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Author tanbro
Recipients tanbro
Date 2014-04-03.01:39:18
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when new a mimetypes.MimeType instance in a my Windows, whose default coding is mbcs, UnicdeDecodeError occurred.

Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
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>>> from mimetypes import MimeTypes
>>> mt = MimeTypes()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 66, in __init__
    init()
  File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 358, in init
    db.read_windows_registry()
  File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 258, in read_windows_registry
    for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr):
  File "D:\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 0xc7 in position 8: ordinal
not in range(128)

i think this error was caused by the code in mimetypes.py's line 256

default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() 

if change this line to:

default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()

such error will be resolved
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2014-04-03 01:39:20tanbrosetmessageid: <1396489160.22.0.410580562036.issue21138@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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