babel throws a type error on imports python 3.3/3.4 on windows 7

[colost8rams]

I have just tried installing babel and I keep getting a type error when I try the first example on the homepage. I've tried under fresh installs of both python 3.3 and 3.4. here's the full traceback:

Python 3.3.5 (v3.3.5:62cf4e77f785, Mar  9 2014, 10:37:12) [MSC v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> from babel.dates import format_datetime
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\babel\dates.py", line 28, in <module>
    from babel.util import UTC, LOCALTZ
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\babel\util.py", line 278, in <module>
    from babel import localtime
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\babel\localtime\__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from babel.localtime._win32 import _get_localzone
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\babel\localtime\_win32.py", line 18, in <module>
    tz_names = get_global('windows_zone_mapping')
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\babel\core.py", line 58, in get_global
    _global_data = pickle.load(fileobj)
TypeError: an integer is required (got type str)

the issue seems to be caused when babel tries unpicling the global data.

is this a known bug?

[sils]

Hi @colost8rams, thanks for your report. We'll try to look at it as soon as possible, we still have problems keeping up with this repository though so it might take some time - sorry :/ Any help is appreciated.

[colost8rams]

This seems to be a duplicate of issue #174

a quick workaround is to install the github branch of babel 2.0. so, I pip uninstall babel and then pip install git+https://github.com/mitsuhiko/babel.git@2.0 and ... so far so good. seems the global_data on the pypi distribution was pickled in python 2 whereas the one on the github branch was pickled with python 3?

[sils]

@colost8rams yes, thanks this seems to be a duplicate.