A python program needs to find the installation location of openoffice.org, which is installed on a Windows XP computer. What is the best way to do this?
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You could have a look in the registry using something like win32api.RegConnectRegistry and win32api.RegOpenKeyEx. (I don't have access to a Windows PC to check at the moment... – ed. Sep 19 '11 at 08:30
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You can use the _winreg module on windows: First find out the path in the registry (eg starting regedit.exe and using its find function). Then you can query this path as I did it once to find the home directory of R:
key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\R-core\\R")
value = _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, "InstallPath")[0]
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If you are not familiar with the windows regstry: have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry
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