Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points
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Description
| BPO | 35026 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @pfmoore, @tjguk, @zware, @eryksun, @zooba, @george@fischhof.hu, @ZackerySpytz, @tirkarthi |
| PRs |
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GitHub fields:
assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2018-10-19.09:14:10.826>
labels = ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', 'type-feature', 'OS-windows', 'docs']
title = "Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points"
updated_at = <Date 2021-03-28.02:30:06.764>
user = 'https://github.com/georgefischhofhu'
bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2021-03-28.02:30:06.764>
actor = 'eryksun'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Windows']
creation = <Date 2018-10-19.09:14:10.826>
creator = 'georgefischhof'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 35026
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 3.0
messages = ['328034', '328122', '387081']
nosy_count = 9.0
nosy_names = ['paul.moore', 'tim.golden', 'docs@python', 'zach.ware', 'eryksun', 'steve.dower', 'georgefischhof', 'ZackerySpytz', 'xtreak']
pr_nums = ['24547']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue35026'
versions = ['Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10']
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the winreg documentation and the original BPO 35026 report to identify the points where required permissions are missing. Check the existing python/cpython#24547 pull request before making changes; done means the relevant documentation clearly states the required permissions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100