[Tutor] _winreg problems enumerating

[Kent Johnson]

Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote:
> am new to python and want to learn this language.  I am having troubles
> finding examples and tutorials for use on windows boxes.  I do most of my
> stuff in perl and php but want better socket support, so I am giving python
> a try.  I am writing a script to connect to remote registry's because of
> this new IM virus.  I can create reg entries and delete them but I cannot
> enumerate them, here is my code.
> 
> import _winreg
> 
> host = "127.0.0.1" # local host
> key = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(host, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
> E_key = _winreg.EnumValue(key,
> r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")

_winreg is pretty low level. It can only access one level down from the current key. Here is a 
program that navigates a path in the registry one step at a time:

import _winreg

def openKey(key, path):
     pathElements = path.split('\\')
     for elem in pathElements:
         key = _winreg.OpenKey(key, elem)
     return key

key = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, _winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)

runKey = openKey(key, r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run")
print _winreg.QueryInfoKey(runKey)

Kent