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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	eric.araujo, tarek
Date	2011-01-19.15:28:02
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Message-id	<1295450896.02.0.86964827296.issue10945@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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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

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

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-19 15:28:16	eric.araujo	set	recipients: + eric.araujo, tarek
2011-01-19 15:28:16	eric.araujo	set	messageid: <1295450896.02.0.86964827296.issue10945@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-01-19 15:28:02	eric.araujo	link	issue10945 messages
2011-01-19 15:28:02	eric.araujo	create