[issue35026] Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

Change by Eryk Sun : -- versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue35026] Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

Eryk Sun added the comment: winreg.DeleteKey[Ex] does not require any particular access on the `key` handle. This handle is used only as the native NT API RootDirectory [1] when opening `subkey` with DELETE access via NtOpenKeyEx [2]. The extra access with winreg.DeleteKeyEx [3] is just to a

[issue35026] Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

Change by Zackery Spytz : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +ZackerySpytz nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 pull_requests: +23330 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24547 ___ Python tracker

[issue35026] Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: Thanks for the report. I am adding windows component since it's a windows specific doc issue. RegDeleteValueW > A handle to an open registry key. The key must have been opened with the > KEY_SET_VALUE access right. For more information, see Regist

[issue35026] Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

New submission from George Fischhof : Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points Hi there, on page https://docs.python.org/3/library/winreg.html it is not mentioned in the description of the following functions: winreg.DeleteKey winreg.DeleteKeyEx winreg.Delete