Following up on this 12 Jun 2004 post... Garth wrote: > Thomas Heller wrote: > >Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>I thought it would be nice to try to improve the mimetypes module by having > >>it, on Windows, query the Registry to get the mapping of filename > >>extensions > >>to media types, since the mimetypes code currently just blindly checks > >>posix-specific paths for httpd-style mapping files. However, it seems that > >>the > >>way to get mappings from the Windows registry is excessively slow in Python. > >> > >>I'm told that the reason has to do with the limited subset of APIs that are > >>exposed in the _winreg module. I think it is that EnumKey(key, index) is > >>querying for the entire list of subkeys for the given key every time you > >>call > >>it. Or something. Whatever the situation is, the code I tried below is way > >>slower than I think it ought to be. > >> > >>Does anyone have any suggestions (besides "write it in C")? Could _winreg > >>possibly be improved to provide an iterator or better interface to get the > >>subkeys? (or certain ones? There are a lot of keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, > >>and I only need the ones that start with a period). > > > >See this post I made some time ago: > ><http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/042198.html> > > > >>Should I file this as a feature request? > > > >If you still think it should be changed in the core, you should work on > >a patch. > > > I could file a patch if no one else is looking at it. The solution would > be to use RegEnumKeyEx and remove RegQueryInfoKey. This loses > compatability with win16 which I guess is ok. > > Garth
I would say it looks like no one else was looking at it, and Garth apparently didn't submit a patch. It's beyond my means to come up with a patch myself. Would someone be willing to take a look at it? Sorry, but I really want access to registry subkeys to stop being so dog-slow. :) Thanks for taking a look, -Mike _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
