[Python-Dev] Segmentaion fault with wrongly set PYTHONPATH on Windows (original) (raw)

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 18:21:24 CET 2012

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:

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: PyInitialize: unable to load the file system codec > ImportError: No module named 'encodings' > > This could be improved to: > > Fatal Python error: PyInitialize: 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?)

Good idea.

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