Scott Leerssen wrote:
> I'm trying to write a DWORD value to the registry using _winreg.SetValueEx
> and anything greater than 0x7fffffff yields a "ValueError: Could not convert
> the data to the specified type." I've seen a few posts saying that taking
> the complement of the large integer (basically making it a negative value)
> satisfies the API and fools it into storing the value, but that has the same
> result in my experiments. Any hints as to how to write large integers int a
> DWORD?
Ugly but functional:
dw = struct.unpack('l',struct.pack('L', 0x80102030))[0]
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Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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