2012/10/22 anatoly techtonik
Could anybody reopen http://bugs.python.org/issue8766 ? I can't. Reproducible 100% with Python 3.2 and 3.3 (3.1 didn't test).
set PYTHONHOME=C:\ python
The issue #8766 is about PYTHONPATH environment variable, not PYTHONHOME. Test on Linux with Python 3.4: $ PYTHONHOME=/x ./python Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding ImportError: No module named 'encodings' Abandon (core dumped) It's not a segfault, but an "abort". It's different: abort() is called by the application (Python) when something goes wrong. In this case, Python is unable to locate the standard library. It's not a bug: I asked Python to look in /x directory, whereas this directory doesn't exist.
BTW, what is the role of PYTHONPATH on Windows? Is it a path for %INSTALLDIR%\Lib\site-packages?
Same role than PYTHONPATH on Linux: specify where third party modules are installed. Victor