Question

I'm stuck on an assignment and would really appreciate some help with the parts that are in bold below:

Write a program that takes a value from a user and stores it in the registry. You can use any key name that you like but also store the current time as another value inside of your new key. Finally, get a directory listing of your current working directory and store that value. You may need to use REG_MULTI_SZ for that value.

THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR:    (It takes the user input and stores the key as what they type but I get an error)

import winreg

# Allow the user to input the title of the key
print('Please enter the name of your key: ')
keyName = input()

# Create the key under software
key = winreg.CreateKey(winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\\" + keyName)

# Allow the user to input the data
winreg.SetValue(key, winreg.REG_SZ)


response = winreg.QueryValue(key)

print(response)

THE ERROR READS:

    winreg.SetValue(key, winreg.REG_SZ)
TypeError: SetValue() takes exactly 4 arguments (2 given)

Answer 1

******************************CODE***********************************

import winreg

import datetime
# Allow the user to input the title of the key
print('Please enter the name of your key: ')
keyName = input()

# Create the key under software
key = winreg.CreateKey(winreg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\\" + keyName)
#saves current time
currenttime= datetime.datetime.time(datetime.datetime.now())
#converts current time to string to that it can be passed to the key
currenttime=str(currenttime)
# Allow the user to input the data
winreg.SetValue(key,"Log file",winreg.REG_SZ, "%windir%\system32\calc.exe")
#adding current time to the key
winreg.SetValueEx(key,"Log file",0,winreg.REG_SZ, currenttime)

#Getting current working directory
response = winreg.QueryValue(key,"Log file")
print(response)

**********************Output**************************

$Python 3.7.0 Shell File Edit Shell Debug Options Window Help Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Inte 1)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license) for more information = RESTART: C:/Users/Suhail/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37-32/key.py= Please enter the name of your key: t testKey %windir%\system32\ calc.exe$