New helper prog to create batch files in windows. Creates a separate .bat file for each GTK dir on PATH so that user can try each one out

pyfpdb/windows_make_bats.py

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+
+# create .bat scripts in windows to try out different gtk dirs
+
+try:
+
+    import os
+    import sys
+    import re
+
+    if os.name != 'nt':
+        print "\nThis script is only for windows\n"
+        exit()
+
+    dirs = re.split(os.pathsep, os.environ['PATH'])
+    # remove any trailing / or \ chars from dirs:
+    dirs = [re.sub('[\\/]$','',p) for p in dirs]
+    # remove any dirs containing 'python' apart from those ending in 'python25', 'python26' or 'python':
+    dirs = [p for p in dirs if not re.search('python', p, re.I) or re.search('python25$', p, re.I) or re.search('python26$', p, re.I)]
+    # find gtk dirs:
+    gtkdirs = [p for p in dirs if re.search('gtk', p, re.I)]
+
+    lines = [ '@echo off\n\n'
+            , '<path goes here>'
+            , 'python fpdb.py\n\n'
+            , 'pause\n\n'
+            ]
+    if gtkdirs:
+        i = 1
+        for gpath in gtkdirs:   # enumerate converts the \\ into \
+            tmpdirs = [p for p in dirs if not re.search('gtk', p, re.I) or p == gpath]
+            tmppath = ";".join(tmpdirs)
+            lines[1] = 'PATH=' + tmppath + '\n\n'
+            bat = open('run_fpdb'+str(i)+'.bat', 'w')
+            bat.writelines(lines)
+            bat.close()
+            i = i + 1
+    else:
+        print "\nno gtk directories found in your path - install gtk or edit the path manually\n"
+
+except SystemExit:
+    pass
+
+except:
+    print "Error:", str(sys.exc_info())
+    pass
+
+# sys.stdin.readline()