New submission from Vladimir Dmitriev <vld...@gmail.com>: Windows 7, Python 2.7
Some windows applications (QuickTime) add content-types to Windows registry with non-ascii names. mimetypes in unaware of that and fails with UnicodeDecodeError: >>> mimetypes.guess_type('test.js') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "c:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 294, in guess_type 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) Example registry leaf is attached to previous message. I believe the correct behavior would be either to wrap UnicodeDecodeError exception and skip those content-typer or use .decode() method for registry keys and get encoding using locale.getdefaultlocale() ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10113> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com