python script to find Installed programs in Uninstall folder in registry

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Tue Mar 15 02:31:57 EDT 2011


KishoreRP <kishore007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I am working on creating a python script to find Installed programs in
>Uninstall folder in registry, the script works perfectly fine on 32
>bit machines but errors out with a wmi error on 64 bit machines. Am
>not able to get hold of a wmi module for python on 64 bit machines.

There shouldn't be any difference.  What error do you get, exactly?

Also, let me point out that you can access the registry in a couple of
ways, without invoking the overhead of WMI.  I grant you that they are a
bit wordier, but it might get you around this issue.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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