Mike Driscoll wrote:
On May 7, 4:45 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In a spirit of being helpful... :)
[... snip registry walker ...]
This is pretty cool stuff, Tim. Of course, it would also seriously
screw up some programs if you decided to replace the wrong phrase.
Just a word of warning to the OP: be sure to make a backup of the
registry before doing something like this. Trying to fix a messed up
registry from the command line is not a fun way to spend the
afternoon.
Good point, Mike. In a spirit of being even more helpful... the _winreg
module includes the functions SaveKey and LoadKey so as a crude
backup mechanism, you could do this:
<code snippet>
import time
import _winreg
import win32api
import win32security
#
# You need to have SeBackupPrivilege enabled for this to work
#
priv_flags = win32security.TOKEN_ADJUST_PRIVILEGES | win32security.TOKEN_QUERY
hToken = win32security.OpenProcessToken (win32api.GetCurrentProcess (),
priv_flags)
privilege_id = win32security.LookupPrivilegeValue (None, "SeBackupPrivilege")
win32security.AdjustTokenPrivileges (hToken, 0, [(privilege_id,
win32security.SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED)])
root = _winreg.OpenKey (_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, r"Software\Python\TEST")
#
# This will fail if the file already exists so make it uniqueish
#
_winreg.SaveKey (root, "c:/temp/HKLM_Software_Python-%s.reg" % time.strftime
("%Y%m%d-%H%M%S"))
</code snippet>
Note that the file which this creates is *not* the same as a .reg file which the
File > Export menu
option provides from within the registry editor. (In fact, I shouldn't really
have called it .reg; call
it something else). It can be reloaded by the _winreg.LoadKey function -- which I notice is incorrectly
named RegLoadKey in the docs after the underlying API call. The docs note that SeRestorePrivilege is
required for this action, the counterpart to SeBackupPrivilege.
TJG
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