[Python-Dev] Winreg update (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@mems-exchange.org
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:57:51 -0400

On 11 August 2000, Paul Prescod said:

This is really easy so I want some real feedback this time. Distutils people, this means you! Mark! I would love to hear Bill Tutt, Greg Stein and anyone else who claims some knowledge of Windows!

All I know is that the Distutils only use the registry for one thing: finding the MSVC binaries (in distutils/msvccompiler.py). The registry access is coded in such a way that we can use either the win32api/win32con modules ("old way") or _winreg ("new way", but still the low-level interface).

I'm all in favour of high-level interfaces, and I'm also in favour of speaking the local tongue -- when in Windows, follow the Windows API (at least for features that are totally Windows-specific, like the registry). But I know nothing about all this stuff, and as far as I know the registry access in distutils/msvccompiler.py works just fine as is.

    Greg