New submission from Daniel Stutzbach <dan...@stutzbachenterprises.com>:
The Windows RegQueryValue function returns a registry value without returning the corresponding type information (e.g., REG_SZ for string, REG_BINARY for binary data, REG_DWORD for a 32-bit number, etc.). The corresponding wrapper winreg.QueryValue currently calls PyUnicode_FromUnicode on the return data, which is fine if the type happens to be REG_SZ, but gibberish for anything else. Since the format of data is unknown, it should return a bytes object rather than a unicode object. If the user wants a REG_SZ converted to the unicode type automatically, than can use winreg.QueryValueEx instead. QueryValueEx wraps RegQueryValueEx which *does* return the type information of the underlying value. QueryValueEx uses the type information to convert to an appropriate Python type if possible (or returns a bytes object for unsupported types). ---------- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 102543 nosy: stutzbach severity: normal status: open title: winreg.QueryValue should return bytes, not unicode type: behavior versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8334> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
