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

This works, and prints out the list of all subkeys (fixed version of @Broseph's answer)

import _winreg

def subkeys(key):
    i = 0
    while True:
        try:
            subkey = _winreg.EnumKey(key, i)
            yield subkey
            i+=1
        except WindowsError as e:
            break

def traverse_registry_tree(hkey, keypath, tabs=0):
    key = _winreg.OpenKey(hkey, keypath, 0, _winreg.KEY_READ)
    for subkeyname in subkeys(key):
        print '\t'*tabs + subkeyname
        subkeypath = "%s\\%s" % (keypath, subkeyname)
        traverse_registry_tree(hkey, subkeypath, tabs+1)

keypath = r"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows"

traverse_registry_tree(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, keypath)