Question

I’m going to start of by noting that I have next to no python experience.

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As you may know, by simply dropping a shortcut in the Send To folder on your Windows PC, you can allow a program to take a file as an argument.

How would I write a python program that takes this file as an argument?

And, as a bonus if anyone gets a chance — How would I integrate that with a urllib2 to POST the file to a PHP script on my server?

Thanks in advance.

Edit– also, how do I make something show up in the Sendto menu? I was under the impression that you just drop a shortcut into the SendTo folder and it automatically adds an option in the menu… Never mind. I figured out what I was doing wrong 🙂

Answer 1

1. Find out what the dragged file was: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.argv
2. Open it: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open
3. Read it in: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.read
4. Post it: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html#urllib2.urlopen