Well, I used to know the answer to this question but I haven't done this kind of thing since 2009, so hopefully what I suggest is not out of date, so for everything I say here assume I put provisos in like it used to be or whatever.
Anyway if the type of a file is executable , for example a file with extension .xyz, is determined by the registry in windows read here and google onward https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/app-registration#finding-an-application-executable As I recall somewhere in PyWin32 http://timgolden.me.uk/pywin32-docs/contents.html there was a method to find out if an individual file was an executable. Hope it helps, because that means I still have some usable knowledge in that area! Best Regards, Bryan Rasmussen On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 2:49 PM Stephane Wirtel <steph...@wirtel.be> wrote: > And based on a determinist solution? > > Yes, you can check the extension but sometimes I prefer to be sure. > > For example, the API of Win32 has the GetTypeBinaryW function, this one > could be used but I need to create a mapping, with CPython api, ctypes > or CFFI. > > I could also use the 2 first bytes of a file and determine if the file > is a binary because on Windows, the executable files start with b'MZ'. > > But I wanted an elegant and minimalist solution. > > Thank you for your proposal. > > Have a nice day, > > Stéphane > > On 02/18, Igor Korot wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 7:26 AM Stephane Wirtel <steph...@wirtel.be> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> on Linux/Unix/BSD, we can detect if a file is an executable with > >> os.access(path, os.X_OK) but this is not the case on Windows. > >> > >> Do you have an idea? > > > >Check file extension? > > > >Thank you. > > > >> > >> Have a nice day, > >> > >> Stéphane > >> > >> -- > >> Stéphane Wirtel - https://wirtel.be - @matrixise > >> -- > >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > Stéphane Wirtel - https://wirtel.be - @matrixise > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
