kai zhu <kaizhu...@gmail.com> added the comment: python 3.1.2 mimetypes initialization also fails in redhat linux:
>>> import http.server Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/http/server.py", line 588, in <module> class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): File "/home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/http/server.py", line 764, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types File "/home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/mimetypes.py", line 305, in init db.readfp(open(file)) File "/home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/python/lib/python3.1/mimetypes.py", line 209, in readfp line = fp.readline() File "/home/public/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/bin/../python/lib/python3.1/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 3921: ordinal not in range(128) ---------- nosy: +kaizhu _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9291> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com