_winreg.DeleteValue - Permission denied ...

[brueckd at tbye.com]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Harald Schneider wrote:

> When I try to delete a registry key, I get a WindowsError (Errno5) /
> Permission denied, even thought I am logged in as admin.
> Deleting the same key with regedit works.
> 
> The function looks like this:
> 
>     def del_cfg_path(self):
>         key =
> _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,'SOFTWARE\TEST\SUBTEST)
>         _winreg.DeleteValue(key,"TESTVAL")
>         _winreg.CloseKey(key)
> 
> Any ideas ?

Hi Harald,
Perhaps you need to open the registry key with write permissions, e.g.:

key = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, \
                      'SOFTWARE\\TEST\\SUBTEST', \
                      0, _winreg.KEY_ALL_ACCESS)

(Also note that you should use double backslashes in your strings or use 
raw strings)

HTH,
Dave