Setuptools - cannot install

tim.hamza at gmail.com tim.hamza at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 17:26:48 EST 2014


setuptools 2.0.2, win7 x64, python 3.3.3 (64bit), tried as user (who is admin, and as admin)

This started happening several versions ago.  Could not track down a setuptools support list.  Any ideas?

C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2>python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 17, in <module>
    exec(init_file.read(), command_ns)
  File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
    from setuptools.extension import Extension
  File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\extension.py", line 5, in <module>
    from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
  File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\dist.py", line 15, in <module>
    from setuptools.compat import numeric_types, basestring
  File "C:\Users\tim\Desktop\setuptools-2.0.2\setuptools\compat.py", line 49, in <module>
    from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
  File "C:\Python\lib\http\server.py", line 654, in <module>
    class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  File "C:\Python\lib\http\server.py", line 839, in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
    mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
  File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 348, in init
    db.read_windows_registry()
  File "C:\Python\lib\mimetypes.py", line 255, in read_windows_registry
    with _winreg.OpenKey(hkcr, subkeyname) as subkey:
TypeError: OpenKey() argument 2 must be str without null characters or None, not str



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