script to download and install bluebook application

url=r"https://bluebook.app.collegeboard.org/downloads/Bluebook%20Setup%200.9.175.exe" # give here the direct download link of the updated version of bluebook application

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import os

from subprocess import PIPE, Popen

import ctypes

import ssl

import urllib2

import time

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class disable_file_system_redirection:

    _disable = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection

    _revert = ctypes.windll.kernel32.Wow64RevertWow64FsRedirection

    def __enter__(self):

        self.old_value = ctypes.c_long()

        self.success = self._disable(ctypes.byref(self.old_value))

    def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):

        if self.success:

            self._revert(self.old_value)

Down_path=os.environ['TEMP']

fileName = "Bluebook.exe"

DownTo = os.path.join(Down_path, fileName)

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def ecmd(command):   

    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

    import ctypes

    with disable_file_system_redirection():

        obj = Popen(command, shell = True, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE)

    out, err = obj.communicate()

    ret=obj.returncode

    return ret,out,err

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def downloadFile(DownTo, fromURL):

    headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36'}

    context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

    request = urllib2.Request(fromURL, headers=headers)

    req = urllib2.urlopen(request,context=context)

    try:

        with open(DownTo, 'wb') as f:

            while True:

                chunk = req.read(100*1000*1000)

                if chunk:

                    f.write(chunk)

                else:

                    break

        if os.path.isfile(DownTo):

            return '{} - {}KB'.format(DownTo, os.path.getsize(DownTo)/1024)

    except:

        return 'Please Check URL or Download Path!'

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def install():

    with disable_file_system_redirection():

        print(downloadFile(DownTo, url))

        ret,out,err = ecmd("%s /S"%(DownTo))

        if ret==0:

            print("the bluebook application has been successfully installed")

            if out:

                print(out)

        else:

            if err:

                print("installation failed. an error has occurred: \n%s"%(err))

            else:

                print("something went wrong while installing the application")

                print("return code: %s"%(ret))

        os.remove(DownTo)

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install()