setuptools 2.0.2, win7 x64, python 3.3.3 (64bit), tried as user (who is admin, and as admin)
This started happening several versions ago. Could not track down a setuptools support list. Any ideas? C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2>python setup.py install Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 17, in <module> exec(init_file.read(), command_ns) File "<string>", line 8, in <module> File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\__init__.py", line 11, in <module> from setuptools.extension import Extension File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\extension.py", line 5, in <module> from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\dist.py", line 15, in <module> from setuptools.compat import numeric_types, basestring File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\compat.py", line 49, in <module> from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler File "C:\Python\lib\http\server.py", line 654, in <module> class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): File "C:\Python\lib\http\server.py", line 839, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 348, in init db.read_windows_registry() File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 255, in read_windows_registry with _winreg.OpenKey(hkcr, subkeyname) as subkey: TypeError: OpenKey() argument 2 must be str without null characters or None, not str -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list