Winreg's documentation lacks mentioning required permission at some points

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, operating-systems

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.

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Description

3.10 3.8 (EOL) 3.9 (EOL) docs OS-windows type-feature
BPO 35026
Nosy @pfmoore, @tjguk, @zware, @eryksun, @zooba, @george@fischhof.hu, @ZackerySpytz, @tirkarthi
PRs
  • python/cpython#24547
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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']

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