[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: Please see http://bugs.python.org/issue21652 for a regression introduced by this change. -- nosy: +exarkun ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Changes by Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk: -- assignee: - tim.golden resolution: - fixed stage: patch review - resolved status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 18cfc2a42772 by Tim Golden in branch '2.7': Issue #9291 Do not attempt to re-encode mimetype data read from registry in ANSI mode. Initial patches by Dmitry Jemerov Vladimir Iofik http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/18cfc2a42772 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0c8a7299c7e3 by Tim Golden in branch '2.7': Issue #9291 Add ACKS NEWS http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0c8a7299c7e3 -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
stoyanov added the comment: Alternative temporary solution def enum_types(mimedb): try: ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x! except UnicodeEncodeError: pass except Exception: #-- pass#-- else: yield ctype -- nosy: +quick.es ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Changes by Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file34925/issue9291.7.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Tim Golden added the comment: Another version of the patch: this one, in addition to removing the unnecessary encodes, also does the check for extensions before attempting to open the registry key, and narrows down the try-catch block to just the attempt to read the Content Type value. This does mean that if any process is unable to read HKCR or its subkeys the mimetypes.init will fail. Frankly, I can't see how that could happen, but if anyone feels strongly enough I can add extra guards so it fails silently. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34983/issue9291.8.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Tim Golden added the comment: The attached patch issue9291.7.patch (which is essentially an amalgam of 9291.patch 9291a.patch with some tweaks of my own) does appear to solve the issue. My Windows setup is UK, so if any of the people still watching this issue could test against a non-English Windows, that would be useful. Even this fix does leave some room for encoding mismatches between the stored values (mbcs encoded) and any string passed to guess_type. But it's not clear how that should be handled, and at least it doesn't crash out on .init. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34925/issue9291.7.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: I just hit this bug on 2.7.6, running on polish WinXP (I need to build some packages there, I hope I'll avoid a nasty py2exe bug). Any reasons this is not fixed yet? Do you need any assistance? -- nosy: +Michał.Pasternak ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Michał: Can you please report the exact registry key and value that is causing the problem? It's difficult to test a patch if one is not able to reproduce the problem. Of the patches suggested: does any of them fix the problem for you? If so, which one? I personally fine Vladimir's patch more plausible (EnumKeys gives bytes objects in 2.x, so it is pointless to apply .encode to them). The introduction of the count() call is unrelated, though, and should be omitted from a bug fix. -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Daniel Szoska added the comment: Martin: I had the same problem after upgrading to 2.7.6. System here: German XP 32 Bit I used the solution from Alexandr with sitecustomize.py (with cp1252) and it works fine for me. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: Another REG file, encoded with CP1250, I believe. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34188/issue9291-key.reg ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: Martin: the problematic key is [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BDATuner.Składniki]. I am pasting its name, because I suppose, that as bugs.python.org is utf-8, special characters will be pasted properly. Included you will find a .REG file, which is Windows Registry Editor file, which is plaintext. It is encoded with CP-1250 charset (I believe). In any case of confusion, I inlcude also the same file encoded with utf-8. If you add those information to your Windows registry, you should be able to reproduce this bug just by simply using pip install anything. pip install wokkel, for example. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34187/issue9291-key-utf8.ini ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: As for the fix, sitecustomize.py works for me, too, but I somehow believe, that adding sitecustomize.py for new Python installations would propably do more harm than good. I'll check those 2 patches and I'll let you know. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Michał Pasternak added the comment: 9291.patch works for me too, but I am unsure about its idea. Silently ignoring non-ASCII registry entries - does it sound like a good idea? Maybe. Is it pythonic? I doubt so. I don't exactly understand what 9291a.patch is doing. For me it does look like a re-iteration of the first patch. I have not tested it. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Changes by Daniel Szoska d.szo...@steinreichwald.de: -- nosy: +Daniel.Szoska ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Jason R. Coombs added the comment: The bug as reported against setuptools: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/127/unicodedecodeerror-when-install-in-windows -- nosy: +jason.coombs ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Alexandr Zarubkin added the comment: An alternative solution, which worked for me, is: add file named sitecustomize.py in Lib\site-packages folder. The contents of the file: import sys sys.setdefaultencoding(cp1251) The default encoding should be determined for every localized Windows version. Also, when creating virtual environments, the same file should be placed in site-packages folder of virtual environment being created prior to installing setuptools in it. -- nosy: +me21 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33268/sitecustomize.py ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
R. David Murray added the comment: OK, that means the issue 15207 fix didn't fix it, since that's in 2.7.6. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Tim Golden added the comment: I'll try to look at this soonish. Thanks for bringing it back to the surface. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
STINNER Victor added the comment: Issue #20017 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. Copy of the message: Running Windows 8 (64-bit) and Python 2.7.6 (64-bit). python -m SimpleHTTPServer Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py, line 162, in _run_module_as_main __main__, fname, loader, pkg_name) File C:\Python27\lib\runpy.py, line 72, in _run_code exec code in run_globals File C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py, line 27, in module class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): File C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py, line 208, in SimpleHTTPRequestHand ler mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types File C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 358, in init db.read_windows_registry() File C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 258, in read_windows_registry for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr): File C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 249, in enum_types ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x! UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) -- nosy: +Hugo.Lol ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Takayuki SHIMIZUKAWA added the comment: This issue affects mercurial too. http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3624 -- nosy: +shimizukawa ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Suzumizaki added the comment: There is possibility that the installation of setuptools fails with any Windows machine because of this bug. I want change the priority of this issue higher... I failed the installation of setuptools with Python 2.7.6 on my machine, Windows 8.1 Pro Japanese Edition 64bit, but no problem with both Python 2.7.4 and Python 3.3.3. -- nosy: +Suzumizaki ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
