win32: Registering windows file types?

N.K nirmalkannan at hotmail.com
Tue May 20 10:06:27 EDT 2003


For registering windows filetypes, basically you need to add couple of
registry entries. This article should give you a good idea on that.

<<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/fileassociations/fa_intro.asp>>

 Windows Registry can be edited with Python. ( I havent done that , To
be honest) ,Check Mark Hammond's post on that

<<http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=8d5h78%24fpq%241%40nnrp1.deja.com&rnum=7&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dpython%2Bwindows%2Bregistry>>


Hope this helps,
Regards
Nirmal


k.robert at gmx.de (Robert) wrote in message news:<19804fd8.0305200153.74b39d44 at posting.google.com>...
> From inside a Python app, I want to register (setup and change) a
> windows explorer file type (e.g. ".foo") in order to launch actions on
> double click/right click in explorer.
> Is this possible with win32 modules?
> 
> Robert




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