Alert boxes in Python?

python alerts
UnkwnTech picture UnkwnTech · Oct 7, 2008 · Viewed 89.6k times · Source

Is it possible to produce an alert similar to JavaScript's alert("message") in python, with an application running as a daemon.

This will be run in Windows, Most likely XP but 2000 and Vista are also very real possibilities.

Update:
This is intended to run in the background and alert the user when certain conditions are met, I figure that the easiest way to alert the user would be to produce a pop-up, as it needs to be handled immediately, and other options such as just logging, or sending an email are not efficient enough.

Answer

weir picture weir · Oct 7, 2008

what about this:

import win32api

win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title')

Additionally:

win32api.MessageBox(0, 'hello', 'title', 0x00001000)

will make the box appear on top of other windows, for urgent messages. See MessageBox function for other options.

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