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How to change username of job in print queue using python & win32print

I am trying to change the user of a print job in the queue, as I want to create it on a service account but send the job to another users follow-me printing queue. I'm using the win32 module in python. Here is an example of my code:
from win32 import win32print
JOB_INFO_LEVEL = 2
pclExample = open("sample.pcl")
printer_name = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter()
hPrinter = win32print.OpenPrinter(printer_name)
try:
jobID = win32print.StartDocPrinter(hPrinter, 1, ("PCL Data test", None, "RAW"))
# Here we try to change the user by extracting the job and then setting it again
jobInfoDict = win32print.GetJob(hPrinter, jobID , JOB_INFO_LEVEL )
jobInfoDict["pUserName"] = "exampleUser"
win32print.SetJob(hPrinter, jobID , JOB_INFO_LEVEL , jobInfoDict , win32print.JOB_CONTROL_RESUME )
try:
win32print.StartPagePrinter(hPrinter)
win32print.WritePrinter(hPrinter, pclExample)
win32print.EndPagePrinter(hPrinter)
finally:
win32print.EndDocPrinter(hPrinter)
finally:
win32print.ClosePrinter(hPrinter)
The problem is I get an error at the win32print.SetJob() line. If JOB_INFO_LEVEL is set to 1, then I get the following error:
(1804, 'SetJob', 'The specified datatype is invalid.')
This is a known bug to do with how the C++ works in the background (Issue here).
If JOB_INFO_LEVEL is set to 2, then I get the following error:
(1798, 'SetJob', 'The print processor is unknown.')
However, this is the processor that came from win32print.GetJob(). Without trying to change the user this prints fine, so I'm not sure what is wrong.
Any help would be hugely appreciated! :)
EDIT:
Using Python 3.8.5 and Pywin32 303

At the beginning I thought it was a misunderstanding (I was also a bit skeptical about the bug report), mainly because of the following paragraph (which apparently seems to be wrong) from [MS.Docs]: SetJob function (emphasis is mine):
The following members of a JOB_INFO_1, JOB_INFO_2, or JOB_INFO_4 structure are ignored on a call to SetJob: JobId, pPrinterName, pMachineName, pUserName, pDrivername, Size, Submitted, Time, and TotalPages.
But I did some tests and ran into the problem. The problem is as described in the bug: filling JOB_INFO_* string members (which are LPTSTRs) with char* data.
Submitted [GitHub]: mhammond/pywin32 - Fix: win32print.SetJob sending ANSI to UNICODE API (and none of the 2 errors pops up). It was merged to main on 220331.
When testing the fix, I was able to change various properties of an existing job, I was amazed that it didn't have to be valid data (like below), I'm a bit curious to see what would happen when the job would be executed (as now I don't have a connection to a printer):
Change pUserName to str(random.randint(0, 10000)) to make sure it changes on each script run (PrintScreens taken separately and assembled in Paint):
Ways to go further:
Wait for a new PyWin32 version (containing this fix) to be released. This is the recommended approach, but it will also take more time (and it's unclear when it will happen)
Get the sources, either:
from main
from b303 (last stable branch), and apply the (above) patch(1)
build the module (.pyd) and copy it in the PyWin32's site-packages directory on your Python installation(s). Faster, but it requires some deeper knowledge, and maintenance might become a nightmare
Footnotes
#1: Check [SO]: Run / Debug a Django application's UnitTests from the mouse right click context menu in PyCharm Community Edition? (#CristiFati's answer) (Patching UTRunner section) for how to apply patches (on Win).

Converting Intersystems cache objectscript into a python function

I am accessing an Intersystems cache 2017.1.xx instance through a python process to get various attributes about the database in able to monitor the database.
One of the items I want to monitor is license usage. I wrote a objectscript script in a Terminal window to access license usage by user:
s Rset=##class(%ResultSet).%New("%SYSTEM.License.UserListAll")
s r=Rset.Execute()
s ncol=Rset.GetColumnCount()
While (Rset.Next()) {f i=1:1:ncol w !,Rset.GetData(i)}
But, I have been unable to determine how to convert this script into a Python equivalent. I am using the intersys.pythonbind3 import for connecting and accessing the cache instance. I have been able to create python functions that accessing most everything else in the instance but this one piece of data I can not figure out how to translate it to Python (3.7).

