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

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Date 2013-06-15 23:09 -0400
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On 6/15/2013 8:03 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 15/06/2013 23:10, alex23 wrote:
\__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.

If that is the case, the ^ should be under the ',' (and perhaps it once 
was ;-). If really at the beginning of the line, then the error must be 
on the previous line. Even then, the examples I have tried point to the 
'e' or 'raise'. Take a look in the file.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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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