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gh-140826: Remove the wrong documents about comparison behavior on winreg.HKEYType #140840

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Remove the wrong documents about comparison behavior on winreg.HKEYType
aisk Oct 31, 2025
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/main' into hkey-compare-doc
aisk Nov 3, 2025
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4 changes: 0 additions & 4 deletions Doc/library/winreg.rst
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Expand Up @@ -771,10 +771,6 @@ Handle objects provide semantics for :meth:`~object.__bool__` -- thus ::
will print ``Yes`` if the handle is currently valid (has not been closed or
detached).

The object also support equality comparison semantics, so handle objects will
compare equal if they both reference the same underlying Windows handle value.
Closed handle objects (those with a handle value of zero) always compare equal.
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This should only be removed in 3.14, isn't?

Please rebase the branch on 3.14 (in Git and in the GitHub interface) or create a new PR for 3.14.


Handle objects can be converted to an integer (e.g., using the built-in
:func:`int` function), in which case the underlying Windows handle value is
returned. You can also use the :meth:`~PyHKEY.Detach` method to return the
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions PC/winreg.c
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Expand Up @@ -106,8 +106,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(PyHKEY_doc,
"\n"
"Operations:\n"
"__bool__ - Handles with an open object return true, otherwise false.\n"
"__int__ - Converting a handle to an integer returns the Win32 handle.\n"
"rich comparison - Handle objects are compared using the handle value.");
"__int__ - Converting a handle to an integer returns the Win32 handle.");



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