[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to use _winreg.Loadkey, or whether it is even > implemented properly, in 2.4.2 and 2.5 (the fact that it is named > wrong in the Docs and not covered in the test suites doesn't inspire > confidence). > > I find that I can use it to load a key into the top level > (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE), but that various things don't appear > to be released properly when Python exits, in that neither the > key itself can be changed with regedt32, nor the file it > was read in from deleted (due to being in use by another process), > until the system is rebooted. >
That last item is to be expected. When you load a key like this, your file becomes part of the live registry. The registry service will map the file into memory and keep it open until the key is unloaded. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
