Thanks, I will try it when I get out of airports.

Hugh Lauer

On May 19, 2016 11:56 AM, Zachary Ware <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>

>
> Zachary Ware added the comment:
>
> Here's some pretty compelling evidence for a bad PYTHONHOME setting:
>
> C:\>set PYTHONHOME=C:\path\not\here
>
> C:\>py -3.5
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
> ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
>
> Current thread 0x00001db4 (most recent call first):
>
> C:\>set PYTHONHOME=C:\Python27\
>
> C:\>py -3.5
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
>   File "C:\Python27\\lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
>     raise CodecRegistryError,\
>                             ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> Current thread 0x00000664 (most recent call first):
>
> C:\>set PYTHONHOME=
>
> C:\>py -3.5
> Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  6 2015, 01:54:25) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>>
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