The most boiled down example that provides Python 3 to fatally exit is:

$ PYTHONHOME=/does/not/exist /usr/bin/python3

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ImportError: No module named encodings
Aborted (core dumped)

That's to be expected I suppose; it's not a bug in Python in the sense
that it is purposefully aborting itself when it cannot find the
encodings module during start up.  I'm not sure what else Python could
do in that case (and neither is upstream, hence the self-abort).

It's not at all clear to me what we can do here, short of reporting the
problem to VMware and having them not break the Python environment when
they invoke lsb_release.

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