[python-win32] Re: Damaged Pythonwin installation

[Bob Gailer]

This is symptomatic of a long-standing unsolved Pythonwin problem in which 
Pythonwin keeps adding toobar entries to the registry until it chokes.

Several outstanding bug reports comment on this.

Unfortunately no one knows how to fix the problem.

Here's a Python program to clean up the registry:

import win32api
import win32con
subKey = r'Software\Python 2.3\Python for Win32'
#HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python 2.3\Python for Win32\ToolbarDebugging-Bar0
k = 
win32api.RegOpenKeyEx(win32con.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,subKey,0,win32con.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
nsubkeys,nvalues,timeval = win32api.RegQueryInfoKey(k)
keys = []
for i in range(nsubkeys):
     s = win32api.RegEnumKey(k,i)
     if (s.startswith('ToolbarDefault-Bar') or
         s.startswith('ToolbarDebugging-Bar')):
         keys.append(s)
for i,key in enumerate(keys):
     subKey2 = subKey + '\\' + key
     print i,':', subKey2
     win32api.RegDeleteKey(win32con.HKEY_CURRENT_USER,subKey2)
     if i>99999:
         break
k.Close()
print len(keys),"deleted."

Do NOT run this from within Python win. Use a command prompt or another IDE.

Bob Gailer
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