adamhj added the comment: The encoding is wrong. We should read the registry using Unicode, or at least use the correct encoding. The correct encoding is the ANSI code page: sys.getfilesystemencoding(). Can you please try with: default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() ? This does not work. In fact it doesn't matter what default_encoding is. The variable ctype, which is returned by _winreg.EnumKey(), is a byte string(b'blahblah'), at least on my computer(win2k3sp2, python 2.7.6). Because the interpreter is asked to encode a byte string, it tries to convert the byte string to unicode string first, by calling decode implicitly with 'ascii' encoding, so the exception UnicodeDecodeError. the variable ctype, which is read from registry key name, can be decoded correctly with sys.getfilesystemencoding()(which returns 'mbcs'), but in fact what we need is a byte string, so there should be neither encoding nor decoding here. if there is a case that _winreg.EnumKey() returns unicode string, then a type check should be added before the encode. Or maybe the case is that the return type of _winreg.EnumKey() is different in 2.x and 3.x? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Tim Golden added the comment: Only just been reminded of this one; it's possible that it's been superseded by Issue15207. At the least, that issue resulted in a code change in this area of mimetypes. I'll have a look later. -- nosy: +tim.golden ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Changes by Roman Evstifeev someuniquen...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Roman.Evstifeev ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
STINNER Victor added the comment: File c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 250, in enum_types ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x! UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) The encoding is wrong. We should read the registry using Unicode, or at least use the correct encoding. The correct encoding is the ANSI code page: sys.getfilesystemencoding(). Can you please try with: default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding() ? python 3.1.2 mimetypes initialization also fails in redhat linux: (...) In Python 3.3, MimeTypes.read() opens files in UTF-8. The issue #13025 explains why UTF-8 is used instead the locale encoding, or another encoding. I see that read_mime_types() uses the locale encoding, it looks like a bug, it should also use UTF-8. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Vladimir Iofik v-io...@yandex.ru added the comment: Here is a better patch. -- nosy: +vj Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19332/9291a.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Vladimir Iofik v-io...@yandex.ru added the comment: UnicodeDecodeException is thrown because 'ctype' is already a string, so it is first implicitly decoded by default encoder (which is 'ascii') and then reencoded back. I see no reason in all these actions, so I simply removed them. I think Antoine Pitrou (who is the author of these lines) can shed some light on this, but I guess it's just a copy-paste of the code below. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
kai zhu kaizhu...@gmail.com added the comment: python 3.1.2 mimetypes initialization also fails in redhat linux: import http.server Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/http/server.py, line 588, in module class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): File /home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/http/server.py, line 764, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types File /home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/mimetypes.py, line 305, in init db.readfp(open(file)) File /home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/mimetypes.py, line 209, in readfp line = fp.readline() File /home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/bin/../python/lib/python3.1/encodings/ascii.py, line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 3921: ordinal not in range(128) -- nosy: +kaizhu ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Dmitry Jemerov intelliy...@gmail.com added the comment: Patch (suggested fix and unittest) attached. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18143/9291.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Dmitry Jemerov intelliy...@gmail.com added the comment: And by the way I've verified that the problem doesn't happen in py3k trunk. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: And just for clarity: py3k trunk does contain the _winreg code path. -- stage: unit test needed - patch review ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
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[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
Dmitry Jemerov intelliy...@gmail.com added the comment: The problem doesn't happen on Python 3.1.2 because it doesn't have the code in mimetypes that accesses the Windows registry. Haven't tried the 3.2 alphas yet. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment: I'm guessing this problem doesn't occur in 3.x? If so, the quick fix would be to have the registry code catch UnicodeError instead of UnicodeEncodeError. That may be the correct fix anyway. The fun part of this bug is going to be creating a unit test for it. -- keywords: +easy nosy: +r.david.murray stage: - unit test needed type: - behavior ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue9291] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry
New submission from Dmitry Jemerov intelliy...@gmail.com: On Windows, mimetypes initialization reads the list of MIME types from the Windows registry. It assumes that all characters are Latin-1 encoded, and fails when it's not the case, with the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File mttest.py, line 3, in module mimetypes.init() File c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 355, in init db.read_windows_registry() File c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 260, in read_windows_registry for ctype in enum_types(mimedb): File c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py, line 250, in enum_types ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x! UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) This can be reproduced, for example, on a Russian Windows XP installation which has QuickTime installed (QuickTime creates the non-Latin entries in the registry). The following line causes the exception to happen: import mimetypes; mimetypes.init() -- components: Library (Lib), Windows messages: 110637 nosy: Dmitry.Jemerov priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry versions: Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9291 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
