Problem creating a shorcut

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Fri May 16 10:07:31 EDT 2008


Duncan Booth wrote:
> It's not too hard to get the required command line from the registry:
> 
> import _winreg
> print _winreg.QueryValue(_winreg.HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT,
>     'FirefoxURL\shell\open\command')
> 
> and of course it throws an exception if firefox isn't installed.
> 
> Then just replace %1 with the url to get the actual command you need.

That's neat. You learn something new...

TJG



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