New submission from Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org>: If distutils.commands.bdist_wininst.bdist_wininst.get_inidata returns a unicode string (which is always the case in 3.x and can happen in 2.x if if you pass a unicode object as one setup argument), bdist_wininst will try to use the MBCS codec, which is not available on non-Windows OSes (see http://docs.python.org/dev/library/codecs#module-encodings.mbcs).
If someone wants to make a patch, here are some guidelines: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/FixingBugs ---------- assignee: eric.araujo components: Distutils, Distutils2 messages: 126528 nosy: eric.araujo, tarek priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: bdist_wininst depends on MBCS codec, unavailable on non-Windows type: behavior versions: 3rd party, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10945> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
