ez_setup.py error

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Originally reported by: Anonymous

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C:\Python27>ez_setup.py
Extracting in c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks
Now working in c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks\setuptools-2.2
Installing Setuptools
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 18, in <module>
    exec(init_file.read(), command_ns)
  File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
  File "c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks\setuptools-2.2\setuptools\
__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from setuptools.extension import Extension
  File "c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks\setuptools-2.2\setuptools\
extension.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
  File "c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks\setuptools-2.2\setuptools\
dist.py", line 15, in <module>
    from setuptools.compat import numeric_types, basestring
  File "c:\users\captals\appdata\local\temp\tmp82pvks\setuptools-2.2\setuptools\
compat.py", line 19, in <module>
    from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
  File "C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 27, in <module>
    class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 208, in SimpleHTTPRequestHand
ler
    mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
  File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 358, in init
    db.read_windows_registry()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 258, in read_windows_registry
    for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 249, in enum_types
    ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 1: ordinal
not in range(128)
Something went wrong during the installation.
See the error message above.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/issue/146

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Original comment by jaraco (Bitbucket: jaraco, GitHub: jaraco):

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Duplicate of #127.