Right now the Python list is a little slow (at least for me) so I appreciate cc:s directly to me. Same for me: All python lists take hours to distribute the mails.
Someone (I don't remember who) mentioned in the discussion about my proposal that one should use SHDeleteKey for recursive deletion of keys. See the MSDN docs on RegDeleteKey for details. Don't know if this is exposed by the lowlevel module.
Don't think so. The tricky thing is: Deletion of keys behaves differently on Win95/98 and NT/2000. (Quoting MSDN:) The RegDeleteKey function deletes a subkey.
Windows 95/98: The function also deletes all subkeys and values. To delete a key only if the key has no subkeys or values, use the SHDeleteEmptyKey function. Windows NT/2000: The subkey to be deleted must not have subkeys. To delete a key and all its subkeys, you need to recursively enumerate the subkeys and delete them individually. To recursively delete keys, use the SHDeleteKey function. (end quote) The SHDelete* funtions require version 4.71 of shlwapi.dll, which is included in Win98 or 2000 (or in IE 4.0).
Currently it goes like this, because win32api and winreg (which will soon be _winreg) have slightly different apis, but it will doubtlessly be solved:
Ouch. I don't know if I have time to figure out all of the correspondances. Are the only differences those four method names or are those the only four differences that DistUtils happened to care about. I'm not interested in 1.5 compatibility if it will take a lot of work.
So you should simply ignore this. We will work it out on distutils. Thomas (I will disappear soon for holidays)