[SOLVED] encoding issue (cp720)

[M. Bashir Al-Noimi]

Hi Lie,

On 12/05/2010 12:14 م, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 05/12/10 18:43, M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
>    
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm still a newbie in Python (I started learn it yesterday)  and I faced
>> a huge problem cuz python always crashes because of encoding issue!
>>
>>      
>>> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
>>> LookupError: unknown encoding: cp720
>>>        
>> so I filed a bug report
>> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8693?@ok_message=msg%20105576%20created%3Cbr%3Eissue%208693%20message_count%2C%20messages%20edited%20ok&@template=item>
>> about it but I couldn't find a solution for this problem so could you
>> please help me to run python correctly?
>>      
> This is partly a locale issue; your terminal (command prompt) is using a
> locale yet unsupported by python. You can use 'chcp' to switch to
> different terminal code page (e.g. use chcp 1250). You won't be able to
> 'print' arabic characters, but at least python should run.
>    
Actually I tried to run chcp (some one mentioned it in bug report) but 
it didn't fix the issue.

>> *Note:*
>>
>>     * I'm using: Windows XP SP3 32Bit, Python 3.1.2
>>     * I tried to copy cp720.py
>>       <http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/encodings/cp720.py>
>>       to Python31\Lib\encodings but it didn't fix the issue and gives me
>>       an error message (see attachment plz)
>>      
> You're using Python 3.1, the cp720.py file you copied is for Python 2.7
> (trunk); there are some backward incompatible between python 2 and
> python 3 (specifically in your case, unicode string is now default in
> python 3, so unicode literal is no longer supported). Try using the
> cp720.py from py3k branch:
> http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/py3k/Lib/encodings/cp720.py?view=markup
>    
Thanks a lot python currently works this is the right file.

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