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So it shuts down abnormally. That's what an abort means, in
programming as in rocket launches. Users should be scared if this
happens; somebody really screwed up. (Unless it's themselves, and
then they only have themselves to blame.)

\> The error message could be
\> improved though. Right now I get:
\>
\> E:\\>python
\> Fatal Python error: Py\_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
\> ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
\>
\> This could be improved to:
\>
\> Fatal Python error: Py\_Initialize: unable to find module named 'encodings'
\> in 'C:\\'

That may be an improvement. But in that case it might be worth
explaining where "C:\\" came from (in this case PYTHONHOME, I guess?)