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when new a mimetypes.MimeType instance in a my Windows, whose default coding is mbcs, UnicdeDecodeError occurred.
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win
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>>> from mimetypes import MimeTypes
>>> mt = MimeTypes()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 66, in __init__
 init()
 File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 358, in init
 db.read_windows_registry()
 File "D:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 258, in read_windows_registry
 for subkeyname in enum_types(hkcr):
 File "D:\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 0xc7 in position 8: ordinal
not in range(128)
i think this error was caused by the code in mimetypes.py's line 256
default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() 
if change this line to:
default_encoding = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
such error will be resolved

and in line 249, changes:
if isinstance(ctype, unicode):
 ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!

The unlinked push message was for #21139.

This looks like a duplicate of issue9291; could you test the latest patch over there, please?

Fixed by issue9291