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Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Fri Dec 7 01:03:50 EST 2001 
Bill Bell wrote:

> Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:
> 
>>Bill Bell wrote:
>>
>>>"Python Programming on Win32" mentions that '_reg_options_' is a
>>>"dictionary of additional keys to be written to the registry for the
>>>COM object".
>>>
>>>Has anyone an example or two, since I've been unable to find any?
>>>
>>class MyCOMServer:
>>    __reg_options_ = {'mykey':'myvalue'}
>>    ...
>>
>>When registered, there will be a key 'mykey' sibling to
>>'InProcServer32' with a default value of 'myvalue'. I don't know if it
>>will handle other types, or anything more complex.
>>
> 
> Thanks, Gordon. I just prototyped a simple COM that needs to 
> declare itself safe for Internet Explorer. Looks like I need to continue 
> to do that in the good old-fashioned way, with 'RegOpenKey', etc. 
> Would seem more elegant to be able to use '_reg_options_'.


A patch to allow _reg_options_ to do this sort of thing (assuming it did 
not break what it does now) would be welcome :)

Mark.
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