[New-bugs-announce] [issue14420] winreg SetValueEx DWord type incompatible with value argument

[Bob]

New submission from Bob <r_sanford at verizon.net>:

When calling winreg.SetValueEx(key, value_name, reserved, type, value), the value argument does not support the full range of a 32 bit unsigned integer, which the Window's registry API is expecting. For example, passing a value 0x80000000 will result in the following exception:
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long. For consistency with the Window's binding, it should support an unsigned long.

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components: Windows
messages: 156875
nosy: RoSanford
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: winreg SetValueEx DWord type incompatible with value argument
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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