox.showinfo("Update Done", "Update has been applyed successfuly  ", command=FoundShell())
        else:  # request user to enter path to Directory
            print 'not found'
            search_folder = tkSimpleDialog.askstring('Path', 'Please enter Path to Offline Player', )
            print search_folder
            tkMessageBox.showinfo("Update Done", "Update has been applyed successfuly  ", command=FoundShell())
 
        #t1 = threading.Thread(target=RunScript(self))
        #t1.start()
        #t1.join()
        #Hello()
 
 
 
 
    # the join means wait untill it finished
 
root = Tk()
app = Example(root)
 
root.mainloop() 

Any Help will be greatly appreciated

[dwblas]

Multiprocessing or threading is not necessary You can use Tkinter's after() method to check/update periodically. This simple program uses a counter to simulate the file operations and a label that is updated periodically (you could also use a MessageBox of course). It also creates a simple "busy box" just to show again how after() works. If you want to use multiprocessing/threading then you have to have a way to communicate between threads. In multiprocessing this is done with a Manager object or a Queue.

try:
    import Tkinter as tk     ## Python 2.x
except ImportError:
    import tkinter as tk     ## Python 3.x
 
class TestOfAfter():
    def __init__(self, root):
        self.root=root
        self.this_file_num=0
        self.total_num_files=20  ## assume 20 files to be processed
 
        self.create_widgets()
 
    def create_widgets(self):
        self.progress_label=tk.Label(self.root, text="", bg="lightblue")
        self.progress_label.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky="nsew")
 
        tk.Button(self.root, text="Exit Program", bg="orange",
                 command=self.root.quit).grid(row=10, column=0,
                 columnspan=2)
 
        self.start_progress_bar()
        self.file_updates()  ## start the ball rolling
 
    def file_updates(self):
        """ use a simple counter to simulate some work being done on
            a sequence of files
 
            The "update_label would be called after every file
            is processed, or every 10 files, etc.  And there would 
            be no after() since the updates would be using a loop
        """
        self.this_file_num += 1
        self.update_label()
 
        ## simulate the time it takes to process each file
        self.root.after(500, self.file_updates)
 
    def start_progress_bar(self):
        """ create a simple progress bar widget on a canvas
 
            You could also use the ttk.Progressbar, but I
            already had this one lying around.
        """
        self.canvas = tk.Canvas(self.root, width=261, height=60,
        background='lightgray')
        self.canvas.grid(row=0, column=1)
 
        self.rc1 = self.canvas.create_rectangle(24, 20, 32, 50, outline='white', \
                                      fill='blue')
        self.start_x=20
        self.end_x=235
        self.this_x=self.start_x
        self.one_25th = (self.end_x-self.start_x)/25.0
        rc2 = self.canvas.create_rectangle(self.start_x, 20, self.end_x, 50,
                                       outline='blue', fill='lightblue')
        self.rc1 = self.canvas.create_rectangle(self.start_x, 20, self.start_x+7, 50,
                                       outline='white', fill='blue')
        self.update_scale()
 
    def update_label(self):
        if self.this_file_num < self.total_num_files:
            self.progress_label["text"]="%d of %d files processed" % (self.this_file_num,
                                                           self.total_num_files)
        else:
            self.progress_label.destroy()     ## all files processed
 
    def update_scale(self):
        self.canvas.move(self.rc1, self.one_25th, 0)
        self.canvas.update()
        self.this_x += self.one_25th
        ## reverse direction at either end
        if (self.this_x >= self.end_x-12) or self.this_x <= self.start_x+7:
            self.one_25th *= -1
 
        ## only call after() while the countdown is running 
        ## to avoid a dangling after() when the program terminates
        if self.this_file_num < self.total_num_files:
            self.canvas.after(150, self.update_scale)
 
root=tk.Tk()
TA=TestOfAfter(root)
root.mainloop() 

[ryno du preez]

Thank you very mush for the sample code. I only have one problem I do not know how many files are going to get prossessed as this script is walking the directory And finding all the hits in that directory tree. Below is the core script

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(search_folder):
 
            for file in files:
                print os.path.join(root, file)
 
                if file == 'shell.htm':
                    print "found file"
                    Shell = os.path.join(root, file)
                    os.remove(Shell)
                    shutil.copy2('./shell.htm', Shell)

[dwblas]

You did not ask a question. len(files) should be the number of files in each dir that you want to check. Note also that there is likely only one "shell.htm" in the dir, and so you can use -->if shell.htm in files and proceed with the deleting, etc. if True.

[ryno du preez]

Ok that makes sense Thank you I'll Play around with it and see what I get. This is all new to me.Like I said I'm very new to python and programing.

Yes there is only one file in the directory list that needs to be changed. That is what the script is looking for.