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Author vstinner
Recipients brian.curtin, serhiy.storchaka, tim.golden, vstinner
Date 2014-02-13.10:37:50
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When Python is executed in an empty environement, not only it displays "Fatal Python error: Failed to initialize Windows random API (CryptoGen)", but it opens also the fatal error popup on Windows.

The issue #19983 proposes a patch to not abort() at exit, but exit with an non-zero exit code instead. The same should be done for this error.

By the way, we can maybe help the use to fix this issue with a better error message. For example, add in the message " (check if SYSTEMROOT environment variable is correctly set)", maybe only if the environment variable is not set.
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2014-02-13 10:37:51vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, tim.golden, brian.curtin, serhiy.storchaka
2014-02-13 10:37:51vstinnersetmessageid: <1392287871.12.0.606250516011.issue20614@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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