[Python-Dev] New winreg module really an improvement? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:07:27 +0200

guido wrote:

Paul, I think that the best thing to do now is to withdraw winreg.py, and to keep (and document!) the winreg extension with the understanding that it's a wrapper around poorly designed API but at least it's very close to the C API. The leading underscore should be a hint that this is not a module for every day use.

how about letting _winreg export all functions with their win32 names, and adding a winreg.py which looks some- thing like this:

from _winreg import *

class Key:
    ....

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT =3D Key(...)
...

where the Key class addresses the 80% level: open keys and read NONE/SZ/EXPAND_SZ/DWORD values (through a slightly extended dictionary API).

in 2.0, add support to create keys and write values of the same types, and you end up supporting the needs of 99% of all applications.

Hopefully someday someone will eventually create a set of higher level bindings modeled after the Java, VB or C# version of the API.

how about Tcl? I'm pretty sure their API (which is very simple, iirc) addresses the 99% level...