I have included a small script the reproduces the error I am having in larger script. The line 'hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,name)' seems to be causing the error but im not sure why. --------------------- script ----------------
import _winreg import string def reproduce_error(): for index in xrange(_winreg.QueryInfoKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)[0]): #get names name = _winreg.EnumKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,index) hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,name) print name hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,'SOFTWARE') print hkey hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,'SAM') print hkey if __name__ == '__main__': reproduce_error() ------------------- end script ----------------------------------------- HARDWARE SAM Traceback (most recent call last): File "winreg_error.py", line 19, in <module> reproduce_error() File "winreg_error.py", line 10, in reproduce_error hkey = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,name) WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list