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

Mark Hammond MarkH@ActiveState.com
Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:08:58 +1000

Just to clarify (or confuse) the issue:

When writing an urllib patch recently, winreg seemed OK. Is it complete enough? Are the things you can't do with it important for its role? IMO, if winreg can handle the vast majority of cases (say, 98%) then its a useful tool and people who need RegSetKeySecurity and similar can go to win32api.

Note that Neil was actually using _winreg - the exposure of the raw Win32 API. Part of my applying the patch was to rename the usage of "winreg" to "_winreg".

Between the time of you writing the original patch and it being applied, the old "winreg" module was renamed to "_winreg", and Paul's new "winreg.py" was added. The bone of contention is the new "winreg.py" module, which urllib does not use.

Mark.