"More data is available" Error With _winreg Module
John Abel
john.abel at pa.press.net
Mon Feb 10 06:09:10 EST 2003
I have a patch for _winreg, that I'm currently testing with the 2.2.2
source. If that works OK, I'll make the changes to the CVS source. How
do I submit it when I'm finished?
Regards
John
Mark Hammond wrote:
> John Abel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had a little more time to look at this. As documentation is a
>> little scarce for _winreg, I downloaded the Python source from CVS,
>> to have a look at _winreg.c. From what I can tell, PyQueryValueEx,
>> and PyEnumValue don't seem to allow for extending the buffer passed
>> to RegQueryValueEx. When RegQueryValueEx is called on
>> HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA, it can/will return ERROR_MORE_DATA if the
>> buffer is too small, as would seem to be the case with my error message.
>
>
> Correct. These modules have never worked with the perf data keys.
> Note that win32pdhutil can extract performance data.
>
> A patch to _winreg would be welcomed.
>
>> Just as an aside, I've been playing with modifying _winreg.c, but for
>> some reason I can't compile it. When I build the pythoncore, the
>> linker fails with "unresolved external symbol _inititertools".
>> Anyone seen that, or is it something I'm doing? I'm using
>> VisualStudio6.
>
>
> I'm guessing you somehow have a source mismatch. I've never seen this
> error, and it still builds fine for me today with a fresh CVS pull.
>
> Mark.
>
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