Win32 Registry Manipulation w/PythonWin?

[Mark Hammond]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> Matthias Huening wrote:
> 
>> Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote in
>> news:qmqgga.g31.ln at eskimo.tundraware.com:
>>
>>> Does some kind soul out there happen to have a pointer to a
>>> tutorial/examples on fiddling with the Win32 registry from PythonWin?
>>>
>>
>>
>> There is a module called pyRegistry. Can't find the url right now, but 
>> you can get it from ActivState:
>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Modules/Python/dist_html?dist_id=11218
>>
>> Matthias
> 
> 
> Is there some advantage to this module over the standard _winreg module?

Not really - but _winreg is newer and therefore may not be in the Python 
version used by the OP, or he may be choosing to target earlier Python 
versions for his app, etc.

But you are correct - new code should use _winreg over win32api.

Mark.