[Tutor] adding a windows registry value

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

Thanks to all who replied, also those who replied off-list. Somebody else confirmed that the code was working as expected on another machine, so it's probably a rights issue. Still nice to have a look at _winreg though.

 
Regards,
Albert-Jan


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> From: eryksun <eryksun at gmail.com>
>To: Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> 
>Cc: Python Mailing List <tutor at python.org> 
>Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 10:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] adding a windows registry value
> 
>On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to change a registry value (Windows 7, Python 2.7) but it won't
>> work when I try to do this using Python:
>>
>> import os
>> # 1 using this from Python won't work, but double-clicking the file works.
>> os.system(r"regedit /s C:\Users\Desktop\set_temp.reg")
>> # 2: using this from Python won't work, but from the commandline or with a
>> batch file works
>> os.system("reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software .....(etc)")
>>
>> Why is this not working using Python? Is there a built-in way to do this (I
>> don't have win32api)?
>
>Wouldn't it be simpler to use the  _winreg module?
>
>http://docs.python.org/library/_winreg.html
>
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