[issue3160] Building a Win32 binary installer crashes

[Viktor Ferenczi]

New submission from Viktor Ferenczi <python at cx.hu>:

Python 3.0b1, official MSI installer.

Checkout source code of this project:
http://code.google.com/p/anntools/

Enter into the root of your working copy and try to build a Win32 installer:

C:\Python30\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst

NOTE: You might want to replace the path above with you Python
installation path. Please ensure, that Python 3.0 is used, since all
other versions from 2.4 to 2.6b1 works well.

You will get the following traceback during the build process:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 37, in <module>
"anntools",
  File "C:\python30\lib\distutils\core.py", line 149, in setup
dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\python30\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 941, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\python30\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 961, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\python30\lib\distutils\command\bdist_wininst.py", line 177,
in run
self.create_exe(arcname, fullname, self.bitmap)
  File "C:\python30\lib\distutils\command\bdist_wininst.py", line 263,
in create_exe
cfgdata = cfgdata + "\0"
TypeError: can't concat bytes to str

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components: Distutils
messages: 68500
nosy: complex
severity: normal
status: open
title: Building a Win32 binary installer crashes
type: crash
versions: Python 3.0

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