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Created on 2010-04-07 15:52 by stutzbach, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg102543 - (view) | Author: Daniel Stutzbach (stutzbach)  |
Date: 2010-04-07 15:52 | |
The Windows RegQueryValue function returns a registry value without returning the corresponding type information (e.g., REG_SZ for string, REG_BINARY for binary data, REG_DWORD for a 32-bit number, etc.). The corresponding wrapper winreg.QueryValue currently calls PyUnicode_FromUnicode on the return data, which is fine if the type happens to be REG_SZ, but gibberish for anything else. Since the format of data is unknown, it should return a bytes object rather than a unicode object. If the user wants a REG_SZ converted to the unicode type automatically, than can use winreg.QueryValueEx instead. QueryValueEx wraps RegQueryValueEx which *does* return the type information of the underlying value. QueryValueEx uses the type information to convert to an appropriate Python type if possible (or returns a bytes object for unsupported types). |
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| msg102545 - (view) | Author: Daniel Stutzbach (stutzbach) |
Date: 2010-04-07 16:33 | |
Jumped the gun here. RegQueryValue returns ERROR_DATA_INVALID if the value isn't a string, so converting to Unicode is OK. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:56:59 | admin | set | github: 52581 |
| 2010-04-07 16:33:36 | stutzbach | set | status: open -> closed messages: + msg102545 |
| 2010-04-07 16:27:37 | eric.smith | set | nosy:
+ eric.smith |
| 2010-04-07 15:56:51 | brian.curtin | set | priority: normal nosy: + brian.curtin components: + Extension Modules, - Library (Lib) |
| 2010-04-07 15:52:23 | stutzbach | create | |