One of our minions (he was introduced in this blog entry a while ago) recently came to us asking for advice: he was about to automate yet another task, by using his Python-fu, and realized that he misses entries in the file system as well as in the registry.
Notably, he only sees this behaviour on 64bit-versions of the Windows operating system:
The left image shows the folder C:\Windows\System32\Tasks as seen in the Windows Explorer, the right image as seen in a simple 32bit-python application. Only the subfolder Microsoft is listed there. Something is amiss.
Below is the code to produce the right image, when executed in a 32bit-version of Python:
import glob, os
for pathfilename in glob.glob(r"C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\*"):
print pathfilename
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