[Tutor] Windows software reporting

[Gus Tabares]

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:41:04 -0500, Justin Heath <justin at unixremedies.com> 
wrote:

> All,
>
> I am currently writing a program that queries Linux, Solaris boxes for 
> installed software and software versions and comparing this information 
> against a database. It appears this could be useful to our Windows guys 
> as well. My question is how to get this information on a Windows box. 
> Currently for Linux I am using os.popen("rpm -qa", "r"), for example. Any 
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
>
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One possibility is to use Mark Hammonds Win32 API extensions and query the 
registry? Seems like a semi-decent idea. Hope this helps anyways...


/Gus