Reading from the Windows Registry in Python

drawk — Sat, 23 May 2009 01:34:43 +0000

You can read from the Windows registry in Python. So for instance you can read the location of an application you want to see if it is installed and then run it by finding the installed location of the EXE in the registry, then calling os.command(reg_key_value) or popen2.popen3(reg_key_value) to run it.

import pickle
import struct
import _winreg
 
def floater (s):
  return struct.unpack ("f", s)[0]
 
 
def unpickler (s):
  return pickle.loads (s)
 
 
root = _winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER
key_values = [
  (r"Software\PySoft\PyApp", "owner", unicode),
  (r"Software\PySoft\PyApp", "settings", list),
  (r"Software\PySoft\PyApp", "version", floater),
  (r"Software\PySoft\PyApp", "dump", unpickler),
]
 
for keypath, value_name, factory in key_values:
  hKey = _winreg.OpenKey (root, keypath, 0, _winreg.KEY_READ)
  value, type = _winreg.QueryValueEx (hKey, value_name)
  print "%s:%s" % (keypath, value_name), "=>", factory (value)

Common Social Network Functionality

drawk — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:21:31 +0000

User
- Auth
- Personal
  - Name
  - Location
  - Attributes
- State
  - IsLoggedIn
Friends
Stats
- GamesPlayed
- AppsUsed
- GameStats
- GameAchievements
Relations
- User
  - Groups
  - Friends
  - Status
  - etc.
- Friends
  - IsFriends
  - IsFriendUsingGame
  - IsFriendUsingApp
- Apps
  - SignedUpForApps
- Stats
  - stats for apps
  - stat for games
Feed
Market
- Items
  - Purchased
  - Wishlist
  - Own
Apps
- SignedUp
Games
- GameList
- GamesPlayed
Status
- CurrentStatus
- PreviousStatus
- Emotion

Friends
- getFriends
- setFriends ?
- getFriend
- setFriend ?
Groups
- getGroups
- setGroups ?
- getGroup
- setGroup ?

List of API actions in OpenSocial and Facebook,

You can see they vary, having a common library for social networks and widgets are needed these days as the frameworks grow

OPEN SOCIAL API DOCS: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/0.8/reference/

OpenSocial API Reference (v0.8)

The OpenSocial JavaScript API includes two namespaces: opensocial.* and gadgets.*. This page covers the opensocial.* namespace. The gadgets.* namespace is covered in the Gadgets API Reference.

Type Conventions

FACEBOOK WIKI API DOCS – http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API

Facebook REST Interface

The API uses a REST-like interface. This means that our Facebook method calls are made over the internet by sending HTTP GET or POST requests to the Facebook API REST server . Nearly any computer language can be used to communicate over HTTP with the REST server.

API Methods

Admin.getAllocation: Returns the current allocation limit for your application for the specified integration point.
Admin.getMetrics: Returns specified metrics for your application, given a time period.
Admin.getDailyMetrics: Returns specified daily metrics for your application, given a date range.
admin.getAppProperties (BETA): Returns values of properties for your applications from the Facebook Developer application.
admin.setAppProperties (BETA): Sets values for properties for your applications in the Facebook Developer application.
application.getPublicInfo (BETA): Returns public information about a given application (not necessarily your own).
auth.createToken: Creates an auth_token to be passed in as a parameter to login.php and then to auth.getSession after the user has logged in.
auth.getSession: Returns the session key bound to an auth_token, as returned by auth.createToken or in the callback URL.
auth.promoteSession: Returns a temporary session secret associated to the current existing session, for use in a client-side component to an application.
auth.expireSession: Expires the session indicated in the API call, for your application.
batch.run (BETA): Execute a list of individual API calls in a single batch.
data.getCookies (BETA): Returns all cookies for a given user and application.
data.setCookie (BETA): Sets a cookie for a given user and application.
events.get: Returns all visible events according to the filters specified.
events.getMembers: Returns membership list data associated with an event.
fbml.refreshImgSrc: Fetches and re-caches the image stored at the given URL.
fbml.refreshRefUrl: Fetches and re-caches the content stored at the given URL.
fbml.setRefHandle: Associates a given “handle” with FBML markup so that the handle can be used within the fb:ref FBML tag.
feed.publishStoryToUser: Publishes a News Feed story to the user corresponding to the session_key parameter.
feed.publishActionOfUser: Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user corresponding to the session_key parameter, and publishes News Feed stories to the friends of that user.
feed.publishTemplatizedAction: Publishes a Mini-Feed story to the user or Page corresponding to the session_key or page_actor_id parameter.
fql.query: Evaluates an FQL (Facebook Query Language) query.
friends.areFriends: Returns whether or not each pair of specified users is friends with each other.
friends.get: Returns the identifiers for the current user’s Facebook friends.
friends.getAppUsers: Returns the identifiers for the current user’s Facebook friends who are signed up for the specific calling application.
friends.getLists: Returns the identifiers for the current user’s Facebook friend lists.
groups.get: Returns all visible groups according to the filters specified.
groups.getMembers: Returns membership list data associated with a group.
liveMessage.send (BETA): Sends a “message” directly to a user’s browser, which can be handled in FBJS.
marketplace.createListing: Create or modify a listing in Marketplace.
marketplace.getCategories: Returns all the Marketplace categories.
marketplace.getListings: Return all Marketplace listings either by listing ID or by user.
marketplace.getSubCategories: Returns the Marketplace subcategories for a particular category.
marketplace.removeListing: Remove a listing from Marketplace.
marketplace.search: Search Marketplace for listings filtering by category, subcategory and a query string.
notifications.get: Returns information on outstanding Facebook notifications for current session user.
notifications.send: Sends a notification to a set of users.
notifications.sendRequest: This method is disabled.
notifications.sendEmail: Sends an email to the specified users who have the application.
pages.getInfo: Returns all visible pages to the filters specified.
pages.isAdmin: Checks whether the logged-in user is the admin for a given Page.
pages.isAppAdded: Checks whether the Page has added the application.
pages.isFan: Checks whether a user is a fan of a given Page.
photos.addTag: Adds a tag with the given information to a photo.
photos.createAlbum: Creates and returns a new album owned by the current session user.
photos.get: Returns all visible photos according to the filters specified.
photos.getAlbums: Returns metadata about all of the photo albums uploaded by the specified user.
photos.getTags: Returns the set of user tags on all photos specified.
photos.upload: Uploads a photo owned by the current session user and returns the new photo.
profile.setFBML: Sets the FBML for a user’s profile, including the content for both the profile box and the profile actions.
profile.getFBML: Gets the FBML that is currently set for a user’s profile.
users.getInfo: Returns a wide array of user-specific information for each user identifier passed, limited by the view of the current user.
users.getLoggedInUser: Gets the user ID (uid) associated with the current session.
users.hasAppPermission: Checks whether the user has opted in to an extended application permission.
users.isAppAdded: Returns whether the logged-in user has added the calling application.
users.setStatus: Updates a user’s Facebook status.

Additional documentation

External links

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Reading from the Windows Registry in Python

Common Social Network Functionality

List of API actions in OpenSocial and Facebook,

OpenSocial API Reference (v0.8)

Contents

Facebook REST Interface

API Methods

Batching API BETA

Data Store API BETA

Permissions API BETA

Additional documentation

External links

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