avoid putting unicode objects in the environment causing
later test failures. As discussed on #python-dev
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
index 0b27428..804f175 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py
@@ -357,9 +357,10 @@
vc_env = query_vcvarsall(VERSION, plat_spec)
- self.__paths = vc_env['path'].split(os.pathsep)
- os.environ['lib'] = vc_env['lib']
- os.environ['include'] = vc_env['include']
+ # take care to only use strings in the environment.
+ self.__paths = vc_env['path'].encode('mbcs').split(os.pathsep)
+ os.environ['lib'] = vc_env['lib'].encode('mbcs')
+ os.environ['include'] = vc_env['include'].encode('mbcs')
if len(self.__paths) == 0:
raise DistutilsPlatformError("Python was built with %s, "