[python-win32] python-win32 Digest, Vol 110, Issue 30

[damien moloney]

Win32 file properties

The code under the  https://github.com/tjguk/winshell was very helpful, I'm
able to retrieve the values.
You are correct delving into how it all works it is very complicated.

Thanks
Damien.

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> On 27/05/2012 11:54, damien moloney wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have been unable to retrieve the windows file properties/attributes
> > under "Subject", and "Description". for .msi files on a Win XP c using
> > win32api. Have been able to get version type info,
> > but unable to get much more. I came across the following "fromwin32com
> > importstoragecon # constants related to storage functions." which looked
> > promising but fell over as the .msi files I was looking at are not
> > "storage files". Any ides on where next.
>
> This is a bit more complicated than you might like. I have
> a half-hearted example here:
>
>
> http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/get-document-summary-info.html
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> and the in-dev version of my winshell module includes some more
> general-purpose code which you might at least want to look at
> even though it's not 100% at the moment:
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>  https://github.com/tjguk/winshell
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> Part of the difficulty is that Windows has switched between two
> approaches to this area which doesn't help when trying to get
> examples.
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> TJG
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