How to access a file's properties on Windows?

Question

Here is a function which reads all file attributes as a dictionary:

import win32api

#==============================================================================
def getFileProperties(fname):
#==============================================================================
    """
    Read all properties of the given file return them as a dictionary.
    """
    propNames = ('Comments', 'InternalName', 'ProductName',
        'CompanyName', 'LegalCopyright', 'ProductVersion',
        'FileDescription', 'LegalTrademarks', 'PrivateBuild',
        'FileVersion', 'OriginalFilename', 'SpecialBuild')

    props = {'FixedFileInfo': None, 'StringFileInfo': None, 'FileVersion': None}

    try:
        # backslash as parm returns dictionary of numeric info corresponding to VS_FIXEDFILEINFO struc
        fixedInfo = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, '\\')
        props['FixedFileInfo'] = fixedInfo
        props['FileVersion'] = "%d.%d.%d.%d" % (fixedInfo['FileVersionMS'] / 65536,
                fixedInfo['FileVersionMS'] % 65536, fixedInfo['FileVersionLS'] / 65536,
                fixedInfo['FileVersionLS'] % 65536)

        # \VarFileInfo\Translation returns list of available (language, codepage)
        # pairs that can be used to retreive string info. We are using only the first pair.
        lang, codepage = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, '\\VarFileInfo\\Translation')[0]

        # any other must be of the form \StringfileInfo\%04X%04X\parm_name, middle
        # two are language/codepage pair returned from above

        strInfo = {}
        for propName in propNames:
            strInfoPath = u'\\StringFileInfo\\%04X%04X\\%s' % (lang, codepage, propName)
            ## print str_info
            strInfo[propName] = win32api.GetFileVersionInfo(fname, strInfoPath)

        props['StringFileInfo'] = strInfo
    except:
        pass

    return props

Better to add a try/except in case the file has no version number attribute.

filever.py

from win32api import GetFileVersionInfo, LOWORD, HIWORD

def get_version_number (filename):
    try:
        info = GetFileVersionInfo (filename, "\\")
        ms = info['FileVersionMS']
        ls = info['FileVersionLS']
        return HIWORD (ms), LOWORD (ms), HIWORD (ls), LOWORD (ls)
    except:
        return 0,0,0,0

if __name__ == '__main__':
  import os
  filename = os.environ["COMSPEC"]
  print ".".join ([str (i) for i in get_version_number (filename)])

yourscript.py:

import os,filever

myPath="C:\\path\\to\\check"

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(myPath):
    for file in files:
        file = file.lower() # Convert .EXE to .exe so next line works
        if (file.count('.exe') or file.count('.dll')): # Check only exe or dll files
            fullPathToFile=os.path.join(root,file)
            major,minor,subminor,revision=filever.get_version_number(fullPathToFile)
            print "Filename: %s \t Version: %s.%s.%s.%s" % (file,major,minor,subminor,revision)

Cheers!

You can use the pyWin32 module from https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32:

from win32com.client import Dispatch

ver_parser = Dispatch('Scripting.FileSystemObject')
info = ver_parser.GetFileVersion(path)

if info == 'No Version Information Available':
    info = None

Here is a version that also works in non-Windows environments, using the pefile module:

import pefile

def LOWORD(dword):
    return dword & 0x0000ffff
def HIWORD(dword): 
    return dword >> 16
def get_product_version(path):

    pe = pefile.PE(path)
    #print PE.dump_info()

    ms = pe.VS_FIXEDFILEINFO.ProductVersionMS
    ls = pe.VS_FIXEDFILEINFO.ProductVersionLS
    return (HIWORD (ms), LOWORD (ms), HIWORD (ls), LOWORD (ls))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    try:
        print "%d.%d.%d.%d" % get_product_version(sys.argv[1])
    except:
        print "Version info not available. Maybe the file is not a Windows executable"

I found this solution at "timgolden" site. Works fine.

from win32api import GetFileVersionInfo, LOWORD, HIWORD

def get_version_number (filename):
  info = GetFileVersionInfo (filename, "\\")
  ms = info['FileVersionMS']
  ls = info['FileVersionLS']
  return HIWORD (ms), LOWORD (ms), HIWORD (ls), LOWORD (ls)

if __name__ == '__main__':
  import os
  filename = os.environ["COMSPEC"]
  print ".".join ([str (i) for i in get_version_number (filename)])

I found that the only cross-platform answer (using pefile) couldn't find the version string I was looking for, which is the one shown in the 'Details' tab of the 'View properties' of a .DLL file on Windows. However, this code, based on the dump_info() function in pefile, is able to find those attributes, which include original filename, copyright, company name, and file and product versions.

You may need to replace encoding with a different encoding if they are not encoded using UTF-8.

import pefile

PATH_TO_FILE = 'C:\...'
pe = pefile.PE(PATH_TO_FILE)

if hasattr(pe, 'VS_VERSIONINFO'):
    for idx in range(len(pe.VS_VERSIONINFO)):
        if hasattr(pe, 'FileInfo') and len(pe.FileInfo) > idx:
            for entry in pe.FileInfo[idx]:
                if hasattr(entry, 'StringTable'):
                    for st_entry in entry.StringTable:
                        for str_entry in sorted(list(st_entry.entries.items())):
                            print('{0}: {1}'.format(
                                str_entry[0].decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace'),
                                str_entry[1].decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace')))