Adding multiple 'Tags' for an image in windows explorer using python script

[Ananya21162]

Windows explorer has an option to add tags to image through image properties > Details > Tags.
Can I modify this using python or any other automated method (or bash)? I tried using exif library pip install exif. But it only allows to change image title/subject through its ImageDescription attribute.
Further, exiftools library has an attributes XPkeywords, is it relevant for updating tags? What does it update?

[dfandrich]

Windows (as of a few versions ago) uses the tags corresponding to the EXIF_TAG_XP_TITLE, EXIF_TAG_XP_COMMENT, EXIF_TAG_XP_AUTHOR, EXIF_TAG_XP_KEYWORDS, and EXIF_TAG_XP_SUBJECT definitions in libexif. These are supported for reading directly. There isn't special support for writing or modifying them, which doesn't mean you can't modify them, just that it's a bit tricky. Windows writes these using the UTF-16LE encoding, which makes them oddballs. libexif converts these to UTF-8 when reading using exif_entry_get_value() but doesn't do any conversion when updating them, which means that the libexif application needs to convert to UTF-16LE itself. It also means that the exif command-line utility can't be used to update them, since that requires writing binary zeros. We should really add an option to allow writing arbitrary binary data into a tag from the CLI.