Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: Ok so, can you confirm this is working on your side ?
VisualStudio 9: >>> from distutils.msvc9compiler import Reg >>> path = r'Software/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9.0' >>> Reg.get_value(path, u"applicationid") 'VisualStudio' >>> import _winreg >>> HKCU = _winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER >>> 'VisualStudio' in Reg.read_keys(HKCU, r'Software\Microsoft') True VCExpress 9: (works for me on Windows XP - VC ++9.0 Express edition) >>> from distutils.msvc9compiler import Reg >>> path = r'Software/Microsoft/VCExpress/9.0' >>> Reg.get_value(path, u"applicationid") 'VCExpress' >>> import _winreg >>> HKCU = _winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER >>> 'VisualStudio' in Reg.read_keys(HKCU, r'Software\Microsoft') True ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7293> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com