Python MAPI

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Aug 10, 5:05 am, vasudevram <vasudev... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 6:07 pm, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >Well, I ran Process Monitor with some filters enabled to only watch
>
> Thunderbird and MS Word. Unfortunately, that didn't give me any of the
> registry edits, so I disabled my filters and ran it without. Now I
> have a log file with 28,000 entries. It's amazing to see all the stuff
> that happens in just a few moments, but how am I supposed to parse
> this mess?
>
> Explorer.exe and outlook express do thousands of the registry calls
> and the paths they manipulate vary wildly. Oh well, I'll be off the
> clock in about 15 minutes so it can wait until Monday.
>
> Thanks for your help. I'll post if I figure out anything...hopefully
> you'll do the same.
>
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>
> Sorry for not replying earlier ... I searched this list for the topic
> (Python MAPI) a few times but couldn't find it - not sure why - maybe
> Google Groups's indexing gets messed up sometimes ...
>
> Yes, so many entries would be a problem to parse manually ...
>
> That's why I suggested using a grep for Windows - or, preferably, an
> egrep - which is a more powerful version of grep; e.g. basic grep only
> allows you to use one regexp at a time - while egrep allows you to use
> extended regular expressions, such as "pattern1|pattern2", also
> "patt(e|u)rn(1|2)" which looks in parallel for pattern1, patturn1,
> pattern2 and patturn2 - I used a made-up example where the spelling of
> pattern could be wrong, but it works for any other cases of
> alternative patterns and subpatterns as well. Not sure if there is any
> egrep for Windows - try Googling. If not, and the problem is important
> enough, you might want to install Cygwin (its a big download, so first
> check if it _does_ have egrep in it).
>
> Vasudev

There are some programs that do grep for Windows. I'll mess with them.

Mike