Probably over my head... Trying to get Font Names

[Pierre Quentel]

"Samantha" <samantha7395 at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<B8KdneiuyLaKoYjfRVn-vQ at adelphia.com>...
> I am attempting to extract the Font Names from the installed windows fonts. 
> I am having a heck of a time getting these rather than the file names. 
> Examples can be seen by going to Control Panel > Fonts
> 
> Any help or direction is appreciated.
> S

Try this :

Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> from Tkinter import Tk
>>> import tkFont
>>> root=Tk()
>>> print tkFont.families(root)