[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1094803 ] postinstall failure: access denied to registry writes

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Bugs item #1094803, was opened at 2005-01-03 14:13
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kjd
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Category: installation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Kim Davies (kjd)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: postinstall failure: access denied to registry writes

Initial Comment:
Installing pythonwin build 203 for Python 2.4 under 
Windows XP, I receive the following. 

The installation is nonfunctioning if I try and run it (i.e. 
pythonw.exe) at this point.

The user is an administrator, I can't think of any reason 
why the program would be administratively denied 
access to the registry.

This is what the install script gave:

Copied pythoncom24.dll to F:\WINDOWS\System32
\pythoncom24.dll
Copied pywintypes24.dll to F:\WINDOWS\System32
\pywintypes24.dll
Registered: Python.Interpreter 
Registered: Python.Dictionary 
Registered: Python 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Python24\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 
358, in ?
    install()
  File "F:\Python24\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 
231, in install
    SetPyKeyVal("Help", None, None)
  File "F:\Python24\Scripts\pywin32_postinstall.py", line 
103, in SetPyKeyVal
    _winreg.SetValueEx(my_key, value_name, 0, 
_winreg.REG_SZ, value)
WindowsError: [Errno 5] Access is denied
*** run_installscript: internal error 0xFFFFFFFF ***

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>Comment By: Kim Davies (kjd)
Date: 2005-01-03 14:26

Message:
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I note there is a comment in pywin32_postinstall.py that
probably explains it, and I just put an exception handler
around it, and it installed okay (presumably missing some
help functionality..)

New code fragment:

    # Register the .chm help file.
    chm_file = os.path.join(lib_dir, "PyWin32.chm")
    if os.path.isfile(chm_file):
        # This isn't recursive, so if 'Help' doesn't exist,
we croak
        try:
            SetPyKeyVal("Help", None, None)
            SetPyKeyVal("Help\Pythonwin Reference", None,
chm_file)
        except:
            pass
    else:
        print "NOTE: PyWin32.chm can not be located, so has
not "               "been registered"

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