On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:11:11 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:09:35 -0800, jmfauth wrote: > >> On 23 fév, 15:06, Steven D'Aprano <steve >> +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> Following instructions here: >>> >>> http://docs.python.org/py3k/distutils/builtdist.html#creating- > windows... >>> >>> I am trying to create a Windows installer for a pure-module >>> distribution using Python 3.2. I get a "LookupError: unknown encoding: >>> mbcs" > [...] >>> How do I fix this, and is it a bug in distutils? >> >> Because the 'mbcs' codec is missing in your Linux, :-) > > Well duh :-) > > This is a bug in distutils. Prompted by your comment I expanded my > search terms and found this bug report: > > http://bugs.python.org/issue10945 > > The problem is that mbcs is not a real codec, it means "whatever codec > is currently configured in Windows". So it doesn't exist on non-Windows > platforms. But distutils bdist_wininst is explicitly documented as > working on non-Windows platforms. Hence, it's a bug.
And I have a work-around that seems to work for me. Put this at the top of your setup.py install script: # Work around mbcs bug in distutils. # http://bugs.python.org/issue10945 import codecs try: codecs.lookup('mbcs') except LookupError: ascii = codecs.lookup('ascii') func = lambda name, enc=ascii: {True: enc}.get(name=='mbcs') codecs.register(func) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
