[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: distutils/distutils msvccompiler.py,1.33,1.34

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Greg Ward wrote in a checkin message:
 > On second thought, first try for _winreg, and then winreg.  Only if both
 > fail do we try for win32api/win32con.  If *those* both fail, then we don't
 > have registry access.  Phew!

Guido van Rossum writes on python-dev:
 > Is this smart?  Doesn't the new winreg have a very different I/F than
 > the old one?

  No, this is bad.  It *will* break with winreg; if _winreg isn't
available, it should use the win32api/win32con/whatever stuff; it's a
Python 1.5.2 interpreter at that point.


  -Fred

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