[New-bugs-announce] [issue23371] mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of TypeError

[Stéphane Lenclud]

New submission from Stéphane Lenclud:

On my Windows 7 installation mimetypes.py in read_windows_registry _winreg.OpenKey can throw a TypeError exception which is not handled and interrupts the execution.

To fix it I added:
except TypeError:
    continue

To reproduce it I just need to run te following:
c:\python27\python -c "import mimetypes; mimetypes.init()"

This error is obviously due to the content of my registry.
The subkeyname causing issues have names like: 
{hexid-hexid-hexid-hexid-hexid}

----------
components: Windows
messages: 235179
nosy: Slion, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mimetypes initialization fails on Windows because of TypeError
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue23371>
_______________________________________