Re: checking if program is installing using python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does this help? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52224 It's very rare that a program like Word is installed in the PATH, so it's unlikely this helps. Generally you would need to look in the registry, or perhaps use os.popen() to parse the output of ex

Re: checking if program is installing using python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote] > does this help? > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52224 There is the "which" module that I wrote that does this a little more robustly: http://starship.python.net/~tmick/#which However, I didn't see the original posting for this thread so I'm

Re: checking if program is installing using python

does this help? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52224 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

checking if program is installing using python

i want to check to see if a certain program is installed on my windows box using python. how can i do that...(ie, i want to see if "word" is installed) please help -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list