[Brian Odlum wrote] > Hi. I'm trying to get a Pythonwin program which worked fine under > Windows 98SE to work under Windows XP Pro. > > The program attempts to read from and write to the registry file. The > read work fine, but the write raise an exception of "access denied". > Clearly, the problem stems from XP's more complicated design of > ownership/permission on files. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue what > needs to be changed. I suspect the Python code itself is fine, as it > has not changed. > > The program is being invoked from a user login which has administrator > permissions. The Python directory and all sub-directories and files > are owned by the administrator account. The directory of the program > file (and the file itself) are also owned by the administrator. > > ActivePython 2.2.2 > Windows XP Professional SP1 (fully up to date) > > The method which raises the error is: > > win32api.RegOpenKeyEx(win32con.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,<the > path>,0,win32con.KEY_SET_VALUE) > > Can anybody help me with this? Please?
Brian, It would help if you could post a little working code snippet (or interactive shell session) that demonstates the problem. Cheers, Trent -- Trent Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
