msl.examples.loadlib.kernel32 module

A wrapper around the 32-bit Windows kernel32.dll library.

Example of a server that loads a 32-bit Windows library, kernel32.dll, in a 32-bit Python interpreter to host the library. The corresponding kernel64 module can be executed by a 64-bit Python interpreter and the Kernel64 class can send a request to the Kernel32 class which calls the 32-bit library to execute the request and then return the response from the library.

Kernel32 is the 32-bit server and Kernel64 is the 64-bit client for inter-process communication.

Note

The kernel32.dll library is a standard Windows library and therefore this example is only valid on a Windows computer.

class msl.examples.loadlib.kernel32.Kernel32(host, port, **kwargs)

Bases: Server32

Example of a class that is a wrapper around the Windows 32-bit kernel32.dll library.

Parameters:

host (str) – The IP address (or hostname) to use for the server.
port (int) – The port to open for the server.
kwargs (str) – Optional keyword arguments. The keys and values are of type str.

get_time()

Calls the kernel32.GetLocalTime function to get the current date and time.

See the corresponding 64-bit get_local_time() method.

Returns:: The current date and time.
Return type:: datetime

class msl.examples.loadlib.kernel32.SystemTime

Bases: Structure

Example of creating a ctypes.Structure.

See SYSTEMTIME for a description of the struct.

WORD: alias of c_ushort

wDay: Structure/Union member

wDayOfWeek: Structure/Union member

wHour: Structure/Union member

wMilliseconds: Structure/Union member

wMinute: Structure/Union member

wMonth: Structure/Union member

wSecond: Structure/Union member

wYear: Structure/Union member