Following should work (based on the documentation):
query = intersys.pythonbind.query(database)
query.prepare_class("%SYSTEM.License","UserListAll")
query.execute();
# Fetch each row in the result set, and print the
# name and value of each column in a row:
while 1:
cols = query.fetch([None])
if len(cols) == 0: break
print str(cols[0])
Also, notice that InterSystems IRIS -- successor to the Caché now has Python as an embedded language. See more in the docs

Since the noted query "UserListAll" is not defined correctly in the library; not SqlProc. So to resolve this issue would require a ObjectScript with the query and the use of #Result set or similar in Python to get the results. So I am marking this as resolved.

Not sure which Python interface you're using for Cache/IRIS, but this Open Source 3rd party one is worth investigating for the kind of things you're trying to do:
https://github.com/chrisemunt/mg_python

bingads V13 report request fails in python sdk

I try to download a bingads report using python SDK, but I keep getting an error says: "Type not found: 'Aggregation'" after submitting a report request. I've tried all 4 options mentioned in the following link:
https://github.com/BingAds/BingAds-Python-SDK/blob/master/examples/v13/report_requests.py
Authentication process prior to request works just fine.
I execute the following:
report_request = get_report_request(authorization_data.account_id)
reporting_download_parameters = ReportingDownloadParameters(
report_request=report_request,
result_file_directory=FILE_DIRECTORY,
result_file_name=RESULT_FILE_NAME,
overwrite_result_file=True, # Set this value true if you want to overwrite the same file.
timeout_in_milliseconds=TIMEOUT_IN_MILLISECONDS
)
output_status_message("-----\nAwaiting download_report...")
download_report(reporting_download_parameters)
after a careful debugging, it seems that the program fails when trying to execute a command within "reporting_service_manager.py". Here is workflow:
download_report(self, download_parameters):
report_file_path = self.download_file(download_parameters)
then:
download_file(self, download_parameters):
operation = self.submit_download(download_parameters.report_request)
then:
submit_download(self, report_request):
self.normalize_request(report_request)
response = self.service_client.SubmitGenerateReport(report_request)
SubmitGenerateReport starts a sequence of events ending with a call to "_SeviceCall.init" function within "service_client.py", returning an exception "Type not found: 'Aggregation'"
try:
response = self.service_client.soap_client.service.__getattr__(self.name)(*args, **kwargs)
return response
except Exception as ex:
if need_to_refresh_token is False \
and self.service_client.refresh_oauth_tokens_automatically \
and self.service_client._is_expired_token_exception(ex):
need_to_refresh_token = True
else:
raise ex
Can anyone shed some light? .
Thanks

Please be sure to set Aggregation e.g., as shown here.
aggregation = 'Daily'
If the report type does not use aggregation, you can set Aggregation=None.
Does this help?

This may be a bit late 2 months after the fact but maybe this will help someone else. I had the same error (though I suppose it may not be the same issue). It does look like you did what I did (and I'm sure others will as well): copy-paste the Microsoft example code and tried to run it only to find that it didn't work.
I spent quite some time trying to debug the issue and it looked to me like the XML wasn't being searched correctly. I was using suds-py3 for the script at the time so I tried suds-community and everything just worked after that.
I also re-read the Bing Ads API walkthrough for getting started again and found that they recommend suds-jurko instead.
Long story short: If you want to use the bingads API don't use suds-py3, use either suds-community (which I can confirm works for everything I've used the API for) or suds-jurko (which is the one recommended by Microsoft).

