The new test fails with the patch applied:

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ERROR: test_setvalueex_with_memoryview (__main__.LocalWinregTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "P:\ath\to\2.7\cpython\lib\test\test_winreg.py", line 336, in test_setvalueex_with_memoryview
    SetValueEx(ck, "test_name", None, REG_BINARY, memoryview('val'))
TypeError: Objects of type 'memoryview' can not be used as binary registry values

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Oops, updated test.

Brian, it's not obvious (to me) what the original issue is ("crash"?) and why the new test expects a TypeError.
Also, is it a 2.7-only issue or does it also affect Python 3?

Are you aware of the old/new buffer interfaces and their usages? Did you actually try the code? "crash" would be obvious.

Objects that support only the new buffer interface define tp_as_buffer with fields representing the old buffer interface as null.

So, everywhere that uses the old buffer interface usually checks both tp_as_buffer != NULL and tp_as_buffer->bf_getreadbuffer != NULL. That second check is missing here before calling bf_getreadbuffer.

I can confirm that the problem (which really is a hard crash) only applies to 2.7 and that the patch tests and fixes it. I'm happy to apply. Any objections?

> Are you aware of the old/new buffer interfaces and their usages? Did
> you actually try the code? "crash" would be obvious.

I cannot try the code as I'm under Linux :-)
I was asking merely because many people report plain exception
tracebacks as "crashes". Yes, by reading the patch it came to me that it
was probably related to the coexistence of old and new buffer API, but I
prefer it to be confirmed by the reporter, rather than trust my own
intuition.

(I also wonder why the code did that manually instead of calling e.g.
PyObject_AsReadBuffer)

New changeset 061db174baad by Tim Golden in branch '2.7':
Issue21349 Passing a memoryview to _winreg.SetValueEx now correctly raises a TypeError where it previously crashed the interpreter. Patch by Brian Kearns
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/061db174baad

New changeset 9c38cfc7bed7 by Tim Golden in branch '2.7':
Add NEWS entry for issue21349
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9c38cfc7bed7

Committed. Thanks for the patch.