Re: [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
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