Overcome mbcs codec bug in distutils

germangh · Aug 29, 2014 · 08ad0d3 · 08ad0d3
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 __pycache__
 .ropeproject
 *.pyc
-progressbar33.egg-info
+progressbar33.egg-info
+build/
+dist/
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import progressbar
+import codecs
+
+# From: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-February/620318.html
+try:
+    codecs.lookup('mbcs')
+except LookupError:
+    ascii = codecs.lookup('ascii')
+    func = lambda name, enc=ascii: {True: enc}.get(name=='mbcs')
+    codecs.register(func)
 
 # TODO: I don't believe this should be in here. This should be done on package
 #       creation only