Python winreg looping through sub-keys

Question

I\'m able to successfully retrieve the 5 sub-keys from my windows 7 machine registry hive \"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\" with the code below.

from _winreg import *

         


        

Answer 1

I don't have the same registry keys to search but the following code will list all the subkeys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software. I think if you change the value of the keyVal string to your directory it will work.

The try ... except bloc is this way because EnumKey will fail. I didn't do it as a for loop because I dont know how to get the correct length of aKey.

keyVal = r"Software"
aKey = OpenKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, keyVal, 0, KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
try:
    i = 0
    while True:
        asubkey = EnumKey(aKey, i)
        print(asubkey)
        i += 1
except WindowsError:
    pass