Accessing file metadata on windows XP

[wileyregister22]

When rightclicking a, for example, pdf file on windows, one normally
gets a screen with three or four tags. Clicking on one of the summary
tag one can get some info like "title", "Author", "category", "keyword"
etc..

My question is how can I programmatically read and change these data
with python. I know I should use Hammond's win32 extension, somehow
involving the pythoncom, storagecon of win32com etc.. Unfortunately,
so far I cannot get anything useful. Instead of trying blindly, would
somebody please points me to the correct direction. A little snippet
would help. I am particular interested in pdf files.

[Rob Williscroft]

wrote in news:11**********************@j72g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com in
comp.lang.python:

When rightclicking a, for example, pdf file on windows, one normally
gets a screen with three or four tags. Clicking on one of the summary
tag one can get some info like "title", "Author", "category", "keyword"
etc..

My question is how can I programmatically read and change these data
with python. I know I should use Hammond's win32 extension, somehow
involving the pythoncom, storagecon of win32com etc.. Unfortunately,
so far I cannot get anything useful. Instead of trying blindly, would
somebody please points me to the correct direction. A little snippet
would help. I am particular interested in pdf files.

This looks like it might be useful:

<url:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l=/library/en-
us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/objects/shellfolderitem/shellfolderit
em.asp>

Thats:

MSDN Home MSDN Library Win32 and COM Development User Interface

Windows Shell Windows Shell Shell Objects for Scripting and

Microsoft Visual Basic ShellFolderItem >

Rob.
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[Roger Upole]

<wi*************@gmail.comwrote in message news:11**********************@j72g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...

When rightclicking a, for example, pdf file on windows, one normally
gets a screen with three or four tags. Clicking on one of the summary
tag one can get some info like "title", "Author", "category", "keyword"
etc..

My question is how can I programmatically read and change these data
with python. I know I should use Hammond's win32 extension, somehow
involving the pythoncom, storagecon of win32com etc.. Unfortunately,
so far I cannot get anything useful. Instead of trying blindly, would
somebody please points me to the correct direction. A little snippet
would help. I am particular interested in pdf files.

See \win32com\test\testStorage.py for an example of using
the storage interfaces to read and write document summary
info.

Roger


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