Why python doesn't see the members of quantumCircuit class qiskit

I`m trying to learn the programming on quantum computers.
I have installed qiskit in VS Code (all qiskit extentions available in VS Code market) , python compilator (from Vs Code market "Python" and "Python for VSCode"). I have set up my qikit API for correct working
When I run the exemple I get erros: "Instance of 'QuantumCircuit' has no 'h' member"
What shoud I do?
The code:
from qiskit import ClassicalRegister, QuantumRegister
from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, execute
q = QuantumRegister(2)
c = ClassicalRegister(2)
qc = QuantumCircuit(q)
qc.h(q[0])
qc.cx(q[0], q[1])
qc.measure(q, c)
job_sim = execute(qc, 'local_qasm_simulator')
sim_result = job_sim.result()
print(sim_result.get_counts(qc))
========================
The same error after adding comment # pylint: disable=no-member

The errors in question are coming from pylint, a linter, not from python itself. While pylint is pretty clever, some constructs (particularly those involving dynamically-added properties) are beyond its ability to understand. When you encounter situations like this, the best course of action is twofold:
Check the docs, code, etc. to make absolutely sure the code that you've written is right (i.e. verify that the linter result is a false positive)
Tell the linter that you know what you're doing and it should ignore the false positive
user2357112 took care of the first step in the comments above, demonstrating that the property gets dynamically set by another part of the library.
The second step can be accomplished for pylint by adding a comment after each of the offending lines telling it to turn of that particular check for that particular line:
qc.h(q[0]) # pylint: disable=no-member

Mule 3.4 - scripting in Python

I'm having quite a bit of trouble getting started with scripting in Mule. To be quite honest, I'm falling at the first hurdle - I can't find anything in the documentation which tells me how to access the payload or how to return data to my flow.
I'm using Jython 2.5 and Mule 3.4.
My flow is extremely simple: it takes some text from an Ajax source and simply echoes it. At the moment the Python script does nothing (as I cannot figure out how to get it to do something with the payload).
<flow name="Python Script" doc:name="Python Script">
<ajax:connector name="connector-ajax" serverUrl="http://192.168.0.1:8000" resourceBase="C:\mule\workspace\scripting\src\main\app\docroot" doc:name="Ajax" />
<scripting:component doc:name="Python">
<scripting:script engine="jython" file="C:\mule\workspace\scripting\src\main\app\python\myscript.py"/>
</scripting:component>
<echo-component doc:name="Echo"/>
</flow>
I have read through the Script Component Reference and the Scripting Module Reference - the module reference appears to have some relevant information but I can't figure out how to use it in Python.
I have also read through an article about 'Mule Punching' which seems like it would have answered my question if I was running version 2 of Mule. I attempted to use the same techniques in my Mule 3 project but it did not work.
Edit 24/07/2012
Using #ppiixx's response, I have got a little bit further with Python scripting.
Just having a single line of code, for example return len(payload) causes the Jython interpreter to throw an error as return cannot exist outside of a function. Fair enough, that's standard.
However, with the code
def main():
return len(payload)
main()
I get an error saying that 'No serializer can be found for class org.mule.transport.NullPayload'.
The log is below:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Started app 'python-test' +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
INFO 2013-07-24 09:16:08,821 [[python-test].flow.stage1.02] org.mule.component.simple.LogComponent:
********************************************************************************
* Message received in service: flow. Content is: '{NullPayload}' *
********************************************************************************
ERROR 2013-07-24 09:16:08,849 [[python-test].flow.stage1.02] org.mule.exception.CatchMessagingExceptionStrategy:
********************************************************************************
Message : No serializer found for class org.mule.transport.NullPayload and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) ) (org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException)
Code : MULE_ERROR--2
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exception stack is:
1. No serializer found for class org.mule.transport.NullPayload and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) ) (org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException)
org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.impl.UnknownSerializer:52 (null)
2. No serializer found for class org.mule.transport.NullPayload and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer (to avoid exception, disable SerializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) ) (org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException) (org.mule.api.transformer.TransformerException)
org.mule.module.json.transformers.ObjectToJson:107 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/api/transformer/TransformerException.html)
This leads me to think that using return on its own isn't enough to return data to the flow.
I've read through the scripting module reference, and while it gives examples in Groovy, it does not give examples in Python so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong.

Have a look at the 'Script Context Bindings' section here.
Basically a number of variables are available in the script context including: message,payload and log.
To return data using the python engine you set the result variable.
result = len(payload)
There is a example in the mule github.