On 28 Jan 2000, Michael Hudson wrote:
Greg Stein
writes: ... Registry files are binary files. You're thinking of a .reg file which can be passed to regsvr32. .reg files have syntax similar to .ini files.
Yup, you're right.
In short: no, you cannot parse them. You must have access to the Win32 registry functions.
Presumably Microsoft change the binary format every six months for fun, too...
Heh. Guess Microsoft isn't the only advocate of FUD.
There has been discussion about putting them into Python 1.6.
That would strike me as quite a good idea. It's hard to see how distutils can function *really* well on Windows without them.
I definitely agree. However, Greg Ward has this requirement in his head: distutils must work on Python 1.5. Therefore, you may have some problems here. Go fight him about it, though. I'll stay on the sidelines :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/