Winreg

See: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html for WMI interface...

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i.html

and http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/win32_how_do_i/check-a-users-credentials.html

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread598226-_winreg.html

I use _winreg to find out the path of the exe:

Code: ( text )

try:
            ### Read registry for InstaCal path
            instacalKey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
                                        "SOFTWARE\Universal Library")
            self.pmdPath = str(_winreg.QueryValueEx(instacalKey, 'RootDirs')[0])
            instacalKey.Close()
        except WindowsError:
            self.InstaCalBtn.Disable()
            self.pmdPath = ""

then: Code: ( text )

def OnInstaCalButton(self, event):
        os.spawnl(os.P_DETACH, self.pmdPath + "inscal32.exe")

Need more info on the time between numbers, but you might want to check out the time module.

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread575308-_winreg.html

For those of you who have never used the *listofargs and **dictofargs syntax, here is a look at the latter. By using **kwargs, a dictionary of any size is sent into the fuction as dict(a=1, b=2). Inside the function, it's just a dictionary named kwargs (or whaterver, but this is conventional). The truly amazing thing to me is that I am able to write to the Windows registry with so little interface!

Code: ( text )
"""Encapuslate a Default Values Object and Config File"""
 
from inspect import getmembers
import wx
 
class DefaultValueHolder(object):
    """Intended for use with wxConfig (or maybe _winreg) to set up and/or get
       registry key names and values. Name attrs as default*. "default"
       will be stripped of when reading and writing to the config file"""
##    defaultTestStr = "this is a test"
##    defaultTestInt = 1
 
    def __init__(self, appName, grpName):
        """The name of the config file that will be created"""
        self.appName = appName          # if the key doesn't exit, it will be created
        self.grpName = grpName          # same goes for groups.
        self.config = wx.Config(appName) # Open the file (HKCU in windows registry)
 
    def GetVariables(self):
        return [{"name":var[0][7:], "value":var[1], "type":type(var[1])}
                for var in getmembers(self) if var[0].startswith('default')]
 
    def SetVariables(self, **kwargs):
        for name, value in kwargs.items():
            setattr(self, "default" + name, value)
 
    def InitFromConfig(self):
        self.config.SetPath(self.grpName)
        for var in self.GetVariables():
            if var['type'] == str:
                self.config.Write(var['name'], var['value'])
            elif var['type'] == int:
                self.config.WriteInt(var['name'], var['value'])
            elif var['type'] == float:
                self.config.WriteFloat(var['name'], var['value'])
 
 
if __name__ == "__main__":
    test = DefaultValueHolder("MyAppName", "Database")
 
    test.SetVariables(UserName = "joe", Password = "", ServerName = "MyServer")
    #### this also works:
    ## test.defaultUserName = "joe"
 
    test.InitFromConfig()

Registry Lookup

#!/usr/bin/echo THIS_IS_ONLY_FOR_WINDOWS_PYTHON

from _winreg import *
from os import environ

class User:
    def __init__(self,masterkey,sid):
        self.sid = sid
        userkey = OpenKey(masterkey,sid)
        self.data = {}
        for valueno in range(QueryInfoKey(userkey)[1]):
            (name,data,type) = EnumValue(userkey,valueno)
            self.data[name] = data
        userkey.Close()
        profilePath = self.data['ProfileImagePath'].split("%")
        for i in range(1,len(profilePath),2):
            profilePath[i] = environ[profilePath[i]]
        self.profilePath = "".join(profilePath)

users = []

masterkey = OpenKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\ProfileList")
for userno in range(QueryInfoKey(masterkey)[0]):
    users.append(User(masterkey,EnumKey(masterkey,userno)))
masterkey.Close()

profilePath = environ["USERPROFILE"]
userName = environ["USERNAME"]
userDomain = environ["USERDOMAIN"]

for user in users:
    if user.profilePath == profilePath:
        # Not clear what to use for group ID. Is 513 universally OK?
        # This assumes you want your home directory in /home/userName
        print ":".join([userName, \
                        "unused_by_nt/2000/xp", \
                        user.sid.split("-")[-1],
                        "513", \
                        "U-" + userDomain + "\\" + userName + "," + user.sid, \
                        "/home/" + userName, \
                        "/bin/bash"])