[python-win32] export registry keys

[Tim Roberts]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:58:39 +0100, le dahut <le.dahut at laposte.net> wrote:

> Tim Roberts a ?crit :
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>>> If you're going to do it from Python, then you don't have to worry about
>>> using the standard regedit format.  There are a couple of registry class
>>> wrappers for Python that turn a registry key into a Python object tree. 
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>mmhmm very interesting, could you tell me more about those classes ?
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One good example is in the ActiveState Python cookbook:
    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/174627

>>>>> Someone has an idea ? (otherwise I'll use "reg export" under XP and 
>>>>> regedit /E with 98 but it seems very barbarian isn't it   ;-)   )
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>>> Why is it barbarian?  It's called "using the tools at your disposal".
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>It opens a DOS prompt when the 'regedit' command is launched ... for a 
>wx app it looks not clean... maybe you know a way to hide this behavior ?
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Are you using os.system to launch regedit?  os.system always creates a
DOS shell to execute the command.  But regedit is a Windows application;
it doesn't need the shell.

You should be able to use any of the dozens of other process-launch
choices.  os.execl would work, but the subprocess module is probably a
better choice.  Just this should work:
    subprocess.Popen('regedit /E xxxx')

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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