New submission from Alex <malicious.wiz...@gmail.com>: == What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create registry key (let's assume it's located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\TestKey); 2. Walk to it in "regedit"; 3. Right-click on "(Default)" and select "Modify binary data"; 4. Leave everything blank and press "OK"; 5. Go to Python and execute this: >>> import _winreg >>> _winreg.QueryValue(_winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, 'TestKey') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> SystemError: ..\Objects\stringobject.c:4271: bad argument to internal function
== What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect either returning "''" or some ValueError indicating that source string is malformed. == What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1. Windows XP Professional SP2 English; 2. Tested on Python 2.5.2; 3. Tested on Python 2.6.1; 4. Tested on Stackless Python 2.5.2. == Please provide any additional information below. And yes, I know that this function is lame and everybody using it also is lame, but it's not really a reason to include buggy functions, right? ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 78190 nosy: malicious.wizard severity: normal status: open title: _winreg.QueryValue fault while reading mangled registry values type: behavior versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4722> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
