[Python-Dev] New winreg module really an improvement?

[Bill Tutt]

Mark wrote: 
> To try and get more productive:  Bill, Gordon et al appear to have the
> sense to stay out of this debate.  Unless other people do chime in, Paul
> and I will remain at an impasse, and no one will be happy.  I would much
> prefer to move this forward than to vent at each other regarding mails
> neither of us can remember in detail ;-)

I'm actually in the process of checking it out, and am hoping to compose
some comments on it later today.
I do know this about abstracting the registry APIs. If it doesn't allow you
to do everything you can do with the normal APIs, then you've failed in your
abstraction. (Which is probably why I've never yet seen a successful
abstraction of the API. :) )
The registry is indeed a bizarre critter. Key's have values, and values have
values. Ugh.... It's enough to drive a sane man bonkers, and here I was
being annoyed by the person who originally designed the NT console APIs,
silly me....

Bill