How can I detect if IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm is installed and get the path to the exe on Windows by using Python?

Question

I am looking for a piece of code Python code that would give me the path to IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm exe if they are installed.

Usually, I would want to detect the same for Eclipse but it seems that Eclipse doesn't have an installer :(

Answer 1

The installation path is stored in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\JetBrains\\IntelliJ IDEA\\<build number>\\(Default)

(replace IntelliJ IDEA with PyCharm if you need the PyCharm installation path)

You can use the _winreg module to read the registry and retrieve the path.