On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <
[email protected]> 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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