[Tutor] Accessing installed windows software from python

[Rikard Bosnjakovic]

On 2/13/07, Jalil <jalilsan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering if its possible to go about writing a code to find out  all
> the installed program on a windows machines.  Basically everything under Add
> Remove Programs in the control panel.

There is no support for this in the standard Python-distribution.
However, Mark Hammond has developed a fullblown set of Win32-API
support in his win32-modules. You might want to take a peek there:

        http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/

You might also want to join the python-win32 mailing list:

        http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32


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- Rikard.