[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Change by Irit Katriel : -- components: +Tests nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 -Python 2.7, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Joannah Nanjekye added the comment: @Claudiu.Popa are you still interested in working on this, If so please open a pull request for review. -- nosy: +nanjekyejoannah ___ Python tracker

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Changes by Claudiu Popa pcmantic...@gmail.com: -- dependencies: +Expose RegUnloadKey in winreg ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8579 ___

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Claudiu.Popa added the comment: I'm working on this issue and I have a minimal patch ready, but it depends on issue21518, which proposes adding UnloadKey to winreg, so that we can unload the keys mounted with LoadKey. Also, that issue adds a mechanism for privilege acquisition, which I'll

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Changes by Georg Brandl ge...@python.org: -- versions: +Python 3.4 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue8579 ___

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org added the comment: LoadKey and SaveKey require special privileges which need to manually acquired, likely via ctypes. #1578269 has some code which does this for os.symlink privileges and it's about to go into py3k, so I'll try to piggyback off of that. --

[issue8579] Add missing tests for FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey in winreg

New submission from Brian Curtin cur...@acm.org: Per the comment at the top of Lib/test/test_winreg.py, FlushKey, LoadKey, and SaveKey are currently untested. I have a minimal patch worked up. I'll expand on it and upload shortly. -- assignee: brian.curtin components: Extension