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Py3.1: Fatal Python Error: Py_Initialize...unknown encoding: chcp 65001. #51690
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| BPO | 7441 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @vstinner, @florentx |
| Superseder |
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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2010-01-09.09:51:48.979>
created_at = <Date 2009-12-05.10:40:56.645>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'expert-IO', 'expert-unicode', 'OS-windows', 'type-crash']
title = 'Py3.1: Fatal Python Error: Py_Initialize...unknown encoding: chcp 65001.'
updated_at = <Date 2011-10-26.23:49:44.453>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/lieryan'bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2011-10-26.23:49:44.453>
actor = 'vstinner'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2010-01-09.09:51:48.979>
closer = 'georg.brandl'
components = ['Interpreter Core', 'Unicode', 'Windows', 'IO']
creation = <Date 2009-12-05.10:40:56.645>
creator = 'lieryan'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 7441
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['95987', '95989', '96674', '146470']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['vstinner', 'lieryan', 'flox']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = '6501'
type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue7441'
versions = ['Python 3.1']
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lieryan commentedon Dec 5, 2009
maybe related to bpo-6501
Vista 32-bit SP1, Python 3.1:
"""
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
D:\>chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001
D:\>python -c 'print("")'
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp65001
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
D:\>python
Python 3.1.1 (r311:74483, Aug 17 2009, 17:02:12) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Expected, either:
cp65001 is supposed to be an alias for utf-8. Because of the error,
there is AFAICT no way to set the command prompt to accept utf-8 output
even for pipe redirection.
A workaround is to use sys.stdout.buffer.write() to write raw byte
strings, encoding manually. But this takes us back to python 2.
florentx commentedon Dec 5, 2009
there's a patch proposed to add cp65001 alias: bpo-6058
florentx commentedon Dec 20, 2009
Thank you for your report.
See bpo-6501 about the Fatal Error
See bpo-6058 for the feature request (cp65001 on windows).
vstinner commentedon Oct 26, 2011
I added a cp65001 codec to Python 3.3: see issue bpo-13216. So Python will not "crash" anymore if the console code page is set to cp65001.