import os, win32api ver_strings=('Comments','InternalName','ProductName', 'CompanyName','LegalCopyright','ProductVersion', 'FileDescription','LegalTrademarks','PrivateBuild', 'FileVersion','OriginalFilename','SpecialBuild') fname = os.environ["comspec"] d=win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, '\\') ## backslash as parm returns dictionary of numeric info corresponding to VS_FIXEDFILEINFO struc for n, v in d.iteritems(): print n, v pairs=win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, '\\VarFileInfo\\Translation') ## \VarFileInfo\Translation returns list of available (language, codepage) pairs that can be used to retreive string info ## any other must be of the form \StringfileInfo\%04X%04X\parm_name, middle two are language/codepage pair returned from above for lang, codepage in pairs: print 'lang: ', lang, 'codepage:', codepage for ver_string in ver_strings: str_info=u'\\StringFileInfo\\%04X%04X\\%s' %(lang,codepage,ver_string) ## print str_info print ver_string, repr(win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, str_info))