I had the same problem after updating to 12.10, with software-center always crashing immediately. I fixed it by changing line 33 of /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/config.py from class SoftwareCenterConfig(object, SafeConfigParser): to class SoftwareCenterConfig(SafeConfigParser):
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