[Python-Dev] Segmentaion fault with wrongly set PYTHONPATH on Windows

[anatoly techtonik]

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: 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?)
>

Good idea.

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to find module named 'encodings'
in PYTHONHOME ('C:\')
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