Use pefile to see if a section in an EXE (PE32) file is executable or not. Convenient, since a lot of EXE's don't have the standard .text section, or have more than one executable section.

execSections.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import pefile
import sys

'''
   Test the section characteristics to see if the section is executable. Check for flags:
       * 0x00000020 = Section contains code
       * 0x20000000 = Section is executable
   
   Not all executable sections are conveniently named .text. And pefile doesn't expose this information directly.
   Source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809762.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
   '''
def isSectionExecutable(section):
    characteristics = getattr(section, 'Characteristics')
    if characteristics & 0x00000020 > 0 or characteristics & 0x20000000 > 0:
        return True
    return False

def checkSections(pe):
    for section in pe.sections:
        if isSectionExecutable(section):
            print "%s is executable!" % section.Name
        else:
            print "%s is not executable" % section.Name

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        print "Provide an EXE file!"
        sys.exit(1)
    
    for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
        pe = pefile.PE(arg)
        print "\n%s..." % arg
        checkSections(pe)

useful !

Thanks!