# Filename: getProgIDsFromWBEM.py
# Roy H. Han (http://us.pycon.org/2008/tutorials/AutomatingWindows/)

import win32com.client

# Dispatch WBEM
wbem = win32com.client.Dispatch('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator')
wbemServer = wbem.ConnectServer('.', 'root\cimv2')
# Extract progIDs
sql = 'SELECT ProgID FROM Win32_ProgIDSpecification'
results = wbemServer.ExecQuery(sql)
progIDs = [x.ProgID for x in results]; progIDs.sort()
# Record results
outputFile = open('progIDs_partialFromWBEM.txt', 'wt')
outputFile.write('\n'.join(progIDs))
outputFile.close()