[Tutor] Getting file properties on winodws

[vishwajeet singh]

Hi Tim,

My apologies for being vague. Yes you are right I am not able to get any
summary property from a image file.
Script runs successfully without printing anything.

Thanks for your help.


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> [Rearranging for reading order]
>
> [vishwajeet singh wrote]
> I am trying to read properties of file on windows like there is a
> property
> call Keywords on file; I am to read this property independent of file
> type.
>
> [Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:]
> There's an unpolished (indeed, unfinished) example here:
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html
>
> [vishwajeet singh wrote:]
>
>> It does not seems to be working for jpg and in general with image files
>> any
>> pointers on that.
>>
>
> It would probably help if you specified what "does not seem[s] to be
> working" meant. But I assume that you mean: if you add a Title into
> the Summary on a JPEG then it doesn't get picked up by the script.
> What's happening here (I think) is that for media types -- images,
> movies, etc. -- the [Summary] property sheet is overridden, probably
> by Windows Media Player which will use the properties embedded in
> the JPEG (EXIF) or WMV. This isn't Structured Storage as such and
> so isn't extracted by the script I showed.
>
> If I get a chance, I'll look into this a bit further.
>
>
> TJG
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Cheers,
Vishwajeet
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