Hi,
Thanks to all who replied, also those who replied off-list. Somebody else
confirmed that the code was working as expected on another machine, so it's
probably a rights issue. Still nice to have a look at _winreg though.
Regards,
Albert-Jan
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>________________________________
> From: eryksun <[email protected]>
>To: Albert-Jan Roskam <[email protected]>
>Cc: Python Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 10:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] adding a windows registry value
>
>On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to change a registry value (Windows 7, Python 2.7) but it won't
>> work when I try to do this using Python:
>>
>> import os
>> # 1 using this from Python won't work, but double-clicking the file works.
>> os.system(r"regedit /s C:\Users\Desktop\set_temp.reg")
>> # 2: using this from Python won't work, but from the commandline or with a
>> batch file works
>> os.system("reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software .....(etc)")
>>
>> Why is this not working using Python? Is there a built-in way to do this (I
>> don't have win32api)?
>
>Wouldn't it be simpler to use the _winreg module?
>
>http://docs.python.org/library/_winreg.html
>
>
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