root/trunk/GrabVersion.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
# Copyright (C) 2005, Giovanni Bajo
# Based on previous work under copyright (c) 2002 McMillan Enterprises, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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import versionInfo

import sys
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "Usage: >python GrabVersion.py <exe>"
    print " where: <exe> is the fullpathname of a Windows executable."
    print " The printed output may be saved to a file,  editted and "
    print " used as the input for a verion resource on any of the "
    print " executable targets in an Installer config file."
    print " Note that only NT / Win2K can set version resources."
else:
    vs  = versionInfo.decode(sys.argv[1])
    print vs