Testing If a string has anything in it

[Larz60+]

Rather than try to fix all of the errors, here's one that works.
This was done on python 3.6.2 so you may have to tweak a bit
please note that you shouldn't use _winreg, rather winreg

import winreg
import traceback
import logging
import sys

def getMDACversion():
    base = winreg.ConnectRegistry(None, winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)
    try:
        hkey = int(winreg.OpenKey(
            base, 'SOFTWARE\\Python\\PythonCore', 0, winreg.KEY_READ))
        print(hkey)
        # result = winreg.QueryValueEx(hKey, "ImagePath")
        # return result[0]
    except:
        exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
        logging.error(repr(traceback.format_exception(exc_type,
                    exc_value, exc_traceback)))

print(getMDACversion())