On 1:59 PM, Tim Golden wrote:
On 27/04/2010 22:43, Tim Roberts wrote:
Tim Golden wrote:
On 26/04/2010 23:56, Tim Roberts wrote:
Mike Driscoll wrote:
...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo
I tried to use the base64 module to decode it, but I must be doing
something wrong. Does anyone know of a good way to get and set this
information? I am dealing with users on Windows XP and Python 2.4
??? The strings in there are not encoded in any way. They are
plaintext Unicode strings. They happen to be identified as
REG_BINARY,
but that's just a silly accident.
On my (WinXP SP3, Office 2003) machine, they look to be utf16-encoded
strings (null-terminated):
Exactly. They are really just REG_SZ, although they set the type as
REG_BINARY for their own inscrutable reasons.
Ah. Amazing how I managed to read your explanation and then internally
translate it into meaning something rather different.
Hopefully my code will have helped the OP out at any rate... I seem to be
having a bad week for offering help :)
TJG
Sorry for the delay in checking this out. I was out of the office
yesterday. Your code almost worked for reading the key, but I get a
tuple back:
('m\x00l\x00d\x00\x00\x00', 3)
So I had to change your last line to: print repr (res[0].decode ("utf16"))
I'll try setting the value later today since that's the main goal of
this little project. I suppose I'll need to encode it in utf16 too.
Thanks for the assist!
- Mike
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