[Tutor] Seek suggestions for script for looking up extensions usingC:\>assoc

[davidheiserca at gmail.com]

You wouldn't gain much with a Pyton script. You can specify the extension 
with "assoc".

Try "assoc .zip".

But if you want to try it anyway, look at the "popen2" module (depreciated) 
or the "subprocess" module to extract the data and assign it to a variable 
that you can parse any way you like.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard D. Moores" <rdmoores at gmail.com>
To: <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:11 AM
Subject: [Tutor] Seek suggestions for script for looking up extensions 
usingC:\>assoc


> Python 3.1; Windows Vista.
>
> I just ran C:\>assoc and was amazed to see 658 associations roll by.
> Here's the top of the list:
>
> .001=jZip.file
> .386=vxdfile
> .3g2=QuickTime.3g2
> .3gp=QuickTime.3gp
> .3gp2=QuickTime.3gp2
> .3gpp=QuickTime.3gpp
> .7Z=jZip.file
> .aa=NeroShowTime.Files9.aa
> .aac=QuickTime.aac
> .ac3=QuickTime.ac3
> .aca=Agent.Character.2
> .acf=Agent.Character.2
> .acl=ACLFile
> .acr=IrfanView.DCM
> .acrobatsecuritysettings=AcroExch.acrobatsecuritysettings
> .acs=Agent.Character2.2
> .acsm=Adobe.ACSMessage
> .AddIn=VCExpress.AddIn.9.0
> .adts=QuickTime.adts
> .aif=IrfanView.aif
> .aifc=WMP11.AssocFile.AIFF
> .aiff=WMP11.AssocFile.AIFF
> .air=AIR.InstallerPackage
>
> I thought it would be convenient to have a Python script I could use
> to look up unfamiliar file extensions. I assume one is possible, but
> have no idea where to start, and would appreciate hints and
> suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dick Moores
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