[ANN] regobj - Pythonic object-based access to the Windows Registry

[Ryan Kelly]

> >   I've just released the results of a nice Sunday's coding, inspired by
> > one too many turns at futzing around with the _winreg module.  The
> > "regobj" module brings a convenient and clean object-based API for
> > accessing the Windows Registry.
>
> Sounds very interesting, Ryan.  Just a couple questions about the 
> dictionary interface.

Thanks for you interest and suggestions, a couple of quick points below.

> I could see how you could map  numbers to DWORD, 2.x str/3.x bytes to 
> binary, and 2.x unicode/3.x str to REG_SZ.  But you don't document such 
> a translation, so it is unclear exactly what you actually do.  This 
> would be somewhat weird in 2.x, though, where str commonly would want to 
> map to String rather than Binary.
> 
> It seems almost necessary to add an explanation of whatever mapping is 
> presently done, to have complete documentation.

I guess I just ran out of steam on the documentation front :-)

Currently it maps integers to DWORD and anything else to REG_SZ.  The
idea of having a distinct Value class is to allow a more nuanced mapping
to be developed, but I haven't got down to the details of that yet - my
current application only requires REG_SZ.

> Thinking more, I wonder if it is possible to create objects of type 
> Value to put in the dictionary to allow specification of multistring and 
> expandablestring Registry types, but then the dictionary name would have 
> to be redundant with the name attribute in the Value object.  Maybe a 
> nameless value type could be invented, with just type and data attributes?

It certainly is, using syntax like:

  HKCU.foo.bar["key"] = Value("%SYSTEMROOT%/mydir",type=REG_EXPAND_SZ)}

Putting a nameless Value() instance in the initialisation dictionary
should also work (but as you note, there's no documentation or tests for
this yet...)


  Cheers,

     Ryan



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