Editing Windows registry, from Python, Under Linux

Question

I am looking for a Python API (or a C API as I am willing to bind) for editing Windows registries from XP to 7 from within a Linux system.

The Windows target will be

Answer 1

You may want to have a look at this project. The initial idea was to recover passwords but all the tools are there to edit registry entries.

It sounds like a dangerous idea though, I would rather find a way to launch a Python script - even remotely - with _winreg in its own environment but it doesn't seem to be a possibility for you. Note also that I didn't see any mention of Windows 7 in their project.