mimetypes.py under windows - bad exception catch

[mclander]

BPO	13906
Nosy	@bitdancer
Superseder	bpo-9291: mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of non-Latin characters in registry

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2012-01-29.22:27:56.409>
created_at = <Date 2012-01-29.22:18:06.809>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'mimetypes.py under windows - bad exception catch'
updated_at = <Date 2012-01-29.22:27:56.407>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/mclander'

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activity = <Date 2012-01-29.22:27:56.407>
actor = 'r.david.murray'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2012-01-29.22:27:56.409>
closer = 'r.david.murray'
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2012-01-29.22:18:06.809>
creator = 'mclander'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 13906
keywords = []
message_count = 2.0
messages = ['152267', '152268']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['r.david.murray', 'mclander']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '9291'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue13906'
versions = ['Python 2.7']

[mclander]

mimetypes.py(249) expectts Unicode*En*codeError, but Unicode*De*codeError happens when registry has non latin symbols (Vista Home 64).

I just change cathc jn next line to UnicodeDecodeError and all now works fine. But may be error not here, but on encode method which raise "negative" exception

F:\>c:\python27\python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 2, in <module>
    import SimpleHTTPServer
  File "c:\python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 27, in <module>
    class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  File "c:\python27\lib\SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 204, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
    mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
  File "c:\python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 355, in init
    db.read_windows_registry()
  File "c:\python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 259, in read_windows_registry
    for ctype in enum_types(mimedb):
  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 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

---------- here after changes -----------------

F:\>c:\python27\python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
mc-quad - - [30/Jan/2012 02:02:18] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
mc-quad - - [30/Jan/2012 02:02:18] code 404, message File not found
mc-quad - - [30/Jan/2012 02:02:18] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -

[bitdancer]

This is a duplicate of bpo-9291.