Comments on: Reading cookies from most Firefox versions…

By: mithro

mithro — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:49:46 +0000

I’ve updated the code once more, it might work now. As I said I can’t actually test this code as I don’t have a windows computer.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:17:01 +0000

sorry about the previous comment, I went the the site listed in the script:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/473846

I see that it uses on line 68:

ret = _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, name)
except WindowsError:
return None
else:
key.Close()
if ret[1] == _winreg.REG_EXPAND_SZ:
return expandvars(ret[0])
else:
return ret[0]

which your code closely mirrors :

result = _winreg.QueryValueEx(key, ‘AppData’)
except WindowsError:
return None
else:
key.Close()
if ret[1] == _winreg.REG_EXPAND_SZ:
result = win32api.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(ret[0])
else:
result = ret[0]

It’s just that you put result = as opposed to ret = on that first line and then used ret further on.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:09:19 +0000

I have the same error as Chris

NameError: global name ‘ret’ is not defined

I am currently using the copy of firefox_finder.py and firefox3_repack.py from your repo.

By: thegreatgrateful

thegreatgrateful — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:20:35 +0000

thanks man!

By: mithro

mithro — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:14:50 +0000

I updated the code in the repository. I don’t have a Windows computer to actually test against however.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:35:07 +0000

The windows code doesn’t appear to work at all.

NameError: global name ‘ret’ is not defined, line 76

By: mithro

mithro — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:38:03 +0000

You can find the code in an easier to edit format at Mithro's Useful Bit repository.

By: Paolo Bitta

Paolo Bitta — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:52:51 +0000

That’s a good job, thank you!