I wonder why find_bad_key() didn’t work for you. I tested it by removing read access for the Users group from a single key. It wouldn’t work if you ran the script with admin access if administrators can access the key. But I presume you ran it the same shell context in which ensurepip failed. Mysterious.
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The way that I had restricted access is different. When I did it, I entered the key’s properties, pressed the Advanced button, I added a new group with the security principle Everyone and selected Deny. So when I undid the damage, I removed the Everyone group form the list. Not sure if that helps in figuring it out, but I’m glad it is solved
Not really. it shall remain a mystery. Now someone just has to step up with a pull request to fix _winapi._mimetypes_read_windows_registry(). It’s an easy fix. There’s no reason to fail if a subkey of HKCR can’t be accessed. It just has to reset the value of err to ERROR_SUCCESS (0) before continuing the loop.
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