From: Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:46:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: The _winreg module returns bytes which must be decoded to unicode, not encoded.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a2~162
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d157e6977784c9483bdffc5d8ccd108c3cd4f94f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

The _winreg module returns bytes which must be decoded to unicode, not encoded.
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index d239057bac40..6bf969f9d23e 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ def read_values(base, key):
     return d
 
 def convert_mbcs(s):
-    enc = getattr(s, "encode", None)
-    if enc is not None:
+    dec = getattr(s, "decode", None)
+    if dec is not None:
         try:
-            s = enc("mbcs")
+            s = dec("mbcs")
         except UnicodeError:
             pass
     return s