Created on 2010-11-21 14:10 by aclover, last changed 2010-11-22 20:24 by r.david.murray. This issue is now closed.
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| mimetypes-patch2-2.7.patch | aclover, 2010-11-21 14:13 | remove troublesome encode | ||
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| msg121929 - (view) | Author: And Clover (aclover) | Date: 2010-11-21 14:10 | |
The `enum_types` function in `MimeTypes.read_windows_registry` tries to `.encode` the results of `EnumKey`, assuming it to be a Unicode string. However, `_winreg.EnumKey` in Python 2.x actually returns a byte string (straight from the ANSI version of the registry interface). Consequently, if there is a MIME type registered with a non-ASCII character in its name (invalid, but not unheard of), initialising `MimeTypes` will raise a `UnicodeDecodeError`. This is not caught (it is only expecting a `UnicodeEncodeError`), so it bombs out whatever module indirectly caused `mimetypes.init()` to be called. This attempt to `.encode` the `ctype` should simply be removed. |
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| msg122163 - (view) | Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *  |
Date: 2010-11-22 20:24 | |
This is a duplicate if issue 9291. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2010-11-22 20:24:33 | r.david.murray | set | status: open -> closed nosy: + r.david.murray messages: + msg122163 superseder: mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry stage: committed/rejected |
| 2010-11-22 14:02:29 | aclover | set | type: behavior |
| 2010-11-21 14:13:08 | aclover | set | files: + mimetypes-patch2-2.7.patch |
| 2010-11-21 14:12:52 | aclover | set | files: - mimetypes-patch2-2.7.patch |
| 2010-11-21 14:10:23 | aclover | create | |