I have a small program that works fine on my PC but I want to make it portable. What it does is download an image from the internet, set as desktop background, wait one minute and update the image. I know that I cannot write directly to folders like appdata, as I do not know the username of the person using the computer. I need to save the downloaded image somewhere, so I would save it in the windows Temp folder.
Some options I think would be to (However I don't know how to do this in python)
- Use something like
%temp%to access the folder. - Find out the username of the person running the program and insert into path
- Use a variable for the username.
- Use relative paths
I would like to try and not have to use another module not by default included in Python 3, as I want to cx_freeze it later on.
import pythoncom
from urllib import request
from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon
from time import sleep
def get_image():
f = open('C:\\Users\\MyUser\\Desktop\\Python\\bg\\bg.jpg', 'wb') #Open old image
f.write(request.urlopen('blalbla.com/foo/img.jpg').read()) #Get new image and write
f.close()
pathtoimg = 'C:\\Users\\MyUser\\Desktop\\Python\\bg\\bg.jpg'
count = 0
while 1:
get_image()
iad = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(shell.CLSID_ActiveDesktop, None,
pythoncom.CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, shell.IID_IActiveDesktop)
iad.SetWallpaper(pathtoimg, 0)
iad.ApplyChanges(shellcon.AD_APPLY_ALL)
count += 1
print(count)
sleep(60)
