Finding an executable under win32

[Max Khesin]

1) afaik windows does not use mime types to launch appropriate apps, it uses
file extensions and registry.
2) if you call winAPI ShellExecute("file.doc") which u can do with
pythonwin, i think, it will do the windows-registy-voodo lookup and
hopefully launch Word for you.

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"Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe at oss4u.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have an app that stores arbitrary files in a database. It keeps the
> mimetype. When I load a file out of the database I want to open the file
> with an application according to the mimetype.
> This is no big deal under linux since one can store application names in
the
> DB and use which() to find the executable.
> On Win32 however the applications are usually not in the path. I know
there
> are keys in the registry defining which app to use for which extension.
> There are also other keys defining the command to start the application.
>
> I'm pretty sure someone had this problem before. Is there a module or
> something that actually takes a file extension (or mimetype) and finds the
> corresponding application from the windows settings ?
> I googled like crazy, read all docs I could find, but nothing....
>
> Thanks
>
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