Hi Everybody, I do a fair bit of programming in Python and I have to say I find perl a little intimidating right now as I don't have a lot of experience with it however its the only language I have found that seemed to have a library for what I need right now: Win32::Registry (or maybe Win32::TieRegistry)
I way to read/search for windows registry keys from offline hive files e.g. NTUSER.DAT on *nix platforms, in my case Ubuntu linux - nothing more advanced than that. Given that I only need this functionality, performance is a not issue and I'm very comfortable in Python I thought I might try and write a pair of wrapper functions - one to check the existence of a key, one to return a keys values. Sadly though I have fallen at the first hurdle, I get "OS unsupported" when I type "install Win32::Registry" into CPAN so I guess it's windows only :( Anyone know of an open source module/library that can do what I want? Ideally Python or Perl, but I suppose any free language I can compile or easily bundle/distribute would do. Alternatively if anyone knows of a *nix app that can decode a windows registry into a flat text file? At a push I could compile something that can do this on windows and run it via wine but I'd really like to avoid that if I can. Suggestions & pointers greatly appreciated, Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
