New submission from And Clover <a...@doxdesk.com>: It is relatively common to have keys in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT MIME database that are not readable to all users, typically written by third-party applications. (My WinXP test box has a dozen, for apps like Flash, Silverlight and Java.)
Currently, initialising mimetypes causes Python to try to read them all, and if the user running Python doesn't have permission to read a key (in particular, if the user is a low-privilege daemon user such as IUSR_...), the script that caused mimetypes to be called will error out. This patch moves the try-block around the call to OpenKey as well as QueryValueEx, allowing the key to be skipped if unreadable. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: mimetypes-patch-3.2a3.patch keywords: patch messages: 119252 nosy: aclover priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: mimetypes read_windows_registry should tolerate permissions errors type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19314/mimetypes-patch-3.2a3.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10162> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
