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Author	hakril
Recipients	hakril, markgrandi, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2016-05-24.09:01:01
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Message-id	<1464080462.39.0.594106956948.issue23026@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I would like to discuss the fact that this patch is a new feature. In the current state, CPython handles the `REG_QWORD` type as an unkown type and returns the raw registry value: a string of size 8. In my opinion this behavior does not match the Windows documentation (REG_QWORD: A 64-bit number) or CPython's own behavior regarding REG_DWORD that returns a Python `int` (more important). Is this enough to consider this a bugfix ? and therefore port it to 2.7 ?

I would like to discuss the fact that this patch is a new feature.

In the current state, CPython handles the `REG_QWORD` type as an unkown type and returns the raw registry value: a string of size 8.
In my opinion this behavior does not match the Windows documentation (REG_QWORD: A 64-bit number)
or CPython's own behavior regarding REG_DWORD that returns a Python `int` (more important).

Is this enough to consider this a bugfix ? and therefore port it to 2.7 ?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016-05-24 09:01:02	hakril	set	recipients: + hakril, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, markgrandi, steve.dower
2016-05-24 09:01:02	hakril	set	messageid: <1464080462.39.0.594106956948.issue23026@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2016-05-24 09:01:02	hakril	link	issue23026 messages
2016-05-24 09:01:01	hakril	create