> > I've just released the results of a nice Sunday's coding, inspired by > > one too many turns at futzing around with the _winreg module. The > > "regobj" module brings a convenient and clean object-based API for > > accessing the Windows Registry. > > Sounds very interesting, Ryan. Just a couple questions about the > dictionary interface.
Thanks for you interest and suggestions, a couple of quick points below.
> I could see how you could map numbers to DWORD, 2.x str/3.x bytes to
> binary, and 2.x unicode/3.x str to REG_SZ. But you don't document such
> a translation, so it is unclear exactly what you actually do. This
> would be somewhat weird in 2.x, though, where str commonly would want to
> map to String rather than Binary.
>
> It seems almost necessary to add an explanation of whatever mapping is
> presently done, to have complete documentation.
I guess I just ran out of steam on the documentation front :-)
Currently it maps integers to DWORD and anything else to REG_SZ. The
idea of having a distinct Value class is to allow a more nuanced mapping
to be developed, but I haven't got down to the details of that yet - my
current application only requires REG_SZ.
> Thinking more, I wonder if it is possible to create objects of type
> Value to put in the dictionary to allow specification of multistring and
> expandablestring Registry types, but then the dictionary name would have
> to be redundant with the name attribute in the Value object. Maybe a
> nameless value type could be invented, with just type and data attributes?
It certainly is, using syntax like:
HKCU.foo.bar["key"] = Value("%SYSTEMROOT%/mydir",type=REG_EXPAND_SZ)}
Putting a nameless Value() instance in the initialisation dictionary
should also work (but as you note, there's no documentation or tests for
this yet...)
Cheers,
Ryan
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