Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams

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On 15/06/2013 23:10, alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 16, 7:29 am, lucabrasi...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I get this error when I try to save .dxf files in Inkscape:
>>
>> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
>>
>> Then it seems to recover but it doesn't really recover. It saves the files and then DraftSite won't open them. Here is what the  > thing says when Inkscape tried to fix the saving problem.
>
> What do you mean by "Inkscape tried to fix the saving problem"?
>
>> File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\python\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
>> raise CodecRegistryError,\
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
To me that traceback looks like it's Python 3 trying to run code written 
for Python 2.

> Here's a report of a similar issue with Blender (which also provides a
> local install of Python under Windows):
> http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php%3Ftopic_id%3D36497&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dinkscape%2BCodecRegistryError
>
> (Sorry for the ugly url, it's a Google translation of a french
> language page)
>
> Do you have a separate installation of Python? It's possible it may be
> conflicting. If you rename it's folder to something else (which will
> temporarily break that install), do you still see this same issue in
> Inkscape?
>

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Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams lucabrasi154@gmail.com - 2013-06-15 14:29 -0700
  Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-15 22:43 +0100
    Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 15:06 -0700
  Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 15:10 -0700
    Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams lucabrasi <lucabrasi154@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 15:53 -0700
    Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-16 01:03 +0100
      Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams lucabrasi <lucabrasi154@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 19:44 -0700
        Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams lucabrasi <lucabrasi154@gmail.com> - 2013-06-15 19:46 -0700
        Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-15 22:55 -0400
    Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-06-15 23:09 -0400
    Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2013-06-15 21:09 -0700
      Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-17 21:47 -0700

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