[New-bugs-announce] [issue7877] Iterators over _winreg EnumKey and EnumValue results

[Brian Curtin]

New submission from Brian Curtin <curtin at acm.org>:

While EnumKey and EnumValue directly implement the underlying Windows calls of the same name, they don't feel very Pythonic. The user has to create their own loop and increment a counter to get all of the keys or values, stopping the loop when WindowsError is raised.

I created IterKey and IterValue, iterators over RegEnumKeyEx and RegEnumValueEx respectively. This mainly began as playing around with writing Python iterators in C, but has proven to work pretty nicely so I figured I'd put it out there.

Patch includes docs and tests. Comments/suggestions welcome and appreciated.

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
files: keyvalue_iterators.diff
keywords: needs review, patch, patch
messages: 99020
nosy: brian.curtin
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Iterators over _winreg EnumKey and EnumValue results
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file16170/keyvalue_iterators.diff

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