[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-3531456 ] RegQueryValueEx on empty multistring returns non-empty list

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Bugs item #3531456, was opened at 2012-06-01 15:56
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Category: win32
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: William Sadkin (wsadkin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: RegQueryValueEx on empty multistring returns non-empty list

Initial Comment:
Somewhere along the line, win32api.RegQueryValueEx stopped returning [] for an empty multistring, and started returning [''], which is a very different and broken.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure how far back this has been broken; I've only recently undertaken converting all our code from python 2.3.5 and pywin32 204 to python 2.7.3 and pywin32 217.  It worked in that earlier incarnation, but as of the latest versions, this no longer functions properly.

I've attached a trivial python script that clearly demonstrates the problem.

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